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arinoyume 's review for:
Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic
by Chronicle Books
Can’t really give it a full proper review since I had already read in Japanese a lot of the stories in there, at least the most famous ones, so it wasn’t like a first time discovery. Nonetheless, I loved the arrangement of this well-curated collection of fairytales and ghost stories, the art was absolutely gorgeous (from a Japanese artist of Niigata) and it did give me quite a renewed, more profound understanding of what kind of stories does the Japanese collective consciousness contain.
Some of these stories were truly horrifying (I mean cut heads, cut ears, half body ghosts, and even an old woman killed, cooked in a soup and almost served to eat to her own husband!!
Some of these stories were truly horrifying (I mean cut heads, cut ears, half body ghosts, and even an old woman killed, cooked in a soup and almost served to eat to her own husband!!