Stories from a real YŌKAI HUNTER!

On this episode of Japan Station, we're talking about Japanese supernatural creatures with Dr. Michael Dylan Foster from the NHK World show YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore.

ðŸ'‰Topics Discussed

• How Dr. Michal Dylan Foster became interested in yÅkai
• Dr. Foster's take on "What is yÅkai?"
• The "practical" side of yÅkai
• About researching the Gamishiro, an obscure yÅkai on an island in Kagoshima
• About the Konaki-jiji
• About the Yokai House in Tokushima
• About visiting remote Mie Prefecture and interviewing Ama divers
• About the Tomokazuki
• About the origins of the Amabie
• How Dr. Foster became the yÅkai navigator for the NHK World show YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore
• About working on Yokai: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore
• About Japanese Supernatural Tales Encounters with Yokai, Ghosts, Demons, and Other Strange Phenomena, from the Kojiki and The Tale of Genji to Dazai and Murakami
• And much more!

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ðŸ'‰Links, Videos, Etc.

Here are the relevant links:

• Yokai: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore on NHK World: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/search/?q=YOKAI%3A+Exploring+Hidden+Japanese+Folklore
• You can also watch Yokai: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVxkIlzh_KE
• Japanese Super natural Tales (Penguin Classics): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730400/japanese-supernatural-tales-by-edited-by-michael-dylan-foster/
• The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-book-of-yokai-expanded-second-edition/paper
• Folklore, Popular Culture, and Hometown YÅkai in the Twenty-First Century: https://www.educationaboutasia.org/article/id/1843/

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