The 150th Birth Anniversary of Makino Tomitaro


C2113a	C2113b	C2113c	C2113d	C2113e

Issue	The 150th Birth Anniversary of Makino Tomitaro
First Day	April 24, 2012
Value	80 yen x 5
Designs	C2113a : Viburnum dilatatum
	C2113b : Tricyrtis ishiiana
	C2113c : Himekirinso
	C2113d : Calypso bulbosa
	C2113e : Stigmatodactylus sikokianus
Designer	Hoshiyama Ayaka (stamp designer)
Printing	Offset in 6 colors
Size	25.0mm x 35.5mm vertical
Sheet	10 stamps (2 x 5)	Sheet

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

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(Small Notes for the issue)

The stamps are issued to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Makino Tomitaro (1862-1957), Father of Japanese Botany. He collected more than 400,000 specimens in 94 years of his life, and named more than 1,500 species. The stamps depict five plant paintings he had illustrated.