Pandemonium and parade
Subtitle: Japanese demonology and the culture of the yōkai
By: Michael Dylan Foster.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780520253612; 9780520253629
Subjects: Animals, mythical -- Japan; Supernatural; Spirits; Japan -- Folklore
Genres: Folklore.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the weird; title: Natural history of the weird : encyclopedias, spooky stories, and the bestiaries of Toriyama Sekien; title: Science of the weird : inoue enryq, kokkuri, and human electricity; title: Museum of the weird : modernity, minzokugaku, and the discovery of yōkai; title: Media of the weird : Mizuki Shigeru and kuchi-sake-onna; title: Yōkai culture : past, present, future.