"Yokai dwell in the contact zone between fact and fiction, between belief and doubt ... Yokai begin where language ends," says Michael Dylan Foster in the introduction to "The Book of Yokai," summing up what words often fail to conjure. His book takes readers on a journey into the inexplicable, mysterious, myriad variety of creatures that inhabit the realms outside accepted reality.

The Book of Yokai, by Dylan Foster, Illustrated by Shinonome Kijin
University of California Press, Nonfiction.