The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth: The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster Kitsune, Horrendous Oni, and More

Very nice book

This was for our nephew. Beautiful looking book. He said it was very interesting

First it arrived with water damage, after I returned book and ordered another one it was much better but still visible that it was stored in some humid place or it got some extra humidity during shipping. Need better package. Book itsels is amazing, hard cover, good paper quality, very nice pictures. It was a present for a fan of everything Japanese, he liked it a lot. As present was already given, can not add photos.

What a beautifully presented and well researched book. Ms Matsuura has done a wonderful job of explaining so many Japanese folk law monsters and spirits. It is like a dictionary of things that go bump in the night in Japan. Coming from a Christian society, there are relatively few in our world, elves, fairies and the like. Nothing too scary. Japanese animist culture has thrown up a plethora of monsters and spirits, all well explained and well illustrated. I live in Japan, a word of warning! I used to blithely bicycle back from the pub, taking a short cut over a bridge on the Yu River and biking through Nagakura shrine. Now the hairs are standing up on the back of my neck. Is that a Kappa lurking in the reeds? Was that a fox spirit drifting through shadows of the dense pine forest; a ghost leaning on the tori gate? My ride back from the pub will never be the same again!

Gracias. Sin maltrato. Muy buen libro introductorio y, con hermosas imagenes en el contexto japones. Asi mismo la reseña y contenido de los seres descritos es muy buena. Y tambien ideal, si se complementa con el oraculo de la autora.