Also Uke Mochi or Ōgetsuhime-no-kami
Japanese: 保食神 or 大宜都比売神
Translation: Goddess Who Possesses Food

Uke-mochi is a female kami in Japanese/Shinto mythology involving fertility and nourishment. She is the provider, through death, of life sustaining substances. She is/was married to Inari the kami of rice.

As Amaterasu’s representative, Tsukuyomi visited Uke-mochi. In order to entertain the higher status kami, Uke-mochi prepared a feast. She did this by facing the rice fields and opening her mouth and out streamed boiled rice. Then she faced the sea and regurgitated fish, and edible sea weed, finally she faced the forest and out poured game animals. There is a possibility that all that food did not spew out of her mouth, but actually anus.

Although all the food looked exquisite, Tukuyomi was offended by the serving method. He called her filthy and impure and killed Uke-mochi with his sword. When Amaterasu heard of this she became furious and swore never be face to face with Tsukuyomi again.

Later Amaterasu sent another kami, Amekuma-Hito to see the now dead Uke-mochi and ask for her aid. In her death Uke-mochi continued to produce. Oxen and horses emerged from her head, silkworms from her eyebrows, millet grew from her forehead, wheat and beans grew from her genitals and rice sprouted from her stomach.

Later versions of this myth sometimes attribute her death to Susanoo.