 This book no longer exists, but many fragments of it survive in other texts.According to legend, a creature called kutabe, thought to be identical to the Bai Ze of China, once appeared on Mount Tatesan in Toyama Prefecture and "predicted that a deadly plague would sweep through in the next few years.The beast prescribed that its own image be used as a talisman to ward off the disease, and since then the "hakutaku" has been worshipped as a guardian spirit of herbal medicine."""