Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 180 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Gegege no Kitarô gnd |
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism
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Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism
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Art, Japanese -- Influence
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Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868.
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Art, Japanese -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
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Monsters in art.
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Erotica.
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Fantasy.
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Gay & Lesbian.
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Historical Fiction.
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Horror.
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Media Tie-In.
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Romance.
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Science Fiction.
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Animated films
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Art, Japanese -- Edo period
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Art, Japanese -- Influence
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Art, Japanese -- Meiji period
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Monsters in art
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Zeichentrickfilm
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Ungeheuer
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Trickfilm -- Japan -- Geschichte.
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Manga.
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Kunst.
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Film.
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Japan
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Japan
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Japan.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9789004202870 |
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9004202870 |
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1282557890 |
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9781282557895 |
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9786612557897 |
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6612557893 |
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