Japan's horse racing postmark

Japan's racing history is a brief one compared to the countries with which she now competes. From its beginnings in the 1860s there was little stability until the 1930s, when its equivalent to British Classics were established. After the war the importation of the Irish Derby winner Hindostan had a significant effect on the breeding industry ......

The Japan Racing Association (Japanese: 日本中央競馬会 Nippon Chūō Keiba Kai, or JRA) is a public company established to operate Chūō Keiba (中央競馬 Central horse racing) and to manage racecourses, betting facilities, and horse-training facilities.
It was founded in 1954, according to the Horse Racing Law (競馬法 Keiba Hō) and the Japan Racing Association Law (日本中央競馬会法 Nippon Chūō Keiba Kai Hō) and is operated under the strict oversight of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan).

Ribbon Brown Horse Race

1936--2rd Ribbon Brown Horse Race

1937-4rd Ribbon Brown Horse Race

1938-5rd Ribbon Brown Horse Race

1939-6rd Ribbon Brown Horse Race

1942-9rd Ribbon Brown Horse Race



1943-10rd Ribbon Brown Horse Race

A brown ribbon is a type of award given to winners of various contests. At county and state fairs in the United States, a brown ribbon is the award for placing eighth in a contest.[citation needed] In Nazi Germany, the "Brown Ribbon" was an annual July horse race run in Munich from 1934 to 1944.

Japan issued (Chinese Zodiac Characters Greeting) series of stamps

2004.12.1

2005.12.3

2006.12.1

2007.12.3

2008.12.1


2008.12.1





Chinese astrology is the divination of the future from the Chinese calendar, which is based on astronomy, and ancient Chinese philosophy. In particular, it is based on the sexagenary cycle of 60 years that has been documented since at least the time of the Shang Dynasty. This basic cycle has been constructed from two cycles: the 10 heavenly stems (the five elements in their yin and yang forms) and the 12 earthly branches, or the 12-year cycle of animals referred to as the Chinese zodiac. The Chinese animal zodiac also operates on a cycle of months or 'moons' and of hours of the day.

The Chinese zodiac refers to a pure calendrical cycle; there are no equivalent constellations like those of the occidental zodiac. In imperial times there were astrologers who watched the sky for heavenly omens that would predict the future of the state, but this was a quite different practice of divination from the popular present-day methods. It spread to Vietnam, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan, etc.

Chinese Characters
A Chinese character, also known as a Han character (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字; pinyin: Hànzì), is a logogram used in writing Chinese (hanzi), Japanese (kanji), less frequently Korean (hanja), and formerly Vietnamese (hán tự).

However, the written language of the whole China is the same. No matter how different people pronounce, when they write it down, it is the same language!

The elements of forming a Chinese character are three: image(form), sound, and meaning. There are also six principles that used to define and explicate the Characters:
Pictographs
Indicatives
Ideatives
Harmonics
Transmissives
About the postage stamp background seat blank's painting, goes to here to understand--my blog: Japanese postage stamp and plastic arts .

German stamps booklet

Japanese FDC

Issue of new year's greetings mail stamp for 2009
2008,11/4

Today

Hores of the 9th Japan Cup victory (NEW　ZEALAND Stamp booklet)

New Zealand and horse racing are old acquaintances. The first thoroughbred named Figaro arrived in the country in 1840. However, the first recorded race in New Zealand was in 1835 in the Bay of Islands.
The “Sport of Kings” is a well recognised feature of New Zealand life. The big meetings attract huge crowds and generate much excitement with harness racing also making a big impact along with the more established gallops. The horse racing industry that employs tens of thousands of people and New Zealand-bred yearlings attract buyers from around the world and bring in millions of dollars in export earnings annually. Six of the country's more recent crowd-pleasers are featured in this special Racehorses stamp issue.

A special miniature sheet booklet was produced in conjunction with the stamp issue incorporating seven miniature sheets - six of which contained one of the six stamps from the issue with the seventh containing all six of the Racehorse stamps.



Today, I receive Germany's registered mail. I looked at the inside thing carefully, I felt that these 3 materials are useful.

China's New Year"ShengXiao" culture --the Rat

the Special -use stamp for the rat 's marrying in its daughter to a cat

chinese pre-stamped postal card

the Special -use stamp for the rat 's marrying in its daughter to a cat

chinese pre-stamped postal card
Many countries celebrate the New Year on the first of the year.Ancient cultures often celebrated the lunar calendar.The lunar calendar in 2008 is symbolized by the Rat. the 1th animal in 12 animal cycle. such as the rat 's marrying in its daughter to a cat, is a very ancient Chinese story.