YOKAI ART BOOK – Goujin Ishihara

Published Fukkan – 2012- Japan

21 x 30 cm – 120 pages in colour – Soft cover with dust jacket and OBE

This is the first  art book of Goujin Ishihara, a master of the yōkai art world along with Shigeru Mizuki

Works centered on yokai, monster and their mysteries. It also includes many unpublished original drawings from the “Japanese Yokai Encyclopedia” and “World Yokai Encyclopedia”, illustrations for boys and girls magazines in the 30s and 40s of the Showa era.

Some of the contents of this book: Japanese monsters (Tengu, Kappa, Rokurokubi, Yuki-onna, Nekomata, Nine-tailed fox, Hitsume-kozou, Umibozu, Fire-breathing bird, Zashiki-warashi, Joro-gumo, Rashomon-no-oni, Nureme Onna, Houkou, Onmora Oni, Sagari, Baku, Great King Enma, Tenjoudari, Zunbera, etc.) Western Youkai (Vampire, Gorgon, Cerberus, Frankenstein, Half-Beast Man, Berber, Debes, Bajanoy, etc.) Huge Monsters (Ultra Monsters, Murderous Octopus, Yukio, etc.)

● Erotic Monsters (Kaio, Muma, etc.) ● The World After Death

● Monster Story (Frozen Monster, Dr. Vampire Bat, Sunao, etc.) ● Mysteries in Another Dimension (Makai, Primordial, Future) )

● Bizarre works from his later years (human-faced pig, human-faced dog, etc.)

● Detailed materials (bibliography and chronology), etc.

■About  Goujin Ishihara :
Born in Shimane Prefecture in 1923. In 1954 (Showa 29), he made his debut as an illustrator at the age of 31, quickly gaining popularity, and since then he has been active for about 40 years. He drew works of various genres for popular literary magazines and newspapers from different xompanies. It is no exaggeration to say that there is no one in Japan who has grown up in the 1980s without seing his bizarre, erotic, real yet fantastical paintings.