The "Tale of the Eight Hundred and Eight Tanuki Matsuyama Distrubance," was based on the historical record "Iyo Nagusa" (伊予名草) that told of the O-Ie Sōdō, which occurred during the Great Gyōhō Famine in 1805 or Bunka 2, and in the Edo period, and according to the kōshaku storyteller Nanryuu Tanabe, it was a ghost story that added elements of tanuki and yokai to it, and became known through kōdan.
This resulted in an O-Ie Sōdō known as the Funahashi Sōdō of 1634, which was only suppressed with assistance by the Tokugawa shogunate and resulted in the exile of a number of Nobufusa’s supporters in 1636.
However, the Ikoma were dispossessed in 1640 due to gross mismanagement by Ikoma Takatoshi which resulted in an O-Ie Sōdō by his retainers.