Ajisukitakahiko-no-Mikoto (阿遅須枳高日子命) Ajisukitakahikone-no-Mikoto (味耜高彦根命, 阿遅須伎高孫根乃命, 味鉏高彦根尊) Takakamo-Ajisukitakahikone-no-Mikoto (高鴨阿治須岐託彦根命) Ajisukitakahikone (also Ajishikitakahikone or Ajisukitakahiko) is a kami in Japanese mythology.

)[2][5] Basil Hall Chamberlain, in his 1882 translation of the Kojiki, left the name untranslated (noting that "[t]he meaning of the first two members of this compound name is altogether obscure");[6] likewise, William George Aston (1896) merely commented that there is "no satisfactory explanation of this name.

[8] The Kojiki describes Ajisukitakahikone as one of the two children of the god Ōkuninushi by Takiribime, one of the three Munakata goddesses, the other being Shitateruhime [ja] (also known as Takahime).

The arrow flew up to Takamagahara, but was then promptly thrown back to earth; it struck Ame-no-Wakahiko in the chest while he was asleep, killing him instantly.

Offended at being mistaken for his friend (as corpses were regarded as unclean, to be compared with or mistaken for a dead person was seen as an insult), Ajisukitakahikone in anger drew his ten-span sword, hacked to pieces the funeral hut (喪屋 moya) where Ame-no-Wakahiko's corpse was laid and the funeral held, and then kicked it away.

Shitateruhime [ja], wishing to reveal to the mourners her brother's identity, then composed the following song in his honor:[13][14] Strung on the cord of beads Worn around the neck Of the heavenly Young weaving maiden!