The Book Of The Hakutaku

Author : Zack Davisson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985218452

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The Book of the Hakutaku by Zack Davisson Pdf

Author : Matthew Meyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985218428

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The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons by Matthew Meyer Pdf

From the mists of prehistory to the present day, Japan has always had stories of fantastic monsters. There are women with extra mouths in the backs of their heads, water goblins whose favorite food is inside the human anus, elephant-dragons which feed solely on bad dreams, baby zombies, talking foxes, fire-breathing chickens, animated blobs of rotten flesh that run about the streets at night, and the dreaded "hyakki yagyo" "the night parade of one hundred demons"-when all of the yokai leave their homes and parade through the streets of Japan in one massive spectacle of utter pandemonium. What are yokai? Put simply, they are supernatural creatures of Japanese folklore. The word in Japanese is a combination of "yo," meaning "bewitching," and "kai," meaning "strange." The term encompasses monsters, demons, gods ("kami"), ghosts ("bakemono"), magical animals, transformed humans, urban legends, and other strange phenomena. It is a broad and vague term. Nothing exists in the English language that quite does the trick of capturing the essence of yokai. This field guide contains over 100 illustrated entries covering a wide variety of Japanese yokai. Each yokai is described in detail-including its habitat, diet, origin, and legends-based on translations from centuries-old Japanese texts. This book was first funded on Kickstarter in 2011 and then revised in 2015.

Author : Toriyama Sekien
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486800356

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Japandemonium Illustrated by Toriyama Sekien Pdf

Japanese folklore abounds with bizarre creatures collectively referred to as the yokai ― the ancestors of the monsters populating Japanese film, literature, manga, and anime. Artist Toriyama Sekien (1712–88) was the first to compile illustrated encyclopedias detailing the appearances and habits of these creepy-crawlies from myth and folklore. Ever since their debut over two centuries ago, the encyclopedias have inspired generations of Japanese artists. Japandemonium Illustrated represents the very first time they have ever been available in English. This historically groundbreaking compilation includes complete translations of all four of Sekien's yokai masterworks: the 1776 Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (The Illustrated Demon Horde's Night Parade), the 1779 Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki (The Illustrated Demon Horde from Past and Present, Continued), the 1781 Konjaku Hyakki Shū (More of the Demon Horde from Past and Present), and the 1784 Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro (A Horde of Haunted Housewares). The collection is complemented by a detailed introduction and helpful annotations for modern-day readers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Demonology
ISBN : 0985218436

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The Hour of Meeting Evil Spirits by Anonim Pdf

In Japan, it is said that there are 8 million kami. These spirits encompass every kind of supernatural creature; from malign to monstrous, demonic to divine, and everything in between. Most of them seem strange and scary-even evil-from a human perspective. They are known by myriad names: bakemono, chimimoryo, mamono, mononoke, obake, oni, and yokai. Yokai live in a world that parallels our own. Their lives resemble ours in many ways. They have societies and rivalries. They eat, sing, dance, play, fight, compete, and even wage war. Normally, we keep to our world and they keep to theirs. However, there are times and places where the boundaries between the worlds thin, and crossing over is possible. The twilight hour-the border between daylight and darkness-is when the boundary between worlds is at its thinnest. Twilight is the easiest time for yokai to cross into this world, or for humans to accidentally cross into theirs. Our world is still awake and active, but the world of the supernatural is beginning to stir. Superstition tells people to return to their villages and stay inside when the sun sets in order to avoid running into demons. This is why in Japanese the twilight hour is called omagatoki: "the hour of meeting evil spirits." This encyclopedia contains over 125 illustrated entries detailing the monsters of Japanese folklore and the myths and magic surrounding them. This book was first funded on Kickstarter in 2013.

Author : Shinʼichi Nagai
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015007260386

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Gods of Kumano by Shinʼichi Nagai Pdf

Author : Michael Dylan Foster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520271012

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The Book of Yokai by Michael Dylan Foster Pdf

Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Currently popular in anime, manga, film, and computer games, many yokai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages. In this delightful and accessible narrative, readers will explore the roles played by these mysterious beings within Japanese culture and will also learn of their abundance and variety through detailed entries, some with original illustrations, on more than fifty individual creatures. The Book of Yokai provides a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence on global popular culture. It also invites readers to examine how people create, transmit, and collect folklore, and how they make sense of the mysteries in the world around them. By exploring yokai as a concept, we can better understand broader processes of tradition, innovation, storytelling, and individual and communal creativity. Ê

Author : Zack Davisson
Publisher : Chin Music Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781634059152

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Yokai Stories by Zack Davisson Pdf

Bookworm Akira has read about the conniving ways of Yokai, but when he trips over one along a forest path, he decides to help the creature back to its murky water home. A challenge ensues involving Akira’s beloved grandmother, a pizza-producing hammer, and a crunchy cucumber. Haunting illustrations of the Yokai accompany 17 original stories.

