page_title: Amabie
hierarchical_section_title: Amabie
caption_attribution_description: Amabie (アマビエ, the mermaid that foretold a plague) from kawaraban (瓦版, newspapers of the Edo era)
context_page_description: Amabie is a legendary Japanese mermaid or merman with three legs, who allegedly emerges from the sea and prophesies either an abundant harvest or an epidemic.
  It appears to be a variant of the amabiko, otherwise known as the amahiko-nyūdo, and arie, which are depicted as ape-like, bird-like, or torso-less and usually 3-legged.
context_section_description: Amabie (アマビエ) is a legendary Japanese mermaid or merman with three legs, who allegedly emerges from the sea and prophesies either an abundant harvest or an epidemic.
  It appears to be a variant of the amabiko (アマビコ, 海彦, 尼彦, 天日子, 天彦, あま彦, also amahiko), otherwise known as the amahiko-nyūdo (尼彦入道), and arie (アリエ), which are depicted as ape-like, bird-like, or torso-less (cephalopod-like) and usually 3-legged.
caption: An amabie. Wood-block print, late Edo period. (link)
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