Status Updates From An Introduction to Yōkai Cu...

"yes the tengu are all male and the yamauba are all female and YES they both inhabit mountains but there is NO evidence to suggest a spousal relationship, DO NOT SHIP" what a funny interjection

also mentioning psychology hypothesizing about yamauba tying them to abusive mothers because of their good/evil dichotomy is FASCINATING given that a book i read about Baba Yaga did the same thing

SEMIOTICS MENTIONED?????

class consciousness? in my anthropology book? it's more likely than you think; get your literature checked today!

this is scratching such an itch i am so happy reading this

YESSS BUILD IN DISCUSSIONS OF METHOD AND ETHICS INTO YOUR PRESENTATION OF FINDINGS THIS IS GREAT I LOVE IT

omg yes talk to me about your methods and discuss how translation is incredibly nuanced and ultimately impossible because cultural concepts can never be wholly communicated to those outside of the culture BUT HOW IT'S IMPORTANT TO TRY ANYWAY

i feel like this is implying that there's a link to present day mascot culture from older yokai culture and that's sick i love that

i'm so excited for this

Yeah, this last chapter on boundaries was completely pointless. Sadly overall this book was a dissappointment. I wanted something about yokai in japanese culture, but got almost nothing about that.

If it weren't for these two pictures with with border deities, this chapter on bourders would be a complete waste of time and space.

Why is this here? There has been one mentioning that over time mountain holy people devolved into yokai and now there is the topic of human sacrifices , but where on earth is the connected to yokai truly? Sure it is interesting to read about potential human sacrifices both as reality and in legends like this monk killing an ape-god who wanted such sacrifices, but why is it here?

Why is there a chapter on outsiders and sacrifices?

And the yurei chapter is over. Still wonder why it is here, respectively takes over so much space.

I ask myself what the difference between yurei & yokai is supposed to be. The author definies a yurei as the soul of a dead person in the form it had when living. and seems to follow another author who states that when a yurei loses its name, it can only be called an obake (monster), when it loses its "self" as a human individual it dissappears or transforms into something else. So lots of ghosts here are yokai then.

yamauba being miko once? Whether that really holds true.