婿むこ入いり婚こん

noun

uxorilocal marriage; marriage where the husband joins the wife's family

Anthropological term for a marriage pattern in which the groom moves into the bride's family home and may be adopted into her family. Contrasts with 嫁入り婚 (virilocal marriage).

See also: 婿入り

• 婿むこ入いり婚こんは、夫おっとが妻つまの家か族ぞくの一いち員いんとなる結けっ婚こん形けい態たいです。

  Uxorilocal marriage is a form of marriage in which the husband becomes a member of the wife's family.

• 日に本ほんの伝でん統とう的てきな家か族ぞく制せい度どでは、婿むこ入いり婚こんは嫁よめ入いり婚こんに比くらべて少しょう数すうでした。

  In the traditional Japanese family system, uxorilocal marriage was less common than virilocal marriage.