後妻打ち

Japanese

往古うハなり打ちの図 (Ōko Uwanari-uchi no Zu) by Utagawa Hiroshige (1852): a group of wives and concubines striking each other

Compound of 後妻(うわなり) (uwanari, “later wife, concubine”) + 打(う)ち (uchi, “striking, hitting”).

後妻(うわなり)打(う)ち • (uwanari-uchi) ^{←うはなりうち (ufanariuti)^?}

(historical) an ancient Japanese custom of a first wife to attack any of her husband's later wives and/or concubines, usually for revenge or to protect her own interests [late Heian- to around the Sengoku period]
(historical) an arranged striking between wives and concubines held at a (legal) wife's house [around the Muromachi to mid-Edo period]
Synonyms: 相当打ち (sōtō-uchi), 騒動打ち (sōdō-uchi)

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1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
“後妻打ち”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
Chieko Irie Mulhern (2015) Heroic with Grace: Legendary Women of Japan: Legendary Women of Japan, Routledge, →ISBN, pages x, 175-178