Kenji Nakano, Author at Korea Stamp Society

Japanese Offices in Korea Double-Circle Date Stamps (1876-1888)

August 21, 2021May 2, 2021 Kenji Nakano86Leave a Comment

This is a collection of date stamps used in Japanese Offices in Korea from 1876 to 1888. During this period the first type of CDS, “double-circle date stamps”, was used at Busan (or “Fusan” in Japanese), Wonsan (or “Gensan”), and Incheon (or “Ninsen”). The Japanese-language version of this exhibit was shown at JAPEX 2019 and […]

1925 cover with company seal

July 22, 2020March 31, 2020 Kenji Nakano5851 Comment

This cover, franked with a Japanese 3-sen definitive (Scott 131) tied with a comb-style cancellation KEIJO/14.7.16 (July 16, Taisho 14 (1925))/6-9 p.m., was sent to Mr. TAKEDA Chobei and Co. in Osaka, Japan, from the Keijo (Seoul) Branch (”京城支店” in rear lower center) of FUJISAWA Tomokichi (“藤澤友吉”), a precursor store of Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd. […]

Japanese machine cancellation for New Year used in Korea (1936-1940)

October 3, 2019October 2, 2019 Kenji Nakano848Leave a Comment

Like elsewhere in imperial Japan and its dependencies, machine cancellations for New Year were used for 1936, 1937, and 1938 (Showa 11, 12 and 13). Shown are postcards in my exhibit “Cancellations of Japanese Offices in Korea (1876-1945)” to JAPEX 2019, scheduled for November 15-17, 2019, in Tokyo. The ones for 1936 and 1937 are […]