A novelist Norio YAMADA wrote a chapter under the title 'Byobu nozoki onna (woman)' in his "Tohoku Kaidan no Tabi" (literally, Trip to the ghost stories in the Tohoku region), wherein he introduced a ghost story of Akita Prefecture as follows.
小説家・山田野理夫の著書『東北怪談の旅』には「屏風のぞき女」と題し、秋田県の以下のような怪談が述べられている。