Postscript - Note

Japanese: 追而書 - おってがき

A term used in paleography. In documents that resemble a writing slip, this refers to additional text written after the main text has been completed. It is called tsuisho because it usually begins with tsuisho. Some were written after the main text, i.e. on the thank-paper, but looking at examples from the Nanboku-cho period onwards, postscripts beginning with tsuisho, tsuisho, or tsuisho were written on a separate sheet of paper from the main paper and thank-paper, and are found in many official documents such as imperial edicts, imperial decrees, and imperial edicts, and are relatively concise in their writing. In contrast, private letters are usually written in the margins of the main paper and begin with shoujo or henjo.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

古文書学上の用語。書札様文書において，本文を書き終わったあと，改めて書き足した文章のこと。ふつう〈追而申〉ではじまるので追而書という。はやくは本文のあと，すなわち礼紙に書かれたものもあるが，南北朝時代以降の実例についてみると，〈追而申〉〈追申〉〈逐申〉などではじまる追記は，本紙，礼紙とは別の一紙に書かれており，院宣，綸旨（りんじ），御教書（みぎようしよ）などの公文書に多く，文章も比較的簡潔である。これに対して私文書たる書状にあっては，本紙の余白に書き，〈尚々〉あるいは〈返々〉ではじまるのが普通である。

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