Many yokais in the "Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro" were drawn borrowing motifs from "Hyakki yagyo emaki" ('Night Parade of One Hundred Demons' picture scroll) of the Muromachi period, and the Kyo rin rin also share the common features in terms of a design of a bird monster having a long beak and Buddhist sutra scrolls tied up on the head, with a yokai in the "Hyakki yagyo emaki."
また『百器徒然袋』の妖怪は、室町時代の妖怪絵巻『百鬼夜行絵巻』をモチーフとして描かれたものが多いが、この経凛々についても同様、『百鬼夜行絵巻』の中にある、くちばしの長い鳥状の妖怪が経文を頭に巻いている姿にデザイン上の共通点が見られる。