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personal profile for arranged-marriage meeting; matchmaking résumé
A written profile prepared for お見合 (matchmaking meetings), traditionally listing the candidate's family background, education, work, hobbies, and other particulars. Exchanged in advance through the matchmaker or marriage agency.
釣書を交換する。
To exchange marriage profiles.
母に釣書を用意してもらった。
I had my mother prepare my matchmaking profile.
お見合いの前に相手の釣書に目を通した。
Before the matchmaking meeting, I looked through the other person's profile.
Also read つりしょ. Traditionally written by hand on Japanese paper and accompanied by a family-tree document (家族書). In modern arranged matches handled by marriage agencies, a simpler printed profile has replaced the formal handwritten version.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 釣書を書く: to write a marriage profile
- 釣書を交換する: to exchange profiles
- 釣書に目を通す: to look through a profile
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 履歴書: résumé — for employment, not marriage
- プロフィール: profile — modern, used by marriage agencies and apps
- 身上書: personal-background document — older formal term for the same kind of profile