Hello, to the best of my knowledge it's a seal of a medicine seller or medicine. You find the same characters on boxes made for carrying your wares (see photo). But to be clear I'm not 100% sure about this.

Seal, "敬天愛人" / "Revere heaven, love man", on walnut, 25x25mm. Design with inkscape, transferred onto the wood, carved by hand.
#篆刻 #sealcarving #woodworking

Looking at 趙之謙 seals and pulling up the characters in a seal design compendium just to notice they just put the same seal there too

Trying out seal design with inkscape

Got a book on 趙之謙 and 徐三庚 seal works. My favorites when it comes to red on white seal design (as opposed to white characters on red background).

Went a little hog wild with the book purchases this month but I think I can be content with these for a while.

This is where I post from

Results after a couple of applications of shellac. Feels like everything comes off as more brown in the photo than how it looks to the eye. Might be camera white balance or low light in the room. Anyway nice samples for reference going forward.

Testing calligraphy ink staining on my walnut seal material. From the left, no stain, black ink stain, black ink and cinnabar ink mixed to various degrees, and on the right pure cinnabar ink stain. Next experiment is to try some shellac on top. #woodworking

I got a book on Japanese religious folk art.

Eras and men come and go... this posting style stays

Ordered one little coping saw for working on wooden seals... got delivered 12 🤔

Mail day. Feasting tonight with a book of seal work by 鄧石如 (1743-1805) and 呉熙載 (1799-1870)

無執故無失 - Neil McCauley (Heat, 1995) probably

This wine got me acting merry

Morning coffee and looking at Nakamura Randai works again. My man was going hard in 1906

Just received exhibition catalogues of Nakamura Randai and Nakamura Randai II. Spending the evening just taking in the vibes before any serious study