Japanese Ghosts and Demons

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As the preface to "Japanese Ghosts and Demons" notes, this book is the fruit of interdisciplinary studies undertaken by the Spencer Museum of Art and the University of Kansas at Lawrence. And it is the results of just such an interdisciplinary approach that have lifted this book out of the realm of an ordinary exhibition catalogue and propelled /5(14).

This book contains 70 Yurei (ghosts), Oni (demons), Kaijin (sorcerers) and Yokai (supernatural monsters) with a basic introduction to each creature’s story in J/E bilingual text.

These phantoms and monsters are described vividly in Ukiyo-e art pieces, all created by great masters such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and so on, giving /5(51). "Japanese Ghosts and Demons", published 30 years ago, is more scholarly and lacks the clean modern look of "Ghosts and Spirits".

But I found that the detailed information about the background of these beings gave a much more nuanced feel to the historical and cultural connections and the resulting art/5. This includes some ghosts with noble lineages from the history of Japan, and those who represent a presence inseparable from Japanese historical sites.

Although many of these ghostly figures were involved with mortal dangers in their legends of origin, their representations and the humanizing details of their personalities have become humorous.

This was such a delightful book. All of you who like paintings of the supernatural and are interested in the Japanese concept of things that go bump in the night, will enjoy this collection of traditional Japanese art about, well, ghosts, demons and yokai (supernatural monsters)/5(11).

Manga, a type of Japanese comic that developed from an 18th- and 19th-century picture book tradition, helped rejuvenate interest in a centuries. Find books like Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Art of the Supernatural from the world’s largest community of readers. Goodreads members who liked Japanese G.

To research this book on the country's ghosts, demons and paranormal phenomena, Ross collected accounts from across Japan including: Sacred Mount Osore, a Japanese gateway to the land of the dead, where people gather to contact those who have passed on The Tokyo grave of the samurai Taira no Masakado, where passersby regularly witnessed his.

This book, divided into several chapters dealing with specific subjects as present in traditional Japanese art forms, is one of the few books on Japanese folklore in print in the English language and of those few, it is one of the even fewer that not only deal with the ghosts and monsters of that folklore, but does so accurately and is well researched.5/5(3).

Yūrei are figures in Japanese folklore analogous to the Western model of name consists of two kanji, 幽 (yū), meaning "faint" or "dim" and 霊 (rei), meaning "soul" or "spirit".Alternative names include 亡霊 (Bōrei), meaning ruined or departed spirit, 死霊 meaning dead spirit, or the more encompassing 妖怪 or お化け ().Like their Chinese and Western counterparts, they.

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The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, written and illustrated by Matthew Meyer, is a page full-color yokai encyclopedia containing over creatures from Japanese folklore.

It was funded through Kickstarter in and. It is comprised of some of the most relentlessly fearsome goblins, demons, metamorphosed animals and ghosts ever known to man.

Japanese poets, actors, dancers, and artists have all delighted in portraying these monsters, often with a playfulness and humor that mitigates the demons' more ferocious qualities, but also with a bold, dramatic fervor.

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(Editor) online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now. Many of Japan's most famous artists — including Hiroshige, Hokusai, and Yoshitoshi — were fascinated by the spirit world. This colorful collection offers a supernatural selection of the best of their haunted imagery.

In addition to imaginative original scenarios, it features scenes of eerie encounters from Japanese folklore and literature.

This book is pages long, and contains around pictures and illustrations of Japanese ghosts, demons, and other supernatural things.

The book has a great introduction by Akira Yamamoto about the history of supernatural Japanese myths and legends and how these beliefs show up in artwork and stories. Oiwa is just one of many deeply determined, revenge-seeking spirits who fill Japanese art and literature.

Known as yūrei, these mostly female ghosts won’t let their male wrongdoers rest until they’ve received a proper scholar Zack Davisson puts it in his book Yūrei: The Japanese Ghost, yūrei can “never be destroyed, only sated they want something.”.

Get this from a library. Japanese ghosts & demons: art of the supernatural. [Stephen Addiss; Akira Y Yamamoto; Midori Deguchi; Brenda G Jordan; James L Secor; Janet Louise Carpenter; Matthew Welch; Juliann Wolfgram; Pat Fister; Jamie Lillywhite; Fumiko Y Yamamoto; Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art,; Asia Society.

Galleries,;] -- Japan has perhaps the most lively and richly developed. Why Hokusai illustrated but five of them rather than the that’d been planned is unknown.

They remain surprising and fascinating because, on this occasion, the artist departed from the Japanese landscape (one of his most recurrent motifs) to illustrate the universe of. - Explore mizcrash's board "Japanese ghosts and demons" on Pinterest.

See more ideas about Japanese folklore, Japanese and Japanese monster pins. This is a gallery of 20 Japanese woodblock prints depicting yūrei (ghosts) and yōkai (monsters). Most of these were made in the 19th century.

The name of each artist is listed below the respective print. "The Sailor Tokuso and the Sea Monster." A sailor encountering an umibozu, a sea spirit that destroys and drowns any boat that.Yōkai (妖怪, ghost, phantom, strange apparition) are a class of supernatural monsters, spirits, and demons in Japanese word yōkai is made up of the kanji for "bewitching; attractive; calamity" and "spectre; apparition; mystery; suspicious." They can also be called ayakashi (あやかし), mononoke (物の怪) or mamono (魔物).

Yōkai range diversely from the malevolent to.Japanese Ghosts & Demons by Addiss, Stephen (Editor) and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at