 The kabuki play "Yotsuya Kaidan" took place there, as did the novel "Teisō Mondō" by Kan Kikuchi.Yotsuya was the setting for the Shōtarō Ikenami historical novel "Kenkaku Shōbai" and the "jidaigeki" television series based on it.It was also featured in the novel Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.