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切手趣味週間 << 1971年(昭和46年) 4月19日 >> 2-4-270

Philatelic Week Issued on April 19, 1971 (Showa 46)

Philatelic Week Issued on April 19, 1971 (Showa 46) The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued stamp hobby week stamps in April 1971. This time, "Tsukiji Akashicho" (a picture of a beautiful woman) drawn by Kiyokata Kaburagi was adopted. Kiyokata Kaburagi was an ukiyo-e artist, Japanese painter, and essayist from the Meiji period to the Showa period. He is named alongside Uemura Shoen and Shinsui Ito as a modern Japanese beauty painter. Most of Kiyokata's works are portraits, and many of them depict the customs of Tokyo during the Meiji era.