The legends surrounding the eminent inkbrush artist priest
Sesshū as a young acolyte has been compared to this folktale, and even though the choice of artist was not the author/translator's, drawing catered to the American readers' taste for the fantastical, as in the example of the illustration showing the dead giant rat-ghoul. The tale is included as the second of 51 tales in the 1960 book,
All Cats go to Heaven. ==Explanatory notes==