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Post by Linda on Aug 12, 2024 20:34:19 GMT
dorincard -- Are you sure? I can only find my own posts when searching 'anime'.
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Post by Hugh on Aug 12, 2024 22:17:30 GMT
dorincard -- Are you sure? I can only find my own posts when searching 'anime'. I wouldn't be surprised if EVERYONE on the forum has at least one special or specialized interest that they find more fascinating than do others. So what? I love reading your posts. I learn a lot about Anime and Japanese postmarks ... and enjoy your enthusiasm for your topic. I like posts that make me smile ... they make my day. There are few, if any, members that seem to share my own interest in Cross-Writing. But, I don't care (smile) ... I enjoy it so much I still post examples from time to time. We all have something like that ... and it’s great we can share them with each other ... even if all they do is read and, hopefully, enjoy our posts. This place would be pretty boring if everyone just talked about the same thing.
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Post by dorincard on Aug 12, 2024 23:32:27 GMT
No, Linda, I am not sure; just guessing.
Hugh, what is Cross-Writing?
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Post by Hugh on Aug 13, 2024 0:59:40 GMT
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Post by dorincard on Aug 13, 2024 2:06:30 GMT
A-ha! Challenging...
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Post by Linda on Aug 13, 2024 21:21:49 GMT
Maxicard of the Japanese writer Osamu Dazai, realised on the anniversary of his death, 13 June, at the district of Tokyo where he succeeded in taking up his life, using a Mitaka fukei-in that features him in traditional kimono: [Date of cancellation: 13 June 2024.] These postcards feature the same photo by Shigeru Tamura of Dazai walking down the Mitaka Pedestrian Overhead Bridge. The bridge is so closely associated with Dazai that one of the commemorative stamps issued in 2009 for his 100th anniversary (which is used in the second maxicard) features an image of this bridge.
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Post by Linda on Aug 13, 2024 21:23:10 GMT
Maxicards realised on Osamu Dazai’s birthday in his hometown. [Date of cancellation: 19 June 2024.] Technically, the first is not a postcard, but a shikishi art board I purchased while visiting his childhood home in Kanagi. His most famous quote was printed on it: [The shikishi board is definitely thicker and more rigid than regular postcards.]
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Post by armenin2000 on Aug 14, 2024 19:26:43 GMT
Artist Tatiana Doronina
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Post by dorincard on Aug 19, 2024 17:09:38 GMT
From my post in my Facebook group: "3-in-1 maxicards from the Czech Republic. The postmark shows a raven, I guess. "The Eurasian magpie or common magpie (Pica pica) is a resident breeding bird throughout the northern part of the Eurasian continent. It is one of several birds in the crow family (corvids) designated magpies, and belongs to the Holarctic radiation of "monochrome" magpies. In Europe, "magpie" is used by English speakers as a synonym for the Eurasian magpie: the only other magpie in Europe is the Iberian magpie (Cyanopica cooki), which is limited to the Iberian Peninsula. Despite having a shared name and similar colouration, it is not closely related to the Australian Magpie." "The Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) is a species of passerine bird in the crow family Corvidae. It has pinkish brown plumage with a black stripe on each side of a whitish throat, a bright blue panel on the upper wing and a black tail. The Eurasian jay is a woodland bird that occurs over a vast region from western Europe and north-west Africa to the Indian subcontinent and further to the eastern seaboard of Asia and down into south-east Asia. Across this vast range, several distinct racial forms have evolved which look different from each other, especially when comparing forms at the extremes of its range." "The common raven (Corvus corax) is a large all-black passerine bird. It is the most widely distributed of all corvids, found across the Northern Hemisphere. It is a raven known by many names at the subspecies level; there are at least eight subspecies with little variation in appearance, although recent research has demonstrated significant genetic differences among populations from various regions. It is one of the two largest corvids, alongside the thick-billed raven, and is possibly the heaviest passerine bird; at maturity, the common raven averages 63 centimetres (25 inches) in length and 1.47 kilograms (3.2 pounds) in mass. Although their typical lifespan is considerably shorter, common ravens can live more than 23 years in the wild. Young birds may travel in flocks but later mate for life, with each mated pair defending a territory." - wikipedia."
