Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)
@yokai.com
author, illustrator, folklorist
creator of yokai.com
support me on Patreon: patreon.com/theyokaiguy
books and artwork available at yokai.com/shop
creator of yokai.com
support me on Patreon: patreon.com/theyokaiguy
books and artwork available at yokai.com/shop
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Pre-order Echizen-Wakasa Kidan: Strange Tales from Fukui on BackerKit
illustrated stories of yokai, ghosts, and weird tales from rural Japan
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Just a reminder that if you missed my last Kickstarter, you can still pre-order books and traditional Fukui crafts from our Backerkit store.
Traditional yokai craft stocks are extremely limited and won't be available afterwards!
echizen-wakasa.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Traditional yokai craft stocks are extremely limited and won't be available afterwards!
echizen-wakasa.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
I hope you all have a very Yokai Christmas this year!
December 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I hope you all have a very Yokai Christmas this year!
I need someone to knit me a pair of these sweaters so my wife and I can wear matching pigeon sweaters.
@rosemarymosco.com a jeopardy contestant today is wearing a pigeon sweater!
December 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I need someone to knit me a pair of these sweaters so my wife and I can wear matching pigeon sweaters.
I submitted my claim for the Anthropic Copyright Settlement case today.
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
If AI tech bros violated your coprights work to feed their slop-vomiting machines, sign up for the settlement here.
Burn these fuckers and their empire of AI slop to the ground.
🔥👿🔥
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
If AI tech bros violated your coprights work to feed their slop-vomiting machines, sign up for the settlement here.
Burn these fuckers and their empire of AI slop to the ground.
🔥👿🔥
Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I submitted my claim for the Anthropic Copyright Settlement case today.
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
If AI tech bros violated your coprights work to feed their slop-vomiting machines, sign up for the settlement here.
Burn these fuckers and their empire of AI slop to the ground.
🔥👿🔥
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
If AI tech bros violated your coprights work to feed their slop-vomiting machines, sign up for the settlement here.
Burn these fuckers and their empire of AI slop to the ground.
🔥👿🔥
Just a reminder that if you missed my last Kickstarter, you can still pre-order books and traditional Fukui crafts from our Backerkit store.
Traditional yokai craft stocks are extremely limited and won't be available afterwards!
echizen-wakasa.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Traditional yokai craft stocks are extremely limited and won't be available afterwards!
echizen-wakasa.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Pre-order Echizen-Wakasa Kidan: Strange Tales from Fukui on BackerKit
illustrated stories of yokai, ghosts, and weird tales from rural Japan
echizen-wakasa.backerkit.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Just a reminder that if you missed my last Kickstarter, you can still pre-order books and traditional Fukui crafts from our Backerkit store.
Traditional yokai craft stocks are extremely limited and won't be available afterwards!
echizen-wakasa.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Traditional yokai craft stocks are extremely limited and won't be available afterwards!
echizen-wakasa.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
What has two legs, zero arms, and breathes fire from its nostrils and souls from its mouth?
Today's yokai, that's what!
Read more for free on my Patreon below:
www.patreon.com/posts/igyo-n...
Today's yokai, that's what!
Read more for free on my Patreon below:
www.patreon.com/posts/igyo-n...
Igyō no danshi | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)
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December 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
What has two legs, zero arms, and breathes fire from its nostrils and souls from its mouth?
Today's yokai, that's what!
Read more for free on my Patreon below:
www.patreon.com/posts/igyo-n...
Today's yokai, that's what!
Read more for free on my Patreon below:
www.patreon.com/posts/igyo-n...
Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!
No, it's a giant piece of dyed paper that wants to crush you and eat you!
Today's yokai comes from Chikuzen bakemono emaki, and you'd better eat it before it eats you!
Read about it for free on my Patreon below:
www.patreon.com/posts/thing-...
No, it's a giant piece of dyed paper that wants to crush you and eat you!
Today's yokai comes from Chikuzen bakemono emaki, and you'd better eat it before it eats you!
Read about it for free on my Patreon below:
www.patreon.com/posts/thing-...
The Thing That Looks Like a Dark Piece of Paper | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)
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December 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!
No, it's a giant piece of dyed paper that wants to crush you and eat you!
Today's yokai comes from Chikuzen bakemono emaki, and you'd better eat it before it eats you!
Read about it for free on my Patreon below:
www.patreon.com/posts/thing-...
No, it's a giant piece of dyed paper that wants to crush you and eat you!
Today's yokai comes from Chikuzen bakemono emaki, and you'd better eat it before it eats you!
Read about it for free on my Patreon below:
www.patreon.com/posts/thing-...
If you're going to be in or near Osaka this weekend, be sure to check out the Sakai Yokai Art Festival! sakai-yokai.com/sakaiartfest...
I sadly can't attend this time around, but it's a great yokai event that you don't want to miss!
I sadly can't attend this time around, but it's a great yokai event that you don't want to miss!
2025 Sakai Yokai Art Festival - 沙界妖怪芸術祭
sakai-yokai.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
If you're going to be in or near Osaka this weekend, be sure to check out the Sakai Yokai Art Festival! sakai-yokai.com/sakaiartfest...
