後妻

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 後妻 is read as ごさい and refers to a second or later wife after an earlier marriage.
• Basic usage: It is a noun identifying a person in family records or in accounts of relationships within a remarried family.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A person in a record
  • In a family record, 彼の後妻 identifies whose second wife is being named. Example: 古い戸籍には彼の後妻の名も記されていた。
• Relationships after remarriage
  • In a story, the term can frame the relationship between a second wife and the children. Example: 小説では後妻と子どもたちの関係が描かれる。