Cataloging The Creatures Of The Unknown

“Yokai dwell in the contact zone between fact and fiction, between belief and doubt … Yokai begin where language ends,” says Michael Dylan Foster in the introduction to “The Book of Yokai,” summing up what words often fail to conjure. His book takes readers on a journey into the inexplicable, mysterious, myriad variety of creatures that inhabit the realms outside accepted reality.

Foster, an associate professor of folklore and East Asian studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, has created the definitive guide to yokai (supernatural or mythical beings), informed by scholarly research and fascinating contextual information, fully illustrated to illuminate the vast sphere of the unknown.

Source: The Japan Times