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Thanks for everyone’s help!  Complete 2017 collection!  (...I switched Aichi and Shizuoka, oops...)

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OUTGOING💌📮🔜🇰🇷 A newly released Mailbox cards🐰💝🍭💛💙🐙✏️🌸 どうしてタコなのかを説明する英語力が欲しい🐙 ・ #日本郵便#ポスタコレクト#ポスト型はがき#切手#包装#ラッピング #japanpost#postacollect#mailboxcard#stamp#wrapping#wrappinggifts#outgoing #우표#우편#포장

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When you drive 1.5 hrs get to the post office & you realized their closed

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My 100th Gotochi card!

I am so happy I just received the three cards from Ishikawa prefecture which brings my postacollect total to 100!

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Rivalry Part 2: Yamanashi #2 - Takeda Shingen (武田信玄)

Rivalry Part 2: Yamanashi #2 – Takeda Shingen (武田信玄)

Once again if you didn’t see the last post, Uesugi Kenshin was the daimyo of Echigo province, and Takeda Shingen the daimyo of Kai Province, which are now the modern-day prefectures of Niigata and Yamanashi. I already detailed their rivalry yet honor toward each other in my last post. Takeda died before Uesugi, and it is said that Kenshin cried at the loss of such a warrior. His accomplishments…

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Rivalry Part 1: Niigata #3 - Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信)

Yamanashi vs Niigata: The rivalry of Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen

Postacollect Gotochi postcards usually depict famous goods, foods, or places, but of the 282 current cards, 10 feature famous people from the prefectures (11 if you count the folklore legend Momotaro from Okayama). My next posts will introduce two of these: Niigata’s Uesugi Kenshin (1530-1578) and Yamanashi’s Takeda Shingen (1521-1573). These two were both daimyo (warlords) in the Sengoku…

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Chiba #5: Edamame (枝豆)

Chiba #5: Edamame (枝豆) & #6: Boshu Fans (��州うちわ)

My my, where has time gone?! It’s already October, and I’ve missed two weeks of posting! Recently I went to Tokyo for an interview. I barely took any pictures, but I did manage to make my way into Chiba for a brief visit in order to buy two postcards I’m missing. Chiba is a prefecture that everyone knows of, being right next to Tokyo, but is totally and completely eclipsed by it. If you’ve ever…

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Tochigi #3: Gyoza (餃子)

Tochigi #3: Gyoza (餃子)

I had a huge crisis deciding which Tochigi post to write first. On one hand, the fall colors of Nikko are probably pretty much over by now, and I wanted to post about the colors when you could still see them, but on the other, the Gyoza festival was last weekend and it is definitely over even though I’m posting about it now. Decisions, decisions. I finally went with Irohazaka since you can only…

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Tochigi #4 - Ashigaka Gakkou (史跡足利学校)

Tochigi #4 – Ashigaka Gakkou (史跡足利学校)

I’ve been focusing a lot on Tochigi lately, and here is yet another Tochigi postcard, this one featuring the famous Ashikaga School in Ashikaga, Tochigi. Ashikaga Gakkou is Japan’s oldest university, most likely founded in the ninth century, then restored in 1432 by Uesugi Norizane, who imported many Chinese books and brought the school to it’s highest prestige. During the Meiji Period, the…

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Akita #1: Namahage (なまはげ)

Akita #1: Namahage (なまはげ)

Only a few more days until 2015, and I can’t believe the year has gone so fast! Today’s postcard takes us up north to Akita prefecture, whose Namahage demons come out on New Year’s Eve looking for all the children who have been lazy during the year. Will the Namahage come for you? I’m pretty sure I’m out of luck! Like Namahage? This is a great site with lots of information on the origins and…

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Outgoing cards from Matsuyama city♨️🍡 広島は納得やけど、松山からオリジナルポストカードが発売される日がくるなんて思ってもなかったなぁ🤔💭四国支社はヤル気ゼロと聞いとったのに！ #松山限定オリジナルポストカード #ポスタコレクト #日本郵便 #postacollect #outgoing #japanpost

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Incoming from KAGOSHIMA🌋🐽🍠 The new design card from Postacollect. 4年前、私に風景印や郵頼を教えてくれた方より。今回もフォルムカード旅で全国飛び回ってるそう🏣 ポスタコレクトの新作めっちゃいいなぁ！白くまだ🍧 #ポスタコレクト #ポストカード #日本郵便 #postacollect #japanpost #postcard

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Miyazaki #8: Aoshima Shrine (青島神社)

Miyazaki #8: Aoshima Shrine (青島神社)

Tomorrow the new postcards are released into post offices across Japan, so to kick off that exciting event, here’s some information about Miyazaki’s newest postcard, featuring the amazing Aoshima Shrine. The shrine is located on the tiny sand- and tree-covered island of Aoshima, and is surrounded by a unique geological feature called the “Devil’s Washboard” which can be seen at low-tide. It’s…

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Nagano #5: Oyaki (おやき)

Nagano #5: Oyaki (おやき)

Sometimes I go through my old pictures and realize I have postcard pictures I haven’t ever gotten around to posting. You’d think I would be on top of this stuff! Here’s Nagano’s fifth postcard, representing oyaki, a popular regional dumpling made from a buckwheat (soba) dough and stuffed with various vegetable or other fillings, then fried. A friend went to Nagano and brought us back some…

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Hiroshima #3 - Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き)

Hiroshima #3 – Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き)

Okonomiyaki… how to describe this delicious dish? The word means basically “cook it how you like it” and refers to a sort of pancake type thing made with different ingredients depending on, well, what you like! Okonomiyaki is famous in Hiroshima as well as the Kansai region, especially Osaka. Each area has a different style of making it. Instead of mixing it all together like in Osaka, Hiroshima…

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Miyazaki #2: Prefectural Government Building (宮崎県庁舎)

Miyazaki #2: Prefectural Government Building (宮崎県庁舎)

Miyazaki’s second postcard features the prefectural government building in its unique style. It is built in the Neo-Gothic style which was based on castles and buildings in Europe. It was built in 1932 and is the fourth oldest government building in Japan still being used for its original purpose. When I was in Miyazaki due to time constraints the only chance I had to visit was at night, so the…