The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.2
Title | The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.2 PDF eBook |
Author | Natsuhiko Kyogoku |
Publisher | Creek & River Co., Ltd |
Total Pages | 24 |
Release | 2015-06-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Set in ancient Japan, Natsuhiko Kyogoku's chilling series interweaves tales of karma and retribution with supernatural tricksters and spirits. In The Fox Priest, a trapper with a dark secret and ties to Edo's criminal underworld finds himself sucked ever deeper into a world halfway between dreams and reality, where foxes assume human guise and truth and folklore converge. The Mendicant returns with his trio of assistants to punish those beyond the reach of the law by luring them into a trap of their own making.
The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.6
Title | The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.6 PDF eBook |
Author | Natsuhiko Kyogoku |
Publisher | Creek & River Co., Ltd |
Total Pages | 29 |
Release | 2016-06-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Set in ancient Japan, Natsuhiko Kyogoku's chilling series interweaves tales of karma and retribution with supernatural tricksters and spirits. In The Willow Woman, a prosperous innkeeper falls victim to the curse of an ancient willow tree that seems intent on preventing him from producing an heir. Ogin the Puppeteer becomes concerned when she reconnects with a long-lost childhood friend and hears the young woman is engaged to the innkeeper, whose four previous wives all died or disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
Title | The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Meyer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2015-03-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780985218423 |
From the mists of prehistory to the present day, Japan has always had stories of fantastic monsters. There are women with extra mouths in the backs of their heads, water goblins whose favorite food is inside the human anus, elephant-dragons which feed solely on bad dreams, baby zombies, talking foxes, fire-breathing chickens, animated blobs of rotten flesh that run about the streets at night, and the dreaded "hyakki yagyo" "the night parade of one hundred demons"-when all of the yokai leave their homes and parade through the streets of Japan in one massive spectacle of utter pandemonium. What are yokai? Put simply, they are supernatural creatures of Japanese folklore. The word in Japanese is a combination of "yo," meaning "bewitching," and "kai," meaning "strange." The term encompasses monsters, demons, gods ("kami"), ghosts ("bakemono"), magical animals, transformed humans, urban legends, and other strange phenomena. It is a broad and vague term. Nothing exists in the English language that quite does the trick of capturing the essence of yokai. This field guide contains over 100 illustrated entries covering a wide variety of Japanese yokai. Each yokai is described in detail-including its habitat, diet, origin, and legends-based on translations from centuries-old Japanese texts. This book was first funded on Kickstarter in 2011 and then revised in 2015.
The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.4
Title | The Wicked and the Damned: A Hundred Tales of Karma Vol.4 PDF eBook |
Author | Natsuhiko Kyogoku |
Publisher | Creek & River Co., Ltd |
Total Pages | 29 |
Release | 2016-06-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Set in ancient Japan, Natsuhiko Kyogoku's chilling series interweaves tales of karma and retribution with supernatural tricksters and spirits. In Shibaemon the Raccoon-Dog, the leader of a famed traveling puppet troupe on the island of Awaji is asked by his feudal lord to take a mysterious guest into his house, little suspecting where it will lead. Art imitates life in this horrific tale involving a shape-shifting raccoon-dog, a serial murderer, and a young samurai with ties to Japan’s ruling clan.
The Secret Doctrine
Title | The Secret Doctrine PDF eBook |
Author | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 772 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Theosophy |
ISBN |
Journey to the West
Title | Journey to the West PDF eBook |
Author | Wu Cheng'en |
Publisher | Asiapac Books Pte Ltd |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2018-08-14 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 9812298894 |
The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!
The Phantom Image
Title | The Phantom Image PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick R. Crowley |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2019-12-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 022664829X |
Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fresh and wide-ranging study, he uses the figure of the ghost to offer a new understanding of the status of the image in Roman art and visual culture. Tracing the shifting practices and debates in antiquity about the nature of vision and representation, Crowley shows how images of ghosts make visible structures of beholding and strategies of depiction. Yet the figure of the ghost simultaneously contributes to a broader conceptual history that accounts for how modalities of belief emerged and developed in antiquity. Neither illustrations of ancient beliefs in ghosts nor depictions of afterlife, these images show us something about the visual event of seeing itself. The Phantom Image offers essential insight into ancient art, visual culture, and the history of the image.