Author : Michael Goldstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Monsters
ISBN : 1938501608

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Yokai Character Collection by Michael Goldstein Pdf

"Through fun descriptions and 100+ full color illustrations, the Yokai Character Collection helps readers learn the Japanese alphabet of hiragana by pairing it with legendary creatures from Japanese mythology." --

Author : Jay Sensei
Publisher : Paladin Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0873643135

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Tiger Scroll Of The Koga Kinja by Jay Sensei Pdf

Passed down through the centuries from father to son, master to disciple, the tiger scroll transmitted the instructions of one of Japan's most deadly clans. Now, for the first time, author Sensei reveals the contents of the Koga Ninja's once-secret handbook. Not for sale outside the USA and Canada

Author : Eric Van Lustbader
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480470880

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White Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader Pdf

A New York Times bestseller by the author of The Ninja: An American uses his martial arts expertise to track a serial killer preying on the women of Tokyo. A sadist haunts the back alleys and sex clubs of Tokyo, picking up women, horrifically mutilating them, and leaving behind a calling card written in blood: This could be your wife. He kills fearlessly, certain the police will never catch him. The only man who might stop this fiend is Nicholas Linnear, a martial arts expert whose childhood education in the dojos of Japan has made him one of the country’s leading practitioners of ninjutsu. But Linnear fears that his illness may have left him Shiro Ninja—stripped of his power and discipline. With the killer growing increasingly brazen, Linnear must summon all his strength and training before his own family becomes the next target. “Compelling [and] highly charged with action,” this is a chilling tale of menace, crime, and corruption featuring the half-British, half-Chinese hero of The Ninja and The Miko, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Jason Bourne series (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Natsumi Eguchi
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781636995625

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Hozuki's Coolheadedness 6 by Natsumi Eguchi Pdf

What in the world is Hozuki doing when he visit the mortal realm? How do Hell's ogres feel about Setsubun? Is it just me, or do a lot of ogres have curly hair? Why is King Shinko's personal aide the Heian noble Ono-no-Takamura? Are there dinosaurs in Hell? Find all of that out and more in volume 6! And at long last, Hakutaku's age is revealed!

Author : Zack Davisson
Publisher : Mercuria Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1634059182

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Kaibyo: the Supernatural Cats of Japan by Zack Davisson Pdf

Woodblock prints, essays, and translations scratch to light the secret lives of Japan's mythological felines.

Author : Zack Davisson
Publisher : Chin Music Press Inc.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780988769359

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Yurei by Zack Davisson Pdf

An eerie yet insightful exploration into the phenomenon of yurei, or Japanese ghosts, both past and present.

Author : Felicia Katz-Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 0890136521

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Yōkai by Felicia Katz-Harris Pdf

Vivid in Japanese art and imagination are creatures that are at once ghastly and humorous. The Japanese word yokai generally refers to a range of supernatural beings such as ghosts, demons, monsters, shapeshifters, tricksters, and other strange kinds of creatures. While their status is commonly described as supernatural, they exist or appear in the natural, human world. Today, yokai are wildly popular in Japan. They are prevalent across contemporary entertainment genres such as manga ("comics") and anime ("animation") series, horror movies, and video games, and they also manifest as the subject of related material culture objects like game cards, character t-shirts, cuddly plushies, and collectable gashapon capsule toys. This diverse array of yokai imagery and materiality is deeply rooted in the past. Yokai images and their stories are enduring, and there is no question that what we see in hot commodities today is closely aligned with traditional Japanese folklore. Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan explores yokai and their popularity in Japan through multiple perspectives of yokai: what they are, their associated tales, how people engaged with or interpreted yokai in different contexts, and why they remain so popular in Japan. The contributors to this book are among eminent scholars, creators, and promoters of various aspects of yokai culture. The interdisciplinary nature of this book's presentation vibrantly illustrates yokai from different angles, allowing for a broad view of their cultural scope in Japan. In addition, the contributors delve into popular culture themes, connecting traditional folklore, folk art, and imagery to trends in Japan as well as in the United States.

Author : Michaela Muntean
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0030710928

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The Tale of Traveling Matt by Michaela Muntean Pdf

A fraggle ponders on the adventures of his uncle Matt in the outside world as he meets for the first time cows, garbage trucks, and people.