Seal script/篆書体(てんしょたい)

Meaning of family crests/家紋の意味

2018.05.292021.04.08

Meaning and History of the fabric patterns/文様の意味・歴史

Seal script (Chinese: 篆書; pinyin: zhuànshū) is an ancient style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BC. It evolved organically out of the Zhou dynasty script.

The Qin variant of seal script eventually became the standard, and was adopted as the formal script for all of China during the Qin dynasty. It was still widely used for decorative engraving and seals (name chops, or signets) in the Han dynasty.

The literal translation of the Chinese name for seal script, 篆書 (zhuànshū), is decorative engraving script, a name coined during the Han dynasty, which reflects the then-reduced role of the script for the writing of ceremonial inscriptions.

Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script

篆書体（てんしょたい）は漢字の書体の一種。「篆書」「篆文」ともいう。

広義には秦代より前に使用されていた書体全てを指すが、一般的には周末の金文を起源として、戦国時代に発達して整理され、公式書体とされた小篆とそれに関係する書体を指す。

公式書体としての歴史は極めて短かったが、現在でも印章などに用いられることが多く、「古代文字」に分類される書体の中では最も息が長い。

出典 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/篆書体