Yokai Book Museum

Discover the supernatural creatures of Japanese folklore through art. A beautifully illustrated volume that reveals the world of the yōkai in an entertaining, visual and well-documented way. Be amazed by the most fascinating creatures of Japanese culture.

Yumoto Koichi (1950) is the former head of the conservation department of the Kawasaki City Museum. He continues his tireless pursuit of yōkai-related materials by researching, collecting and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

The Yumoto Koichi Collection can be visited at the Miyoshi Mononoke Museum, the world's first museum entirely dedicated to the yōkai, which opened in April 2019.

About the Yumoto Koichi Collection

The Yumoto Koichi Collection, which holds some 3,000 items, is the largest collection of yōkai-related objects in the world: from illustrated e-maki scrolls, nishiki-e polychrome drawings and books of all kinds, to kimonos, obi sashes, pendants and boxes, dagger cases and a wide variety of everyday utensils such as ceramics. This extraordinary collection also includes documents from the Edo period (1603-1968) which refer to fabled beasts, dolls, playing cards, film posters and pachinko machines. A unique collection, several of whose pieces travelled for the first time outside Japan to be shown at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid in 2018.

Pages: 288.

Dimensions: 257 x 182 mm.

Paperback with dust jacket.

Language: Spanish.