紙し筆ひつ

noun

pen and paper; writing

Refers to the physical tools for writing, or metonymically to the act of writing itself. Often used in formal or literary contexts.

• 彼かれは紙し筆ひつを手てに取とって、手て紙がみを書かき始はじめた。

  He picked up pen and paper and began to write a letter.

• 紙し筆ひつの仕し事ごとに携たずさわって三さん十じゅう年ねんになる。

  I have been engaged in writing work for thirty years.