Name: Shigeru Mizuki Yokai Encyclopedia
SKU: 9784092203211
Price: 1100 JPY
Availability: InStock

Republished under a new title, “Yokai Nandemo Nyumon,” originally published in 1974 as part of the “Introductory Encyclopedia Series.”

It features detailed profiles of 80 yokai, a map of Japanese yokai, and includes the dramatic comic “The Yokai of Obobe Swamp.”

Category：Japanese Culture Book, Japanese Illustration Book

Tag：Yokai

Pages：: 184
ISBN：: 9784092203211
Release Date:: November, 2004
Language:: Japanese
Publisher:: Shogakukan

Author profile

Shigeru Mizuki

A manga artist, and a leading figure in yokai paintings and yokai research. Born in 1922, he grew up in Sakaiminato City, Tottori Prefecture. During the Pacific War, he was deployed to the fierce battleground of Rabaul, where he was bombed and lost his left arm. After returning from the war, he became a kamishibai artist, and later turned to rental manga. In 2003, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette. In 2007, he won the Best Comic Book Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for “NonNonBa.” In 2010, he was recognized as a Person of Cultural Merit and honored as a Tottori Prefecture Honorary Citizen. He received the Will Eisner Award for Best Asian Work for “Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths” in 2012 and “Showa: A History of Japan” in 2015. He passed away on November 30, 2015, at the age of 93. Other notable works include “GeGeGe no Kitaro,” “Kappa no Sanpei,” and “Akuma-kun.”