{"id":"seal-script","no":332,"name":"Seal Engraving","ja":"篆刻","era":"Qin dynasty–","family":"書の伝統","kind":"技法","collection":"Dictionary expansion 18","addedAt":"2026-08-18","source":{"title":"UNESCO — Art of Chinese seal engraving","url":"https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/art-of-chinese-seal-engraving-00217"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/art-of-chinese-seal-engraving-00217","credit":"UNESCO — Art of Chinese seal engraving","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E7%AF%86%E5%88%BB1966%E6%B2%B3%E6%9D%91%E5%B2%B7%E9%9B%AA%E8%8C%97%E9%B6%8F.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E7%AF%86%E5%88%BB1966%E6%B2%B3%E6%9D%91%E5%B2%B7%E9%9B%AA%E8%8C%97%E9%B6%8F.jpg","credit":"河村岷雪の印影（『日本の篆刻』1966） — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0"}]},"essence":"篆書を石印に刻み、朱と白の反転（朱文・白文）で数センチ角に構成する東アジアの印章芸術。書画の落款として作品に参加し、「小さな正方形の中の設計」の極致になった。","cues":["朱文と白文の反転","篆書の線の設計","数センチ角の構成","石の刻みの質感"],"intents":["静けさ","高級","信頼"],"works":["書画や書状に押して作者を示す、数センチ角の小さな印","和漢の文脈で、名を図形として扱う商標や落款"],"recipe":{"type":"篆書の線を字ごとに伸縮させ、枠内を余さず埋める","layout":"数センチ角を等分し、字画の粗密で余白を作為的に配る","material":"朱肉の赤と紙の白。石の欠けと刃の震えを残す"},"avoid":"既存の書体を正方形に押し込むだけで字画の呼吸を設計せず、窮屈な黒い塊になる。","colors":["#f7f6f4","#b8362c","#231b18"],"motif":"ephemera","pair":["kufic","kamon"],"study":["朱文・白文の設計","西泠印社","日本の篆刻と落款文化"],"en":{"essence":"East Asia's seal art: seal script carved in stone, composed in a few square centimeters through the reversal of red and white (zhuwen and baiwen). Participating in paintings as signature, it perfected design inside the small square.","cues":["Red-white reversal","Seal-script line design","Composition in centimeters","The texture of carved stone"],"works":["Small square seals stamped on works and letters to name their maker","Marks and signatures where a name is treated as pure form"],"recipe":{"type":"Seal-script strokes stretched per character to fill the field","layout":"The small square divided evenly, space dealt out by stroke density","material":"Cinnabar red on white paper, chipped stone and blade tremor kept"},"avoid":"Squeezing an existing typeface into a square without designing how the strokes breathe produces a cramped block instead of a seal.","study":["zhuwen and baiwen design","the Xiling Seal Art Society","Japanese tenkoku and signature culture"]},"links":{"page":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/seal-script","json":"https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/seal-script","designSpec":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/seal-script/design.md","imagePrompt":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/seal-script/prompt.txt"},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}