Mr. Higurashi

Mr. Higurashi was the father of Kagome and Sōta and husband of Mrs. Higurashi. He is unseen but mentioned in the anime and movies. In episode 48, "Return to Where We First Met", when Kagome realizes that she is in love with Inuyasha, her mother tells that her father proposed to her at the sacred tree, after a fight. It is revealed in the light novel Shōsetsu Inuyasha that he died in a car accident when Kagome and Sōta were young and they moved to Higurashi shrine. Kagome's grandfather was his father and he would have been father-in-law to Inuyasha.