Manga Yokai Stories (Graphic Novel)

Ghostly Tales from Japan

Manga Yokai Stories (Graphic Novel)
Sean Michael Wilson, Lafcadio Hearn, Inko Ai Takita
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Trade Paperback
h254 x 191mm - 128pg
15 Sep 2020 US
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9784805315668
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This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers of yokai stories!Manga Yokai Stories includes:* Nuke-kubi: A masterless samurai is trapped in a house haunted by headless goblins* The Screen Maiden: A young man develops an obsession with a woman in a painting that almost kills him* Corpse Rider: A woman' s unburied corpse cannot rest until she has taken her revenge on the man who divorced her* A Dead Secret: A young mother terrifies her family when she returns as a ghost, unable to find peace until she puts to rest a shocking secret she has left behindThese classic Japanese ghost stories are based on those written by famed author Lafcadio Hearn between 1890 and 1904. Here, they are retold by award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson, who has garnered a worldwide fan base for his manga adaptations of works of Japanese literature, including such classics as The Book of Five Rings and The Demon' s Sermon on the Martial Arts. Wilson' s skillful adaptation of Hearn' s ghostly tales - along with superb manga illustrations from UK-based Japanese artist Inko Ai Takita - make these fascinating stories come to life.
Sean Michael Wilson, who adapted the text of Lafcadio Hearn' s original stories for this collection, is a comic book writer from Scotland, now living in Japan. He has had more than 30 books published with a variety of US, UK and Japanese publishers. He is the editor of the critically acclaimed collection AX:alternative manga (Publishers Weekly' s ' Best ten books of 2010' and nominated for a Harvey award). Working with various Japanese artists he has written a unique line of Japanese history/martial arts/Samurai books, including The Book of Five Rings, Secrets of the Ninja, The 47 Ronin, and Cold Mountain (winner of China Comic and Animation Competition 2015 ' Best Overseas Comic' award). In 2016 his book The Faceless Ghost was nominated for the prestigious Eisner Book Awards, and received a medal in the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards. In 2017, his book Secrets of the Ninja won an International Manga Award from the Japanese government-he is the first British person to receive this award. http://seanmichaelwilson. weebly. com Inko Ai Takita, the illustrator of this book, was born in Kyoto, Japan. She grew up with manga comics, loving both reading and drawing them. After graduating from Kyoto Zokei University of Art & Design, she moved to England and studied at Central St. Martin' s College of Art & Design. She is now based in the UK where she delivers manga workshops in schools, galleries, museums and libraries. She has worked as a culture and language ambassador for London University School of Oriental and African Studies. More of her yokai and monster drawings appear in Ketsueki (Markosia, 2011) and Tam O' Shanter (Cranachan, 2019). You can visit her website: http://dokoteiinko. wix. com/inkoredible Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was born on the Greek island of Lefkas, the son of an Anglo-Irish father and a Greek mother. At the age of nineteen, he went to America, eventually ending up in New Orleans as a newspaper reporter. His flight from Western materialism brought him to Japan in 1890, where he worked for the Kobe Chronicle, and taught in various schools. In 1896, he began teaching English literature at Tokyo Imperial University, a position he held until 1903. Hearn married a samurai' s daughter, became a Japanese citizen and a Buddhist and changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo. He became the great interpreter of things Japanese to the West. Hearn' s most famous work is a collection of lectures entitled Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (published posthumously in 1905). His other books on Japan include Kokoro (1896), In Ghostly Japan (1899) and Japanese Miscellany (1901).
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9784805315668
Published: 15 Sep 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Tuttle Publishing
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 254mm
Width: 191mm
Weight: 425g
Pages: 128

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