Cameron's e-Seal Book (Kang Ru yin pu 康儒的e-印谱)

Background

On the following pages are selected impressions from seals in my collection. Some were commissioned and others purchased. The impressions vary in size but have been standarized to a 2 inch height for presentation here. The characters on seals are engraved in relief (red seals, 朱印--red characters on white background) or in intaglio (white seals, 白印--white characters on a red background) or a mix of both styles. For more information see Zhang (Seals)

Chinese Texts

Chinese transcriptions and translations courtesy of Daniel von Brighoff unless otherwise noted. Some transcriptions may use the simpfied form of Chinese rather than the traditional form.

Chinese characters in the following pages are coded in Unicode and use fonts such as MingLiU, Arial Unicode MS, Verdana, etc. for display. If you can see the following character for zhāng (seal) then you are enabled for CJK display: 章.

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Leisure Seals

閒章兒 (an unofficial personal seal, usually containing a poetic or religious thought; also called flavor seals, or poetry seals ci ju yin 詞句印 or lucky sayings seals ji yu yin 吉語印): the inscriptions on these seals are typically words, phrases, or short quotations that convey the mood or thought of the artist, calligrapher, writer, and/or collector.

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Name Seals

圖章 (a stamp, personal seal): the inscriptions on these seals are typically names, pen names, pseudonyms, religious names (dharma or Taoist names), or epithets that identify an individual. These are also called alias seals bie hao yin 別號印.

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Unidentified Seals

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Picture Seals

Typically these have only images with no characters. They may include animals, Buddhist images, flowers, etc.

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