Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of YokaiUniv of California Press, 2009 - 291 páginas Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yôkai 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 yôkai 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. |
Índice
Illustrations | 8 |
Encyclopedias | 30 |
Kitsune and tanuki from the KinmOzui | 37 |
MikoshinydO from the Wakan sansaizue | 44 |
MOryO from the Wakan sansaizue | 45 |
KawatarO from the Wakan sansaizue | 47 |
Kappa from Gazu hyakkiyagyO by Toriyama Sekien | 58 |
Tanuki from Gazu hyakkiyagyO by Toriyama Sekien | 59 |
Inoue EnryO Kokkuri | 77 |
Photograph of Kokkuri from a 1912 book on hypnotism | 86 |
Westerners ? play tableturning against a background haunted by fox spirits | 94 |
Modernity Minzokugaku | 115 |
Mizuki Shigeru and Kuchisakeonna | 160 |
KitarO with Medamaoyaji | 167 |
Nurikabe from Zusetsu Nihon yOkai taizen by Mizuki Shigeru | 168 |
TenjOname from Hyakki tsurezure bukuro by Toriyama Sekien | 172 |
Mikoshi from Gazu hyakkiyagyO by Toriyama Sekien | 60 |
Ubume from Gazu hyakkiyagyO by Toriyama Sekien | 61 |
Yanari from Gazu hyakkiyagyO by Toriyama Sekien | 63 |
MOryO from Konjaku gazu zoku hyakki by Toriyama Sekien | 64 |
Mokumokuren from Konjaku hyakki shi by Toriyama Sekien | 67 |
HimamushinydO from Konjaku hyakki shi by Toriyama Sekien | 68 |
HemamushinydO | 69 |
Nonnonb1 explaining about tenjOname | 175 |
Mizukis rendition of Kuchisakeonna | 190 |
Past Present Future | 204 |
Notes | 217 |
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Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai Michael Dylan Foster Vista previa restringida - 2008 |
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai Michael Dylan Foster Vista previa restringida - 2008 |
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