Tamamo no Mae (may be written with a few different sets of Chinese characters) was an imaginary woman of great beauty which was the transformed figure of the Hakumenkinmokyubi no kitsune (white-faced, golden-haired, and nine-tailed fox) that served Emperor Toba at the end of the Heian period.
玉藻前（たまものまえ。玉藻の前・玉藻御前と紹介されることもある）は平安時代末期、鳥羽天皇に仕えた白面金毛九尾の狐が化けた架空の絶世の美女。