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 Fourth, research conducted over several years into literature YAMAUCHI Eiichi’s “Overview of Mystery Studies Reference Works” Employing the above materials Enryō established mystery studies as an academic discipline. With regard to the fourth category above, (in Japanese in Inoue Enryō Selected Writing, vol. 21) reveals that items Enryō directly or indirectly referenced, including magazines and newspapers from the Meiji period, number more than 1,640. Next let’s look at how Enryō was able to organize this vast number of materials and write up the lecture records. There are very few pas-sages from that time that describe the writing process, but one of the people who took down oral dictation for Enryō, TANAKA Jiroku (a graduate of the Philosophy Academy), who oversaw the chapter “Part Five: Psychology Section” of Lectures on Mystery Studies, spoke about the process as follows. exceptional that [perhaps using some sort of technique] it was shockingly easy for him to remember the most difficult names of people and places. However, he was not merely someone calls works from East and West, old and new], and easily able to remember all sorts of random facts—his greatest skill was in his ability to integrate and organize this information to form new structures, as well as to produce original ideas… on ancient and modern yōkai (five hundred items) One of Mr. Enryō’s unique qualities as a scholar was his re-markable talent for integrating concepts. His memory was so with an encyclopedic memory [who is well-read and easily re-101