{"id":43,"date":"2023-02-08T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/?p=43"},"modified":"2023-02-08T21:27:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:27:06","slug":"postday-8th-feb-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/postday-8th-feb-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"PostDay &#8211; 8th Feb 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On this page:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/?p=43#PostcardFukuoka\">A postcard from Fukuoka<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/?p=43#PackageDorking\">A package from Dorking<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/?p=43#Links\">Links<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Postcard-Fukuoka\">Postcard from Fukuoka<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JP-1833755.jpeg?resize=1024%2C719&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Postcard of a Hokusai woodblock print.\" class=\"wp-image-44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JP-1833755.jpeg?resize=1024%2C719&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JP-1833755.jpeg?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JP-1833755.jpeg?resize=768%2C539&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JP-1833755.jpeg?w=1167&amp;ssl=1 1167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) &#8220;Stormy Sea&#8221;, Shimosa, 1833<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the unmistakable style of the great master of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock printing, Hokusai. There are fishing boats like these under the looming <em>Great Wave off Kanagawa<\/em> (1831), from Hokusai&#8217;s masterpiece <em>Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji<\/em>. Here too is the dynamic heave and dip of a great swell, and the coral-like foam of the breakers, as the tiny boats are skilfully guided to surf down the mountainous seas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/StampFromJapan.jpg?resize=450%2C174&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Air mail sticker and Japanese postage stamp\" class=\"wp-image-46\" width=\"450\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/StampFromJapan.jpg?w=564&amp;ssl=1 564w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/StampFromJapan.jpg?resize=300%2C116&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">70 Yen stamp from October 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Hokusai_Yellow-Bird-and-Roses.jpg?resize=363%2C498&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hokusai print of Yellow Bird and Roses of 1834\" class=\"wp-image-56\" width=\"363\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Hokusai_Yellow-Bird-and-Roses.jpg?w=354&amp;ssl=1 354w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Hokusai_Yellow-Bird-and-Roses.jpg?resize=219%2C300&amp;ssl=1 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is always a lovely surprise to receive a postcard from a stranger, through <strong>Postcrossing<\/strong> (see the link below), which I signed up to late last year. I love sending at least as much as I love receiving cards and greetings, but this one from Mina in the city-port of Fukuoka in the South of Japan, is one of my favourites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The modest little 70 Yen stamp used to send this lovely postcard 5,909 miles in 24 days is another masterpiece. It is a detail from Hokusai&#8217;s <em>Yellow Bird Changchun<\/em> (also known as Yellow Bird and Roses) of 1834. This was one of a series of stamps designed by Akira Tamaki | \u7389\u6728 \u660e  and issued on 7th October 2022 for International Letter-Writing Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On today&#8217;s exchange rates, 70 Yen is about 44p. To send a postcard from the UK to Japan by airmail costs \u00a31.85 &#8211; that&#8217;s over 4 times as much! (Surface mail would be \u00a31.60.) Hmmm. I love these exchanges, but it&#8217;s not a cheap hobby, unless you compare it to the price of beer, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"PackageDorking\">Package from Dorking<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/From-Taler55.jpg?resize=765%2C297&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pair of stamps for UK second class letter franking \" class=\"wp-image-45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/From-Taler55.jpg?w=765&amp;ssl=1 765w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/From-Taler55.jpg?resize=300%2C116&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">1986 SG1318\/19 se tenant pair &#8211; 60th Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is just a plain brown reinforced envelope, 16.5 x 11.5 cm. But the use of vintage stamps to make up the 68p second class franking, together with the &#8220;<strong>Please Do Not Bend<\/strong>&#8221; printed in red, hint at treasure inside. And I was not disappointed &#8211; here (some days before I had expected) were two very attractive sets of mint stamps, both issued in Ethiopia in 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first shows musical instruments. This falls into a strong theme from the Ethiopian Postal Service, which has commissioned many designs to show traditional aspects of the variety of minority cultures in the country. The 30c and 50c both feature rattles, one worn round the ankle, from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gambela_Region\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gambella<\/a> which is the Westernmost region of Ethiopia, and the other worn round the waist, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Konso_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Konso<\/a> culture in the somewhat clumsily-named Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples&#8217; Region (SNNPR) in the highly diverse South-West. You can imagine how the swoosh of these rattles enhance the traditional dances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also from Konso is the <em>fanfa<\/em>, which is a type of over-blown &#8220;pan-pipes&#8221;, pictured on the 40c, and is the only non-percussion instrument in this group. Finally, on the 85c stamp is the <em>negareet <\/em>drum which is pictured being played on horseback. It is from the traditional culture of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ginde_Beret\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ginde Beret<\/a> in the highlands of Oromia, just an hour or two West of Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"871\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ETH_1989_1432-1435_instruments.jpg?resize=871%2C511&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Set of four Ethiopian stamps depicting ethnic musical instruments\" class=\"wp-image-47\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ETH_1989_1432-1435_instruments.jpg?w=871&amp;ssl=1 871w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ETH_1989_1432-1435_instruments.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ETH_1989_1432-1435_instruments.jpg?resize=768%2C451&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ethiopia 1989 SG1432\/35 Musical Instruments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second set of stamps are beautiful illustrations of four of the endemic birds of Ethiopia. There are 20 bird species that are endemic to the country. Here we have the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow-fronted_parrot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">yellow-faced parrot<\/a> (on the 10c), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White-winged_cliff_chat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">white-winged cliff chat<\/a> (35c), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow-throated_seedeater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">yellow-throated seed eater<\/a> (50c) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethiopian_oriole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">black-headed forest oriole<\/a> (1 birr). The list does sound like they have been generated by a random bird name algorithm, but there you go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ETH_1989_1440-1443_birds.jpg?resize=705%2C715&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A set of four stamps depicting endemic birds of Ethiopia\" class=\"wp-image-48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ETH_1989_1440-1443_birds.jpg?w=705&amp;ssl=1 705w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grandpops-bookshelf.co.uk\/Cover-Stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ETH_1989_1440-1443_birds.jpg?resize=296%2C300&amp;ssl=1 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ethiopia 1989 SG1440-1443 Birds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Yellow-faced (or Yellow-fronted) parrot and the Yellow-throated seed eater are endangered, due to habitat loss. As we all shall be unless we collectively get our ecologically sustainable heads sorted out pretty soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Links\">Links<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postcrossing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Postcrossing<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;<em>It&#8217;s a project that allows you to send postcards and receive postcards back from random people around the world. That&#8217;s real postcards, not electronic!<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampworld.com\/en\/stamps\/Ethiopia\/Postage%20stamps\/1980-1989?year=1989&amp;user=165217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">StampWorld (Ethiopia 1989)<\/a> &#8211; <em>&#8220;The most complete stamp catalogue in the world&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bittergrounds.com\/the-excellence-of-japans-2022-stamps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bittergrounds &#8211; The excellence of Japan&#8217;s 2022 stamps<\/a> &#8211; Bittergrounds is a lovely site with beautiful feature pages like this &#8211; &#8220;<em>Bittergrounds: espresso, stamps and conversation<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this page: Postcard from Fukuoka This is the unmistakable style of the great master of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock printing, Hokusai. There are fishing boats like these under the looming Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831), from Hokusai&#8217;s masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji. 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