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Supernatural and Mysterious Japan: Spirits, Hauntings and Paranormal Phenomena | 
 enlarge | Author: Catrien Ross
Publisher: Yenbooks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 238698
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 4900737372
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.940952
EAN: 9784900737372
ASIN: 4900737372
Publication Date: April 15, 1996
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Product Description
To write this book on Japan's ghosts and other freaky phenomena, Catrien Ross collected accounts of the eerie and terrifying from around Japan. Along the way, she braved frightening locales including the uniquiet grave of the beautiful, betrayed Oiwa, and sacred Mount Osore, a gateway for communicating with the dead. The result of her journeys is a glimpse into hidden aspects of the Japanese world of the paranormal: a world of blind, women shamans, trees that grow human hair, weeping rocks, and even a graveyard where Jesus is reputed to have been buried. Covering ancient and modern times, Supernatural and Mysterious Japan offers not only some good, old-fashioned scary stories, but some special insights into Japanese culture and psychology. It delivers terrific entertainment - and some good chills - for the Japanophile and aficionado of the supernatural, alike.
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Fortean Times, Japan-style July 31, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Supernatural and Mysterious Japan: Spirits, Hauntings and Paranormal Phenomena" is the type of book one might pick up in a New Age bookstore, right next to "Forbidden Secrets of the Pyramids" and "How to See Leprechauns." The author, Catrien Ross, runs QRQ in Nishi Hachioji Japan, a "healing center" for "healers, alternative thinkers and futurists."
With that in mind, "Supernatural and Mysterious Japan" is a decent little book on with some good information on psychic phenomena in modern Japan as well as some nice ghost stories and haunted places. The book is heavier on psychics than ghosts, with quite a bit on mystic healing which is Ross's own forte. The "Strange but True" chapter contains some nice weirdness, such as the grave of Jesus Christ in northern Aomori prefecture and the living mummies of Gassan mountain.
My personal favorite sections were "Modern Day Hauntings" and "Edo Era Tales." While I had heard many of the stories before, Ross is well-informed and added some new bits and some new stories, as well as some haunted places to check out. Her take on the famous "Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan" was very nice, with some history of the tale and how it was adapted by various media.
Overall, not a great book on the Japanese supernatural, but not terrible either. It is small, at only 160 pages, but she manages to pack in quite a bit of good stuff.
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