Well-known kusarigama masters include Baiken SHISHIDO, who appears in the novel "Musashi MIYAMOTO"; Baiken, a fictional character created by Eiji YOSHIKAWA, is based on "a certain SHISHIDO" of Iga Province as recorded in the "Niten-ki," the biography of Musashi MIYAMOTO.
有名な使い手としては吉川英治が宮本武蔵の物語『二天記』に伊賀国の『宍戸某』と記録から創作した小説『宮本武蔵』に登場する宍戸梅軒がいる。