pickStarted this on audiobook last month, then realized I was missing out on illustrations and artwork. I put the hard copy on hold at my library not knowing it was the second, expanded edition. It features the inclusion of an all new extra section entitled: Yokai Gallery, with even more artwork!
Either edition is awesome, and Foster‘s determination to shine a scholarly light on a subject that could be written off as pop culture is admirable.
pickThis was an interesting micro-history? Examination of a cultural phenomenon? Folklore anthology? It walked a line between scholarly and fun. But its frustrating, as someone who can‘t read Japanese, to realize there are cool books in Japan I‘ll never get a chance to read. Side note, realizing kitsune, who I usually picture a la Gaiman, will “most certainly emit a fart in its urgency” to get away from an attacker changes The Dream Hunters a bit.
pickSharing some love for some of my favourite things here. Japan, folktales, mythology and books. Bring them all together in one package and I'm a happy little Otaku. This is the book of Yokai and it's just full of information on my favourite country's ghosts, spirits, demons and monsters, benign and malicious
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore | 
