Islanders had a good laugh at the character in a story by well-known Japanese author Kuroyanagi Tetsuko, who asked: "Why on earth do people in Okinawa mount cats on their rooftops?"
以「窗邊的小豆豆」一書聞名的日本作家黑柳徹子，在她另外一本著作「小豆豆的糗事」中，便曾因開口詢問「琉球人在屋頂擺了許多貓做什麼？」