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 Anime and Its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xiv)   (261K)
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    • Table Of Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • List Of Figures
  • Introduction (1-7)   (246K)
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    • Notes
  • Yōkai Art From Prehistory To Modernity (8-46)   (1M)
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    • What Are Yōkai?
    • Types Of Yōkai
    • Yōkai Of The Mountain
    • Yōkai Of The Water
    • Yōkai Of The Village And The Home
    • The Art Of Yōkai
    • Yōkai Of Prehistory
    • Jomon Art
    • The One-Eyed God
    • The End Of The Jomon Period
    • Horrors Of The Heian Period
    • Demon Parade Of The Muromachi Period
    • Codified Monsters Of Edo
    • Militarized Monsters Of Meiji
    • The Meiji Restoration And Yōkai
    • The Folk Studies Of Yanagita Kunio
    • Yōkai Go To War
  • Enter The Limping Hero (47-62)   (276K)
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    • Mizuki Shigeru, Professor Of Yōkai
    • Early Years (1922–41)
    • War Years (1942–45)
    • Postwar Years (1945–)
    • Tricksters Animated
    • Daddy Eyeball
    • Graveyard Kitaro, The Pseudo Folk Superhero
    • The Limping Hero
    • Ratman
  • Art History Meets Gegegeno Kitaro (63-137)   (39M)
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    • Patterns Of Representation
    • Toriyama Sekien's Yōkai Catalogues
    • Umi Zato, Blind Sea Monk
    • Makura Kaeshi, Pillow Turner
    • Teno Me, Hand Eyes
    • Miage Nyūdō (Uplooking Monk) And Aobōzu (Blue Monk)
    • Nurarihyon
    • Otoroshi And Odoro Odoro
    • Akashita, Red Tongue
    • Iso Onna, Seashore Woman
    • Kasha, Fire Cart
    • Ubume
    • Hideri-Gami, Drought God
    • Wanyūdō, Wheel Monk
    • Onmoraki
    • Buruburu, Shivers
    • Mōryō
    • Amanojaku
    • Oboro Kuruma, Dim Car
    • Keukegen, Fur Wings
    • Ushirogami And Kage Onna, Shadow Woman
    • Sazae Oni, Turban Shell Demon
    • Ungaikyō
    • Other Traditional Influences
    • The Influence Of Folk Art
    • Tanuki, Badger
    • Namazu, Catfish
    • Yanagita Kunio’s Yōkai Meii
    • Tsuchikorobi, Land Slide
    • Sune Kosuri, Shin Rubber
    • Daidarabocchi
    • The Influence Of Religious Iconography
    • Hindu Sources: Yasha
    • Buddhist Sources: Raiden, Thunder God
    • Taoist Sources: Hoko
    • Shinto Sources: Yamatano Orochi, The Eight-Headed Snake
    • Shinto-Buddhist Sources: Ushi Oni (Bull Demon); Garura (Garuda)
    • Postmortem Transformation Of Historical Figures
    • Edo And Meiji Period Sources
    • Bake Neko, Monster Cat
    • Kasa Obake, Umbrella Monster
    • Ō̄kubi, Big Head
    • Mizuki Shigeru’s Yōkai Original
    • Yōkai Persona: The Artist As Yōkai
    • Yōkai In Postwar Narrative
    • Yōkai As Endangered Species
    • Yōkai As Processing Trauma: Ghosts Of War
    • Yōkai Flower
    • Daikaijū
    • Yōkai As Social Commentary: Involuntary Signifiers
    • Kitaro In The Twenty-First Century
  • Yōkai In Cinema, 1968–2008 (138-157)   (6M)
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    • Great Yōkai Wars, 1966–2005
    • Kitaro On Film, 2007
    • Cat-Eye Boy, 2006
  • Monsters March On (158-168)   (6M)
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    • Kitaro In The Context Of Superflat
    • Yōkai Landscape
  • References (169-176)   (249K)
  • Index (177-180)   (229K)