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  • The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition

    Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore

    by Michael Dylan Foster ...
    Significantly expanded and updated—a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.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 ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Japanese Supernatural Tales

    Encounters with Yokai, Ghosts, Demons, and Other Strange Phenomena, from the Kojiki and The Tale of Genji to Dazai and Murakami

    Edited by Michael Dylan Foster ...
    **A haunting gathering of classic Japanese tales of monsters and demons, yōkai and oni and yūrei, that live on in popular manga, anime, J-horror films, and video gamesA Penguin Classic**Flesh-eating oni demons, kappa water sprites, shapeshifting kitsune foxes, vengeful yūrei ghosts, and other monsters and magical creatures have long lurked in the shadows of Japanese culture, appearing as divine ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Book of Yōkai

    Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese

    by Michael Dylan Foster ...
    Narrated by Tim Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    Significantly expanded and updated—a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.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 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Folkloresque

    Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World

    Edited by Michael Dylan Foster, Jeffrey A. Tolbert ...
    This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the “folkloresque.” With “folkloresque,” Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such manufactured tropes are traditionally considered outside the purview of academic folklore study, but the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • We Are All Survivors

    Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery

    Edited by Carl Lindahl, Michael Dylan Foster, Kate Parker Horigan ...
    What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster and its aftermath? Can folklorists contribute to broader understandings of empathy and the roles of listening in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Are All Survivors

    Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery

    by Yutaka Suga, Yoko Taniguchi, Kōji Katō, Amy Shuman, Gloria M. Colom Braña, Georgia Ellie Dassler ...
    What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster and its aftermath? Can folklorists contribute to broader understandings of empathy and the roles of listening in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Japanese Legends and Folklore

    Samurai Tales, Ghost Stories, Legends, Fairy Tales, Myths and Historical Accounts

    by A.B. Mitford ...
    Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about Japanese culture and history, A.B. Mitford—who lived and worked in Japan as a British diplomat—presents a broad cross section of tales from many Japanese sources. Discover more about practically every ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Möbius Media

    Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque

    Edited by Jeffrey A. Tolbert, Michael Dylan Foster ...
    Möbius Media explores the interplay of popular and traditional cultures, reminding readers that expressive cultural forms are never mutually exclusive but exist in a state of creative tension and interconnection, merging and (re)defining one another. With this insightful volume, editors Jeffrey Tolbert and Michael Dylan Foster build on their earlier work, The Folkloresque, by considering how ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan

    Terrifying Japanese Tales of Yokai, Ghosts, and Demons

    by Lafcadio Hearn ...
    "Even as she screamed, her voice became thin, like a crying of wind; then she melted into a bright white mist that spired to the roof beams. Never again was she seen."Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan (which means "ghost story" in Japanese) is the first and most famous collection of Japanese yokai stories ever published. This unforgettable collection of 17 eerie tales and 3 original cultural studies by ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • UNESCO on the Ground

    Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Michael Dylan Foster, Lisa Gilman ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a crucial role in developing policies and recommendations for dealing with intangible cultural heritage. What has been the effect of such sweeping global policies on those actually affected by them? How connected is UNESCO with what is happening every day, on the ground, in local ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    In Ghostly Japan

    Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities

    by Lafcadio Hearn ...
    Narrated by Kaipo Schwab ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 55 min

    The Japanese have two kinds of ghosts in their folklore—the spirits of the dead, and the spirits of the living. This classic of Japanese literature invites you to take your choice if you dare.In Ghostly Japan collects twelve ghostly stories from Lafcadio Hearn, deathless images of ghosts and goblins, touches of folklore and superstition, salted with traditions of the nation. While some of these ... Read more

    Was $15.99 USD Now $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Japanese Supernatural Tales

    Encounters with Yokai, Ghosts, Demons, and Other Strange Phenomena, from the Kojiki and The Tale of Genji to Dazai and Murakami

    Narrated by Akie Kotabe, Brian Nishii, Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Greg Watanabe ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 57 min

    **A haunting gathering of classic Japanese tales of monsters and demons, yōkai and oni and yūrei, that live on in popular manga, anime, J-horror films, and video gamesA Penguin Classic**Flesh-eating oni demons, kappa water sprites, shapeshifting kitsune foxes, vengeful yūrei ghosts, and other monsters and magical creatures have long lurked in the shadows of Japanese culture, appearing as divine ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook