多多良胜五郎 / Tatara Katsugoro

多多良胜五郎 is the yokai researcher who leads 《今昔续百鬼·云》 as presented in 115.京极夏彦今昔续百鬼：不研究妖怪，怎么好好做人？. The episode describes him as brilliant, obsessive, directionally strange, socially frustrating, and comic: he can talk endlessly about yokai and fieldwork, but ordinary practical judgment often collapses around him.

In 《暗眼小僧》, Tatara drags 沼上蓮次 through storm, hunger, and dangerous mountain travel because local yokai traces might disappear. He is repeatedly wrong as a detective, yet his wrong theories still bring folklore evidence, image details, homophones, and local memories into view.

Key Claims

• Tatara embodies Evidence-Bound Folklore Inquiry in an eccentric fieldwork form: he wants firsthand local material before war, development, and memory loss erase it.
• His method is not reliable police deduction, but it is useful for 妖怪推理 because it asks why a scene becomes intelligible as yokai.
• The source says he is modeled on 多田克己, a real yokai researcher and Kyogoku friend.

Connections

• 沼上蓮次 - assistant and narrator who keeps Tatara’s absurdity socially legible.
• 京极夏彦, 百鬼夜行系列, and 《今昔续百鬼·云》 - author, series, and book context.
• 鸟山石燕 and 妖怪图像阐释 - research object and interpretive habit.
• 民俗作为社会记忆 - cultural reason his fieldwork feels urgent in the source.