Japan – Page 4 – Global Postcard Sales

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Nikko, Kirifuri Waterfall
We are embarrassed to admit we do not know the correct term(s) to describe this card accurately. Bear with us. It has a message on the reverse and was likely mailed in an envelope: no sign of stamp or postmark. The card itself is on extremely heavy stock that almost looks embroidered, or like tree bark. (We said we didn’t know.) Try to imagine a card that almost looks like needlepoint, but not as thick. The maker is “Numai” and there is some Japanese printed on the front but search engines were no help. Grade: 4

Code: 20311128
Price: $14.00
Lake Kawaguchi, autumn scene near Fuji View Hotel
We’re not sure what to make of this card P7767. Printed in U.S.A., otherwise unattributed, definitely unused, and could almost be in Vermont. But it’s not. Grade: 1

Code: 20311129
Price: $3.00
Fuji from the Southwest
Similar to card 20311129, this one (P7766) is something of a mystery. Maybe the card was made for U.S. Forces? Grade: 1

Code: 20311130
Price: $3.00
Kyoto, bamboo
The exact caption: Bamboo, Sagano, Kyoto. This card was mailed in 2011 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20311132
Price: $3.00
Nippon Charter Cruise, Fuji Maru
Mailed in 2011 with three different stamps, mostly legible postmark, and address and blue trilingual airmail sticker affixed. Grade: 2

Code: 20311133
Price: $5.00
Mt. Fuji
Nice contemporary view of Fuji-san on a card mailed in 2011 with large stamp and full postmark. Address label affixed. Grade: 3

Code: 20311134
Price: $4.00
Osaka
You need to be able to read Japanese to know this is a card of Osaka–or you just need to recognise the city. Unused, there is a large orange logo of sorts stamped in the message area, almost certainly before the card was sold. Grade: 1

Code: 20311135
Price: $9.00
Tokyo, Street Scene
This card was produced in the USA for sale there (otherwise, no need to say Tokyo is in Japan), and indeed the card was mailed in 1910 in Indiana with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20311136
Price: $15.00
Kyoto (folio)
This is a folio of eight different views in and around Kyoto, all unused. The cards could be sent individually, as normal, or altogether in this wrapper. If you’d like to know what the individual cards are, please ask. Grade: 1

Code: 20311137
Price: $16.00
The three most famous views in Japan
And these three are: Matsushima, Miyajima, and Amano hashi date. Card was mailed in 2011 with three different stamps and full postmarks. Blue trilingual airmail sticker affixed. Grade: 1

Code: 20311139
Price: $6.00
Nikko, Nemuri-no-Neko (Sleeping Cat)
Unused vintage postcard 23, attributed only in Japanese. Grade: 2

Code: 20311140
Price: $6.00
Kobe, Nunobiki Waterfall
Unused old B&W postcard with blue lettering on each side. Grade: 3

Code: 20311141
Price: $5.00
Nikko, Sanjinko Fo Toshugo
Unused, aged card of which the lower left corner tip is torn off but still in the sleeve along with the card–so if you were framing the card, you could repair this. Grade: 5

Code: 20311143
Price: $3.00
Kobe, Recreation Ground
Unused, aged and vintage postcard. Grade: 3

Code: 20311144
Price: $5.00
Russo-Japanese War memorial cannon at Ise-jingu Naiku garden
Many thanks to Keiko for the identification and translation. Unused, vintage postcard presumably postdating the actual conflict which took place in 1904 and 1905. B&W, with blue lettering. Grade: 2

Code: 20311145
Price: $6.00
Kobe, Stone Steps at Moon Temple
Beautiful old unused card, attributed only in Japanese. Look closely in all the B&W, and you’ll see one person sitting halfway up the steps, on the right, carrying a red bundle. It also seems like one other person nearby has some red clothes. So odd. Grade: 1

Code: 20311146
Price: $7.00
The Cannon-ball of Ohato Nagasaki
If we had time, we would run all of these through a search engine and give you capsule summaries. But scanning and entering are more important right now. Unused, heavily aged card. Grade: 3

Code: 20311147
Price: $6.00
Kagoshima, The graves of Nansyu Saigo and etc. (sic)
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 20311148
Price: $5.00
Kyoto, Kinkakuji (The Golden Pavilon)
Unused B&W card with blue lettering. Grade: 2

Code: 20311149
Price: $3.00
Nagoya Castle
Unused, vintage B&W postcard with blue lettering. Grade: 2

