Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Book of Yokai Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore by Michael Dylan Foster Michael Dylan Foster. I came to UC Davis in 2016 after eight years in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. Before that I worked at UC Riverside, in the Department of Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages, where I taught Japanese language, literature, folklore and film. My research focuses on folklore, literature and popular culture, primarily in Japan. I am interested in how cultural phenomena and beliefs— particularly those associated with the supernatural—are articulated through textual and visual media as well as performance, ritual and everyday contexts. I have written a lot about supernatural creatures and strange phenomena. My first book, Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yôkai (2009), is a cultural history that traces how notions of the mysterious have been understood within both academic discourses and popular practices from the seventeenth century through the present. I particularly explore how aspects of everyday life we often take for granted— games, rumors, popular beliefs—reflect broader cultural and historical changes. My second book, The Book of Yôkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore (2015), also focuses on monsters and supernatural beings in Japan, exploring their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing many of the people who have studied, catalogued, and sought to define them. Through this interest in popular conceptions of monstrosity and the supernatural, I have also become interested in the concept of the “folkloresque,” how folklore is “used” within artistic, literary, filmic, and popular cultural contexts. For more than two decades now I have also engaged on a long-term ethnographic study of ritual, festival, and tourism in Japan. For this project, I have done extensive fieldwork on the Toshidon ritual on the island of Shimo-Koshikijima in Kagoshima Prefecture and the Namahage festival in Akita Prefecture. I also consider the ethnographic and theoretical observations of Yanagita Kunio, Orikuchi Shinobu, Komatsu Kazuhiko and other folklorists. This work on festival and ritual has led me toward more theoretical considerations of tourism, intangible cultural heritage (ICH), and the role of cultural policy institutions such as UNESCO. It also gave me a chance to help out on a Japanese fishing boat for several months, during which time I ate sashimi for breakfast every day. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS. BOOKS. Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Folklore and the Culture of Yôkai . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. [*Winner 2009 Chicago Folklore Prize for best book-length work of folklore scholarship] EDITED VOLUMES. Matsuri and Religion in Japan ; Special Triple Issue of Journal of Religion in Japan vol. 9, issues 1-3, 2020. Edited with Elisabetta Porcu. We are all Survivors: Verbal, Ritual and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery ; Special Issue of Fabula: Journal of Folktale Studies 58, issues 1-2, 2017. Co-Edited with Carl Lindahl. The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World . Co-Edited with Jeffrey A. Tolbert. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2016. Co-Edited with Jeffrey Tolbert. UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage . Co-Edited with Lisa Gilman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. Co-Edited with Lisa Gilman. ARTICLES AND ESSAYS (SELECT) “Eloquent Plasticity: Vernacular Religion, Change, and Namahage,” Journal of Religion in Japan vol. 9, issues 1-3 (2020): 118-164. “Introduction: Matsuri and Religion in Japan,” Journal of Religion in Japan vol. 9, issues 1-3 (2020): 1-9. (With Elisabetta Porcu) “Secret Eroticism and Lived Religion: The Art of Matsuri Photography,” Journal of Religion in Japan vol. 9, issues 1-3 (2020) 277-300. (With Ogano Minoru). “Afterword: Scenes from the Monsterbiome.” In Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds through Monsters , edited by Yasmine Musharbash and Geir Henning Presterudstuen, 213-228. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. “UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention.” E-International Relations (open access website); posted January 7, 2020. “Foreword.” In Japanese Legends and Folklore: Samurai Tales, Ghost Stories, Legends, Fairy Tales, Myths and Historical Accounts , by A.B. Mitford. Rutland: Tuttle 2019, pp. 4-8. “Yōkai: Fantastic Creatures of Japanese Folklore.” Online essay for “About Japan: A Teacher’s Resource” on Japan Society website, 2019. “Kaisetsu: Mizuki no sekai.” In Mizuki Shigeru manga taizenshû hokan 4: Baitai betsu yôkai gahôshû IV , pp. 608-611. Kôdansha, 2018. [Invited afterword] “The Intangible Lightness of Heritage,” Fabula: Journal of Folktale Studies 58, issues 1-2 (2017): 105-121. “Murakami’s Monsters and the Art of Allusion.” In Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg . Ed. Michael Darling, pp. 139-150. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications, 2017. “The Challenge of the Folkloresque.” In The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World . Eds. Michael Dylan Foster and Jeffrey A. Tolbert, pp. 3-22. