[4] The creature replaces Urikohime as the couple's daughter, but its disguise is ruined when the girl, reincarnated as a little bird, reveals the deception and eventually regains her human form.
[12] According to Fanny Hagin Mayer, "most versions" of the story end on a tragic note, but all seem to indicate the great weaving skills of Urikohime.
[13] Scholar Kunio Yanagita listed the tale Nishiki Chōja as one version of the story that contains a happy ending.
[15] In fact, professor Hiroko Ikeda classified the story of Urikohime as type 408B in her Japanese catalogue.
[16][17] Attention has also been drawn to the motif of "The False Bride" that exists in both tales: in Urikohime, the youkai or ogress wears the skin of the slain girl.
[19] Professor Fanny Hagin Mayer remarked on the characters of the elderly couple that adopts Urikohime, which appear in several other Japanese folktales as a set.