Having drawn more than 400 varieties of monsters, Matthew Meyer, 39, published the fourth installment in his yokai encyclopedia series this past summer. Meyer visited Kanazawa, the Ishikawa ...
Japan-based illustrator Matthew Meyer has drawn over 500 varieties of yokai―supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore. We ask him about his fascination with the phenomenon of yokai.
“One reference we used a lot was Yokai.com, which is a site that a Japanese folklore enthusiast and illustrator Matthew Meyer started to translate and document these stories.” Yokai.com is a ...