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2016. “The Folkloresque Circle: Toward a Theory of Fuzzy Allusion.” In The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World . Eds. Michael Dylan Foster and Jeffrey A. Tolbert, pp. 41-63. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2016. “UNESCO on the Ground.” Journal of Folklore Research 52, no 2-3 (May-Dec) 2015: 143-156. “Imagined UNESCOs: Interpreting Intangible Cultural Heritage on a Japanese Island.” Journal of Folklore Research 52, no 2-3 (May-Dec) 2015: 217-232. “Shimo-Koshikijima ni okeru ningenkai to ikai no tsunagari [Links between the human world and the otherworld on the island of Shimo- Koshikijima]." Hito to shizen [People and nature] no. 8 (2014): 30-31. “Yôkai o honyaku suru.” [Translating yôkai]. HUMAN vol. 6 (July 2014): 84-86. “Inviting the Uninvited Guest: Ritual, Festival, Tourism, and the Namahage of Japan.” Journal of American Folklore 126, no. 501 (Summer 2013): 302-334. “Shikakuteki sôzô: ‘Koshikijima no Toshidon’ ni okeru miru/mirareru kankei no ichi kôsatsu [The Optic Imaginary: Thoughts on the Relationship of Seeing and Being Seen in ‘Koshikijima no Toshidon’].” Nihon minzokugaku 273 (February 2013): 55-95. “21 Seiki kara miru Yanagita Kunio to yôkai.” In Sekai no naka no Yanagita Kunio . Ed. Ronald A. Morse and Akasaka Norio, pp. 85-116. Tokyo: Fujiwara shoten, 2012. “Haunting Modernity: Tanuki, Trains, and Transformation in Japan.” Asian Ethnology 71, no. 1 (2012): 3-29. “Early Modern Past to Post-Modern Future: Changing Discourses of Japanese Monsters.” In Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous . Ed. Asa Mittman and Peter Dendle, pp. 133-150. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. “The UNESCO Effect: Confidence, Defamiliarization, and a New Element in the Discourse on a Japanese Island.” Journal of Folklore Research 48, no. 1 (2011): 63-107. “Haunted Travelogue: Hometowns, Ghost Towns, and Memories of War." Mechademia 4: War/Time (2009): 164-181. “What Time is this Picture? Cameraphones, Tourism, and the Digital Gaze in Japan.” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 15, issue 3 (May 2009): 351-372. “The Otherworlds of Mizuki Shigeru.” Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human (2008): 8-28. “The Question of the Slit-Mouthed Woman: Contemporary Legend, the Beauty Industry, and Women’s Weekly Magazines in Japan.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society , vol. 32, no. 3 (Spring 2007): 699-726. “Strange Games and Enchanted Science: The Mystery of Kokkuri.” The Journal of Asian Studies 65: 2 (May 2006): 251-275. “Walking in the City with Natsume Sôseki: The Metaphorical Landscape in ‘Koto no sorane.’” Landscapes Imagined and Remembered. Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies , vol. 6 (Summer 2005): 137-146. “Watashi, kirei? Josei shûkanshi ni mirareru ‘Kuchi-sake-onna’ [Am I pretty? The ‘Kuchi-sake-onna’ legend as seen in women’s weekly magazines].” In Nihon yôkaigaku taizen . Ed. Komatsu Kazuhiko, pp. 635-667. Tokyo: Shôgakkan, 2003. “Konchû no yôkaigaku [The demonology of insects].” Kai , vol. 14 (March 2003): 258-9. “The Metamorphosis of the Kappa: Transformation of Folklore to Folklorism in Japan.” Asian Folklore Studies , vol. 57, no. 1 (1998): 1-24. “Kindai ni okeru kappa no henyô: kappa to mizu no kankei o megutte [Exploring the Waters: Modern Transformations of the Kappa].” Rekishi minzoku shiryôgaku kenkyû (History and Folk Culture Studies), vol. 2 (1997): 161-74. CURRENT PROJECTS. I am working on an ongoing ethnographic project concerning masked rituals and festivals featuring demon-deity figures often called “raihôshin.” I have begun turning this fieldwork, and many many hours of interviews, into a monograph tentatively titled Visiting Strangers: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Gods . In addition, I have several smaller projects, including one that explores hypnotism, clairvoyance, and spirit photography in early twentieth-century Japan. HONORS AND AWARDS. Fulbright Fellowship (for research in Japan; December 2011-August 2012) Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2010-11) Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award (2010-11) Chicago Folklore Prize; for best book-length work of folklore scholarship (2009) Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Grant for Short-term Travel to Japan for Professional Purposes (2009) Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies (2006-08) Fulbright Fellowship (Graduate Research Fellow) (1999-2001) Stanford University Graduate Research Opportunity Funds (1998-1999) Sanwa Bank Foundation Research Fellowship (1996-97) Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies Bunka/Bungaku (Culture/Literature) Prize (1996) Blakemore Foundation Fellowship (for language study in Japan) (1995-96) Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (Summer) (1995) University of California, Berkeley, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (1994-95) Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures Room 211, Sproul Hall UC Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616. The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore. So much of our cultural creativity stems from a need for understanding. In The Book of Yokai, Michael Dylan Foster painstakingly assembles marvelous creatures of Japanese folklore that have come into being over hundreds of years to explain the inexplicable. 