Dakiniten later came to be deemed as a goddess governing sexual love, which resulted in Tachikawa School of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism being gradually founded from the Kamakura period until the period of the Northern and Southern Courts and flourished in Japan.
荼枳尼天は後々に性愛を司る神と解釈されたため、日本では鎌倉時代から南北朝時代(日本)にかけて、真言密教立川流(密教)という密教の一派が次第に形成され興隆を極めた。