Digital painting of Japanese myth and folklore featuring Amaterasu, an oni, a fox spirit, ghosts, a samurai, a tengu, shrine gates, lanterns, waterfalls, and sacred landscape imagery.

Japanese Myth, Folklore & Legend: Kami, Sacred Place, and the Supernatural Imagination

Japanese Myth, Folklore & Legend: Kami, Sacred Place, and the Supernatural Imagination examines a richly layered narrative archive in which cosmogony, divine genealogy, shrine tradition, sacred geography, oral transmission, and supernatural presence converge. From the Kojiki and Nihon shoki to the Fudoki, ritual language, yōkai lore, ghost traditions, folktales, regional legend, and Ainu and Ryukyuan narrative worlds, this category explores how myth in Japan has been preserved, localized, performed, visualized, and continually reinterpreted across religious practice, literary culture, and living heritage.