[1] In his article for the Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten, Motoichi Kinoshita also notes the apparent influences of setsuwa such as Izumi Shikibu Inari-mōde (和泉式部稲荷詣),[1] Rashōmon Modori-bashi (羅生門戻橋),[1] Tsuchi-gumo Taiji (土蜘蛛退治)[1] and Tamamono Mae (玉藻前),[1] as well as the Noh play Momiji-gari,[1] on the work.
The word yuki-onna appears in the kōwakamai Fushimi Tokiwa (伏見常盤),[1] and the motif of people being taken by old raccoons is also seen in a story in the Kokon Chomonjū.
[1] In the first year of Chōtoku (995), Emperor Ichijō is told in a dream to commission the forging of a sword by Sanjō no Kokaji Munechika (三条小鍛冶宗近).
[1] Several warriors, including the retainers of Tada Mitsunaka, are commissioned to eliminate the beast, and manage to injure it but fail to capture it.
[1] In the holdings of the Katei Archives (霞亭文庫) in the University of Tokyo, there is a Shōkaiban (松会版) printed edition dating to Kanbun 5 (1665).