This is a word that i am wondering about. お伽草子 – Otogizōshi​

I know that it refers to a series of illustrated stories from the Muromachi period, and includes more famous and international narratives, like the Tom Thumb equivalent Issun-boushi, and other famous japanese folk-tales that a lot of fans of anime and manga may or may not have heard of in some fashion or another, but what i am wondering about is if this particular word holds any other meaning in japanese speech today, aside form refering to the literary work itself?

Jisho.org informs me, and anyone looking up the word there, that it means “Fairy-tale book”, but i just want to know if anybody knows for sure with nigh absolute certainty if it conveys the general meaning of “fairy tale” in japanese, or if it will be senseless to a person without prior knowledge of the work.

The word “おとぎ” seems to convey a sense of “faerie” as in “fairy story” or “fairy tale”, but as i was wondering initially, does the word otogizoshi mean generally a “fairy tale” or “story”, or does it simply refer to the literary work itself, and if it does simply refer to the work, it must thusly communicate little meaning beyond the vague idea of “faeriesque” to a person without prior knowledge of the work or a general lack of interest in japanese folk-lore and literary tradition.

I guess there was a much simpler way of asking this question…

Does the word お伽草子 only refer to the very particular body of literature, or does it also convey the more general idea of “fairy tale” or “fairy story” in modern, day-to-day japanese?

thank you, and sorry for being so messy with my formulations

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