This paper aims at both showing the actual conditions and some of the characteristics of ‘muko-iri-marriage’ in Nekko village and probing the cause of this marriage.
According to the investigation, some facts have been clear. One-fourth of the whole houses in Nekko village are the houses where the son-in-low is, which is a rare case in the other villages in Ani-machi. Most of the women finding their husbands and living in thier houses are the eldest daughters. One of some reasons why a daughter makes a U-turn to her parents' house is to solve the problem of the inheritor. A custom like ‘muko-iri-marriage’ did not originally exist in this village, so most of the daughters who get married have never had the experience of ‘muko-iri-marriage’
On the other hand, some characteristics of ‘muko’, the son-in-low, are pointed out as follows. None of the sons-in-low is the eldest brother in their houses and they have many brothers, so they don't need to become heir to their parents. Kind of thier occupations has no causal relationship to ‘muko-iri-marriage’. Most of them were born in and around Nekko-village, but as the time has passed their birthplace has surely expanded. The man who is officially recogonized as a member of his wife's family becomes an heir apparent.
Some analyses of the factor of ‘Muko-iri-marriage’ at Nekko-village are mentioned as follows: Every woman finding her husband and living in her parents' house has a strong consciousness to succeed her home. This is proved by these two facts: The reason why a daughter makes a U-turn to her parents' house is to solve the problem of the inheritor. She dares to do ‘Muko-iri-marriage’, which has never seen in her family.
Some functional of Nekko-village itself are pointed out. In the point of the situation of the agricultural management, the cultivated acreage, the woodland acreage and the harvest of Nekko-village are bigger than those of the other villages in Ani-machi. Moreover, the number of farm houses at Nekko-village where they have paddies and fields and the number of the farmhouses where they have forests are both biggest in this area. More than a half of the houses which have taken the son-in-low possess more paddy fields than the agricultural management.
Historically, the fact that Nekko-village has been a ‘Matagi-village’ has the great significance to ‘Muko-iri-marriage’. The people in the ‘Matagi-village’ have been rich, and as they have peddled the medicine in some advanced countries they have had the wide knowledge of these countries, Furthermore, the people in Nekko-village have been much concerned with education, and as a result, many men who have had a good school education went out of this village. However, some women of this village who have a good school education make a U-turn to their hometown, and get married to the men who are from another countries. And the women have the consciousness that they should succeed and keep their home.
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