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Votive slip folio 49 recto 1, 769.952.C685 v.39

Yōkai simply means “monster,” but it’s best understood as referring specifically to monsters (and sometimes ghosts) as imagined in early modern Japan, particularly as depicted in wood-block prints.  From Mizuki Shigeru to Studio Ghibli, from The Ring to Yōkai Watch, Japanese popular culture (including anime, manga, books, and film) is full of yōkai imagery.

 

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The Shobundo senjafuda collection was compiled by Sato Masao, also known as Shobundo, in his capacity as an active member of the Yokohama nosatsu-kai as well as a fuda printer and enthusiast. Shobundo lived and worked in Yokohama, Japan and collected fuda between 1920 and 1990. Included in this collection are loose votive slips, votive scrapbooks, sketchbooks and publications, printing and pasting tools, as well as photographs of nosatsu-kai events and members.
The Shobundo senjafuda collection was compiled by Sato Masao, also known as Shobundo, in his capacity as an active member of the Yokohama nosatsu-kai as well as a fuda printer and enthusiast. Shobundo lived and worked in Yokohama, Japan and collected fuda between 1920 and 1990. Included in this collection are loose votive slips, votive scrapbooks, sketchbooks and publications, printing and pasting tools, as well as photographs of nosatsu-kai events and members.

Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon. (Find this collection at UO Libraries.)

Dai yōkai ten: Oni to yōkai soshite Gegege. Mitsui Kinen Bijutsukan, 2013.

Foster, Michael Dylan. The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. (Find The Book of Yōkai at UO Libraries.)

Foster, Michael Dylan. Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. (Find Pandemonium and Parade at UO Libraries.)

Hirasawa, Caroline. “The Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution: A Primer on Japanese Hell Imagery and Imagination.” Monumenta Nipponica 63.1 (Spring, 2008): 1-50. (Find "The Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution" at UO Libraries.)

Hohle, Maggie Kinser. Matchibako: Japanese Matchbox Art of the 20s and 30s. Mark Batty Publisher, 2004. (Find Matchibako at UO Libraries.)

Kabat, Adam. アダム・カバット, Edo bakemono sōshi 江戸化物草紙. Shōgakukan, 1999. (Find Edo bakemono sōshi at UO Libraries.)

Kyōgoku Natsuhiko 京極夏彦 and Tada Katsumi 多田克己. Yōkai gahon: Kyōka hyaku monogatari 妖怪画本・狂歌百物語. Kokusho Kankōkai, 2008. (Find Yōkai gahon at UO Libraries.)

Miyamoto Tsuneichi 宮本常一 (ed.). Senjafuda 千社札. Tankōsha, 1975. (Find Senjafuda at UO Libraries.)

Morley, Carolyn Anne. Transformation, Miracles, and Mischief: The Mountain Priest Plays of Kyōgen. Cornell University East Asia Program, 1993. (Find Transformation, Miracles, and Mischief at UO Libraries.)

Pflugfelder, Gregory M. Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. (Find Cartographies of Desire at UO Libraries.)

Reider, Noriko T. Japanese Demon Lore: Oni from Ancient Times to the Present. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2010. (Find Japanese Demon Lore at UO Libraries.)

Reider, Noriko T. “Animating Objects: Tsukumogami ki and the Medieval Illustration of Shingon Truth,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 36.2 (2009). (Find "Animating Objects" at UO Libraries.)

Salter, Rebecca. Japanese Popular Prints From Votive Slips to Playing Cards. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006. (Find Japanese Popular Prints at UO Libraries.)

Sekioka Senrei 関岡扇令, ed. Edo korekushon: Senjafuda 江戸コレクション 千社札. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983. (Find Edo korekushon at UO Libraries.)

Smith II, Henry D. “Folk Toys and Votive Placards: Frederick Starr and the Ethnography of Collector Networks in Taisho Japan.” In “Popular Imagery as Cultural Heritage: Aesthetical and Art Historical Studies of Visual Culture in Modern Japan,” Final Report, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research #20320020 (PI: KANEDA Chiaki), March 2012.

Takiguchi Masaya 滝口正哉, Senjafuda ni miru Edo no shakai 千社札にみる江戸の社会. Tokyo: Dōseisha, 2008. (Find Senjafuda at UO Libraries.)

Thompson, Sarah E. Tattoos in Japanese Prints. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017. (Find Tattoos in Japanese Prints at UO Libraries.)

Wakabayashi, Haruko. The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012. (Find The Seven Tengu Scrolls at UO Libraries.)

Walley, Glynne. Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment & Kyokutei Bakin’s Nansō Satomi hakkenden. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 2017. (Find Good Dogs at UO Libraries.)

Yasumura Toshinobu 安村敏信, Kawanabe Kyōsai—Kyōsai hyakki gadan 河鍋暁斎 暁斎百鬼画談. Chikuma Gakugei Bunko, 2009.

Yumoto Koichi. Yokai Wonderland: YUMOTO Koichi Collection. PIE International, 2017.

Yumoto Koichi. Yokai Museum: The Art of Japanese Supernatural Beings from YUMOTO Koichi Collection. PIE International, 2013.