辻つじ取とり

noun

bride kidnapping on the road

Archaic term for a historical practice of abducting a woman passing by to make her one's wife. Not used in modern Japanese outside historical or literary contexts.

• 昔むかし話ばなしには、辻つじ取とりという風ふう習しゅうが語かたられることがある。

  In old tales, the custom of bride kidnapping on the road is sometimes recounted.