The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition

Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-38955-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 974 g

Significantly expanded and updated—a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.
 
Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatures haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, they appear in many forms, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water sprites, to shape-shifting kitsune foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Popular today in anime, manga, film, and video games, many yokai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. The Book of Yokai invites readers to examine how people create, transmit, and collect folklore, and how they make sense of the mysteries in the world around them.

Revised and expanded, this second edition features fifty new illustrations, including an all-new yokai gallery of stunning color images tracing the visual history of yokai across centuries. In clear and accessible language, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the cultural and historical contexts of yokai, interpreting their varied meanings and introducing people who have pursued them through the ages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foster, Michael Dylan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kijin, Shinonome

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Preface and Acknowledgments 
Names, Dates, Places 

PART I. YOKAI CULTURE 
1. Introducing Yokai 
Yokai, Folklore, and This Book 
The Language of Yokai 
Event Becomes Object 
Questioning Yokai 
2. Shape-Shifting History 
Heroes of Myth and Legend 
Weird Tales and Weird Tastes 
Modern Disciplines 
Postwar Animation and the Yokai Boom 
3. Yokai Practice / Yokai Theory 
Yokai Culture Network 
Zones of Uncertainty 

PART II. YOKAI CODEX 
4. The Order of Yokai 
5. Wilds 
6. Water 
7. Countryside 
8. Village and City 
9. Home 

PART III. YOKAI GALLERY 
10. Seeing Yokai 
11. Illustrating Yokai 
12. A Completely Incomplete Yokai Exhibition 

Epilogue: Monsterful 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Alphabetized List of Yokai in the Codex 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Dylan Foster is Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis. He is author of many works on Japanese folklore, including Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai.