Kunio Yanagita
Inō returned to his native Tōno in 1905 and pursued cultural and folklore studies there, together with Kizen Sasaki. He became acquainted with Kunio Yanagita, who was also collecting the oral traditions and tales in preparation of his "Tōno Monogatari". He died in 1925, due to complication from malaria contracted while he was living in Taiwan.