Hitokotonushi-no-Okami is a Shinto deity traditionally enshrined at Katsuragi in Nara Prefecture, closely associated with Mount Katsuragi and its ascetic mountain traditions. The name, meaning roughly "master of one word," reflects legendary accounts in which the deity speaks a single, decisive utterance—often linked to oracular pronouncements or judgments. While popularly connected to fortune and worldly outcomes in local devotional practice, these associations arise from folk tradition and shrine lore rather than a single canonical scripture.