Tsumago and Magome


R329: Tsumago	R330: Magome

Issue	Tsumago and Magome
Prefecture	Nagano
Date of Issue	16 July 1999 (Heisei 11)
Denomination	80 x 2, se-tenant pair
Designs	R329: Tsumago	R330: Magome
Quantity	9,950,000 se-tenant pairs
Image Area	25.0 x 33.5 millimeters, vertical
Printing	Photogravure in 2 colours and intaglio one colour
Sheet	20 stamps (4 x 5)
Designer	R329: Sasaki Shin'ichi (Photographer)	R330: Kobayashi Keiichi (Photographer)
Sold at	Post offices in Shin'etsu, and the appointed post offices (see the menu page)
First Day of Issue Postmark	Tsumago Post Office

Japanese Stamp Specialized Catalog (JSCA) and SAKURA Catalog numbers are adopted.

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Originally, these se-tenant stamps were issued on 1 May, 1990, by 62 yen for each denomination (R71-R72). Now they are issued again by the denomination of 80 yen each.
Tsumago and Magome are two of the old post stations in Nakasendou, which is also known as Kiso Kaidou or Kisoji. Nakasendou was one of five main highways directly controlled by the Tokugawa shogunate durinhg the Edo period (1600-1868). With 67 post stations along its 500-kilometer (310-mile) route, this road started at NIhonbashi, the bridge in Edo (present Tokyo) where all highways converged, passed through the mountains of central Japan, and ended at Kyoto after joining the Tokaido at Kusatsu (in present Shiga). In contrast to the heavily travelled Tokaido, the mountainous Nakasendo had little traffic.