One month has passed since I start organizing Japanese stamps

As I wrote on the blog dated Feb.28th,  I suspended collecting foreign stamps for one monthand start organizing Japanese stamps. All the defenitives including etched stamps, commemoratives and more! I opened many boxes and check many used stamps and covers.


As I have much used ones , I only checked a little, but regarding covers, I have almost understood what kind of covers I have so far. Many philatelists worried about the way to organize covers. Of course I am the one. I find these days Brief Stock Case is a nice substitute of some dust case for A4 clear-file.
The star rank of the item
*****  => exhibition leaf
****  => A4 clear file with dust case
***  => Big Plastic Case
** => put them into box at the storage.









By the way, I studied only Japanese stamps for a month, but it is very exciting to study new theme!! As I reported in my preveous blog posts, I studied especially on Japanese definitives 1899-1907 Chrysanthemum series and it was very interesting because of perforation varieties. I'd like to collect them as sub theme from now.
One of the items and covers I got interested is Japanese Air Mail stamps and covers. As these stamps are already not in use when I start philately in my childhood, they attract me a lot. However some stamps are not so rare and there're many such covers in my collection. Pagoda series 25, 30, 40 and most of the budda series are very common, however I had much fun with those covers because of the variety of cancellations and destinations.
What is most important in my air mail stamp cover is as below. Franking a pair of Ashinoko-lake 18 sen, Mt.Fuji&Deer 4sen equal to 40 sen cover to Austria. Matsukawa P.P.  Aug.26, 1927 (Showa-era 12)  There're sender's address on left and it says this cover came from Pyengyang, Korea.