Linocut hand-printed with baren (Japanese printing tool) on awagami washi paper (traditional Japanese paper). Each print is slightly different. According to a 19th century legend, if you show an image of this yokai to someone who is sick, that person is cured. Amabie herself is said to have said this to an official during the Edo period in these terms: "There will be a good harvest for six years from the current year; if a disease spreads, show an image of me to those who are sick and they will be healed.” Then she returned to the sea.