R308: Sendai Tanabata Festival |
R309: Souma Nomaoi Festival |
Issue | Summer Festivals in Touhoku | |
Prefecture | Miyagi and Fukushima | |
Date of Issue | 14 May 1999 (Heisei 11) | |
Denomination | 80 yen x 2, (a se-tenant pair of 80 yen) | |
Designs | R308: Sendai Tanabata Festival | R309: Souma Nomaoi Festival |
Quantity | 9,000,000 se-tenant pairs | |
Image Area | 22.5 x 33.0 millimeters | |
Printing | Photogravure in 5 colours | |
Sheet | 20 stamps (two se-tenant pairs x 5) | |
Designer | R308: Oyama Kisaburou | R308: Mito Warabe |
Sold at | Post offices in Touhoku, and the appointed post offices (see the menu page) | |
First Day of Issue Postmark | Sendai Central Post Office | Haramachi Post Office |
Issue | Summer Festivals in Touhoku, Pane |
Price | 800 yen(a se-tenant pair of 80 yen x 5) |
Pane Size | 51.0 x 190.0 millimeters |
Pane | 10 stamps (a se-tenant pair of 80 yen x 5) |
Catalog No. | R309P |
Japanese Stamp Specialized Catalog & SAKURA Catalog numbers are adopted.
R308: Sendai Tanabata Festival is famous for its elaborate decorations. The stamp depicts streamers, folded paper cranes, strips of paper to write Japanese poems on, folding fans, and paper lanterns.
R309: Soma Nomaoi (literally, "wild horse chase") is a festival of traditional armed nights chasing a flag of shrine.