a personal or private matter / selfishness / privacy, secrecy / (women's speech, obsolete) a brother-in-law

Alternative spelling of 私達 (“we; us”)

private; mine

Alternative form of 歌

poetry, poem / (archaic) Chinese-style poetry / modern Japanese poetry

an Edo-period tanka poem used as an insect repellent:

The hiragana syllable しょ (sho). Its equivalent in katakana is ショ (sho).

承知: consent, acceptance, assent, admitting, acknowledgment, compliance, agreement, awareness / 招致: invitation / 沼地: marshland, wetland, swampland / 勝地: beauty spot, scenic spot / 小智: shallow wisdom

初夏: beginning of summer / 書架: bookshelf / 書家: calligrapher

書画: paintings or writings in black ink