Another Japanese card

This is a card from my friend Tomoko. I have a few cards with cherry blossom and Japanese temples, but they all are different and very beautiful. So I'm happy to add this one to my collection.

Tokyo

This amazing urban nightview I've got from Yoshinori. Thanks a lot!
Japanese people are so sweet! Youshinori wrote me "Hello!" in Ukrainian! I was really surprised! It was very nice from him:)

Ten-don

This yummy card came from my friend Tomoko. Thank you!
Ten-don is a domburi dish in which freshly-fried tempura is placed on top of rice in a china bowl and covered with soy-based sauce. The tempura most often used for this dish is prawn.

Hello Kitty in kimono

A card from my favorites, from Yuki. Lovely, like Hello Kitty.

Audrey Hepburn

And it was not less excited to receive a card with Audrey Hepburn! Thank you, Chiaki!
Audrey is amazing and charming, she is a true beauty, plus I LOVE movies with her! My favourite is Roman holidays, and My fairy lady is on the 2nd place. And yours?

Cherry blossom

Absolutely magnificent card from "paper" (don't know the real name, sorry). All these cards with cherry blossom look so great! Just stunning...

Multiviews from Japan

And these cards are from Tomoko. On the first card:
Left up: "Shin-Kansen" rail-way and mt. Fuli.
Left down: Maiko-girls (Kioto)
Right up: Kinkaku-ji temple (Kyoto)
Right down: High-way in capital Tokyo Bay area



On the second card:
Left up: Akihabara shopping square
Left down: Imperial Palace "Chiyoda-Jo" castle
Right up: Main gate of "Senso-Ji" temple
Right down: Tokyo station

Himeji Castle

This is a card from Japan, I received it from Junko.
"Himeji Castle is also called the Shirasagi (Snowy Heron). The restoring work of the castle-donjon, which is designated as a national treasure, was completed in June, 1964"

Kobe

Amazing card from Tomoko.

Kobe is the sixth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture and a prominent port city in Japan with a population of about 1.5 million. The city is located in the Kansai region of Japan and is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area. Kobe is classified as one of Japan's seventeen designated cities.
Kobe was one of the first cities to open for trade with the West following the end of the policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city. While the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake diminished much of Kobe's prominence as a port city, it remains Japan's fourth busiest container port.

Hello Kitty!

Hello Kitty cards are also very populard among the postcrossers. And not just cards (magnets and othet stuff), and not just among postcrossers:) Hello Kitty is a world superstar.
Hello Kitty is the character of Japanese pop-culture, a small white cat into a simplified drawing. Invented by the company Sanrio in 1974 and receorded in 1976, Hello Kitty is used as a brand for many products, became the main hero of the same cartoon. Hello Kitty toys are popular souvenirs in Japan and all around the world.
Kitten Kitty has been invented in 1974 by Shintaro Tsudzi, the owner of Japanese toy company Sanrio. Once he decided to create a new character, who would like to everybody. As a result of a long work Tsudzi made a perfect hero. Today brand "Hello Kitty!" has about half a million dollars of income annually.
There were doubts about the name of a kitten. Her creator chose between "Hello Kitty" and "Kitty White" (that was a name of one of the Alice's cats in "Alice in Wonderland"). But the second version, at least, was rejected.
The first product became very popular among customers. It was the simple curse with the image of Hello Kitty! This Kitten was really popular, but in the end of 80's became to slow down. Customers didn't like that Kitty always had the same look - muzzle looks at the viewers, the body turned sideways, she was dressed in blue
overall and has a black outline around her figure. Then the designer Yuko Yamaguchi decided to change the image. She deleted the black outline, painted different clothes and put different items in her... mmm... hands:)
Later Kitty found a family - mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, sister Mimmi and hamster Sugar.
Now there are millions goods with HK-image - from T-shirts and toys to machine guns and toasters, which bike toasts with her image:)
Here is an official site of Sanrio company, where you can read her biography (and biographies of other characters). So, she was born on November 1st, live in London with her family and has lots of hobbies.
Hello Kitty has many web-sites: this, this.



The first card is from Tomoko and the second card - from Sumie.
I love this cat:)

Hida Area

This card is from Saeko (thank you!). She wrote that all Japanese people now enjoing the cherry blossoms. I want too! Do you? Go here. But, of caurse, it's better to do this not on photos:) I wish I go to Japan one day;)

Tokyo Tower

I wanna start with this beautiful postcard from Yukie. Yukie lives in Tokyo and on this postcard you can see Tokyo Tower, very famous building. 333 m - heigh of the tower (btw, the Eiffel Tower, which is its model, is 320 m heigh). But Tokyo Tower is not just a nice place for tourists. Tokyo Tower is transmitting 24 broadcast vawes (TV Asahi, Fuji TV, TV Tokyo etc). So it's not only beautiful, but usefull too:)

The site about Tokyo Tower
Wikipedia about Tokyo Tower
Some pictures of and from the Tower

I like Japanese postcards. In my opinion, Japanese culture is very interesting. And Japanese postcards are very interesting. I would like to receive more.