noun:

• Buddhist priest's wife

expression / noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit with a sacred wooden pole on the rump to ensure her fertility - obscure term ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• young wife; young married woman

noun:

• one's wife ➜ 妻【つま】

noun:

• one's second wife ➜ 後添い【のちぞい】

noun:

• my wife; "the wife"

expression / noun:

• choosing a wife

noun:

• one's legal wife; legitimate wife

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to lose someone, wife, child, etc.

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• one's legal wife; legitimate wife

expression / noun:

• fruits of one's wife's labour (in assisting her husband's career, e.g. by running the household)

noun:

• one's second wife

noun:

• traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where the newly-wed wife is hit on the rump with a sacred wooden pole to ensure her fertility ➜ 小正月・祝い棒

noun:

• wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman

noun:

• wife who is older than her husband - colloquialism ➜ 姉さん【あねさん】

noun:

• devoted to one's wife

noun:

• your wife

noun:

• de facto wife; common-law wife

noun:

• submission to one's wife

noun:

• wise wife

noun:

• office wife

noun:

• government by relatives of ruler's wife

noun:

• wife's family

noun:

• child born to one's legal wife (as opposed to one's concubine, etc.) - archaism