There was another episode of a sumo wrestler Kumonryu that 'He ate 16 or 17 of sazae no tsuboyaki' in an essay titled "Nemonogatari" (Tales of Sleeping) during the later Edo period.
また、江戸時代後期の随筆『寐ものがたり』には、九紋龍という力士の逸話として「栄螺の壺焼を十六七も喰ひ」という表現がある。