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切手趣味週間 << 1968年(昭和43年) 4月20日 >> 2-4-225

Philatelic Week Issued on April 20, 1968 (Showa 43)

Philatelic Week Issued on April 20, 1968 (Showa 43) Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued stamp hobby week commemorative stamp in April 1968. This time, Tsuchida Bakusen's "Maiko Hayashisen" was adopted. Tsuchida Bakusen was born in Niigata Prefecture in 1887. He studied under Takeuchi Seiho after working at Suzuki Shonen Juku.He entered Kyoto City University of Arts in 1909, pursuing the harmony between Western and Japanese paintings, and painted works with intellectual beauty and inner character.