Cultural Leaders Issued on November 4, 1999 (Heisei 11)
On November 4, 1999, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued three types of cultural stamps (Vol. 8). Novelist Yasunari Kawabata, ukiyo-e artist Hokusai Katsushika, and Japanese painter Uemura Shoen. Yasunari Kawabata is a writer who stands at the top of Japanese literature, which was active from the Taisho era to the prewar and postwar eras. His masterpieces are "The Izu Dancer" and "Snow Country", and Katsushika Hokusai, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a representative ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period. His representative works include "Thirty-six Views of Tomitake" and "Hokusai Manga", and he is a world-famous painter. Uemura Shoen has left behind many elegant Japanese paintings such as "Introduction Dance," "Sunny Day," and "Yukigetsu Hana," which are Japanese painters from the Meiji to Showa eras. She was the first woman to receive the Order of Culture in 1948.