Hideo Matsuzaki creates names that will last a lifetime, one deft knife stroke at a time.
The 71-year-old master craftsman has a list of celebrity clients and a job description with no equivalent in the West: engraving personal seals that the Japanese use instead of signing their names on the proverbial bottom line.
For centuries, people in this country have put their seals on everything from Imperial proclamations to IOUs.
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