Background: Overview Mythology Yōkai & Bakemono Folklore in Art Content: Mukashibanashi Densetsu Kaidan Kotowaza   Further Reading Resources

For Further Reading Though difficult and monotonous at times, research is often a source of deep pleasure to me, and it is my hope that others will find the same pleasures when looking into this subject. Here are some sources that will be of help; and if anything is missing here, please contact me at michael @ mukashibanashi.org . Primary Sources: Japanese Folk Tales, by Kunio Yanagita. ISBN: 0899860370 Folktales of Japan, by Keigo Seki. University of Chicago Press, June 1963. ISBN: 0226746143 Kwaidan: Stories And Studies Of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn. Tuttle Publishing, Feb 2005. ISBN: 0804836620 Myths and Legends of Japan, by F. Hadland Davis. Dover Publications, Mar 1992. ISBN: 0486270459 The Japanese Fairy Book, by Yei Ozaki. Tuttle Publishing, June 1970. ISBN: 0804808856 Studies in Mountain Village Life, by Kunio Yanagita et al. University of Kentucky Press, 1954. No ISBN. The Legends of Tōno, by Kunio Yanagita. Lexington Books, Nov 2008. 0739127675.   Other Related Works: Folktales from the Japanese Countryside, by Hiroko Fuji and Fran Stallings. Libraries Unlimited, Nov 2007. ISBN: 1591584884 Studies in Japanese Folklore, by Richard Dorson, et al. Arno Press, Nov 1980. ISBN: 0405133103 Japanese Ghosts and Demons, by Stephen Addiss, et al. George Braziller, Apr 2001. ISBN: 0807611263 Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai, by Michael Dylan Foster. University of California Press, Nov 2008. ISBN: 0520253620 Ghosts And The Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends, by Barre Toelken and Michiko Iwasaka. Utah State University Press , Dec 1994. ISBN: 0874211794 Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan, by Gerald Figal. Duke University press, Dec 1999. ISBN: 0822324180 Japanese Tales, by Royall Tyler. Pantheon, Aug 2002. ISBN: 0375714510 In Ghostly Japan, by Lafcadio Hearn. Tuttle Publishing, Feb 2005. ISBN: 0804836612 The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship, by Karen Smyers. University of Hawaii Press, January 1999. ISBN: 0824821025 The Japanese Experience, by W.G. Beasley. Trafalgar Square, Feb 1999. ISBN: 0297643088 Everyday Life in Traditional Japan, by Charles Dunn. Tuttle Publishing, Dec 1989. ISBN: 0804813841 Two Japanese Villages: Matsunagi, a Japanese Mountain Community, Kurusu, a Japanese Agricultural Community, by John B. Cornell and Robert J. Smith. Greenwood Press, 1969. ISBN: 0837121302 The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore, by Tsuneichi Miyamoto. Stone Bridge Press, Jan 2009. ISBN: 1933330805   Online Sources and Materials: The Encyclopedia of Shinto, a project of Kokugakuin University. The Obakemono Project, a database of traditional Japanese ghosts, monsters and apparitions. Accurate, well researched, and fully cited. Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters, an online text of the primary source of Japanese myth. Hotsuma Tsutae, an online text of the alternate Japanese mythology. Classic Literature on Shinto & Japanese Religion, a database of online texts on various relevant subjects. Digital copy of Japanese Folktales, by Yanagita Kunio, translated by Fanny Hagin Meyer. [pdf file] The entire back issues of the journal Asian Folklore Studies online, available for download in .pdf format. "Male Characters in the Japanese Folk Tale", a thesis by Gergana Petrova. [pdf file] "Kamikakushi: Spirit Captives in Japan's North Country", an article by A.W. Sadler on supernatural disappearances in the writings of Yanagita Kunio. [pdf file] The Samurai Archives: a great encyclopedic site on the military history and culture of traditional Japan. Also, Samurai Archives Forums.   Support the webmaster's novel: The Spirit Captive, by Michael Lucero