Tatsutahime

Tatsutahime is a deity associated with autumn and wind. From the Heian period onward she appears as a poetic figure paired against the spring deity Sahohime, and is enshrined as a subordinate deity at Tatsuta Taisha in Nara Prefecture.

She is named in the Kokin Wakashu (compiled 905 CE), Book Five, Autumn II, poem 298 by Kanemi-no-Okimi: "tatsuta-hime tamukuru kami no areba koso aki no konoha no nusa to chirurame." The Engishiki Jinmyocho lists Tatsuta Taisha as a Myojin Taisha twin-seat shrine.

She does not appear in the Kojiki or Nihon Shoki. The shrine tradition treats her as the deified spirit of Mount Tatsuta, west of Heijo-kyo.

She is enshrined as a hai-shi at Tatsuta Taisha (Sango-cho, Ikoma District, Nara Prefecture), a Shikinai Myojin Taisha shrine. The shrine's main deities are Ame-no-Mihashira and Kuni-no-Mihashira, with Tatsutahime venerated at an attached sub-shrine.

She is also written as 立田姫 in some classical sources, and corresponds to 龍田比売命 in shrine usage.