写しゃ真しん花はな嫁よめ

noun

picture bride

Historical term for a woman who immigrated to marry a man she knew only through photographs and correspondence, especially in early 20th-century Japanese diaspora communities.

• 写しゃ真しん花はな嫁よめとしてアメリカに渡わたった女じょ性せいたちの歴れき史しが研けん究きゅうされている。

  The history of women who went to America as picture brides is being studied.