A Gathering of Spirits: Japan's Ghost Story Tradition: From Folklore and Kabuki to Anime and Manga
by Patrick Drazen
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"Prepare for a sampling of Japanese ghosts and spirits, from sources that include the world's oldest novel, the urban legends of contemporary Japanese schoolchildren, movies both classic and modern, anime, manga, and more." For hundreds of years Japan has lived in a reality consisting of the real world and the spirit world; sometimes the wall between the two worlds gets thin enough for spirits to cross over. In such a reality, ghost stories have been popular for centuries. Patrick Drazen, show more author of "Anime Explosion," looks at these stories: old and new, scary or funny or sad, looking at common themes and the reasons for their popularity. This book uses one Japanese ghost story tradition: the "hyaku monogatari" (hundred stories). In the old tradition, people tell each other one hundred ghost stories in one sitting. These hundred tales run from folklore to cartoons, but all are designed to send chills up the spine ... show lessTags
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Patrick Drazen, born in Chicago, was taught to read before going to kindergarten. Writing took longer to master, his first book, Anime Explosion!, was published in 2002 when he was fifty; A Gathering of Spirits: Japan's Ghost Story Tradition followed in 2011. In between he was, among other careers, a chauffeur, a legal secretary, and an announcer show more at Public Radio station WSIU in Carbondale, Illinois. show less
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- Graphic Novels & Comics
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- 895 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia
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- PL721 .S8 .D73 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature History and criticism
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