Something Wicked from Japan: Ghosts, Demons & Yokai in Ukiyo-E Masterpieces by Ei Nakau, Hokusai Katsushika, Hiroshige Utagawa

Something Wicked from Japan: Ghosts, Demons & Yokai in Ukiyo-E Masterpieces

Ei Nakau, Hokusai Katsushika, Hiroshige Utagawa

240 pages • first pub 2017 (view editions)

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Japanese folklore is a goldmine of terrifying supernatural Yokai monsters, demons, phantoms. A large number of Ukiyo-e woodblock printings created in Edo period (1603-1868) depict these monstrous beings in the illustrations of popular folk tales a...

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