ホラースポット探訪

Here you will find selected translated works from the book

"Searching for Horror Spots" by YUKI YOSHIDA, 2014.

This book not only introduces the reader to the history behind many of Japan's most fantastical places, it also provides detailed information on how to get there and actually visit these sites. 

"A guidebook for the horror enthusiast" as Yoshida puts it.

Horror, however, is a vague term, and so Yoshida divides his sites as having to do something with the following genres: 

spirits, urban legends, taboos, temples and shrines, prayers, history, holy places, famous places, ruins, rare spots, and nature. 

The Opening Columns

将門コレクション

  The Masakado Collection

偉人の墓

  The Graves of Great Men

ミイラ・即身仏

  Mummification and Sokushinbutsu

賽の河原

  Children's limbo

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The Opening Colums
Learn about the topics this book has to offer, such as the fate of the rebellious Taira no Masakado, the graves of Jesus and the Buddha in Japan, the process of living mummification by Buddhist monks, and locations associated with hell.
Opening Colums - The Masakado Collection
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