Abstract

The other world, the invisible world beyond the world in which we live. In ancient times, people feared and respected beings beyond human knowledge, and created a world called the Otherworld. This book explains the culture, traditions, and society that people built through the other world. What are the spiritual barriers that are placed around shrines? Was "Kagome-kagome" a spell? Was the northeast the path of demons? Was Sumo wrestling a ritual to ward off evil? The author unravels the "other world" from the viewpoints of folk beliefs handed down from the ancients and history.

Author’s Information

Itsuki Asazato (朝里 樹) is a unnatural phenomenon and ghost enthusiast and writer, born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1990. 2014, he graduated from Hosei University, Faculty of Literature. He majored in Japanese Literature. While working as a public servant, he independently collects and researches unnatural phenomena and ghosts. He is the author of "Nihon gendai kaii jiten (Japanese modern ghosts encyclopedia)" and "sekai gendai kaii jiten (World's modern ghosts encyclopedia)" (Kasama Shoin), and "Nihon no okashi no gendai yokai zukan (Japansese strange modern ghosts picture book)" (Gentosha).