Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

22 July 2014

The World viewed from the East

This card I've gotten from Japan. Unfortunately, I can't translate any of it.

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Interesting details: India shrunk heavily and is now as big as Poland. The Baja California peninsula became an independent island - hurray! The Caspian Sea fell over and Australia is melting with  Antarctica, but all in all, it's pretty accurate.

The flower on the left stamp is a dandelion, with a scarab beetle resting on it. The second stamp was issued in 1988 and shows a pagoda inside Kongō-ji temple.

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