Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai

by Michael Dylan Foster

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Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as y kai 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 cultural imagination and offering an abundance of valuable and, until now, understudied material...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520253620

ISBN13:9780520253629

Release Date:November 2008

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:0.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"

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Cultural Folklore & Mythology History Social Science Social Sciences

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