Bakin KYOKUTEI wrote "Raigo Ajari Kaisoden" (Tale of Raigo Ajari (a master in esoteric Buddhism) transforming into a specter of a rat) (Raigo-ajari Kaiso-den) as Yomihon (copy for reading) in the Tokugawa period.
徳川時代には曲亭馬琴が読本『頼豪阿闍梨恠鼠伝』を著した。