卑弥呼（日语：ひみこ，170年－248年），古代日本邪马台国的女王。她是在《三国志》所载和曹魏往来甚密的倭女王，能使鬼道（方术），以妖惑众，年长不嫁。汉桓、灵年间，**大乱，母系社会男主虽有汉绶金印不能服众，因而造成**之乱，而卑弥呼以鬼道平定内乱登上王位，时年17岁。卑弥呼不参与政事，有弟弟辅佐治理国家。女王居住深宫，仅由一男子出入供奉饮食，有侍婢千人常在其左右。弥生时代日本列岛大小诸候国30多个，卑弥呼女王为了巩固邪马台政权，花费巨大代价交接曹魏，明帝曹叡封卑弥呼为“亲魏倭王”，授其金印。卑弥呼在位七十多年，于九十多岁高龄去世。死后大作冢，四周长百余步，殉葬奴婢百人。

Himiko or Pimiko (卑弥呼, c. 170–248 AD) was a shaman queen of Yamataikoku in ancient Wa (Japan). Early Chinese dynastic histories chronicle tributary relations between Queen Himiko and the Cao Wei Kingdom (220–265), and record that the Yayoi period people chose her as ruler following decades of warfare among the kings of Wa. Early Japanese histories do not mention Himiko, but historians associate her with legendary figures such as Empress Consort Jingū, who was Regent (c. 200–269) in roughly the same era as Himiko. Scholarly debates over the identity of Himiko and the location of her domain Yamatai have raged since the late Edo period, with opinions divided between northern Kyūshū or traditional Yamato province in present-day Kinki. "The Yamatai controversy", writes Keiji Imamura (1996:188), is "the greatest debate over the ancient history of Japan."