Other than the works which are currently recognized as 'monogatari,' there seems to have been various 'lost and dispersed monogatari,' but we have to be careful about the difference between the current definition of 'monogatari' and what 'monogatari' meant in those days.
現存する「物語」として認められる作品以外にも、平安時代には様々な「散逸物語」があったと考えられているが、「物語」の語が捉える範囲そのものが現代と違うことに注意を要しよう。