{"product_id":"9781770467989","title":"Yokai: Shigeru Mizuki's Supernatural Parade","description":"\u003cb\u003eManga titan Shigeru Mizuki brings Japan’s most entertaining myths to the modern age\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs travelers approach a lush, cedar forest—the soft floor and woodland scent palpable from Shigeru Mizuki’s fecund drawing—something falls from the trees with a thud: a human head, twelve times average size. A dozen more heads follow, peering at the travelers with maniacal laughter, before retreating back into the woods. A hallucination? No, this is Tohoku No Tsurubeotoshi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn earthworm, larger than a human, floats in the air, backlit from window lights ensconced by shadowy darkness. Sontsuru—majestic on the page in Shigeru Mizuki’s delicate ink lines and bold colors—is no worm, but a yokai who haunts families across generations, wriggling between their skin and muscles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd then there is Shirime, a city dwelling trickster who shouts, “A moment, sir!” only to then lift their kimono to reveal their unusual rump—a giant, glowing eyeball where one would otherwise expect a crack. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndeed, not all the yokai in the pages of \u003ci\u003eYokai: Shigeru Mizuki’s Supernatural Parade\u003c\/i\u003e are there to cause fright. Like Mizuki himself, yokai often have a playful spirit, which Mizuki explores with joy in this stunning collection, which contains one hundred new, lavish, full page yokai illustrations, with biographies for each.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYokai: Shigeru Mizuki’s Supernatural Parade\u003c\/i\u003e is the companion book to \u003ci\u003eYokai: The Art of Shigeru Mizuki,\u003c\/i\u003e and includes supplementary writing by acclaimed Mizuki scholar and translator Zack Davisson.","brand":"Shigeru Mizuki","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":48675561472212,"sku":"9781770467989","price":49.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fe7e3d99-0450-4909-ac5e-ce303dce86d9.jpg?v=1789528272","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781770467989","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}