1. So much that we see, do, and feel lacks words. Especially in the realm of feelings and emotions. Like a deep longing for the impossible, a feeling of alienation when we return to a place we once loved, or the feeling when we glimpse spring only to have it withdraw. A major part of The Examined Life is to pull those feelings together and present them, to try to make sense of the unspeakable things that make us human. Check out words and meaning beyond English in Greeks Have a Word for It or in David Whyte’s reimagined words. 1. Kodama – Tree Spirit Trees are prominent features of the landscape throughout Japan; large, unusual, or old trees are often considered sacred. In shrines throughout the country it is common to see a shimenawa rope draped around the trunk of ancient trees, indicating a divine connection. […] The kodama , which means “tree spirit,” is not set in behavior or appearance. […] In Japanese, the word kodama also means “echo.” This usage may be directly linked to the yokai kodama—from a belief that an echo is the spirit of the woods responding to a call. Many of the fantastic beasts embody familiar, universal phenomena. Like the “yamabiko” spirit that calls back when you shout into a mountain. Yamabiko, the Yokai meaning “echo.” Illustration by Japanese artist Shinonome Kijin for The Book of Yokai. My favorite is “Nurikabe,” a plaster wall that appears when we are deeply tired with physical strain. Who hasn’t suffered such a psychosomatic imposition? Many yokai are uniquely cultural to Japan; “tengu” is a mountain goblin, associated with Buddhism and mountain aesthetics. Or “karasu tengu,” a crow associated with mountain worship that is known for “spiriting away” children. 2. Ah! Again the crow. As we’ve seen in the poetry of Ted Hughes and the imaginative grief prose/poetry of Max Porter. And the crow, my own mascot as a nod to life/death and my own last name, which means “crow” in Czech. Crows carry so much meaning across the world. What broad wings. 2. This exquisite outer kimono (uchikake) is from the Japanese Edo period and was made around 1870 to 90. With silk and metal-covered thread, it depicts scenes from well-known kabuki plays, which often included yokai characters. Learn more. Photograph by Ellen Vrana. The yokai are dangerous and mischievous, kind even playful. Like most cultural remnants, they vary depending on geography and period. Tsuchigumo – Earth Spider The word tsuchigumo literally means “earth spider,” appears in the […] mythohistorical texts, and seems to have been used as a derogatory and demonizing label for the indigenous inhabitants of Japan. That is, the people writing the texts used the term to negatively described the natives they were conquering; they portrayed them as having short bodies and long arms and legs and as living in holes in the ground. In tracing the yokai through texts, illustrations, drama, and other historical records, Foster creates a wonderful bestiary of invention. (Not dissimilar to Jorge Luis Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings .) One common characteristic of yokai is their liminality, or “in-betweenness.” They are creatures of the borderlands, living on the edge of town, or in the mountains between villages, or in the eddies of a river running between two rice fields. They often appear at twilight, that gray time when the familiar seems strange and faces become indistinguishable. They lurk at crossroads. Children’s book author Roald Dahl created mystical creatures he called “gremlins” in the 1930s to explain the common mechanical failings in British fighter planes. We create stories and characters to turn experience into knowledge. As we illuminate more of our shadowed world and our own shadowed selves with science—why the sky is blue, why echoes exist, why we feel something is watching us, why we can’t shake deep melancholy—I hope there will always be room for spirits, for magic, for creativity. The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore. by Michael Dylan Foster , Shinonome Kijin (Illustrator) Browse related Subjects. "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 . Read More. "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 provides a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence within global popular culture. It 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"--Provided by publishe Read Less. 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Edition: 2015, University of California Press Trade paperback, New Available Copies: 10+ Details: ISBN: 0520271025 ISBN-13: 9780520271029 Pages: 336 Publisher: University of California Press Published: 2015 Language: English Alibris ID: 16268051106 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: $3.99. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. The Book of Yokai Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore. 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. 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