In Popular Culture
In the Clover Studio video game Ōkami, the sparrow's inn exists as an important location, alongside an elderly couple wielding clippers who had captured and were planning to eat one of the sparrows. This is a fairly obvious reference to the tale, although the old man is not friendly like he was in the old tale; instead, he is as mean-spirited as his wife.
The story has been translated into English many times, by A.B. Mitford (1871), William Elliot Griffis (1880), David Thomson (as volume 2 of Hasegawa Takejirō's Japanese Fairy Tale Series, 1885), Yei Theodora Ozaki (1903), Teresa Peirce Williston (1904), and many others.
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