COVER N.106 - JAPAN

Postmark: Shinagawa - Japan - 20.04.22 
Posted on the 20th April; received on the 29th April 2022
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More mail coming in from Japan. A very clean but just as nice cover with one of the latest stamps issued in commemoration of the International Letter week.

And it just had to happen... That I remember, since I started my blog, this is the first time I received a cover with the main stamp being a duplicate of another I have received previously.  Of course the sender had nothing to do with it and I am delighted with his cover just the same, it's just another curio for the record. 

Thanks a lot Tetsuo. Beautiful clean cover and thanks too for the goodies inside!

The stamp being a duplicate, I'll also duplicate what I've written before :-):

Tetsuo 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 Shinagawa,  a ward of the city of Tokyo, that had a population of about 380,000 in 2016.