書しょ肆し

noun

bookstore; bookshop

Archaic or literary term for a bookstore; in modern Japanese, 本屋 (ほんや) or 書店 (しょてん) are used instead.

• 明めい治じ時じ代だいの書しょ肆しは、今いまでいう出しゅっ版ぱん社しゃを兼かねることもあった。

  Bookstores in the Meiji era sometimes also functioned as what we now call publishers.