The movie "The Legend of the Demon Cat" brought Japanese monster culture to the attention of many people. Other works by the original author Mengzhen Tapir have also been sought after by readers, especially his Onmyoji series of literary works that have also been adapted for the

The movie "The Legend of the Demon Cat" brought Japanese monster culture to the attention of many people. Other works of the original author Meng Zhenji have also been sought after by readers, especially his Onmyoji series of literary works that have also been adapted for the screen.

In fact, Japanese ghost literature has always been loved by many people in East Asia. For example, the once popular anime " Natsume's Book of Friends " tells stories about ghosts.

When talking about Japanese ghost story literature, one person has to be mentioned, and that is Tanaka Kontaro, who is known as the originator of Japanese ghost story literature. He has visited various places in Japan and collected Japanese folk ghost stories as materials for his literary creation, including Pu Songling 's "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", which has also become one of the literary works that has had the most profound influence on him.

Hayao Miyazaki has also paid tribute to Kontaro Tanaka in different ways in many classic movies. Tanaka Kontaro collected and created nearly 1,000 Japanese ghost stories throughout his life, which became the source of inspiration for subsequent Japanese literature and the creation of ghost stories in the film and television industry.

This set of "All Monster Stories" basically collects the ghost stories that Kontaro Tanaka has personally experienced or heard. It can be called a Japanese monster encyclopedia-style novel.

In the works of Kontaro Tanaka, there are not only all kinds of monsters that we are familiar with, but also all kinds of strange stories that cannot be discovered, including monsters, monks and gods.

Most of the ghost stories written by Tanaka Kontaro are short and concise, leaving people with a feeling of unfinished learning after reading them.

For example, the story "Face" has only about 300 words. It tells a simple scene. A woman is flirting with another man under a tree, but she discovers that there is a man's face vaguely in the ginkgo tree above her. Staring at herself intently, she looked closely and saw that this man was actually her ex-boyfriend who died of illness last year. The woman was frightened when she found out, but the man's face was still staring at them on the tree.

There are many stories like this in "Quanguitan". After reading it, people can think about it and make various assumptions about the characters and plots in the story. Maybe the woman did something detrimental to her ex-boyfriend before he was alive. Or maybe she had cheated on his ex-boyfriend before, or maybe the woman had made some kind of promise before her ex-boyfriend passed away, but now she has broken her original vow.

There are also various possibilities for the subsequent development of the story. Whether the ex-boyfriend will be haunted for the rest of her life, or the woman will receive certain revenge or punishment.

A country's literary works often reflect the culture and national spirit behind the country. The reason why stories can be spread all the time is that society has the need to regulate and restrict people's behavior. Among the ghost stories collected and created by Tanaka Kontaro, many people committed crimes due to various greeds and were ultimately revenged by ghosts. This also reflects people's hope that God has eyes, good people will be rewarded with good things, and evil people will be rewarded with bad things. When the evil people who have done bad things are not punished in time, then the appearance of ghosts can make up for the shortcomings in reality.

The monsters written by Kontaro Tanaka are not all kind, there are also lustful monsters.

There is a story about a fox demon in the book called "The Fox's Ledger". The plot of

is quite unconventional. The fox demon in the story is not the common female fox demon in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", but a male fox demon.

A male fox demon sneaks into the room of a married woman, Ataki, every night and sleeps next to her. The reason why the fox demon is so bold is because the male owner is on a business trip. The fox demon left a chance.

Strange things happened here for several days in a row. A Taki behaved strangely, and Nian Fang's son Shinichi also noticed something was wrong.

Shinichi finally used his own ingenuity to poison the fox demon to death.

Only then did he discover that the fox demon had a ledger on his body, which contained the names of many women, including Ataki's name. This shows that this fox demon often takes pleasure in sex and does some evil things.The abnormality of the

story is that there is no love in the fox demon story, and the monsters are not kind and can also do evil things. The most eye-catching character in the story is none other than Shinichi, who is brave and resourceful, and single-handedly kills the fox demon!

Tanaka Miyataro has only focused on one thing in his life, which is the collection and creation of ghost stories, and has achieved the ultimate in the field of ghost stories.

In his book, both humans and monsters have their own selfish desires and greed, and once they do evil deeds, they will receive bad consequences.

The mystery in ghost stories has always attracted people to explore. No matter how many centuries have passed, ghost stories have always been endless. This may be the charm of ghost stories.