Popular Culture
- One of the novels in the Tales of the Otori series is called Across the Nightingale Floor.
- The nightingale floor features in Hokkaido level of the video game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, being discussed at one point by guards as protection against ninjas, and used in some floor sections.
- A nightingale floor features in the novel Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn by Marshall Browne.
- A nightingale floor is described in the James Bond novel You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming.
- Nightingale floors are mentioned frequently in the novel Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett.
- In the 2009 film Ninja Assassin, the protagonist is trained to traverse a nightingale floor without making a sound.
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