Kikuri-Hime

Kikuri-Hime or Princess Chrysanthemum, also known as Shirayama-Hime, is a demon in the series.
==History==
Kikuri-Hime-no-mikoto (菊理姫 or 菊理媛命) means "Priestess Chrysanthemum." Chrysanthemum is her symbolic flower and associated with lamentation at death in East Asian cultures. Kikuri-Hime is briefly mentioned in Nihon Shoki that after Izanagi was driven out of Yomotsu Hirasaka (Shinto Netherworld) in his failed attempt to retrieve his late consort, Izanami. Kikuri-Hime mediated on behalf of Izanami so that the husband and wife could engage in a debate in their confrontation in Yomi. The exact content of this debate is not recorded, although there has been much conjecture. It is the actions of Kikuri-Hime that established the duty of (Japanese priestess) of communicating with the netherworld on behalf of the living one. She has also been known as a goddess of matchmaking since ancient times.
At an unknown point of history, Kikuri-Hime has been merged with a separate goddess worshipped in the (White Mount), Shirayama-Hime-no-kami (白山比咩神), "Princess White Mountain." Today, the temple enshrines Kikuri-Hime (who is now conflated with Shirayama-Hime) alongside Izanagi and Izanami.
==Appearances==
*Megami Tensei II: Genma Race
*Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei: Genma Race
*Shin Megami Tensei: Megami Race
*Shin Megami Tensei II: Lady Race
*Shin Megami Tensei: if...: Lady Race
*Shin Megami Tensei NINE: Lady Race
*Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne: Lady Race
*Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE: Earth Mother Race
*Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux: Nymph Race
*Shin Megami Tensei IV: Nymph Race
*Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse: Nymph Race
*Shin Megami Tensei V: Lady Race
*Majin Tensei: Megami Race
*Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis: Megami Race
*Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Lady Race
*Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku: Lady Race
*Persona 3 / FES / Portable / Reload: Priestess Arcana
*Persona 4 / Golden: Priestess Arcana
*Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: Star Arcana
*Persona 5 / Royal: Priestess Arcana
*Persona 5 Strikers: Priestess Arcana
*Persona 5: The Phantom X
*Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth: Empress Arcana
*Shin Megami Tensei Trading Card: Card Summoner: Lady Race
*Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner: Deity Race
*Devil Survivor / Overclocked: Megami Race
*Devil Survivor 2 / Record Breaker: Megami Race
**Devil Survivor 2 The Animation
*Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2: Lady Race
==Profile==
===Shin Megami Tensei===
===Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne===
===Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE===
Kikuri-Hime can be acquired through fusion and as a hacked chip instance reward. She acts as a boss within Ichigaya Camp's bronze-level instance and reappears as a nightmare variant in the basement floors of the gold-level instance. 
===Shin Megami Tensei IV===
Kikuri-Hime can be encountered in Ginza. She can teach Flynn the Tetraja, Me Patra, Diarama and Recarm skills through her Demon Whisper.
===Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse===
Kikuri-Hime can be found throughout Ginza. She can teach the Sexy Dance, Diarama, Me Patra, Recarm and Tetraja skills through her Demon Whisper. Kikuri-Hime benefits from learning healing, force and support skills.
===Shin Megami Tensei V===
===Persona 5===
Kikuri-Hime is the fifth Persona (concept) of the Priestess Arcana and can be found in Niijima's Palace and the Sheriruth area of Mementos, with the title "Mountain Girl." Kikuri-Hime is the first Persona to learn the Lullaby skill and one of the three Personas to learn the Divine Grace passive skill. When itemized using Electric Chair execution in the Velvet Room, Kikuri-Hime yields the Divine Grace Skill Card.
====Royal====
When itemized through Electric Chair execution, Kikuri-Hime will now yield an Energy Drop Skill Card. During a fusion alarm, Kikuri-Hime will yield an Energy Shower Skill Card instead.
In the Path of Da'at, the shadow has an unrecruitable super variation called the "Raptured Mountain Girl" who is accompanied by Entranced Dancer and Jade Comb Wielder.
