His works are often advertised as yōkai novels by the publisher, and their covers reflect this. Kyogoku considers yōkai folklore to be a form of sublimation and applied this idea to his novels. Kyogoku participates in Mizuki's World Yōkai Association and is a member of the Kanto Mizuki Association and the Research Institute of Mysterious and Marvelous East Asian phenomena. This preference was strongly influenced by Shigeru Mizuki (水木しげる), who is an eminent yokai specialist. Most of his works are concerned with yōkai, creatures from Japanese folklore he describes himself as a yōkai researcher. He has since written many novels, and received two Japanese literary prizes Kyogoku won the 16th Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize for Nozoki Koheiji (覘き子平次) in 2003, and won the 130th Naoki Prize for Nochi no Kōsetsu Hyaku Monogatari (後巷説百物語) in 2004. In 1994, Kodansha published his first novel Ubume no Natsu (姑獲鳥の夏). After dropping out of Kuwasawa Design School, he worked as a publicity agent and established a design company.
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