Northern Animals

R681a	R681b	R681c	R681d

Issue	The Festivals in Tohoku
Prefectures	Aomori, Akita, Yamagata, and Miyagi
First Day	3 July 2006
Quanatity	1,100,000 sets
Denominations	80 yen x 4
Designs	R681a	R681b	R681c	R681d
	Aomori Nebuta Matsuri (Aomori)	Akita Kanto Matsuri (Akita)	Yamagata Hanagasa Matsuri (Yamagata)	Sendai Tanabata Matsuri (Miyagi)
Size	22.5 mm x 27.0 mm
Printing	Offset in 5 colours
Sheet	20 stamps (4 x 5) sheet
Designer	Yamaguchi Akiko (illustrator)

[Note on the Stamps]
The se-tenant strip of four stamps depict the summer festivals in the four Prefectures in Tohoku. The four festivals are held in sequence starting with "Aomori Nebuta," and followed by "Akita Kanto," "Yamagata Hanagasa" and "Sendai Tanabata."