"Kamui Gaiden" (Kamui the Ninja: Stories Other Than the Legend), a gekiga (graphic novel), has a scene in which the main character, Kamui, holes up in the aforementioned civilian kurokuwa in order to escape from chasers.
劇画『カムイ外伝』では、主人公・カムイが追っ手から逃れるために、前述の民間の黒鍬に混じって身を潜めるシーンが登場する。