Postcard #288

Postcard #288 from Japan.

Date: 04.02.19

Depicts: a wishing bottle.

From: got from postcrosser Natsumi.

My 210th postcard from Postcrossing.com project.

Stamps: "Art of Utagawa Hiroshige", Japan, 2018.

Postcard #279

Postcard #279 from Japan.

Date: 08.11.18

Depicts: a bridge in Japan.

From: got from postcrosser Sihori.

My 203rd postcard from Postcrossing.com project.

Stamps: “Yulikime, Japan, 2019; “Macaca fuscata" (Japanese Macaque), Japan, 2015; "Lepus timidus" (Arctic Hare), Japan, 2014;"Baron Maejima Hisoka (1835-1919)", Japan, 2015.

Postcard #247

Postcard #247 from Japan.

Date: 04.05.18

Depicts: minimalistic tulips.

From: bought and sent myself from Tokyo.

Stamps: "Letter-Writing Week - Paintings by Utagawa Hiroshige", Japan, 2017.

Postcard #164

Postcard #164 from Japan.

Date: 26.06.17

Depicts: Tsutenkaku (Gotochi - Osaka 2010)

From: got from a postcrosser Eriko.

My 120th postcard from Postcrossing.com project.

My very first Gotochi postcard! Thanks a lot!

The current Tsutenkaku the first two generations. About first generation, which was built 90 years ago, on the Eiffel Tower, was the unusual design that under the Arc de Triomphe.

Stamps: "Int'l letter writing week", Japan, 1994; "Takiwa Park", Japan, 1966; "Sedge Horse Loaded with Rice - Niigata Pref.", Japan, 2001.

Postcard #123

Postcard #123 from Japan.

Date: 19.02.17

Depicts: Mt Fuji and Red Post.

From: got from a postcrosser Koshichi.

My 91st postcard from Postcrossing.com project.

This is a 'nengajo' postcard which is sent in Japan for New Year. You can buy preprinted or create your own postcard. According to rules, on one specific side you write an address and stck stamps while on the other you write a text and put a design. I want to show the design Koshichi chose for me so I covered the text and left only the image.

Stamps: "Tit (Parus sp.) while feeding the Young", Japan, 1971; "Lepus timidus" (Arctic Hare), Japan, 2014; "Baron Maejima Hisoka (1835-1919)", Japan, 2015.

Postcard #88

Postcard #88 from Japan.

Date: 12.11.16

Depicts: Kyoto Imperial Palace. 

From: got from a postcrosser Miho.

My 62nd postcard from Postcrossing.com project.

Stamps: "Macaca fuscata" (Japanese Macaque), Japan, 2015; "Tamias sibiricus" (Siberian Chipmunk), Japan, 2015; "Somei-yoshino" (Cherry blossom), Japan, 2014; "Nipponia nippon" (Japanese Crested Ibis), Japan, 2015.

Postcard #81

Postcard #81 from Japan.

Date: 01.11.16

Depicts: "藝術カフェー乃圖" by Akira Yamaguchi, 

ukiyo-e art. A cafe with famous artists.

From: got from a postcrosser ssskr.

My 56h postcard from Postcrossing.com project.

Stamps: "Old & new lighthouses", Japan, 1968; "Tamias sibiricus" (Siberian Chipmunk), Japan, 2015; "Takato-kohigan-zakura cherry blossom", Japan, 2016.

Postcard #64

Postcard #64 from Japan.

Date: 08.09.16

Depicts: Mishima "Morning Mist", ukiyo-e art.

The Grand Shrine of Mishima stands at a fork on the Tokaido Highway from which the Shimoda Highway branches off. Travelers leave early in the cold morning from the front of the torii gate. A traveler riding in a palanquin and a man on horseback in the center are delineated minutely in fine detail while the torii and stone lanterns, groves and houses, and a pilgrim with a staff in the background are painted in silhouette by using the gradation technique unique to woodblock printing whereby things are shown in various densities of shading according to distance. This woodblock print presents a lyrical scene in the morning mist. 

From: got from a postcrosser Mayumi.

My 39th postcard from Postcrossing.com project.

Stamps: "Macaca fuscata" (Japanese Macaque), Japan, 2015; "Tamias sibiricus" (Siberian Chipmunk), Japan, 2015; "岩手山 •岩手県" (Iwate volcano, Iwate Prefecture), Japan, 1991.