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Shinto and Japanese Religion

Civilization and Monsters

Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan

by Gerald Figal

A study of how debates about monsters and the supernatural shaped Japanese modernity in the Meiji era. Figal examines Inoue Enryō's attempts to debunk yōkai and Yanagita Kunio's folklore studies.

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