多多良胜五郎 / Tatara Katsugoro

多多良胜五郎 is the yokai researcher who leads [[KonjakuZokuHyakkiKumo|《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 [[AnganKozo|《暗眼小僧》]], Tatara drags [[NumagamiRenji|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 [[YokaiMystery|妖怪推理]] because it asks why a scene becomes intelligible as yokai.
• The source says he is modeled on [[TadaKatsumi|多田克己]], a real yokai researcher and Kyogoku friend.

Connections

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