# Academic Papers/Articles

##### **General**

**[Kuniyoshi's "Minamoto Raikō" and "the Earth Spider": Demons and Protest in Late Tokugawa Japan](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4629355)** Melinda Takeuchi **(1987)**

**[San'yūntei Enchō's Ghosts and the Aesthetics of Things Unseen](https://www.jstor.org/stable/42800197)** Daniel O'Neill **(2002)**

**[The Yōkai in the Database: Supernatural Creatures and Folklore in Manga and Anime](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13110/marvelstales.27.2.0276)** Deborah Shamoon **(2013)**

**[To Believe and Not to Believe: A Native Ethnography of Kanashibari in Japan](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerfolk.128.508.0146)** Ayako Yoshimura **(2015)**

**[Traversing the Natural, Supernatural, and Paranormal: Yōkai in Postwar Japan](https://www.jstor.org/stable/48686684)** Hirota Ryūhei **(2021)**

[**Will the Real Ancestor Please Stand Up? Ritual and the Social Construction of Ancestors, Kami, and Goblins in Japan**](https://www.jstor.org/stable/44735502)  
E. Leslie Williams **(2015)**

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##### **Individual Yōkai Studies**

**[Animating Objects: Tsukumogami ki and the Medieval Illustration of Shingon Truth](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40660967)** Noriko T. Reider **(2009)**

**[Haunting Modernity: Tanuki, Trains, and Transformation in Japan](https://www.jstor.org/stable/41551381)** Michael Dylan Foster **(2012)**

**[Imagining the Spirits of Deceased Pregnant Women](https://www.jstor.org/stable/27009002)** Manami Yasui **(2020)**

**[Onmyōji: Sex, Pathos, and Grotesquery in Yumemakura Bakus Oni](https://www.jstor.org/stable/30030452)** Noriko T. Reider **(2007)**

**[The Dream of the Yamanba - An Overview](https://www.jstor.org/stable/48618707)** Mizuta Noriko (Translated by Luciana Sanga) **(2018)**

**[The Goblin Fox and Badger and Other Witch Animals of Japan](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1177429)** 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](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1177401)** Ishida Eiichirô **(1950)**

[**The Metamorphosis of the Kappa: Transformation of Folklore to Folklorism in Japan**](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1178994)  
Michael Dylan Foster **(1998)**

**[The Nue and Other Monsters in Heike Monogatari](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40213671)**  
Elizabeth Oyler **(2008)**

**[Transfiguration: Man-Made Objects as Demons in Japanese Scrolls](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1178217)** Elizabeth Lillehoj **(1995)**

[**Yamauba and Oni-Women**](https://www.jstor.org/stable/26845333)  
Noriko T. Reider **(2019)**

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##### **Religion** 

**[A Structural Reading of the Kojiki](https://wako.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/4869/files/h2109.pdf)** Kazuo Matsumura **(2021)**

**[Becoming Kami? Discourse on Postmortem Ritual Deification in the Ryukyus](https://www.jstor.org/stable/25791326)** Evgeny S. Baksheev **(2008)**

**[Female Pilgrims and Mt. Fuji: Changing Perspectives on the Exclusion of Women](https://www.jstor.org/stable/25066386)** Miyazaki Fumiko **(2005)**

**[Human Sacrifices in Japan](https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3320&context=ocj) ([The Open Court](https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/ocj/about.html))** Noritake Tsuda **(1918)**

**[Is the World of the Dead in the Mountains? - Interpreting Myths of the Yomi no Kuni](https://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/en/article/86245) (Article)** Masahiro Taniguchi **(2018)**

**[Musical Toys Offered to Gods at Miho Shrine](https://www.jstor.org/stable/26854489)** Ouchi Fumi **(2018)**

**[Research Notes: On Burial Customs, Maternal Spirits, and the Fetus in Japan](https://www.jstor.org/stable/42771896)** Manami Yasui **(2003)**

**[Sugoroku Boards as Portable Cosmos in Japanese Religion](https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1839&context=honors)** Jingyi Yuan **(2021)**

**[The Stranger as God: The Place of the Outsider in Japanese Folk Religion](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3773058)** Teigo Yoshida **(1981)**

**[Tokoyo no Kami: A Caterpillar Worshipped by a Cargo Cult in Ancient Japan](https://academic.oup.com/ae/article-pdf/60/3/182/18756214/ae60-0182.pdf)** Nan-Yao Su **(2014)**

**[When Buddhism Became a "Religion": Religion and Superstition in the Writings of Inoue Enryō](https://www.jstor.org/stable/30233795)** Jason Ānanda Josephson **(2006)**

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##### **Misc. Culture**

**[Cartography in Japan](https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V2_B2/HOC_VOLUME2_Book2_chapter11.pdf)** Kazutaka Unno **(1994)**

**[The Lore of the Japanese Fan](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2383356)** U. A. Casal **(1960)**