The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore Audiobook (Free)

Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular lifestyle of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa drinking water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Currently well-known in anime, manga, film, and video games, many yokai started in regional legends, folktales, and local ghost stories.

Drawing on years of study in Japan, Michael about The Reserve of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their origins, interpreting their meanings, and presenting people who have hunted them through the age range. In this wonderful and available narrative, listeners will explore the assignments performed by these mysterious beings within Japanese culture and can also learn of their large quantity and range through complete entries on a lot more than fifty individual creatures. The Book of Yokai offers a energetic excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding impact on global well-known culture. In addition, it invites listeners to examine how people make, transmit, and gather folklore, and exactly how they seem sensible from the mysteries in the globe around them. By discovering yokai as an idea, we can better understand broader processes of tradition, innovation, storytelling, and person and communal imagination.