bride-price

Japanese: bride-price(英語表記)brideprice
bride-price

…The term bridewealth is sometimes used, but it can also be interpreted as a dowry or the expenses or funds required for marriage, so it would be more appropriate to call it bride price or, for short, bride compensation. It is particularly prevalent in Africa, where Western European missionaries in the early stages of their expansion considered it human trafficking and called it bride price. However, women are not freely traded as commodities, and bride compensation is understood as compensation for the parents who raised the bride to give up their daughter, and for the transfer of the bride's sexual, childbirth, housework and other labor abilities, as well as the rights to future children, from the female side to the male side. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "bride-price" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…婚資という語が用いられることもあるが,これは持参財あるいは婚姻に要する費用や資金の意味にも解されるので,花嫁代償または略して嫁償と称するほうが適当であろう。とくにアフリカで盛んに行われ,進出初期の西ヨーロッパの宣教師たちは,これを人身売買とみなして花嫁代価bride‐priceと称していた。しかし女性が商品として自由に取引されるわけではなく,嫁償は花嫁を育てた親が娘を手放すことに対する慰藉料,および花嫁のもつ性,出産,家事その他の労働能力と将来生まれてくる子に対する権利が,女側から男側に引き渡されることに対する代償と解される。…

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