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The Wooden Signboard Hung by the Store DoorImagine it’s the Edo period and you are standing on the main street. There is a ”sake” shop, soy sauce store, hair decorations store. When you look up, you see wooden sign boards with the store name engraved. The bigger the store, the bigger the sign, looking bold and proud. |
Signboards Carved with a Signboard KnifeSakai uses a small knife, especially made for carving sign boards, carving letters and other designs on signs that are small enough to fit in your hand to those that are as big as 3 meters. In recent years, chemical coating is applied to preserve the letters carved on the signs, instead of the lacquer that was used in the past by lacquer coating specialists. |
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The meaning of having a sign board”In the past, there was tremendous meaning behind owning a sign board. There was pride. Now with large companies, they move into large buildings and change their signs. I recommend that they retain the old signs. We want them to preserve a part of their soul in the building.” |
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- Fukuzendo Sakai Kanbanten
- 3-4-1 Matsugaya Taito-ku Tokyo
- URL http://www.interq.or.jp/tokyo/fukuzen/