今昔物語集
Many of the tales which appear in the Konjaku are also found in other collections, such as ghost story collections. All these tales, having passed into the common consciousness, have been retold many times over the succeeding centuries. Modern writers have adapted tales from the "Konjaku Monogatarishū": a famous example is Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's "In a Grove" (well known in the West from Kurosawa's film "Rashomon"). Other authors who have written stories based on tales from the Konjaku include Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and Hori Tatsuo.