Monday, 8 October 2018

Japanese Stamps

I have been trying to locate some Japanese stamps in the SGSOTW.  Stamps always have clues to help track them down in the catalog but what if the language is Cyrillic, Kanji or Runes.  I tried using the phone live translation app but Japanese is not available. I pointed it at a Spanish stamp and sure enough the words appeared in English.  I found a website called Yandex which worked well.  You simply drag the stamp image to the website page then scroll over the Kanji and English magically appears. The problem is those Japanese don't place the year it was released on the stamp. There is a big heading often with the same four characters telling you this is a postage stamp (Nippon Mail). Then down below they might say the prefecture name.

Normal Stamp


Translated 

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