死が二人を分かつまで shi ga futari o wakatsu made Til Death Do Us Part

死 shi is death; が marks it as the one that acts; 二人 futari is the two, with no us, which Japanese leaves to the couple standing there; 分かつ wakatsu is the formal verb to part, to divide one thing into two, where everyday speech would say 分ける; まで made is until. The prayer book's vow reads till death us do part, the word order modern speech turns around.

The vow is the Church of England's, till death us depart in 1549 and till death us do part from 1662; the Japanese church said 死に至るまで, until death, and 死が二人を分つまで is the translators' word-for-word Japanese, in print from 1924.

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