Neil Duckett

A little over 11 months and i`m finally legal in Japan. I have a much sought after Gaijin Card and lucky for me I`ve been granted a 3 yr Engineers visa whereas it`s usually a 1 yr working visa straight off the bat. The last thing i had to do last week was get my re-entry permit sorted, this is my ticket to come and go from Japan as i please, I`m going to need this late October when i go to Taipei or a few days R&R ….. more on that later.

Now all the official stuff is done there`s a few other things i need to tick off, first and foremost is getting my Hanko sorted.

Hanko - A Chinese seal is a seal or stamp containing Chinese characters used in East Asia to prove identity on documents, contracts, art, or similar items where authorship is considered important.

Chinese seals are typically made of stone, sometimes of wood, and are typically used with red ink or cinnabar paste (Chinese: 朱砂; pinyin: zhūshā). The word 印 (”yìn”) specifically refers to the imprint created by the seal. The colloquial name chop, when referring to these kinds of seals, was adapted from a Malay word during the colonization of the Straits Settlements.

East Asia currently uses a mixture of seals and hand signatures, and increasingly, electronic signatures. [1] But notably in China, Japan, and Korea, seals remain commonly used instead of a signatures when doing business or other procedures, and in certain cases, only seals are acceptable.

As a man in Japan It`s important to get a Hanko with a powerful meaning and one that will impress the chicks so i`ve turned to a buddy fom work for his input and he`s come up with the following;

新偉流武人

This meaning is New Great Stream (flow) Samurai.

新 -> New (Ne)

偉 -> Great (i)

流 -> Stream or Flow (l)

武人 -> Samurai; (Duckett)

Please combine the alphabets in the parenthesis.

It will be Neil Duckett. I like these Kanji’s meanings.

So there you have it, some time in the near future i`ll slip into the Hanko shop and get this sorted. Hopefully by then i`ll have adding images ot these posts sorted so i can put up a picture or two.

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