COVER N.78 - JAPAN

Postmark: Gamagori, Aichi 14FEB22 (?)
Posted on the 14th February; received on the 3rd March
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Another rather nice air mail envelope,  addressed in a beautiful handwriting fell into my letterbox today. Thank you so much Shouzi!

Shouzi used one stamp of the five stamp set (denominated at 7, 70, 90, 110 and 130 Yen) issued on 08OCT2021 to celebrate the International Letter Writing Week, thus continuing a long standing tradition of the Japanese Post of celebrating this event with the emission of a stamp set.

The international Letter Writing week takes its roots in the 14th Congress of the Union Postale Universelle, held in Ottawa, Canada, when the following recommendation wad adopted by its members:

“The Fourteenth Congress of the Universal Postal Union urges all member countries of the Union to consider the possibility of making the week in which 9 October falls [International Postal Day] International Letter Writing Week. It expressed the formal opinion that the United Nations and specialized agencies, whose aims and objects coincide with those to be achieved by the said International Week, should assist effectively in introducing it. “quote taken from https://stampaday.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/world-post-day-international-letter-writing-week/"

The Japanese 2021 International letter writing week stamp set honours none other than the great Japanese master of the woodblock printing technique Katsushika Hokusai, the stamps reproducing five of its many masterpieces. The one on the 110 Yen stamp on my cover is called "Across the Tatekawa and Honjo District"

The postmark indicates that the letter was mailed from the city of Gamagori, located  in the Prefecture of Aichi, Island of Honchu, with a population of about 80,000.