The Tale of Shinobine refers to a courtly romance which was completed at the end of the Heian period and was subsequently lost, or to an adaptation of a story produced during the period of Southern and Northern Courts (Japan).
しのびねは、平安時代末期に成立しその後散逸した王朝物語、ないしは南北朝時代(日本)に成立した前者の改作本をいう。