Toyouke-Ōmikami
Japanese · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Ise has two shrines and the registry held the deity of one of them. The Outer Shrine is Toyouke's, it is larger in daily practice than the Inner, and visitors are expected to go to it first — because the sun goddess is fed before she is addressed. Her job is literally catering, performed twice a day without interruption since the fifth century, and it is the oldest continuously performed ritual in Japan.
Domains
- food
- agriculture
Sources
- Toyouke-Ōmikami is the Japanese deity of food and grain, brought from Tanba to the Outer Shrine of Ise in the fifth century to provide the sacred food for Amaterasu.: Reference treatment of Toyouke-hime and the Ise Gekū. (secondary)