Uwanari
Sign in to savethumb was a kabuki play of the Kabuki Jūhachiban, first performed in 1699. It is no longer extant. ==Uwanari-uchi== was a marital custom dating back to the Heian period. As marriage was not clearly defined, no ceremony took place that marked the status of a woman as a 'wife', although men would often join the households of their wives and receive material support. This relationship did not preclude the man from visiting other women - in these instances, the first wife was referred to as konami and the second wife was the , derived from the Japanese word given the metaphorical image of the se
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thumb was a kabuki play of the Kabuki Jūhachiban, first performed in 1699. It is no longer extant. ==Uwanari-uchi== was a marital custom dating back to the Heian period. As marriage was not clearly defined, no ceremony took place that marked the status of a woman as a 'wife', although men would often join the households of their wives and receive material support. This relationship did not preclude the man from visiting other women - in these instances, the first wife was referred to as konami and the second wife was the , derived from the Japanese word given the metaphorical image of the second wife disturbing the tranquility of the first relationship like a ripple. Custom therefore allowed the first wife to vent her anger on the second wife for stealing her husband's affections, usually in the form of attacking her house. Uwanari-uchi persisted until the early sixteenth century as a socially acceptable custom.
==See also== Ōko Uwanari-uchi no Zu, an ukiyo-e by Utagawa Hiroshige