Yokai Illustrations Artbook (Shigeru Mizuki)

Description

🇯🇵 This artbook contains Japanese
💪 Intermediate reading level
🙅‍♂️ Contains very little furigana

Artbook which gathers the illustrations of Yokai (Japanese monsters) of the cartoonist Shigeru Mizuki. More than 70 works are presented in this book, including 62 in color.
 
Shigeru Mizuki, the creator of Repulsive Kitaro (Gegege No Kitaro) and a manga artist who specialized in yokai. Carefully selected works from over 1000 yokai paintings that have been drawn in over 60 years of activity, with the cooperation of Mizuki Productions. Shigeru Mizuki's attention to detail and realism in drawing make him one of the most talented artists of his genre.
 
Also included
- Commentary "When I visited Dr. Yokai" by Yoshiharu Tsuge (mangaka)
- Commentary "The Secret of Yokai Painting" by Naoko Haraguchi (Representative of Mizuki Production)