Help Center For Japanese Stamps

Thank you very much HB.
Saved.

An awfully belated reply and follow-up to HB's comments on Rod's sheetlets, based on fragments of information gathered on Web;

These sheetlets are, as already mentioned by HB, reproduction of Japanese hand-engraved (etched) stamps, commemorating the 90th anniversary of Japanese postal system.

These sheetlets are entitled as "Reproduction of Early Japanese Postage Stamps", issued by "All Japan Postage Stamp Promotion Club", an incorporated foundation of Ministry of Postal and Telecommunications, Japan.

There seems to be 10 (ten) different issued of these sheetlets, each covering the representative series of the early Japanese stamps - Dragon, Cherry Blossom and Bird. Produced between 1961 (Showa 36) and 1963 (Showa 38), each stamp having "Mo-Koku" (literally meaning "reproduction engraving") imprint on the back.

The sheetlets originally comes with dedicated two-folded paper cover, where the detail of the reproduced stamps as well as date of issue etc. are printed.

Usually fetching around (or less than) 500 yen per mint sheetlet (with cover) thus very affordable, but the quality of reproduction is pretty impressive !

- Hironobu

Thanks Hironobu,
Saved and printed with my sheets

500 yen = $5 AUD

Any members may explain the Vignette please?

Mutilated Stationery
Postal Card
Suggest Sakura 1930 PC1
1.5 sen Green
Dated 10-11-13 = November 13th, 1935 ?

Exists : Also in former territories of Formosa and Korea.

The vignette design? It shows the statue of Kusunoki Masashige:
https://www.sumitomo.gr.jp/english/...ed/kusunoki/
It also appeared on banknotes/paper money of the time.

EDIT: The cancel reads Kanagawa (the prefecture) Hayama (city), dated 1935 November 13. The bottom part gives the time range.

Fabulous! Thanks HB

Hello,

Can anyone pls throw light on the postcard below? Pls translate the postmarks and the content.

thanks in advance
Davis

Postal Card
Postal Stationery
I make it Sakura PC18 (Coloured background to the value tablets) Page 323
1.5 sen
1899
That's all I have.

1. You will need a clairvoyant to read the originating cancel, not a stamp collector. There's nothing there to read except the Meiji year 37 = 1904.
2. The town name on the receiving cancel is obscured, equally muddy unless someone happens to know all the possible towns this could be.
3. The writing on the card is done in a style that is not used anymore. Some characters are readable but I've yet to find anyone on this board or others that can read such messages completely. You might turn the message right side up to encourage contributions.

International Reply Coupon
Postmark : Hitachiomiya - Ibaraki Prefecture


Registration Label : NAHA - Okinawa prefecture

Non Philatelic.
Something wasn't just right, on reading this today

CIPANGU (Japan) (Marco Polo ~Chinese)
It couldn't be called Japan in 1500

Found the map on Google.
"An imaginary map of America 1500"
Henry Justice Ford, English (1860–1941)

An illustrator who captivated me as a child with his drawings of Crusader types.
In the style of Alfons Mucha.

Bib: A School History of England 1911 CRL Fletcher and Rudyard Kipling

It's an improvised map, copied and translated at best, I think. It wouldn't be in English, either, more likely Latin in the 1500s.

"Cipangu" or "Zipangu" was somehow mangled into "Japan" and dates back to Marco Polo. Japan was never called that by its natives. Since he never made it there, Cipangu was probably Chinese or a Chinese dialect for the place, just as "Sioux" is somebody else's name for the Dakota and Lakota peoples.

Hmmmm. The Emperor of China has a Pikachu hat.

EDIT: Behaim's map of 1492 is more accurate with the tiny exception of missing the Americas. Nowhere be there dragons.
https://commons.princeton.edu/mg/be...-globe-1492/

Cheers HB, Yes, just an imaginary map

See here with other illustrations of Henry Ford Justice
https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-a...,-1500-.html

I had issue as I did not / have not seen any ref to that in the book.
Kids in 1911 reading that book, may have presumed that map was genuine.

Behaim's map is surprisingly accurate.

Well done you. And in color, too. Thanks for the large size; I can print this out and put it on the wall.

"Isles full of salvage men". Steptoe and son/Sanford and son?

Mermaydens (now extinct) and Atlantis too.

Those were the days, young boys minds were full of imagination,

No Google or tik tok.