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In Japan ink stamps have always been used to sign legal documents. If you go to a bank to make a withdrawl you sign with an ink stamp, not a hand signature. So all of these ink stamps on the stones...

The Maruichi ink stamps were the copyrighted signature used by Kato-san the owner of the Nakayama mine up into the 1970s. He had a partner who is was the grandfather of Hatanaka-san. Upon Kato-san's...