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Yokai: The Ancient Prints of Japanese Monsters

內容簡介

內容簡介 ✰日本古代妖怪圖畫日本傳說中有許多妖怪角色，例如：蜘蛛女絡新婦、變身狸貓、化貓、河童以及美人魚，他們暗藏在日本傳統文化的神秘角落，本書搜羅了版畫、古書和私藏捲軸等等的妖怪圖像，帶領讀者一窺怪誕又迷人的日本藝術。 The long Pax Tokugawa was founded on the blood of 40,000 severed enemy heads. Indeed, 1600 marked the end of the period of wars that saw the defeat of the troops opposed to General Ieyasu Tokugawa.The absence of wars, banishing the memories and horrors of past massacres, favoured the development of epic tales that gave rise to dark and terrifying atmospheres, such as the game of the hundred candles, a test of courage in which a handful of warriors meet on a summer night to tell each other scary stories populated by monsters from the national tradition. So we have the Joro¯ gumo, comely women who reveal their true nature as enormous spiders to their victims; the Tanuki, endearing badgers able to transform themselves; the Bakeneko, monstrous cats; the Kappa, aquatic beings that pester women; the Ningyo, mermaids whose fragrant flesh can give men renewed youth or an excruciating death.The macabre ritual of the hundred candles is the great idea behind this original project that presents 200 works from the 18th and 19th centuries, including prints, rare antique books, clothes, weapons, swords, a samurai suit of armour, as well as seventy-seven precious netsuke, small ivory sculptures, from the Bertocchi private collection and a ten-metre long scroll that tells the story of Shutendoji, a mythological creature (Oni) at the head of an army of monsters that haunted Mount Oe near Kyoto. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Villa Reale in Monza, the book is a real journey of discovery of Japanese imagery, ranging from Hokusai’s famous manga notebooks (alongside his other masterpieces) to the works of Loputyn, the contemporary illustrator well known to hotaku manga enthusiasts."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Paolo LinettiPaolo Linetti has been director of the Museo d’Arte Orientale – Mazzocchi Collection since September 2017. He was responsible for the museum activities of the Museo Diocesano di Brescia from 2006 to 2018, organizing exhibitions, events, conferences and concerts. He has contributed to exhibitions and workshops with Cartier, Lucca Comics. In 2019 he curated the exhibition “Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro. Masterpieces of Japanese art” and he is the author of one of the introductory texts in the catalogue (Skira, 2019).

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