{"id":2387,"date":"2016-10-15T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T15:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/?post_type=product&p=2387"},"modified":"2025-04-26T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:18:18","slug":"obakarama","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/product\/obakarama\/","title":{"rendered":"Obakarama"},"content":{"rendered":"The second micro-anthology from Sidekick Books contains poems and artwork inspired by traditional Japanese monsters. The title is a portmanteau of ‘panorama’ and obakemono<\/em> (\u304a\u5316\u3051\u7269), the Japanese word for a changed or perverted thing (with the prefix \u304a denoting respect). Accordingly, there lurk within its pages long-necked and long-tongued demons, winged dogs, mysterious children hiding in umbrellas, amphibious tricksters, killer scarves, cloud apparitions and numerous other age-old horrors of myth and legend.\r\n

Features new poems and illustrations by:<\/h1>\r\nAmy Blakemore, David Floyd, Mary Graham, Aiko Harman, Hanne Harkonen, Kirsten Irving, Jd, Roddy Lumsden, Seb Manley, Ian McLachlan, Adham Smart, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Darnae ‘Crimsonwolf’ Sobolewski, Mike Stone, Richard Watt and Chrissy Williams.\r\n\r\nIf you like your poetry pint-sized, check out our other micro-anthologies, Pocket Spellbook<\/em><\/a> and Korsakoff’s Paper Chain<\/em><\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"edited by Kirsten Irving and Jon Stone<\/span>\r\n\r\nDr Fulminare’s tour of Japan yielded many intriguing and curious creatures. Here, in their long-necked, cloud-dwelling glory, lurk the myths of old Edo and modern Tokyo. Scamper past the river, seek the ghost dog of Chikugo Fields, and watch out for that wind-twitching scarf…\r\n\r\n40pp, ISBN 978-0-9564164-1-4\r\n\r\nPlease note: Due to customs issues, we can no longer ship directly to Europe. European friends, please order from our distributors at Inpress<\/a> or through your local bookshop.<\/strong>","protected":false},"featured_media":2388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[810,827],"product_tag":[851,818,850,849,823,848,814,847],"class_list":{"0":"post-2387","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_cat-micro-anthologies","8":"product_tag-folklore","9":"product_tag-illustrations","10":"product_tag-japan","11":"product_tag-monsters","12":"product_tag-mythology","13":"product_tag-obakemono","14":"product_tag-poetry","15":"product_tag-yokai","17":"first","18":"instock","19":"purchasable","20":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}