It also influenced early-modern Japanese literature; for example, after the Forty-Seven Ronin Incident in the Genroku era, where 47 ronin of the Ako domain took vengeance on Yoshinaka KIRA, the story was told as 'Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers)' by Izumo TAKEDA and others under the pretext of 'The Tale of Takasada ENYA.'
赤穂藩赤穂浪士が吉良義央を討ち果たす元禄赤穂事件が起ると、竹田出雲らにより太平記の「塩冶高貞の物語」に仮託されて「忠臣蔵」として書かれるなど、日本の近世文学にも影響する。