1.Typeface used for HANKO

Typeface  used in HANKO traditionally , are limited.

For example , HANKO do not make in the Gothic and Mincho .

Broadly speaking the font to be used , is a 6- type Tensho, Reisho, Kaisho, Gyousou, Koin, and Insou-tai.

It comes from the history of Chinese characters in China .

By Qin Shi Huang who built the Great Wall , Shoten (Tensho to roughly divided ) was compiled .

Reisho you easier to read and write the Shoten was born in that era .

Shoten , go form that is easy to carve stone , to Inten.

Kaisho was born on the basis of the Reisho. Gyosho was born on the basis of the reisho.

And , I thought that it was seen Reisho that has passed into Japan , it was carved to each other metals from missing , that there is a taste in it.

Japan's unique typeface that Koin was born.

I wrote the Chinese characters some typefaces, respectively.
Next time , it is about the unique Japanese Inso-tai.

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.