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)