Code: 20311150
Price: $5.00
Kyoto, Sanjusangendo 1000-armed Kannon
1000 heads: all the better to witness the suffering of humans, and help rectify that suffering. Unused B&W vintage postcard with red lettering. Grade: 1

Code: 20311151
Price: $6.00
Kyoto Kinkaku of Gankasui
Long after this photo was taken, much happened here. Google it. Meanwhile, just know this is an unused card with lower left corner tip torn away. Grade: 4

Code: 20311152
Price: $4.00
The Corridor of Shrine Miyazima
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 20311153
Price: $4.00
Aki, View of Matsubara Itsukushima
Now if you do decide to Google the printed caption, note that the correct (international) spelling is as we have it in our caption, not what’s on this unused old card. Grade: 2

Code: 20311154
Price: $3.00
Kyoto, Miyako Hotel
Two of these cards are available, differing only in the colour of the lettering on the front. One is dark brown, the other is golden. Either way, we did some searching and were not able to determine whether this is the same as what is now the New Miyako Westin; if it is, Kyoto has certainly grown. Since the Westin is said to be 200+ years old (in prior incarnations), it may well be the same. Anyway … our two cards are unused, very old, and Grades: 2

Code: 20311155
Price: $6.00
Kyoto, Yasaka Temple
Unused, old, highly atmospheric card. Grade: 1

Code: 20311156
Price: $4.00
The Shinkyo at Nikko
Unused. Grade: 2

Code: 20311157
Price: $3.00
Aomori Nebuta Festival
The sub-caption reads “Excellent color photograph,” and we agree. We love the intensity of this card, mailed in 2011 with two different stamps, mostly readable postmark, and airmail label affixed. Grade: 1

Code: 20311158
Price: $3.00
Yokohama, Sakaicho-dori
Just for fun, we Googled this too. That really didn’t work! So instead of explaining, we tell you it’s an unused vintage postcard, Grade: 3

Code: 20311159
Price: $6.00
Yokohama, Motomachi-dori
Mailed from the U.S.S. Glacier in 1910, with a one-cent US stamp, by a sailor named Bill who–we have come to learn–was a real ladies’ man. This is one of those cards crying out to tell its story. You want to try? Grade: 3

Code: 20311160
Price: $11.00
Tokyo, Cherry Blossom at Uyeno Park
Just continue reading from the previous card. It’s Bill again in 1910. Stamp and partial postmark, heavily aged card. Grade: 3

Code: 20311161
Price: $10.00
Tokyo, Yasukini Shrine
Before World War II, before modern-day rivalries and disputes, this shrine existed in what is now central Tokyo. No further comment about this unused postcard. Grade: 3

Code: 20311162
Price: $8.00
Chiuzenji (Ojiri Bridge) Nikko
Unused, old and heavily handled card where the leaves of two trees are unaccountably red. Grade: 3

Code: 20311163
Price: $4.00
Hakone, Villa of the Mikado
Unused old card. Grade: 3

Code: 20311164
Price: $3.00
Tokyo, Monument of Count Goto at Shiba
We don’t understand this penchant for little bits of red in the cards, but red has as much right to exist as green or blue so we won’t complain. This unused card shows a statue of Count Goto, about whom we knew nothing until we learned this from a book by Craig and Gilbert: Count Shimpei Goto was Japan’s Foreign Minister in 1918 but one of his claims to fame was having organised the South Manchurian Railway Company as its first president in 1907. Goto also wanted Siberian exploration, studied medicine, and was special friends with Russia and Germany. It goes on from there, but we’ll stop here. Grade: 2

Code: 20311165
Price: $6.00
Mountain scene
Was this to be Mt. Fuji? We don’t know, there’s no obvious caption. Two things are unusual about this card, which was mailed (with stamp and postmark) in the 40th year of that Emperor’s reign: (1) the card seems not to be made of ordinary paper, but of a kind of bark or fabric or something we can’t identify; and (2) the handwriting. Grade: 3

Code: 20311166
Price: $9.00
Tokyo, Asakusa Park
Street scene, of the day, on this unused card. Grade: 3

Code: 20311167
Price: $6.00
Yokohama, Cherry Blossom Noge Hill
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 20311168
Price: $6.00
Tokyo, Cherry Blossom at Mukojima
Unused and very old. Grade: 2

Code: 20311169
Price: $8.00
Yokohama, Oriental Hotel
Unused, tinted card notable for its lack of traffic. Grade: 3

Code: 20311170
Price: $12.00

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