保食

Etymology
, perhaps from. The kanji spelling literally means "to keep food".

Proper noun

 * 1)  a food goddess; as told in the, she offered food to  after he was sent by  to see her, by pulling food out of her orifices, which caused him to kill her in disgust, which caused Amaterasu, in anger, to split up with Tsukuyomi, causing the separation of day and night; from her corpse, cattle, horses, grain seeds and silkworms sprouted out, and were collected by  and were used for agriculture under Amaterasu's order