| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 180 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Yōkai art : from prehistory to modernity. What are yōkai? ; Type of yōkai ; Yōkai of the mountain ; Yōkai of the water ; Yōkai of the village and the home ; The art of yōkai ; Yōkai of prehistory ; Jomon art ; The one-eyed god ; The end of the Jomon Period ; Horrors of the Heian Period ; Demon parade of the Muromachi period ; Codified monsters of Edo ; Militarized monsters of Meiji ; The Meiji Restoration and yōkai ; The folk studies of Yanagita Kunio ; Yōkai go to war -- Enter the limping hero. Mizuki Shigeru, professor of yōkai ; Early years (1922-41) ; War years (1942-45) ; Postwar years (1945- ) ; Tricksters animated ; Daddy Eyeball ; Graveyard Kitaro, the pseudo folk superhero ; The limping hero ; Ratman -- Art history meets Gegegeno Kitaro. The illustrated night parade of one hundred demons, 1776 ; The illustrated one hundred demons from the present and the past, 1779 ; Supplement to the one hundred demons from the present and the past, 1781 ; The illustrated bag of one hundred demons, 1781 ; Yanagita Kunio's Yōkai meii -- Yōkai in cinema, 1968-2008. Great yōkai wars 1966-2005 ; Yōkai daisensō in manga, 1966 ; Yōkai daisensō in animation, 1968 ; Yōkai Daisensō in film., 1968 ; Yōkai daisensō in remake, 2005 ; Yōkai daisensō character design ; Yōkai daisensō demon parade ; Kitaro on film, 2007 ; Dotaro, 2007 ; Cat-eye boy, 2006 -- Monsters march on. Kitaro in the context of Superflat ; yōkai landscape. |
| Summary |
Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics. This study puts today's anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji- period painters and the post-war period animation and manga series Gegegeno Kitaro by Mizuki Shigeru. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gegege no Kitarô. |
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism.
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Comic books, strips, etc. |
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Japan. |
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Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism.
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Animated films. |
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Art, Japanese -- Influence.
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Art, Japanese -- Influence. |
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Art, Japanese. |
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Art, Japanese -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
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Monsters in art.
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Monsters in art. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1912 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Papp, Zilia. Anime and its roots in early Japanese monster art. Folkestone : Global Oriental, 2010 9781906876180 (OCoLC)465369902 |
| ISBN |
9789004202870 (electronic book) |
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9004202870 (electronic book) |
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9781906876180 |
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1906876185 |
| Standard No. |
9786612557897 |
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