===Devil Survivor 2 The Animation===
Io Nitta summons Kikuri-Hime at the end of Monday against Merak to deal attacks to the flyer, blasting it with pink magic under heavy cover of the JP's members' Jambavans until it was hit by one of Merak's small energy beams, knocking it out of the fight.
Io later uses Kikuri-Hime to fight off multiple Legions in Nagoya before Hibiki's Suzaku comes in to destroy the rest of them. On the same day, Io also uses her to fight Phecda in JP's Nagoya headquarters. Kikuri-Hime manages to do some damage before Io becomes exhausted, and is later destroyed by Phecda's energy beam when it splits into two. She is last seen in battle against a Megrez bud, where it once again uses its energy blasts to damage the Septentrion's shell in a join effort with Byakko.
Upon a glance at Io's final demon roster, Kikuri-Hime seemed to have disappeared. Io summons Kikuri-Hime one last time in the last day to protect Hibiki from Nebiros. After her defeat, Io quickly summons Lugh to continue the fight.
===Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2===
==Stats==
===Megami Tensei II===
===Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei===
====Megami Tensei II====
===Shin Megami Tensei===
===Shin Megami Tensei II===
===Shin Megami Tensei: if...===
===Shin Megami Tensei NINE===
===Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne===
===Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux===
===Shin Megami Tensei IV===
===Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse===
===Shin Megami Tensei V===
===Majin Tensei===
===Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis===
===Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner===
===Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku===
===Persona 3===
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===Persona 4===
===Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth===
===Persona 5 / Royal===
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===Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth===
===Persona 5 Strikers===
===Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner===
===Devil Survivor===
===Devil Survivor 2===
===Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2===
==Gallery==
Kikuri-Hime (Dx2 Art).png|Kikuri-hime's artwork as it appears in Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2
Kikuri-hime.png|Kikuri-Hime as she appears in Persona 4
Kikuri-hime model.png|Kikuri-Hime as she appears in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
D30807KikuriHime.jpg|Kikuri-Hime as she appears in Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE
Kikurihime Card.GIF|Kikuri-Hime as she appears in Card Summoner
KIKURIHIME.png|Kikuri-Hime as she appears in Devil Survivor
Devil Survivor 2 (USA) 33 17680.png|Kikuri-Hime as she appears in Devil Survivor 2
Kikuri Manga.jpg|Kukuri-Hime as she appears in the Devil Survivor manga
Kikuri-Hime appears in Devil Survivor 2 The Animation.jpg|Kikuri-Hime as she appears in Devil Survivor 2 The Animation
Kikuri-Hime PQ.png|Kikuri-Hime as she appears in Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth.
Kikuri-Hime P5R.jpg|Kikuri-Hime as she appears in Persona 5 Royal
Kikuri-Hime (P O.A.).png|Kikuri-Hime as she appears in Persona O.A.
キクリヒメ - 真・女神転生V 日めくり悪魔 Vol.151|Kikuri-Hime in SMTV Daily Demon #151
==In Other Languages==
Language	Name
Japanese	キクリヒメ (Kikurihime)ククリヒメ (Kukurihime)シラヤマヒメ (Shirayamahime)
French 	Kikuri-Hime
Italian 	Kikuri-Hime
German 	Kikuri-Hime
Spanish 	Kikuri-Hime
==Trivia==
*Kikuri-Hime's second design which initially features in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne serves as the base model for Uzume and Kushinada. Kikuri-Hime is differentiated by white hair, dark skin, red dress and giant magatamas as her ornaments. In a publicity conference of Nocturne in Japan, one fan asked Kazuma Kaneko why he drew Kikuri-Hime in dark skin like a girl. Kaneko explained this is due to Kikuri-Hime's association with death.
**An alternative version of Amaterasu whose model is derived from Kikuri-Hime can be seen in Shin Megami Tensei III ver.α which makes no reappearance in the series.
*The shade of her dress, vermilion red, is also the dominant color of a Japanese priestess' dress.
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