Name: YOKAI WONDERLAND - YUMOTO Koichi Collection
SKU: 978-4756248718
Price: 3190 JPY
Availability: InStock

From yokai depicted in the Edo period to nostalgic yokai of the Showa period, these yokai from all over the world, which were inadvertently not included in the previous “Konjaku Yokai Daikan”, have been gathered from all over the world! More than 150 yokai have never been shown to the public before.

Types of works included:
Picture scrolls, hanging scrolls, picture horses, votive tablets, Ukiyoe prints, printed booklets, wood carvings, kimonos, stitching, obi, ink baskets, netsuke, tsubasa, small handles, smoking pipes, ceramics, dolls, variant pictures, karuta, sugoroku, Kobe dolls, stickers, magazines, etc.

Category：Japanese Craft Book, Japanese Culture Book

Tag：Monster, Yokai

Pages：: 256
ISBN：: 978-4756248718
Release Date:: July, 2017
Language:: Japanese & English
Publisher:: PIE International

Author profile

Koichi Yumoto

Folklorist and yokai researcher.

Born in Sumida-ku, Tokyo in 1950.
Completed the master’s program at Hosei University Graduate School (Japanese History) in 1977.
He has served as a curator and curator of the Kawasaki City Museum.
He currently teaches at graduate schools and universities while conducting research and collection of youkai.
He has authored numerous books, including books on youkai.

He donated more than 5,000 pieces of the world’s largest collection to the “Miyoshi Mononoke Museum” (Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture).