is a female kami in Japanese mythology. Her name means "crying weeping female".[1]
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, located in Kinomoto, Kashihara, Nara, nicknamed, in which Nakisawame is enshrined.