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Miniatures Adventure => Adventures in the Far East => Topic started by: Wellington on November 27, 2020, 10:44:45 AM

Title: Book about japanese monsters, demons and creatures?
Post by: Wellington on November 27, 2020, 10:44:45 AM

Hi!

Playing Test of Honour I become more and interessted in japanese mythologie. I got some of the usual fairy tale books writen by western writers in the 19. century,but I'm not really satiesfied.

For introducing some scary enemies to my brave Uesugi samurai I need more inspiration, with nice pictures!

Any advices for books?

Cheers

Wellington

Title: Re: Book about japanese monsters, demons and creatures?
Post by: OSHIROmodels on November 27, 2020, 10:55:53 AM

This chap has some good artwork.

http://matthewmeyer.net/ (http://matthewmeyer.net/)

Title: Re: Book about japanese monsters, demons and creatures?
Post by: commissarmoody on November 27, 2020, 11:01:48 AM

The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai
By Matthew Meyer is a decent start. There are 2 more books in the Yokai series as well.

Title: Re: Book about japanese monsters, demons and creatures?
Post by: commissarmoody on November 27, 2020, 11:07:49 AM

this is a pretty well put together post about about some fantasy gaming in Japan. https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=101026.0

Title: Re: Book about japanese monsters, demons and creatures?
Post by: Wellington on November 27, 2020, 11:24:00 AM

Thanks a lot! Fantastic links. I hope mky local book shop can order the books. I need all of them!

Title: Re: Book about japanese monsters, demons and creatures?
Post by: Metternich on November 27, 2020, 10:29:45 PM

This is a fantastic (sorry for the pun) illustrated resource on Japanese folklore.  Contains a wealth of material:

http://yokai.com/

Title: Re: Book about japanese monsters, demons and creatures?
Post by: SotF on November 27, 2020, 10:56:50 PM

Not a book, but there's an older episode of Monster Talk that had a great discussion on Yokai, it might have been an interview with Meyer, but not sure.

A lot of the weird and monster and cryptid podcasts are ones that I haven't been able to really keep up with because of family who throw fits about having them on.

Title: Re: Book about japanese monsters, demons and creatures?
Post by: Wellington on December 01, 2020, 08:33:04 PM

Just got the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons book! It fantastic with really beautiful pictures

Title: Re: Book about japanese monsters, demons and creatures?
Post by: commissarmoody on December 02, 2020, 02:26:38 AM

Glade to here you like it.  :D