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Staying at a ryokan recently, I received some postcards with the following
little poem:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gnAxF.jpg)

What are the characters that I have highlighted in red? They look a bit like
[侍]{さむらい}, but based on the context clearly aren't.
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kanji abbreviations
What is this strange kanji that looks a bit like 侍, but isn't?
Turns out this character is a fairly common
_[ryakuji](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryakuji)_ (abbreviated character) of
the common honorific [御]{ご} _go-_ , as in [御飯]{ごはん} _gohan_ , so the full word
is [御夢想]{ごむそう} _go-musou_ , the name of [the hot spring where the ryokan was
located](http://musouen.co.jp/about/index.html). Another example
[here](http://nihongodekiru.blog62.fc2.com/blog-date-201003-2.html).
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