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Post by armenin2000 on Aug 28, 2024 18:44:36 GMT
The city of Odintsovo, Moscow region .Urban Morphogenesis Street Art Festival. In total, more than 100 author's murals appeared in Odintsovo in August 2019 alone, each of which can rightfully be called a unique work of art.
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Post by armenin2000 on Aug 28, 2024 19:09:43 GMT
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Post by Linda on Sept 1, 2024 17:25:03 GMT
Maxicards of Mount Fuji combining various matching stamps with the pictorial cancel offered at Japan’s highest post office that is located half way on the hiking trail to the summit of Mount Fuji. For swvl , dorincard , david , anilkhemlani , carabop . [Date of cancellation: 14 August 2024.]
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Post by Linda on Sept 1, 2024 17:44:00 GMT
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Post by Linda on Sept 1, 2024 17:45:38 GMT
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Post by armenin2000 on Sept 4, 2024 18:23:49 GMT
27.08.2024.№ 3313-3316. The architectural heritage of Russia. Caucasian Mineral Waters Caucasian Mineral Waters is a group of resorts of federal importance in the Stavropol Territory, a specially protected ecological resort region of the Russian Federation. Kislovodsk (817-1063 m) is located above all resorts, the rest are located at approximately the same height: Essentuki — along the Podkumok River (600-640 m), Pyatigorsk — at the foot of Mount Mashuk (510-630 m), Zheleznovodsk — in the valley between the Beshtau and Zheleznaya mountains, as well as on the slopes at the foot of the latter (600-650 m). The resorts have over 130 mineral springs and large reserves of silt mud of Lake Tambukan and Lake Lysogorsky, which makes the Caucasian Mineral Waters a unique balneological resort. The region is characterized by picturesque natural landscapes and a mountain healing climate. The main specialization is the provision of medical and wellness services, treatment with world—famous waters and mineral mud. I live in Pyatigorsk. The stamps depict architectural monuments 1- Pyatigorsk city .Lermontov baths .1831 (Formerly called Nikolaevsky baths ).
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Post by armenin2000 on Sept 4, 2024 18:36:32 GMT
2 - Kislovodsk .Narzan Gallery .1848. 3 - Essentuki.Gallery above the source No. 17.1858. 4 - Zheleznovodsk .Ostrovsky baths . 1893. The first day was extinguished in Stavropol and Moscow..I decided to do the blanking in the cities themselves. Do you think my decision is right?
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Post by Linda on Sept 7, 2024 13:14:54 GMT
I recently created a set of maxicards about Makoto Shinkai’s 2016 animated hit Your Name using this ‘frame’ stamp set of the same movie. The postmark date chosen is 26 August, when the film was premiered in Japan 8 years ago. As the director’s birthday is 9 Feburary, I can’t create this set on his birthday next year in his hometown because my stamps are only valued at 84 yen. Starting this October, Japan Post will increase the rate to 85 yen for one postmark request. So I thought I better create this set of maxicards before this fall. As for the postmark locations – there were 3 chosen in the end. I didn’t opt for Shikai’s hometown Koumi (Nagano Prefecture) because these cards were not going to be postmarked on his birthday. Instead, I opted for the real-life locations which provide the inspirations for the fictional locations where the story was set. It’s said that the main protagonist lives in the Shinjuku, Tokyo, so the Tokyo scene cards were postmarked in Shinjuku (新宿). It’s harder to pick one location for the Itomori scene. It’s said that the centre of this fictional town was largely based on the modern day Hida City (飛騨市) of Gifu Prefecture, but the rural part of it could be anywhere in the ancient province of Hida (飛騨国), that encompasses the northern part of Gifu Prefecture. After a lengthy research, I found one fukei-in offered in Takayama City (高山市) that shows the traditional farmhouses at「飛騨の里 」(Hida Folk Village) with the name of the ancient kingdom inscribed in the cancel. This pictorial cancel was used in one of the maxicards. The last postmark location I chose is Lake Suwa near the director’s hometown in Nagano Prefecture, which provides the inspiration for Lake Itomori in the story.
