Japanese edit

For pronunciation and definitions of じきひつ – see the following entry.
直筆
[noun] the act of writing something oneself by hand
[noun] the resulting handwritten document or writing:
[noun] one's own handwriting
[noun] a holograph, an autograph (something written by oneself, not just one's signature)
[verb] to write something oneself by hand
(This term, じきひつ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)