中文简介：

庆祝日本独特的鬼怪文化

在德川时代（日本从1600年到1900年的300年繁荣与和平时期），关于过去战争的恐怖故事广为流传，并被改编成紧张刺激的游戏。在《一百支蜡烛》中，一群朋友在夏季满月前夜交换恐怖故事，这可能是同类小说中非常出名的一部；传说中，故事的高潮是一个幽灵的出现。本书秉承了这一恐怖游戏的精神，分享了18和19世纪的200幅日本神话图像作品。该书整理了版画、书籍、衣服、武器、剑、武士盔甲、77件珍贵项链和一个33英尺长的卷轴，凝聚成一幅日本神奇画像。

英文简介：

Celebrating Japan's unique print culture of monsters and ghouls

During the Pax Tokugawa―Japan's 300-year period of prosperity and peace from 1600 to 1900―epic tales about the wars of the past circulated and were adapted into spine-tingling games. One Hundred Candles, in which a group of friends swap scary stories on the eve of a full moon in the summer, is perhaps the most famous of the genre; legend dictates that the storytelling culminates in the appearance of a spirit. Yokai follows the spirit of this macabre game, sharing 200 works of Japanese mythological imagery from the 18th and 19th centuries. The book's collation of prints, books, clothes, weapons, swords, samurai armor, 77 precious netsuke and a 33-foot scroll coalesce into a portrait of Japan's storied―and sometimes spooky―past.