According to the Kojiki (The Records of Ancient Matters), she was such a beautiful woman that she was called Sotoorihime, by which it was meant that her beauty appeared as if it could penetrate her clothes.
古事記によれば大変に美しい女性であったため、その美しさが衣を通してあらわれるようだ、という意味を込めて衣通姫（そとおりひめ）と呼ばれた。