no senki, 178–81; Nonnonb1 to ore,
173–76; “Terebi kun” (manga), 166,
182, 206, 249n11; Zusetsu Nihon
yOkai taizen, 168fig., 169–70
Mizuki Shigeru Road, 165
modern boys (mobo), 117
modern girls (moga), 117
modernity, 77; electricity as emblem of,
103; Ibsen on, 134; Inoue EnryO
and, 78, 84, 102, 235n24; Kokkuri
and, 87, 107–8, 112; mystery lost
through, 142; primitive lifestyle vs.,
180–81; shamanism and, 96, 98;
subjectivity/self and, 117–19, 121–
24, 137–39, 147, 242n5, 248n72;
tanuki-vs.-train trope and, 115–16,
124–25; TOno monogatari and,
140–42; understanding of yOkai
and, 25, 27, 115–18, 150–51, 153–
55; yOkaigaku and, 80, 218n7. See
also Inoue EnryO; Kokkuri; Mori
Ngai; Natsume SOseki; Yanagita
Kunio
modern lifestyle (modan seikatsu), 117
modernology (kOgengaku), 247n58
mokumokuren, 66, 67fig., 72, 170, 215,
231n70, 256n9
mono-no-ke, 6–7, 20, 218n11
Mononoke-hime (film; 1997), 257n12
monster movies. See kaij[ eiga
monsterology, 5, 78, 218n7. See also
yOkaigaku
monsters, 2, 3, 10, 17, 21–24, 160,
218n7, 221n43, 222n53, 247n66.
See also yOkai
monstrous, the. See monsters
monstrous feminine, the, 20, 195
Mori Ngai, 27–28, 117–19, 125–26, 138,
149, 154, 157, 177, 186, 242n5;
“Hebi,” 126–27, 128–29, 130;
“Hyaku-monogatari,” 130–37,
138, 243–44n24, 244nn25,27;
“Kompira,” 129–30, 139; “Masui,”
127–29, 139, 243nn16,17
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, 155
mOryO: in KinmOzui, 38, 43; in Konjaku
gazu zoku hyakki, 63–64, 64fig.; in
Wakan sansaizue, 43–44, 45fig., 64
Motoki Katsuhide, 166
Murasaki Shikibu, 6, 7
Muromachi period (c. 1336–1573), 7,
56, 150, 229–30n56, 230n57
Musashino Art School, 165
museum, 27–28, 118, 142, 155, 161,
181, 204
Musume ni kataru otOsan no senki
(Mizuki Shigeru), 178–81
mutability, 6
My Neighbor Totoro. See Tonari no
totoro
mysterious, the, 15–17, 24–25, 29;
ambiguity of, 143–45; in hyaku-
monogatari, 54–55, 229n53; as
inner experience, 136–37; Inoue
EnryO classification scheme for,
78, 82–84, 99–100; Kokkuri and,
85, 88, 90, 91, 98, 101–2, 106–7;
ludic mode as essential for, 110–12;
modernity and, 115–18, 120, 123,
142, 151, 154, 157–58, 235n24;
persistence of, 104–5, 113, 157, 203,
247n62. See also fushigi; uncanny,
the; weird, the
mystic, the, 78, 87, 89, 96, 106, 111,
112–13, 126, 130, 131. See also
Kokkuri
mythohistories, 148
Nakamura Tekisai, 35, 37–39, 44,
226nn23,25. See also KinmOzui
Nakata Hideo, 185, 206
Nakazawa Shin’ichi, 75, 228n46,
230n59
Namahage ritual, 211
Napier, John, 222n49
Napier, Susan, 257n49
Nara period (710–784), 33
Nara Prefecture, 168
Narita Airport, 163, 198, 199–200
nationalism, 25–26, 73–74, 81, 147, 162,
234n12, 244n32
nativism, 76, 227n38, 244n32
Natsume SOseki, 27–28, 117–19, 138,
139, 140, 144, 157, 177, 242n5;
“Koto no Sorane,” 119–25, 126,
129–30, 175, 242nn6–7,9,
242–43n11
natural history: encyclopedic mode and,
31, 71, 75, 223n2; in Europe, 40,
226n28; as heuristic trope, 26–27,
204; parodies of, 231n73; popular-
ity of, 50; Wakan sansaizue and,
40–41, 226n28; yOkai endowed
with, 48, 76. See also encyclopedic
mode; hakubutsugaku; honzOgaku
naturalism. See shizenshugi
nensha (thoughtography), 241n3
neo-Confucianism, 26–27, 32–33, 44,
76, 224nn4–5. See also Shushigaku;
Zhu Xi
nerves, 100, 113, 123, 132, 158, 239n58
Nessie, 13
New York Times, 213
Nezumi-otoko (manga character), 167
Index 285