Parakeet like the punk rocker

Do you know the parakeet such as the face of the punk rocker?
The parakeet is called "OKAME-INKO" in Japan.
This is because there is the red mask of cheeks called "OKAME".
The parakeet is called "Nymphicus hollandicus" in the United States.
I do not know it for some reason.

It is the parakeet which I want to call a punk rocker :D

The small tree which has begun to walk

There is the picture book entitled "small tree which has begun to walk".
It is a French picture book.
I carved a hanko in a motif with the picture book.

I thought that the order for hanko came from France.
However, this picture book does not seem to be sold anymore in France.
I cannot dream :D

People like a cat

Because I made a model of the story comics,

people who read the comic come to my shop. 

And those people will order the hanko.

Sometimes cats have appeared in the comics, people like a cat will be coming to my shop a lot.

Those people will show me a picture of a cat that kept their own.

They say selfish and carved this cat in the seal to me.

I carve the eye is very difficult. 

In just a little difference, expression will change.

So, I do not want to carve the face of the cat as much as possible.

But I carved the eyes reluctantly this time.

She said happily when it is an outrageously cat.

Those sharp eyes seem more was good:D

Cartoonist has been tweeted.

In souvenir bring, to make to order the seal. They will Bring me a delicious thing ever since.

There is worth to do my best.lol

Forest View

I've come to "NASU plateau" in the summer vacation.

Enter the hotel room, I was surprised. There was that I stayed in a room overlooking the sea, but the rooms overlooking the forest is the first time.

I shouted "Forest View!".

My family told me.

 Forest view is wrong. 

Here is not a forest because plateau.

My family is tough to me:D

So, iplateau view.

For lunch, I ate this.

cat & dog

"IKEBANA" is traditional culture of the flower arrangement in Japan.
It does not make a symmetry first in "IKEBANA" to learn.
The building of a Shinto shrine and the Buddhist temple is symmetric and feels a sense of stability.
However, a natural thing does not completely have the symmetric thing.
The Japanese is attracted by a good thing of the balance while being right and left asymmetry.

A With all one's might, you'll see the left-right asymmetry.kanji has a lot of symmetric characters.
When I make a symmetric character a seal, I am aware of carving it unsymmetrically.
This is because it is seen like some kind of marks when it makes a symmetry.

The seal becomes unique unsymmetrically by carving it.

The seal of a good design with the silhouette of a cat and the dog as a part of the kanji was completed.

With all one's might, you'll see the left-right asymmetry:D

Third generation

My father inherited the seal shop which my grandfather began.
And I inherited a seal(HANKO) shop.
I continue the same business at the same place ()Under the Shibuya scramble crossing

for 55 years from 1957.
I am a HANKO Artist for the third generation.

It was found that GIRLS' GENERATION had a common point with me at the third generation and GIRLS' GENERATION, generation.
I am glad.:D

First grandfather carved this.

One one of the lines serves as a reference.

New trend!?

In Japan, the separate family names of the couple are not recognized.
(But, in the case of an intercultural marriage, it may not be so.)
Therefore, the woman often turns into the family name of the man when she married.
A woman often makes a seal(HANKO) with a new family name at the time of marriage.
When she makes a very good seal(hanko) with a new family name,
she wants to continue this marriage throughout the life.
This is because this handmade seal is not usable
when it is divorced, and a family name changes again.

The HANKO is personal in the same way as a signature.
You must not use the same HANKO even if it is a couple and is the same family name.

There is a person ordering a HANKO carving a family name and a motif.
It is to attach a HANKO and distinction in couples with being a pretty HANKO.
People deciding a motif from a meaning of one's first name increase.
It is a new trend.
OK, can you imagine first name from this HANKO?

The flower of the plum does not matter.