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Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats of Japan
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About Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats Of Japan
Product Description An in-depth exploration of the sometimes charming, sometimes gruesome feline creatures and ghosts of Japan. Davisson illuminates the vast realm of kaibyō, or supernatural cats, with historical and modern cultural context. Lushly illustrated in full color with dozens of ukiyo-e prints and drawings. A must-have book for the Japanophile and cat-lover alike! First in a forthcoming series about the supernatural animals of Japan. "Kaibyō: The Supernatural Cats of Japan is an extremely diverting and stunningly produced celebration of the phantom feline in its myriad of manifestations―some alluring, others humorous and many outright terrifying. Award-winning translator, writer, lecturer, manga scholar, Japanese folklore expert and author of Yūrei: The Japanese Ghost, Zach Davisson is the ideal guide to this furred and fanged underworld. An expertly researched and engagingly penned text is embellished by the inclusion of an intriguing selection of uncanny cat tales by other authors and centuries' old legends newly-translated by Mr. Davisson. The publishers must be congratulated for creating a book of extraordinary lavishness. Although a paperback release, no expense has been spared in an exquisitely-designed book brimming with a toothsome array of full-color artwork reproductions." Review by Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino, co-authors of Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati and The Marchesa Casati: Portraits of a Muse About the Author ZackDavisson is an award-winning translator, writer, and folklorist. He is theauthor of Yurei: The Japanese Ghost, Yokai Stories, and Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats of Japan, and the translator of LeijiMatsumoto's Space Battleship Yamato, GoNagai's Devilman, and Shigeru Mizuki's Kitaro. He wasnominated for the 2014 Japanese-US Friendship Commission TranslationPrize for his translation of the multiple Eisner award-winningShowa: A History of Japan. Davissonlectured on translation, manga, and folklore at Duke University, UCLA,and University of Washington, as well as contributed toexhibitions at the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He has been featured on NPR, BBC, and TheNew York Times, and has written for Metropolis, The Comics Journal, and WeirdTales Magazine.
