PDF-(EBOOK)-Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai

Water sprites mountain goblins shapeshifting 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 seventeenthcentury natural histories to their starring role in twentiethcentury 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 paradigmsand ultimately on the construction of Japan as a nation. 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In Introduction to Japanese Culture, you\'ll read an overview, through sixty-eight original and informative essays, of Japan\'s most notable cultural achievements, including:Religion, Zen Buddhism, arranged marriages and BushidoDrama and Art—from pottery, painting and calligraphy to haiku, kabuki and karateCuisine—everything from rice to raw fishHome and Recreation, from board games such as Go to origami, kimonos and Japanese gardensThe Japan of today is a fully modern, Westernized society in nearly every regard. Even so, the elements of an earlier age are clearly visible in the country\'s arts, festivals, and customs. This book focuses on the essential constants that remain in present-day Japan and their counterparts in Western culture.Edited by Daniel Sosnoski, an American writer who has lived in Japan since 1985, these well-researched articles, color photographs, and line illustrations provide a compact guide to aspects of Japan that often puzzle the outside observer. 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