I sadly can't attend this time around, but it's a great yokai event that you don't want to miss!
I sadly can't attend this time around, but it's a great yokai event that you don't want to miss!
Hey all, did you know yokai.com has a web shop? 📘📙📗📕📚
🎅🎄 There's still time to order and have it shipped anywhere in the world by Christmas! 🎄🎁
This holiday, why not give the gift of yokai to that special someone? ⛩️👹👺🦊🐉👻
-> yokai.com/shop/
🎅🎄 There's still time to order and have it shipped anywhere in the world by Christmas! 🎄🎁
This holiday, why not give the gift of yokai to that special someone? ⛩️👹👺🦊🐉👻
-> yokai.com/shop/
Shop | Yokai.com
yokai.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Hey all, did you know yokai.com has a web shop? 📘📙📗📕📚
🎅🎄 There's still time to order and have it shipped anywhere in the world by Christmas! 🎄🎁
This holiday, why not give the gift of yokai to that special someone? ⛩️👹👺🦊🐉👻
-> yokai.com/shop/
🎅🎄 There's still time to order and have it shipped anywhere in the world by Christmas! 🎄🎁
This holiday, why not give the gift of yokai to that special someone? ⛩️👹👺🦊🐉👻
-> yokai.com/shop/
Did you miss my November exhibit at Kaze no Mori Hall in Fukui?
I did a writeup and video walkthrough for Patreon members, so you can experience the exhibit as if you were there!
www.patreon.com/posts/kidan-...
I did a writeup and video walkthrough for Patreon members, so you can experience the exhibit as if you were there!
www.patreon.com/posts/kidan-...
"The KIDAN" Exhibition Walkthrough | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)
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November 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Did you miss my November exhibit at Kaze no Mori Hall in Fukui?
I did a writeup and video walkthrough for Patreon members, so you can experience the exhibit as if you were there!
www.patreon.com/posts/kidan-...
I did a writeup and video walkthrough for Patreon members, so you can experience the exhibit as if you were there!
www.patreon.com/posts/kidan-...
Beautiful. A perfect reminder that even the masters had days like this.
I just became aware of this incredibly relatable drawing by John Singer Sargent.
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Beautiful. A perfect reminder that even the masters had days like this.
It's happened again... An e-commerce site called Tokyo Tiger has stolen my art and is selling t-shirts and putting ads on IG/X with my artwork.
Do not buy from them.
These are not licensed products. They are stolen.
Do not buy from them.
These are not licensed products. They are stolen.
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It's happened again... An e-commerce site called Tokyo Tiger has stolen my art and is selling t-shirts and putting ads on IG/X with my artwork.
Do not buy from them.
These are not licensed products. They are stolen.
Do not buy from them.
These are not licensed products. They are stolen.
A new challenger for cutest yokai ever has arrived. Have you ever heard of the yōfuku before? It's a relatively new discovery.
What do you guys think about this one?
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What do you guys think about this one?
www.patreon.com/posts/yofuku...
Yōfuku | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)
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November 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
A new challenger for cutest yokai ever has arrived. Have you ever heard of the yōfuku before? It's a relatively new discovery.
What do you guys think about this one?
www.patreon.com/posts/yofuku...
What do you guys think about this one?
www.patreon.com/posts/yofuku...
My name appeared in this article about the modern yokai boom. If you haven't been to the yokai festival at Uzumasa Film Studio yet, make sure you don't miss it!
www.rogerebert.com/festivals/to...
www.rogerebert.com/festivals/to...
Tokyo Film Festival 2025: “Demon Pond” and Japanese Yokai Culture | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
Our final dispatch from the 2025 Tokyo Film Festival offers a look back at a classic Japanese ghost tale and the supernatural beings that pervade its culture.
www.rogerebert.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
My name appeared in this article about the modern yokai boom. If you haven't been to the yokai festival at Uzumasa Film Studio yet, make sure you don't miss it!
www.rogerebert.com/festivals/to...
www.rogerebert.com/festivals/to...
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Oh, and one more thing that was a really nice finishing touch: along with my books came a set of bookmarks--again with a common trade dress--for the books. Just lovely.
8/8
8/8
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Oh, and one more thing that was a really nice finishing touch: along with my books came a set of bookmarks--again with a common trade dress--for the books. Just lovely.
8/8
8/8
Reposted by Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)
The site also has the ability to browse or search the yokai entries online, if you want to see the kinds of information and illustrations that makeup the books.
A few more selections from the slipcase art.
7/n
A few more selections from the slipcase art.
7/n
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The site also has the ability to browse or search the yokai entries online, if you want to see the kinds of information and illustrations that makeup the books.
A few more selections from the slipcase art.
7/n
A few more selections from the slipcase art.
7/n
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I've spent several hours over the last couple of days just flipping through these, reading the entries, and studying the details in the artwork.
If this is at all your kind of thing, these editions as well as two more moderately priced versions, are available at yokai.com.
6/n
If this is at all your kind of thing, these editions as well as two more moderately priced versions, are available at yokai.com.
