In Kōda Rohan’s novel Gojū no tō (The Five-Storied Pagoda), published in 1892, the carpenter Jūbei is skilled but clumsy. He is known as Nossori, the sluggish one. He takes the commission for a temple’s pagoda from a senior master carpenter and builds it himself.
When a great storm strikes Edo, the pagoda stands without moving at all.