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{{trope}}
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A person receives a package or is filling out a contract. However, there's a delay, because they can't find their
This may seem strange to Westerners, but Japan, like several other countries including China, does not actually consider a signature to be sufficient to complete a legally binding document. A person requires a specifically designed stamp, also called a chop, registered with the municipal offices, in order to identify themselves. These stamps, referred to in various contexts as ''hanko'', ''inkan'', ''mitome-in'', or ''jitsu-in'', and are usually used with red ink to mark a document.
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A similar practice was once common among European nobility, specifically through the use of signet rings to impress a personal seal into wax bindings on messages.
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Hand Maid May]]:'' Kazuya Saotome receives a package from the Cyberdyne Company, he needs to go look for his seal. When he turns around, however, the delivery person is nowhere to be found.
* ''[[Please Teacher
* The [[Cold Opening]] for each episode of ''[[Excel Saga (
** It also features probably the most over-the-top usage of a stamp in anime: in one of the openings, we see a huge meteorite destroying an entire city and carving an enormous crater... and the meteorite turns out to be a ''building-sized'' version of Rikdo Koshi's stamp.
* Despite driving like a maniac for her driving tests, Natsumi in ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' gets a driving licence anyway, since the examiner passed out during the test, conveniently letting the stamp fall on the requisite box on the form.
* Zeniba's golden seal in ''[[Spirited Away]]'' turns out to be a major plot point, and in one DVD special the English staff talk about the addition of the word "golden" to keep the mostly young audience from mistaking it for the other type of seal that barks and dives underwater, [[Viewers
** And since the seal is in essence Zeniba's name, {{spoiler|her sister's}} theft of it is not just robbery, but an attempt to gain magical power over her.
* A package being delivered, and the subsequent search for the seal, takes the place of the opening sequence in the first episode of ''[[Seven of Seven]].'' It also allows us to see the deliveryman get totally freaked out, and prove that voice actors can count to seven and deliver [[Title Drop
* In one scene of ''[[Girls und Panzer]] [[The Movie|Der Film]]'', Miho's sister uses their mother's seal to authorize a transfer for Miho. The implication is that their mother is unaware of this.
== Fan Works ==
* When Doug Sangnoir uses his contacts to create a legal identity for Luna's human form in the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' installment of ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'', among the materials she receives is a set of three seals. "Basically, you have one for day-to-day stuff, one for banking, and one for big official paperwork." In the concordance for the story, the author goes into a bit more detail about them for anyone who might be unfamiliar and interested.
== Film ==
* In the movie "A Taxing Woman" tax evaders use all sorts tricks to hide the extra personal seals associated with their hidden bank accounts.▼
== Literature ==
* Adron's personal seal is an important plot point in the [[Dragaera]] novel ''The Phoenix Guards''.
* An example of the western version appears in [[Dan Brown]]'s novel ''[[Deception Point]]''. [[Strawman Political|Evil Conservative]] [[
▲* A package being delivered, and the subsequent search for the seal, takes the place of the opening sequence in the first episode of ''[[Seven of Seven]].'' It also allows us to see the deliveryman get totally freaked out, and prove that voice actors can count to seven and deliver [[Title Drop|Title Drops]] at the same time.
* In ''[[Dune]]'', the signet ring of House Atreides is mentioned.
▲* In the movie "A Taxing Woman" tax evaders use all sorts tricks to hide the extra personal seals associated with their hidden bank accounts.
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