懐かい紙し

noun

kaishi paper; pocket paper for kimono; tea ceremony paper

Traditional paper folded and tucked inside the front fold of a kimono, especially used in tea ceremony for wiping the rim of a tea bowl or for placing sweets.

• 茶ちゃ会かいでは、懐かい紙しを懐ふところに入いれておく。

  At a tea gathering, one keeps kaishi paper tucked inside the front of the kimono.

• お菓か子しを懐かい紙しにのせていただきます。

  I receive the sweet placed on kaishi paper.

noun

tanka writing paper; poetry paper

Historically used as a portable paper for composing tanka poems; now mostly encountered in classical or literary contexts.

• 昔むかしの歌か人じんは、懐かい紙しに和わ歌かを書かきつけた。

  Poets of old would jot down tanka on kaishi paper.