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Post by Linda on Sept 7, 2024 13:22:58 GMT
Attack on Titan’s creator Hajime Isayama was born on 29 August in the Oyama-machi of Hita City (Oita Prefecture). I seized this opportunity to create a set of maxicards using two sets of matching 'frame' stamps and Oyama’s pictorial cancel showing Oita Dam. In front of the dam, a sculpture of young Eren, Armin and Mikasa has stood since 2020, exhibiting the same facial expression they had at the moment seeing the titan attacking Wall Maria in the story: It’s as if the dam acts as the wall (although it doesn’t measure 50-meter in height). Maxicards that make use of the Levi stamp: [Levi’s old Special Operations Squad.] [Levi’s new Special Operations Squad.] Maxicards that make use of the Eren stamp: [The two trios.] [This card specially drawn by the manga artist is quite a rarety.] [This is one of the wooden postcards sold at the final exhibition of Attack on Titan.] [This and the following maxicards are from the manga panels that were reproduced as postcards.] The last maxicards make use of the stamps showing corp symbols. The corresponding cards all show the corps symbols clearly: [This drawing is from the iconic scene when Eren first saw the ‘wing of freedom’ on Levi’s uniform.]
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Post by Linda on Sept 7, 2024 15:32:58 GMT
The following maxicards paying tribute to Japan’s poet and novelist Kenji Miyazawa (1896 - 1933) using the commemorative stamp and several pictorial cancels related to him were realised on his birthday, 27 August 2024. The first maxicard was realised in Morioka, where he spent considerable amount of time studying and teaching agriculture. The city is located 45km to the north of his hometown Hanamaki, and is the birthplace of his precessor in poetry, Takuboku Ishikawa (1886 - 1912), who also features on the cancel. The following maxicards were realised in Hanamaki, Miyazawa’s hometown (his birthplace and deathplace as well). The cancels feature some of his most notable works of literature / poetry such as the poem Strong in the Rain, and the novel Night on the Galactic Railroad: The next maxicard makes use a fukei-in that is supposed to show a poetry tablet located in Taneyamagahara (種山高原, which is in the background), a plateau on the top of a mountain that has inspired numerous works of Miyazawa. The poem in question is supposed to be 「牧歌」(lit. ‘Pastoral’). The next two maxicard make use of 2 cancels showing building related to Miyazawa. The first with an airplane shows his family house (if you look closely, you can see the inscription「下ノ畑ニ居リマス」(‘In the field below I am’) which he left on the board to announce his farming retreat: The second cancel shows today’s Kenji Miyazawa Museum, which matches with the image of the card: There is one cancel missing from this year’s collection, because I was stupid enough to forget to fix postage stamps on the return envelope. So my postmarking request was sent back to me uncancelled It’s this cancel that I aimed at getting: It’s supposed to show (though unclearly) Miyazawa’s family house and the tablet on which part of his Introduction to the Art of Farmers was inscribed.
Lastly, I have sent out a questionable postmarking request to a post office that offers a fukei-in that was said to relate to Kenji Miyazawa. This one was confirmed to be wrongly attributed. Instead, it depicts the deer dance (鹿踊り / ししおどり) at Kamabuchi Falls and the landscape around Hanamaki Onsen.
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Post by Linda on Sept 7, 2024 19:10:10 GMT
The image of the this card and this stamp shows Tomonoura (鞆の浦), a port in the Tomo ward of Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The pictorial cancel shows the seascape and a red sea bream for which the area is famous.
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Post by armenin2000 on Sept 9, 2024 19:20:38 GMT
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