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Philatelic Week Issued on April 20, 1983 (Showa 58)

Philatelic Week Issued on April 20, 1983 (Showa 58) The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued stamp hobby week stamps in April 1983. This time, Utamaro Kitagawa's "Kitchen Bijin" was adopted. Utamaro Kitagawa was a representative ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, and devised a composition centered on the face, omitting the body of the bijin-ga, which had been drawn with the whole body, by omitting the background and sprinkling muscovite. The 1955 stamp hobby weekly stamp "Young Lady Blowing Bidro" is also a work of Utamaro Kitagawa.