Academic Papers/Articles
General
Kuniyoshi's "Minamoto Raikō" and "the Earth Spider": Demons and Protest in Late Tokugawa Japan
Melinda Takeuchi (1987)
San'yūntei Enchō's Ghosts and the Aesthetics of Things Unseen
Daniel O'Neill (2002)
The Yōkai in the Database: Supernatural Creatures and Folklore in Manga and Anime
Deborah Shamoon (2013)
To Believe and Not to Believe: A Native Ethnography of Kanashibari in Japan
Ayako Yoshimura (2015)
Traversing the Natural, Supernatural, and Paranormal: Yōkai in Postwar Japan
Hirota Ryūhei (2021)
Will the Real Ancestor Please Stand Up? Ritual and the Social Construction of Ancestors, Kami, and Goblins in Japan
E. Leslie Williams (2015)
Individual Yōkai Studies
Animating Objects: Tsukumogami ki and the Medieval Illustration of Shingon Truth
Noriko T. Reider (2009)
Haunting Modernity: Tanuki, Trains, and Transformation in Japan
Michael Dylan Foster (2012)
Imagining the Spirits of Deceased Pregnant Women
Manami Yasui (2020)
Onmyōji: Sex, Pathos, and Grotesquery in Yumemakura Bakus Oni
Noriko T. Reider (2007)
The Dream of the Yamanba - An Overview
Mizuta Noriko (Translated by Luciana Sanga) (2018)
The Goblin Fox and Badger and Other Witch Animals of Japan
U. A. Casal (1959)
The "Kappa" Legend: A Comparative Ethnological Study on the Japanese Water-Spirit "Kappa" and Its Habit of Trying to Lure Horses into the Water
Ishida Eiichirô (1950)
The Metamorphosis of the Kappa: Transformation of Folklore to Folklorism in Japan
Michael Dylan Foster (1998)
The Nue and Other Monsters in Heike Monogatari
Elizabeth Oyler (2008)
Transfiguration: Man-Made Objects as Demons in Japanese Scrolls
Elizabeth Lillehoj (1995)
Yamauba and Oni-Women
Noriko T. Reider (2019)
Religion
A Structural Reading of the Kojiki
Kazuo Matsumura (2021)
Becoming Kami? Discourse on Postmortem Ritual Deification in the Ryukyus
Evgeny S. Baksheev (2008)
Female Pilgrims and Mt. Fuji: Changing Perspectives on the Exclusion of Women
Miyazaki Fumiko (2005)
Human Sacrifices in Japan (The Open Court)
Noritake Tsuda (1918)
Is the World of the Dead in the Mountains? - Interpreting Myths of the Yomi no Kuni (Article)
Masahiro Taniguchi (2018)
Musical Toys Offered to Gods at Miho Shrine
Ouchi Fumi (2018)
Research Notes: On Burial Customs, Maternal Spirits, and the Fetus in Japan
Manami Yasui (2003)
Sugoroku Boards as Portable Cosmos in Japanese Religion
Jingyi Yuan (2021)
The Stranger as God: The Place of the Outsider in Japanese Folk Religion
Teigo Yoshida (1981)
Tokoyo no Kami: A Caterpillar Worshipped by a Cargo Cult in Ancient Japan
Nan-Yao Su (2014)
When Buddhism Became a "Religion": Religion and Superstition in the Writings of Inoue Enryō
Jason Ānanda Josephson (2006)
Misc. Culture
Cartography in Japan
Kazutaka Unno (1994)
The Lore of the Japanese Fan
U. A. Casal (1960)