京极夏彦 / Kyogoku Natsuhiko

京极夏彦 is the Japanese writer introduced in 115.京极夏彦今昔续百鬼：不研究妖怪，怎么好好做人？, where [[MihuanChishu|蜜獾吃书]] frames him as a central figure for [[YokaiMystery|妖怪推理]]. The episode stresses that his books can look like horror or occult stories from the outside, but their durable appeal comes from turning yokai, folklore, religion, literary allusion, and eccentric characters into a rational and social inquiry.

The source says Kyogoku was born in 1963 and worked in advertising, graphic design, and book design before becoming a novelist. It presents 《姑获鸟之夏》 as his 1994 debut and lists later works such as 《魍魉之匣》, 《狂骨之梦》, 《铁鼠之槛》, and 《络新妇之理》 as part of the larger [[HyakkiYagyoSeries|百鬼夜行系列]] branch.

Key Claims

• Kyogoku’s “yokai” material is not treated as a refusal of reason; it becomes a way to explain why people organize fear, guilt, memory, and social conflict through supernatural language.
• The episode places his work inside postwar Japanese change: modernization, war damage, local development, and disappearing oral traditions make yokai research feel urgent.
• His mysteries often move through layered false explanations before a final account reorganizes both the clues and the human consequences.
• The source emphasizes his antiwar and anti-nationalist posture, especially when folklore origin claims are used to support national greatness narratives.

Connections

• [[YokaiMystery|妖怪推理]] - main genre frame the source uses for Kyogoku.
• [[HyakkiYagyoSeries|百鬼夜行系列]] and [[KonjakuZokuHyakkiKumo|《今昔续百鬼·云》]] - series and book discussed in the episode.
• [[TataraKatsugoro|多多良胜五郎]], [[NumagamiRenji|沼上蓮次]], and [[ChuzenjiAkihiko|中禅寺秋彦]] - source-highlighted characters in the Kyogokudo universe.
• [[TadaKatsumi|多田克己]] - real yokai researcher presented as the model for Tatara.
• Evidence-Bound Folklore Inquiry and [[FolkloreAsSocialMemory|民俗作为社会记忆]] - method and cultural-memory concepts extended by the source.