Ubumes Summer

Author : Natsuhiko Kyōgoku
Publisher : Vertical Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781934287255
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Summer of the Ubume written by Natsuhiko Kyōgoku and published by Vertical Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first book from the successful Japanese series, Kyogokudo, an exorcist who doesn't believe in ghosts, creates fake spiritual explanations to help his clients deal with their psychological problems, and solves their troubles through staged rituals. Original.

Author : Yuli Bethe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ubume's summer written by Yuli Bethe and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Dylan Foster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520959124
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Yokai written by Michael Dylan Foster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence on global popular culture through the concept of yokai. 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 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.

Author : Michael Dylan Foster
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520403886
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition written by Michael Dylan Foster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revised and expanded, this second edition of The Book of Yōkai features an all new yōkai picture gallery-with dozens of stunning color images-tracing the visual history of yōkai across centuries. With additional entries and fifty new illustrations, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of an even larger cast of yōkai, interpreting their varied meanings and introducing people who have pursued them through the ages. Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatures haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yōkai, they appear in many forms, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water sprites, to shape-shifting kitsune foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Popular today in anime, manga, film, and video games, many yōkai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. The Book of Yōkai invites readers to examine how people create, transmit, and collect folklore, and how they make sense of the mysteries in the world around them"--

Author : Zília Papp
Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 : 9004212604
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditional Monster Imagery in Manga, Anime and Japanese Cinema written by Zília Papp and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Monster Imagery in Manga, Anime and Japanese Cinema builds on the earlier volume Anime and its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art, that aimed to position contemporary Japanese animation within a wider art historical context by tracing the development of monster representations in Edo- and Meiji-period art works and post-war visual media. While the previous volume concentrated on modern media representations, this work focuses on how Western art historical concepts and methodology might be adapted when considering non-Western works, introducing traditional monster art in more detail, while also maintaining its links to post-war animation, sequential art and Japanese cinema. The book aims at a general readership interested in Japanese art and media as well as graduate students who might be searching for a research model within the fields of Animation Studies, Media Studies or Visual Communication Design.

Author : Zília Papp
Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 : 9004202870
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anime and Its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art written by Zília Papp and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics, yet this is the first study which sets out to put today’s anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji- period painters and the post-war period animation and manga series ‘Gegegeno Kitaro’ by Mizuki Shigeru.

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Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 034550206X
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faust, Volume One written by and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With gorgeous, electrifying manga-style artwork and cool, entertaining prose fiction, this anthology--a blockbuster hit in Japan--mixes wickedly cool, genre-bending short stories by young authors with illustrations by established manga artists. Young adult.

Author : Robert Weinberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784902075083
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Old Edo - Kaiki written by Robert Weinberg and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan has a long history of weird and supernatural literature, but it has been introduced into English only haphazardly until now. The first volume of a 3-volume anthology covering over two centuries of kaiki literature, including both short stories and manga, from Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari of 1776 to Kyogoku Natsuhiko's modern interpretations of popular tales. Selected and with commentary by Higashi Masao, a recognized researcher and author in the field, the series systemizes and introduces the scope of the field and helps establish it as a genre of its own. This first volume presents a variety of work focusing on pre-modern Japan, and includes one manga.

Author : Yasmine Musharbash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000182355
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monster Anthropology written by Yasmine Musharbash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters are culturally meaningful across the world. Starting from this key premise, this book tackles monsters in the context of social change. Writing in a time of violent upheaval, when technological innovation brings forth new monsters while others perish as part of the widespread extinctions that signify the Anthropocene, contributors argue that putting monsters at the center of social analysis opens up new perspectives on change and social transformation. Through a series of ethnographically grounded analyses they capture monsters that herald, drive, experience, enjoy, and suffer the transformations of the worlds they beleaguer. Topics examined include the evil skulking new roads in Ancient Greece, terror in post-socialist Laos’s territorial cults, a horrific flying head that augurs catastrophe in the rain forest of Borneo, benign spirits that accompany people through the mist in Iceland, flesh-eating giants marching through neo-colonial central Australia, and ghosts lingering in Pacific villages in the aftermath of environmental disasters. By taking the proposition that monsters and the humans they haunt are intricately and intimately entangled seriously, this book offers unique, cross-cultural perspectives on how people perceive the world and their place within it. It also shows how these experiences of belonging are mediated by our relationships with the other-than-human.

Author : Nisioisin
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0345505182
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book XxxHOLiC: AnotherHOLiC written by Nisioisin and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirits play an important role in the lives of a college student who receives text messages from her late best friend, a young woman who must deal with her self destructiveness, and a student tormented by spirits.