These events are at the center of Yukio MISHIMA's novel "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" and Tsutomu MIZUKAMI's novels "Goban-cho Yugiriro" and "Kinkaku enjo" (the burning of the Kinkaku-ji Temple).
この事件は三島由紀夫の小説『金閣寺(小説)』、水上勉の小説『五番町夕霧楼』・『金閣炎上』の題材にもなっている。