Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai

by Michael Dylan Foster

Book Overview

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: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"