Also, in "Bakemono Haruasobi" (monster's spring play) written by 桜川慈悲功, a writer of gesaku (literary work of a playful, mocking, joking, silly or frivolous nature) in the later Edo period, there is a story in which a luminescent grey heron was seen in Yamato Province (Present Nara Prefecture).
また江戸後期の戯作者・桜川慈悲功の著書『変化物春遊』にも、大和国（現・奈良県）で光る青鷺を見たという話がある。