All the best Articles on Japanese Philately written in English

No one complains the fundamental guideline to start philately is literature.

As the philatelic market in internal Japan used to be big enough for stamp dealers, auction houses, and philatelic publications, they don't give any information in English.

As STAMPEDIA, however, thought it'll be a shrink in the next decade, and it really did, we start publishing a bilingual philatelic magazine called STAMPEDIA PHILATELIC JOURNAL in 2011.

Since then, some changes occur in a certain area of Japanese philately, while the other not. Today I'd like to show all the best articles written in English for Japanese Philately.

What is important is almost all of these articles have been written by the FIP exhibitors by himself, though they're translated by other philatelists except in some cases.




Classical Period 

         The name of the article,     Writer,     The magazine having this article

• Etched Stamps(1871-1876) Shin-ichi Chiba [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2011]
• Iverted 500 Mon Dragon, Where It Came from and Where to Go? Yuji YAMADA [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2018]
• “YO” of Egg-brown-6 ; The New Discovery, 7th found Takashi Yoshida [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2012]
• JAPAN Definitive Stamps 1876-1879, Koban Series Mitsuhiro SHITARA [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2014]

Semi-Classic Period

• Difficulty of Collecting Blocks of U-Koban & New Koban Series and its Importance Kazuyuki Inoue [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2012]
• JAPAN DEFINITIVE 1899-1908 issue Yukihiro NAKAGAWA [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2016]
• JAPAN DEFINITIVES 1913-1937, Tazawa Series Yuji YAMADA [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2017]
• Plate Classification of Earthquake Emergency issue, Osaka Printing Tatsutoshi Kamakura [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2015]
• Usage of Early Commemorative Postcards Yasuharu AMANO [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2014]

Modern Period

• Japan Definitives – Highlight for collecting The “Vocational Series” Nobuhiro SUDANI [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2013]
• Japan Definitives 1950-51 “Animal, Plant & National Treasure 1st series” Haruna Yamaji [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2012]
• Making of 10 Yen Japanese Deer Stamp Design Toru SAI [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2014]
• Entire of A Proof Masato Inoue [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2011]

Ryukyu

• Ryukyu Stamps Collection(Mainly Provisional Stamps) Tsukasa Ishizawa [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2011]
• Study of Ryukyu Provisional Dollar Issue Yusuke KIDO [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2018]

Military Mails

• Tips for Collecting Military Mails of the Sino-Japanese War Jun-ichi TAMAKI [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2014]
• The RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR Kenneth G. Clark [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2012]

Postal History

• Postal History of the Japanese Prompt Delivery Kenzaburo IKEDA [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2013]
• Recent Topics on Studies Concerning the Japanese Postal History of Prompt Delivery Kenzaburo IKEDA [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2017]
• Postal History of Printed Matters in Japan Kunihiro GYOTOKU [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2013]
• Overview of International Mails at Reduced Rate 1947-1959 Tomoyuki IWASAKI [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2016]

Marcophily

• Roman Letter Machine Cancellation of Japan, Its Overview and Rare Examples Takashi Yoshida [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2015]
• "ADVERTISED" Candellations in Japan - from Early Double-Circle Type to Oval Type Tomoyuki IWASAKI [Stampedia Philatelic Journal 2017]

Eight years has passed

It has been eight years since I last posted, and I enjoyed philately a lot, by meeting new friends and old friends at various stamp exhibitions during the period.

I used to be a general collector, but I became specialized in classic Germany and Switzerland nowadays and exhibited several times on the globe. I also build a new philatelic society in Japan to promote philately.

So with resuming my blog, I'd like to change the theme of this blog to promoting Japanese philately. Though I'm not a specialist of Japanese philately, I can introduce many Japanese top philatelic topics, because I'm a publisher of STAMPEDIA PHILATELIC JOURNAL.

Japan is one of the most interesting countries to collect stamps and making collections, however, no literature has been published before the publication of the STAMPEDIA PHILATELIC JOURNAL.

It's not easy for a philatelist whose mother tongue is not Japanese to collect Japanese stamps, as there are only a few works of literature in English.

All color bilingual philatelic magazine; STAMPEDIA PHILATELIC JOURNAL. changed this situation, as it's written both in English and Japanese.

However, digital method is also selected to promote the fascination of Japanese philately with a more flexible way to tell the information.

Soaking Japanese etched stamps and telegraph stamps

I've not soak almost any stamps since I re-start philately as there're many off-paper stamps on sale on the stamp market, however sometims I have to do soak for example when I found some of Thurn&taxis mint block are sticked to the other block or when I found Japanese old stamps with ugly backside with hinge or old papers.
So whenever I try soaking, I'm very serious because I do it with not cheap stamp but with stamps valued around $10 and more.

The shown is Japanese telegraph stamp 15 sen issued in 1885. which was with dirty backside before the soaking. It was in bad condition, however I'd like to hold it to check the manufacturing point. Yes I got interested in Japanese etched stamps recently.

 

EUROPEX 2013 held in Tokyo on Jan.19-20 2013

We're going to have  First Europe Stamp Exhibition during 19th and 20th Jan. 2013.

This is a non-competitive stamp show of European Stamps which we host annualy and this is the first time. The theme of the exhibition of this year is the Black Sea and Stamps of 7 countries around the Black Sea are exhibited such as Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine.

 

I've been opening the stamp market.

Today I opened a stand at a stamp fleamarket at Asakusa, Tokyo and sell Stampedia Philatelic Journal, both edition of 2011 and 2012.
I heard from my friends Mr.Yosuke Naito that literatures are not popular in this fleamarket, however I sold more than ten copies in three hours, so I'm happy with the result.I appreciate all the people coming to our stand and get our magazine.
There're some people who only buy last year edition as he bought this year edition this month. So I feel it is important to publish such kinds of philatelic magazine continuously. Of course we'll publish 2013 EDITION to make you satisfy.

Stampedia Philatelic Journal gets Vermail at SHARJAH 2012 FIAP show.

We'd like to report that "Stampedia Philatelic Journal" gets Vermail at the literature division of the SHARJAH2012, FIAP show, held in UAE.

Though we got the same medal at PHILANIPPON2011 last summer, we're very happy to have this medal as it is held far from Japan. 

We're going to exhibit it at those exhibition; All Japan Stamp Exhibition 2013, Australia2013, Bangkok2013, Brazil2013 and Japex13.

I think we could improve our level by getting some advice of the judges. 

Mini stamp show of JP occupied area in S.E. asia

We'll have a mini stamp show of JP occupied area in S.E. asia during 21st and 23rd Nov. 2012 at Stamp museum in Mejiro, Tokyo.
I exhibit 3 frames (48 leaves) this time and as it is not a competition based on FIP rule, I make the exhibit work as I like to show by myself.The title means "the stamps overprinted later in JP occupied area in S.E. asia" and I showed all the stamps but 10 missing in mint condition. I also showed the overprinted stamps but as there're too many varieties, I only showed some of them.
I'll be in the mini stamp show on 23rd, why not come to our show? I'll exhibit this work on stampedia exhibition soon, however I'd like to show some leaves here.