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Journal.

Craft notes and plain guides, written in English and Japanese, never translated.

Craft · 28.08.2026

Why Insou reaches the rim

Eight directions, one frame. The stroke ends brace the rim so it does not crack, and a seal that is hard to read is a seal that is hard to forge.

Compose your name in Insou →

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Guide · 21.08.2026

How names work on seals: 髙 or 高, katakana, romaji

The ward registers the seal against the spelling on your residence record. Which form, which script, and what a foreigner's seal can say.

Type your name as it is on the record →

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Guide · 12.07.2026

Registering a seal at the ward office, in English

What to bring, the 8–25 mm rule, what gets refused, and what to do if it is.

Start a registered seal →

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Workshop · 04.07.2026

What the cutter reads

From your approved vector to a 0.6 mm relief in titanium: the path, the passes, and the hand that finishes it.

See your face at 1 : 1 →

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Craft · 20.06.2026

Why titanium, and why we stopped at two metals

Horn cracks, wood drinks ink, acrylic scratches. Aluminium and titanium hold a 0.6 mm relief for decades — here is how we chose, and what the finish does to the impression.

Choose titanium →

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FROM THE STUDIO · HAND-CRAFTED, ONE OF ONE

What left the workshop.

Pieces made by hand in the Studio — the same engine with the dials exposed. Open them on a computer: the Studio is desktop-only.

山田

佐藤

鈴木

高橋

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