Qu'est ce que le ''Hanko'' ou appeler Japanese Seal, un objet culturel qui peut même être otaku

par Neosilver Mar 5 Mar 2013 - 20:55

Pour les otaku qui sont fans de la culture japonaise, vous avez entendu parler de c'est fameux ''hanko'' ou sceau japonais que les familles utilise dans la vie de tous les jours.

L'utilisation de cette objet remonte a très longtemps, certain on une très grande notoriété et signification. Il est même possible pour les plus otaku d'entre vous de vous en ramasser un a l'effigie d'anime ou de manga.

j'adore!!

voici l'article que j'ai lu pour les intéresser qui aimerais en savoir plus sur la signification du Hanko.

In Japan and most of Asia,
documents require a seal. The Japanese word for these stamps is a
typically "hanko" (判子) or inkan (印鑑), and they've been used for over a
thousand years. People's names are carved onto them, and take the place
of a signature when doing things like opening a bank account, getting
married, or buying a car.
But now, in 2012, these traditional stamps are undergoing a radical change: Japanese nerdom.
Starting this summer, a dojin manga retailer, e3paper, began expanding to seals with anime and video game characters.
These
seals are called "itain", taking the Japanese "ita" (痛), which usually
refers to pain, but more and more has a slang meaning: it is typically used for cars covered with nerd stickers. Though, in recent years, it can refer to anything covered in geek, including military hardware. Here, "in" is (印), which is the Japanese character for a sign or a mark.
These are not rubber stamps, but wood that's been hand carved by artisans.
The
itain folks want to create seals that can be "registered" for bank or
corporate use. Note that personal inkan are round, while businesses use a
square seal.
In Japan, there are three basic kinds of seals:
mitomein (認め印), which are unregistered seals for daily use, like
stamping for a delivery; ginkoin (銀行印), which are used with bank
accounts; and jitsuin (実印), which are used to do things like buy a home
or a car or sign a will.
Why three different stamps? You could
use your jitsuin for, well, everything, but it's generally thought best
not to and to keep them all separate in case something happens. The
jitsuin is the most important seal Japanese people (or foreigners like
me!) carry, and it's usually kept under lock and key. Knowing how strict
the Japanese government is about jitsuin (and what can be on them),
these nerdy itain seals would not get the bureaucratic okay.

Itain
are priced between ¥1,380 and ¥2,980 per seal, and you can send along
the image you want engraved. The rub, however, is that e3paper is
currently limiting orders to copyright-free characters in order to avoid
lawsuit documents with, no doubt, legal stamps.