Synonym of 正妻 (sēsai, “legal wife”)

(Classical Japanese, obsolete) one’s spouse, mate; wife, husband

(crime) lese majesty

(Shinto, Japanese mythology, agriculture) one of the eight agricultural offenses that is said to have been committed in the 高天原 (Takamagahara, “Plain of High Heaven”), notably by the unruly god 素戔嗚 (Susanoo), namely 畔放 (ahanachi, “breaking down ridges”), 溝埋 (mizoume, “covering ditches”), 樋放 (hihanachi, “releasing irrigation sluices”), 重播 (shikimaki, “double planting”), 串刺 (kushisashi, “setting up stakes”), 生剥 (ikehagi, “skinning alive”), 逆剥 (sakahagi, “skinning backward”) and 糞戸 (kusohe, “defecation”)

(literary) wife and children

(historical, archaic, possibly obsolete) a kind of paper doll to which one prays for good weather

a fountainhead (source of a river) / a source, origin

(poetic) the month of water: June / (archaic) the sixth month of the lunar calendar

(archaic) the tenth month of the lunar calendar / (poetic) the month of the kami, October

a female child; a girl