Foster, Michael Dylan,  1965- <br/><br/>
Pandemonium and parade :  Japanese monsters and the culture of yōkai / 
Michael Dylan Foster. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  (c)2009. 
 - 1 online resource (xvii, 291 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction to the weird --  Natural history of the weird : encyclopedias, spooky stories, and the bestiaries of Toriyama Sekien --  Science of the weird : inoue enryō, kokkuri, and human electricity --  Museum of the weird : modernity, minzokugaku, and the discovery of yōkai --  Media of the weird : Mizuki Shigeru and kuchi-sake-onna --  Yōkai culture : past, present, future. 
<br/><br/> Monsters known as yōkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese imagination over three centuries. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520942677 9780520253612 9780520253629 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2021696407 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Animals, Mythical--Japan.<br/>Supernatural.<br/>Spirits.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GR340  / .P363 2009