A retired Tengu lives in an apartment called "Uzumaki House" on the north side of the Deimachi shopping street.
He rarely goes out, always throwing the ingredients bought from the shopping street into the pot and boiling it into a terrible pot of hot porridge to prolong his life. He was frighteningly old, and the degree of rejection of bathing was unsurpassed by anyone in ancient times.
But such a tengu, which is somewhat similar to fossils, is the teacher of many tanuki cats.
The story takes place in "The Family of the Top Heavens", which features the Tanuki cat family as the protagonist and depicts a three-legged scene of humans, tanuki cats, and tengu standing tall.
Movie "The Top Heaven Family"
Here, humans live in the streets, tanuki cats crawl on the ground, and tengu fly in the air. Together, they nurture strange legends and are also full of deep bondage of family blood.
For example, the tengu preaches to the tanuki cat, the tanuki cat confuses humans, and the human fears the tengu. The tengu abducted the humans again, and the humans boiled the tanuki into a hot pot, and the tanuki set a trap to lure the tengu.
"The Top Heaven Family 1-2"
【Sun】Tomihiko Mori
The novel creates many different characters with its wild imagination, leading the reader into an alternative space in Kyoto. With JD.com as the background, telling a fantasy story mixed with strangeness and reality is even more handy for Morimi Noboruhiko.
After all, no matter how short the spring night is, the girl is moving forward! " or "Penguin Highway", Morimi can write a cute adventure with a big brain hole.
Writer Ke Han said: "Reading Morimi should first read "The Family of The Top Heavens". Reading "The Top Heaven Family", you can get a glimpse of the most simple and easy to understand part of his soul, that is, fun is justice. ”
"The Dingtian Family" and "The Dingtian Family: The Return of the Second Generation" are the series of stories that tell the story of the great father of the Tanuki family under the famous Duck Family, leaving behind four sons who were not instruments. The eldest is impatient, the second is indifferent, the third is lazy and rogue, and the fourth is weak and fearless. Seeing that a great bloodline is about to dissolve into four seemingly mediocre individuals of life, what kind of tanuki will they live in this fantastic and magnificent Kyoto?
Because of their incredible power, monsters have always been feared and feared. In the Japanese dictionary, yokai are interpreted as "strange phenomena or strange objects that human intelligence cannot explain", and yokai have gradually become the business card of Japanese eminence and culture. But did you know that at least 70% of the yokai in Japan come from China, and China is the true home of the yokai?
"Monster Wonder"
【Medium】Zhang Yun
"Monster Qitan" is a collection of sincere Chinese youkai stories created by Zhang Yun based on the yokai that are closer to human daily life in ancient Chinese books. "Monster Strange Tan" is warm and healing, telling all the strange stories between the countryside:
In the middle of the night, there is a mysterious drum sounding in the middle of the night, is it a cute tanuki demon fighting? There is a little demon who scolds people on the door of the house, what is the origin? The flowers and trees in full bloom in the spring, long and short sighs, turned out to be troublesome. The uninvited and grumpy beauty turned out to be the legendary rain master concubine?
18-year-old Wen Tai, after being sent back to his hometown mansion in the mountains for a year due to weak health, there were one after another strange and strange things happening around him, and they were all warm and heartwarming healing stories. The world has animism, and those many flowers, trees, birds and beasts that have passed by us are not the sincere friends that we have ignored for a long time?
Zhang Yun said: "Everyone has their own way of life, and everyone has their own pursuit. Some people value fame, some people chase power, and some people don't know what they are doing, they are being carried around by the crowd, and they can't help but move forward. The so-called loneliness is the gap in the heart after asking for it. ”
And yokai, because they are out of touch with the rules of the world and are not burdened by fame, have also attracted more non-yokai writers, and B yi is one of them. In 2005, B Yi began to serialize in the strange literary magazine "You", and "My Sycross" and "Embryo Qitan" were one of the results of the compilation of books during this period.
My Sycross
【Sun】Asako Yamahaku
My Sai Cross, as a sequel to Yamapaku Asako Edo," contains a total of 9 short stories. The three protagonists in the book run again and again on the journey to visit the hot spring resort, and again and again they get lost, scattered, and experience various strange things:
Maiden's wheel encounters "Shotaro", a Cyclops who is particularly good at striking iron and is not afraid of the heat; Eryan picks up an emerald ring on the seashore and wears it on his hand, but is almost dragged into the sea because he can't pick it off; a strange village on the road, and Izumi Wax An, Wheel and Erhiko find a lot of strangely shaped remains on the ground...
Every adventure in the book points directly to the unfathomable places in people's hearts. As some readers have said: "B a strange talk, must be a fine product." "My Saikros" not only continues the mysterious and strange story atmosphere in Yamashira Asako's work, but also retains the fantasy and changeable narrative style in Yiyi's work, although it reads with a cruel picture depicted in a calm tone, but the inadvertent kindness can always quietly soothe the reader's heart.
"Embryotric Wonder"
The same is true of "Embryonic Odd Tan", where the protagonist Maiden Wheel is temporarily absent, with the wandering Waizumi Ashian and his retinue Eryan as the protagonists, recording the various strange tans encountered by the expedition duo on their journey to find hot springs. Embryos, ghosts, death, reincarnation... Those clichéd horror elements are filled with poignant cruelty and warmth under B's pen.
Take the book 'Misty Mystery' as an example: "I felt the shape of the skull with my palm, and suddenly, I remembered the appearance of Tang Xiang. Pure eyes. Stubborn lips. Glossy hair. Beautiful silhouette, cute cheeks. The pattern of the old clothes on the body... Sit in the grass and listen to the chirping of insects and the sound of leaves. Finally, I stood up, wrapped the bones of the maiden in my clothes, and left there", full of the beauty of mourning.
"Once Upon a Time, Somewhere"
Sun: Aoyagi Aoito
"Once Upon a Time, Somewhere" is an adaptation, a creation, and a rewrite of Japanese folk tales using reasoning and deduction. There are 5 folk tales and 5 murder mysteries in the book together constitute 5 kinds of brain-opening reading pleasures.
Momotaro in the eyes of the "ghost", Urashima Taro incarnated as a detective, the alibi of the one-inch mage, Grandpa Hana left a death message, and the dark version of the crane that no one had ever heard of... When Japanese folklore meets reasoning, the story has a new ending. Just like "The Ghost Island of the Absolute Sea", Momotaro and his partner go to the Ghost Island and finally win. However, the real battle has only just begun...
Regarding yokai culture, Yanagida Kunio, the founder of Japanese folklore, once said that the biggest feature of Japanese yokai is that it has two sides, and good and evil can be transformed into each other. Therefore, whether it is "InuYasha", "Natsume's Friend's Account", "The Coldness of the Ghost Lamp" or "The Elegant Daily Life of the Yokai Apartment", the image of the yokai is vivid and flexible.
The same is true of the yokai in today's book list, although they all appear in inhuman forms, but we will find out in our reading: the original yokai stories can also be both funny and healing.
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