妻の座

つまのざ

status of wifehood

妻

つま さい

one's wife

糟糠の妻

そうこうのつま

one's devoted wife, wife who has followed one through hard times, wife married in poverty

内縁の妻

ないえんのつま

de facto wife, common-law wife

神の命

かみのみこと

god, emperor

父の命

ちちのみこと

father

仮の命

かりのいのち

this transient life

命の綱

いのちのつな

the thread of life

命の水

いのちのみず

water of life; life-giving water

露の命

つゆのいのち

life as evanescent as the dew

母の命

ははのみこと

mother

妹の命

いものみこと

young lady

幻妻

げんさい

wife, woman

荊妻

けいさい

one's own wife

賢妻

けんさい けんつま

wise (house)wife

愚妻

ぐさい

wife

妻女

さいじょ

one's wife, one's wife and daughter or daughters

幼妻

おさなづま ようつま

very young bride, bride (married woman) who is little more than a girl

恐妻

きょうさい

submission to one's wife