New Year's Stamps for 2001


N87: Coiled Snake	N88: snake

Issue	New Year's Stamps for 2001
Date of Issue	15 November 2000 (Heisei 12)
Denominations	N87: 50 yen	N88: 80 yen
Quantity	N87: 50,000,000	N88:10,000,000
Designs	N87: Coiled Snake of Jindaiji Dorei	N88: snake of Sasanobori
Image Area	N87: 18.5 x 25.5 millimeters	N88: 21.5 x 25.5 millimeters
Printing	Photogravure in 5 colours
Sheet	N87: 100 stamps (10 x 10)	N88: 20 stamps (4 x 5)
Designers	N87: Maruyama Satoru (public service designer of stamps)	N88: Mimata Mie (public service designer of stamps)
First Day of Issue Postmark	Chofu Post Office (hand-struck one)
First Day of Issue Postmark	Yonezawa Post Office (hand-struck one)

Japanese Stamp Specialized Catalog (JSCA) & SAKURA Catalog numbers are adopted.

(Small Notes for the Issue)
N87: 50 yen New Year's stamp for 2001 depict the unglazed clay bells of Jindaiji. The characteristics of the Jindaiji Dorei (unglazed clay bells) is its naive colors and patterns, which are now made by Baba Kikuo.
N88: 80 yen New Year's stamp for 2001 depict snake of Sasanobori, which is a folk wooden toy of more than one thousand and some hundred years of tradition. The characteristics of Sasanobori is its wild simplicity.

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