seal script that looks like cat kanji

[asakiyume]

Wakanomori is providing me with all kinds of interesting items these days. For today, have some cat kanji. It looks made up, doesn't it? But it's a bone fide form of seal script--that is, stylized kanji used for signature seals.　The source is 篆楷字典 (Tenkai Jiten), a dictionary of seal script (tensho) and kaisho, a very clear, blocky style used in inscriptions.

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[larryhammer]

:-)

[amaebi]

How funny!

[osprey_archer]

Oh! So there are for something like signet rings? So someone's super-important signet could be one of those cats with two arms that look like an anime cat that's waving its arms to get the magical girl heroine's attention?

[sovay]

seal script that looks like cat kanji

It does! That's wonderful.

[pameladean]

How delightful!

P.

[boxofdelights]

Bottom row, sixth from the right HAS to mean "ninja warrior cat". HAS TO.

[ivy]

This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing. Second row from the bottom, three in from the left is clearly a cat in a sleeping bag.

[umadoshi]

That is delightful. *^^*

[light_of_summer]

This is very cool! It reminds me a bit of the "Dancing Men" from one of the Sherlock Holmes stories, only with cats. Do you happen to know the significance of any of the non-cat characters in the table? I notice that a lot of them look like duplicates, and am curious to know if they're definitions, or meta-data, or what.