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| R660a | R660b | R660c | R660d | 
| Issue | Flowers of Hokkaido | |||
| Prefecture | Hokkaido | |||
| First Day | 26 April 2005 | |||
| Quantity | 3,500,000 sets | |||
| Value | 50 yen x 4, se-tenant strip of 4 | |||
| Designs | R660a - Sweetbrier | |||
| R660b - Lavender | ||||
| R660c - Cowslip | ||||
| R660d - Lily of the valley | ||||
| Size | 22.5 x 27.0 mm, vertical | |||
| Printing | Photogravure in 5 colors | |||
| Sheet | R660: 20 stamps (4 x 5) | |||
| Designers | R660a - Maehashi Yasuhiro (illustrator) | |||
| R660b - Tanaka Kouzou (illustrator) | ||||
| R660c - Tanaka Kouzou (illustrator) | ||||
| R660d - Maehashi Yasuhiro (illustrator) | ||||
| Printer | National Printing Bureau | |||
[Note on the Stamps]
The stamps depict the flowers in Hokkaido. Sweetbrier is the flower of Hokkaido. Lavender is the flower of Naka-Furano-cho and other three towns. Cowslip is the flower of Shibetsu City and Hamatonbetsu Town. Lily of the valley is the flower of Sapporo City and other fourteen towns.