"Shokoku Satobitodan" (Talks of People in Local Provinces), a book on miscellaneous subjects written in the Kanpo era, carries a folklore of Katawa-guruma in the Kanbun era in Omi Province (the present Shiga Prefecture).
寛保時代の雑書『諸国里人談』には、寛文時代の近江国（現・滋賀県）に伝わる片輪車の話がある。