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[davemerrill]

Found in the Twin Gables Antique Mall in Clinton Tennessee...



A Child's First Book Of 100 Horrifying Japanese Spirits and/or Haints. ("Yokai 100 Monogatari") Illustrations by Shigeru "Ge Ge Ge No Kitaro" Mizuki.



Guaranteed to give your kid nightmares or triple your money back.



Alternate title: "Oreintal Book."

Comments

[mpceccato.livejournal.com]

I love the cyclops on the back cover.

[patrickdean.livejournal.com]

DEAL OF THE CENTURY.

[mr-sadhead.livejournal.com]

At least they didn't risk it and just said "oriental" .. even in this hip city I still find Japanese stuff identified as Chinese, and Korean stuff identified as Japanese, and so on ..

[x-expat.livejournal.com]

Oh sweet... What a find!

I have a smaller Mizuki yokai atlas that I wish was in color and had the presentation this book does.

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

You totally scored. Rob Fenelon is doing a panel on yokai, I bet he'd love to get hold of some of those illustrations. ^_^

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

if you see Rob anytime soon, tell him that I'd love for him to do his Yokai panel at AWA.

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

I will, and I will. I'm sure he'd love to. ^_^

[ezlizard.livejournal.com]

Very interesting looking book! I bet it's an easy read too (aimed at children). Just looking at the pic of the Tsurara Onna ("Icicle Woman" http://tinyurl.com/yfjn5bg, which the Japanese Wikipedia says "not to be confused with Yuki Onna"), I've never heard of an Icicle Woman before, makes me wanna read more. Congratz on the find.