Toyouke-Okami

Toyouke-Okami is recorded in Kojiki (712 CE) and Nihon Shoki (720 CE) as a grain deity. She is the chief deity of the Geku (Outer Shrine) of Ise Jingu, revered as the guardian of food, clothing, shelter and all crafts. Kojiki Upper Volume records the name Toyouke-Bime-no-Kami in the deity-making passage as a child of Izanami. The Toyuke-no-Miya Gishikicho, submitted in 804 CE, transmits the tradition that in the twenty-second year of Emperor Yuryaku, by an oracle from Amaterasu-Omikami, she was transferred from Hinumanai Jinja in Tango (Kyotango, Kyoto) to the Yamada plain of Ise; this becomes the foundation legend of the Geku. As food-deity she shares character with Ukanomitama-no-Kami of the Inari cult, Ukemochi-no-Kami of Nihon Shoki and Ogetsuhime-no-Kami. The Geku at Ise observes the twenty-year sengu in parallel with the Naiku, the most recent in 2013 CE. Originating shrines in Tango include Hinumanai Jinja in Kyotango and Manai Jinja in Miyazu.