Dissecting Japanese Folkore Monsters

Yōkai Daizukai is an illustrated guide to yōkai, a broad terms for a class of monsters and supernatural beings in Japanese folklore, authored by the legendary manga artist Shigeru Mizuki. It features a collection of cutaway diagrams showing the anatomy of 85 traditional monsters from Japanese folklore (which also appear in Mizuki’s GeGeGe no Kitarō anime/manga). Here’s a few illustrations from the book and you can get the book from here.

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