The Definitive Yokai Field Guide

Shigeru Mizuki resurrected Japan s folk creatures as pop culture for the masses. The New Yorker. Even in a country as saturated with manga and anime as Japan, few artists rivaled Mr. Mizuki in commercial success or distinctiveness of vision. The New York Times. Mizuki was the first extended brush with the world of Y?kai for many of us comics critics and readers. The Comics Journal

Shigeru Mizuki (1922-2015) was one of Japan’s most respected artists. A creative prodigy, he lost an arm in World War II. After the war, Mizuki became one of the founders of Japan’s latest craze-manga. He invented the yokai genre with GeGeGe no Kitaro, his most famous character, who has been adapted for the screen several times, as anime, live action, and video games. In fact, a new anime series has been made every decade since 1968, capturing the imaginations of generations of Japanese children. A researcher of yokai and a real-life ghost hunter, Mizuki traveled to over sixty countries to engage in fieldwork based on spirit folklore. In his hometown of Sakaiminato, one can find Shigeru Mizuki Road, a street decorated with bronze statues of his Kitaro characters.

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