According to "Ehon Hyaku Monogatari" (Picture Book of a Hundred Stories), a collection of strange stories during the Edo period, kyuso lived in a stable of a certain house during the Bunmei era.
江戸時代の奇談集『絵本百物語』によれば、文明(日本)年間、ある家の厩舎に旧鼠が棲みついていたという。