Four Seasons of Kenrokuen Garden

R288: Kaisekitou Pagoda	R289: Fountain	R290: Kinjou-reitaku spring	R291: Kotoji stone lantern and yukitsuri

Issue	Four Seasons of Kenrokuen Garden
Prefecture	Ishikawa
Date of Issue	26 April 1999 (Heisei 11)
Denomination	80 yen x a se-tenant strip of four stamps
Designes	R288:Kaisekitou Pagoda in Spring	R289:Fountain in Summer	R290:Kinjou-reitaku spring in Autumn	R291:Kotoji stone lantern and yukitsuri in Winter
Quantity	7,000,000 sets
Image Area	22.5 x 33.0 millimeters
Printing	Photogravure in 5 colours
Sheet	20 stamps (se-tenant strip of 4 stamps x 5)
Designer	Kawamura Kaku (Oil Painter)
Sold at	Post offices in Hokuriku, and the appointed post offices (see menu page)
First Day of Issue Postmark	Kanazawa Central Post Office

Four Seasons of Kenrokuen Garden, Souvenir Sheet

Issue	Four Seasons of Kenrokuen Garden, Souvenir Sheet Picture of the Sheet
Price	320 yen (80 yen x a se-tenant strip of four stamps)
Sheet Size	137.5 x 93.5 millimeters
Sheet	a se-tenant strip of four stamps
Catalog No.	R291A

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

R288: Kaisekitou Pagoda in Spring, the stone pagoda is standing in a small island in Hisagoike pond in the garden. Its height is 4.1 meters.
R289: Fountain in Summer, the spring is believed to be the oldest fountain in Japan.
R290: Kinjou-reitaku spring in Autumn, the spring has never been dried up even in drought and has never been muddy even in terrible rain.
R291: Kotoji stone lantern and yukitsuri (protecttive ropes for tree) in Winter, since the stone lantern looks like kotoji, bridge for Japanese harp, it is called by the name.