6/n
Yokai.com | The Illustrated Database of Japanese Folklore
yokai, mononoke, obake, bakemono, henge, yurei, onryo, oni, demons, monsters, ghosts, and more
yokai.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I've spent several hours over the last couple of days just flipping through these, reading the entries, and studying the details in the artwork.
If this is at all your kind of thing, these editions as well as two more moderately priced versions, are available at yokai.com.
6/n
If this is at all your kind of thing, these editions as well as two more moderately priced versions, are available at yokai.com.
6/n
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While the outside packaging of these books is really lovely, it is, of course, what's inside that matters. Here are a couple of sample page spreads from that first volume, and some artwork details.
5/n
5/n
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
While the outside packaging of these books is really lovely, it is, of course, what's inside that matters. Here are a couple of sample page spreads from that first volume, and some artwork details.
5/n
5/n
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Each of the books is a jacketless hardcover, and again there is matching design across the set. Here's what the first volume looks like coming out of the slipcase.
4/n
4/n
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Each of the books is a jacketless hardcover, and again there is matching design across the set. Here's what the first volume looks like coming out of the slipcase.
4/n
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Let me say, first of all that they are so pretty before you even open them. Beautiful slipcases with art on both sides, foil stamped titles on the cases, and a specially designed spine on each (matching design across the books of course).
3/n
3/n
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Let me say, first of all that they are so pretty before you even open them. Beautiful slipcases with art on both sides, foil stamped titles on the cases, and a specially designed spine on each (matching design across the books of course).
3/n
3/n
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While I was looking into it, I found out that Matthew Meyer (@yokai.com on here) had done 5 previous "field guide to yokai" books & they were all up on his site.
I quite liked the images of the collectors' editions of them, so I ordered all 5, and had them shipped around the world from Japan.
2/n
I quite liked the images of the collectors' editions of them, so I ordered all 5, and had them shipped around the world from Japan.
2/n
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
While I was looking into it, I found out that Matthew Meyer (@yokai.com on here) had done 5 previous "field guide to yokai" books & they were all up on his site.
I quite liked the images of the collectors' editions of them, so I ordered all 5, and had them shipped around the world from Japan.
2/n
I quite liked the images of the collectors' editions of them, so I ordered all 5, and had them shipped around the world from Japan.
2/n
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A while back someone pointed me at the KS and it looked pretty cool, so I signed up to get a copy of the book.
1/n
1/n
Echizen-Wakasa Kidan: Strange Tales from Fukui
illustrated stories of yokai, ghosts, and weird tales from rural Japan
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A while back someone pointed me at the KS and it looked pretty cool, so I signed up to get a copy of the book.
1/n
1/n
Did you miss out on my latest Kickstarter?
You can now pre-order Echizen-Wakasa Kidan and traditional Japanese craft goods at the BackerKit pre-order store!
echizen-wakasa.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
You can now pre-order Echizen-Wakasa Kidan and traditional Japanese craft goods at the BackerKit pre-order store!
echizen-wakasa.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Pre-order Echizen-Wakasa Kidan: Strange Tales from Fukui on BackerKit
illustrated stories of yokai, ghosts, and weird tales from rural Japan
echizen-wakasa.backerkit.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Did you miss out on my latest Kickstarter?
You can now pre-order Echizen-Wakasa Kidan and traditional Japanese craft goods at the BackerKit pre-order store!
echizen-wakasa.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
You can now pre-order Echizen-Wakasa Kidan and traditional Japanese craft goods at the BackerKit pre-order store!
echizen-wakasa.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
風の森ホールで展示「THE奇談」をしています！２４日までです。初公開の妖怪グッズも販売されています。古文書と私の絵がセットで見られる貴重なセッティング。福井のユニークな奇談をぜひ見に来てください！
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
風の森ホールで展示「THE奇談」をしています！２４日までです。初公開の妖怪グッズも販売されています。古文書と私の絵がセットで見られる貴重なセッティング。福井のユニークな奇談をぜひ見に来てください！
妖怪や幽霊…福井の怪異譚アート展覧会「THE奇談」開幕 マット・マイヤーさん作品展示
www.fukuishimbun.co.jp/articles/-/2...
www.fukuishimbun.co.jp/articles/-/2...
妖怪や幽霊…福井の怪異譚アート展覧会「THE奇談」開幕 マット・マイヤーさん作品展示 | 催し・文化 | 福井のニュース | 福井新聞ONLINE
妖怪や幽霊の話など、福井に古くから伝わる怪異譚（たん）にアートで迫る展覧会「ＴＨＥ奇談～妖怪絵師マット・マイヤーの世界～」が１１月１５日、福井県福井市の福井新聞社・風の森ホールで始まった。福井市に住むイラストレーター、マット・マイヤーさん（４２）＝米国出身＝が時にコミカルに、時にシリアスに描き出した奇談の数々が、訪れた人の目を引き付けている。 「福井の奇談」を文化資源として調査、活用し、アートやイ...
www.fukuishimbun.co.jp
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
妖怪や幽霊…福井の怪異譚アート展覧会「THE奇談」開幕 マット・マイヤーさん作品展示
www.fukuishimbun.co.jp/articles/-/2...
www.fukuishimbun.co.jp/articles/-/2...