Japanese Ghosts and Eerie Creatures Exhibition Catalog - This one is a must have!!!!

Size: 9" x 11.5" - Pages: 206 - Published: 2013 - Price: $75 - Binding: Softcover

This is the catalog from the Japanese Ghosts and Eerie Creatures ehibition that just ended and was without a doubt one of the coolest collections of yokai artwork under one roof. Over 200 pages of amazing imagery and a lot of stuff I hadn't seen before. Plus all the pieces are labelled in English as well as Japanese so you can research the stories a bit if you are so inclined. Don't let the kookie 80's cover fool you, thi book is solid gold. I got 200 for the publisher and one they're gone, that's it so don't sleep on this one kids. xo

Fantastic World of Japanese Ghost Paintings

Size: 6" x 8" - Pages: 157 - Published: 2013 - Price: $52 - Binding: Softcover

This book is a must have! Sooooo many great yurei! Awesome collection of imagery, brilliant reference material. Very little text, mostly full page illustrations. Some with the original on one side and close ups of the face on the opposite page so you can really see the details. Finished with some great skeleton paintings. Do yourself a favor.... 

New from Gomineko Books! Adam Kitamoto - Myths, Gods & Legends. Pre-Order today!

Hello all!

Gomineko Books is proud to announce our newest publication....Adam Kitamoto's Myths, Gods, & Legends. This is a brilliant collection of Kitamoto's illustrations and tattoo work, highlighting his keen eye for Japanese nuances and aesthetic. This project was started 3 years ago but we hit a huge speedbump in the form of a giant shop-wrecking earthquake, so it is with great pleasure that I get to finally announce this release! The book is A4 in size, softcover with superior binding and boasts almost 160 pages of artwork and crisp photos. It will retail for USD$80 and if you pre-order your copy today we will ship it out for $1 when they come in from the printers at the end of April! You can purchase on our website homepage and our blog. Thanks to you all for your continued support! xoxo Crystal
 

 

Tanuki Submissions for the New Book!!

AkoArt

Cat Bijou

Jee Sayalero

Ayako Fujita

Clint Steele

Craig Deuce

Elize Casarjian

Omniinks Yugo

Josh Roelink

Lee Withey

Mike Nomy

TNS Naoki

Vicky Morgan

Robert Bonhomme

Sam Rulz

Scott Sketo

Vanessa Toryumon

Matthew Crim

Robert Bonehomme

New Call for Art Submissions for Next Book - BAKENEKO

Bakeneko are forked tailed cat demons, not to be trusted. There are different myths concerning when and why a cat’s tail splits into two and he becomes a bakeneko, including that it happens when he reaches a certain age (although what the age is specifically tends to vary with each telling); or that it is the vengeful spirit of an ill-treated cat returned to avenge itself on his tormentors. Some people say it splits when a domestic cat reaches 8 pounds or it if has eaten in the same house for 13 years – but in all the stories once a feline’s tail divides into two the cat becomes a bakeneko and has supernatural powers. Bakeneko have been credited with shapeshifting and it’s believed that Bakeneko can breathe life back into the newly dead so all cats are kept away from fresh corpses as a precaution. (It’s also been said that it can reanimates a corpse by jumping over it’s head). Bakeneko then use these zombie bodies to revenge themselves on people they felt have wronged them. To prevent their pets from turning into demons Japanese people would cut the tails off their cats and as a consequence, there is a huge number of bobtail or stumpy tailed cats here in Japan, both feral and domesticated. Bakeneko (all cats really) enjoy licking lamp oil – it’s convenient fat and protein for them. With the lamp right there playing with shadows and the inevitable distortion a shoji screen would add to the image of a cat on a table licking lamp oil, it’s easy to see why people began to speculate about cats as yokai. Some believe bakeneko can grow large enough to just snatch people up through open windows. They’ve been known to kill a person and assume his/her identity. In more than one story e Bakeneko kills a person in it’s household and hides the body in the floorboards (or sometimes just the bones – all gnawed clean) assumes the dead person’s appearance and place in the family appearing at meal times to gorge. Bakeneko are considered malevolent creatures and are usually depicted as quite ferocious and evil.

Deadline for submissions January 31, 2013 Submissions WILL NOT be returned so if you want to keep yours please send a HIGH QUALITY digital scan of at least 400dpi. Do not send photos. Email or dropbox to gominekobooks@yahoo.com Submissions sent in will be auctioned off online and the money donated to the Support The Underground Crew - a group of underground bikers, musicians and artists that spend one weekend a month biking supplies in and donating their time to help out some of the villages in Tohoku the government deemed too small to resuscitate. Post to: Gomineko Books/ 3-13-29 Imagawa/ Suginami-ku, Tokyo/ 167-0035 Japan Please send a written statement giving Gomineko the right to publish your piece in any future publication and if you send the original, written permission to include it in the online auction. You may send as many submissions in as you'd like but I print one per artist (per motif). There is no guarantee that your piece will be selected but please know that we definitely appreciate the time and energy spent on each piece. . Questions can be emailed to Crystal at gominekobooks@yahoo.com