Nakisawame


Nakisawame is a female kami in Japanese mythology. Her name means "crying weeping female".
During the myth of the Birth of the Gods, in which the goddess Izanami died after giving birth to the fire deity Kagu-tsuchi, Izanagi clung to his wife's dead body and cried. From his tears, Nakisawame emerged. She is considered a spirit of spring water.
According to the Shinto creation myth, she lives at the foot of Mount Kagu. In the Kojiki she is also named. The mentions the Uneotsu-Tamoto shrine, located in Kinomoto, Kashihara, Nara, nicknamed Nakisawa shrine, in which Nakisawame is enshrined.