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Pandemonium and Parade - Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai (Paperback)
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Pandemonium and Parade - Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai (Paperback)
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Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the
monsters known as yokai 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.
Michael Dylan Foster tracks yokai over three centuries, from their
appearance in seventeenth-century natural histories to their
starring role in twentieth-century popular media. Focusing on the
intertwining of belief and commodification, fear and pleasure,
horror and humor, he illuminates different conceptions of the
"natural" and the "ordinary" and sheds light on broader social and
historical paradigms - and ultimately on the construction of Japan
as a nation.
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