Men of Culture

C1770:
Kawabata Yasunari
(1899-1972)
C1771:
Katsushika Hokusai
(1760-1849)
C1772:
Uemura Shoen
(1875-1949)


IssueMen of Culture
Date of Issue4 November 1999 (Heisei 11)
Denomination80 yen x 3
QuantityC1770:
18,000,000 copies		C1771:
18,000,000 copies		C1772:
18,000,000 copies
DesignsC1770:
Kawabata Yasunari
(1899-1972)
"Izu-no odoriko"		 C1771:
Katsushika Hokusai
(1760-1849)
"Kanagawa-oki namiura"		 C1772:
Uemura Shoen
(1875-1949)
"Jo-no mai"
Image Areas28.0 x 38.5 millimeters 25.0 x 35.5 millimeters 26.5 x 38.5 millimeters
PrintingPhotogravure in 4 colours and intaglio in one colour Photogravure in 5 colours and intaglio in one colour Photogravure in 5 colours and intaglio in one colour
Sheet10 stamps (2 x 5) 10 stamps (2 x 5) 10 stamps (2 x 5)
PhotographersKakinuma Kazuo Domon Ken
DesignersYamamoto Hideo Aoki Gishou Oikawa Shigeru
First Day of
Issue Postmark		Honjo Post Office
Kawatsu Post Office
Kyoto Central Post Office
Japanese Stamp Specialzed Catalog (JSCA) & SAKURA Catalog stamps are adopted.
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(Small Notes for the Issue)

C1770: Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972), a novelist; the only Japanese to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature (1968).
C1771: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), he was one of the representative painters in Japan. He entered the studio of ukiyoe painter Katsukawa Shunsho. After the death of his teacher Shunsho in 1792, he studied paintings of Rimpa and other schools and established his own style. Hokusai's celebrated series of landscape prints the Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji begun to appear by 1831.
C1772: Uemura Shoen (1875-1949), a painter; famous for her paintings of beautiful women.