Alternatively, he was said to have transformed into an Ootengu (greater tengu), whom, along with nurarihyon, the nine-tailed kitsune Tamamo-no-Mae and the oni Shuten-dōji, are often called the four greatest yōkai of Japan.
Legend has it that "every year yōkai led by the yokai Nurarihyon, will take to the streets during summer nights."
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.
Yōkai were enjoyed as the subject of kyōka, and with a focus on Ōta Nampo who is well known as a kyōka poet, and imitating the techniques of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, an event was held where he recited kyōka about a total of one hundred kinds of yōkai, but with the intent of doing it again, he collected together the kyōka, and the book was the result of collecting together only the better of the poems.
Since her debut Takahashi has worked with many prominent directors; playing Kawahime, the River Princess, in Takashi Miike's horror-fantasy children's film Yokai Daisenso (released in the U.S. in 2006 as The Great Yokai War.) She also appeared in Sion Sono's 2005 film Kimyo na Sakasu (Strange Circus), Yoshihiro Nakamura's Busu (The Booth, 2005), and in Hitoshi Yazaki's 2006 film Strawberry Shortcakes.
This story was depicted in the collection of yōkai depictions, the Konjaku Hyakki Shūi by Sekien Toriyama under the title "onihitokuchi," and in the explanatory text, the man was Ariwara no Narihira, and the woman was Fujiwara no Takaiko, but in actuality their names were not specified in "The Tales of Ise," and the view that it was a tale of Ariwara no Narihira was an explanation in common language.
In 2005, Takashi Miike directed the first new entry in the series, The Great Yokai War, which was more or less a remake of Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare.