Takahime-no-Mikoto

Takahime-no-Mikoto appears in the Ashihara-no-Nakatsukuni pacification passage of Kojiki (712 CE) Upper Volume. She is an alternate name of Shitateruhime-no-Mikoto, also called Wakakunitama, and is the daughter of Okuninushi-no-Kami by Takiribime-no-Mikoto, one of the Munakata three goddesses. When her husband Ame-no-Wakahiko was struck dead by Takagi-no-Kami's return-arrow, her cry reached the heavens. Mourners at the funeral hut mistook her brother Ajisukitakahikone-no-Kami for the dead Ame-no-Wakahiko because of their resemblance; Ajisukitakahikone struck down the hut in anger, and Takahime then composed the song known as Hinaburi to make her brother's name clear. She is enshrined at Hime-Koso Jinja in Osaka, Tamatsuoka Jinja in Kyoto and Mefu Jinja in Hyogo, among other sites in the Kinki and Hokuriku regions.