The latest book I worked on, デジタル時代の妖怪学 (Yokai Studies in the Digital Age: The Business of Making the Invisible Visible), published by Kasama Shoin, is coming out this month!

This book started out as a talk on yokai studies in the digital age at Teikyō University a couple of years ago. I contributed illustrations (including the cover illustration), as well as one section of the book. The rest of it is co-authored by several yokai scholars including:

Watanabe Mizuki
Associate Professor, Department of Tourism Policy, Faculty of Regional Policy, Takasaki University of Economics
Kagawa Masanobu
Curator, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History
Hirota Ryuhei
Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Literature, Faculty of Letters, Daito Bunka University
Matsumoto Kentaro
Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Dokkyo University
Takemura Masaharu
Professor, Liberal Arts Department, Kagurazaka Campus, Institute for Liberal Arts Education, Tokyo University of Science

Unlike my previous book with Kasama, this is a Japanese-language-only book, so the audience probably does not align too closely with readers of my blog. It’s an academic work, rather than a purely entertainment-focused one, but it is still quite entertaining and interesting. The book itself is gorgeous, and the design is really cool. Kasama Shoin really puts out great-looking stuff!

You can pre-order the book from Kasama Shoin’s website, or from Amazon and other booksellers.