National Parks of Japan

From 1936 Japan started issuing stamps,commemorating the nations
national parks.The first series ran till 1956,a second series from 1962 till 1974.

Commemorating the Mt.Fuji (Fujiyama) - Hakone N.P.,this first set of the first series was issued on July 10th,1936.
The 6 and the 10 Sen had the lowest print-quantity of 250.000 each.
This set is the only one of the first series,what was not accompanied by
a souvenir sheet.
The set was sold only at the post-offices in the national park (!)

 

issued Dec.25th,1938
Stamps printed in sheets: 500.000 full sets
Souvenir sheets: 300.000
This sheet and all souvenir sheets of of the first series National Parks,were sold in a folder.
front page
The system does no show the inner pages,what describe the issue, here.
To see them,you have to open Japan 272A.
Buying s.s. accompanied by folders will cost an additional premium.
Expect dealers being reluctant to buy s.s. without folders.
In all folders of gummed s.s. there was a glassin-type leave to protect
the gum.

 

issued April 20th,1939
The printing quantities,compared to the previous set,were lowered considerably: 300.000 full sets and 200.000 s.s.
The folder:

All folders from now on are numbered with roman numbers.
To see the inner pages of the folder,pl. open Japan 276A.

 

issued Aug.15th,1939
again the printing quantities were lowered: 300.000 sets,but 60.000 s.s.



to see the inner pages of the folder,pl. open Japan 280A.jpg

 

issued April 20th,1940,again 300.000 sets were printed,
but 42.000 s.s.only,the lowest print-quantity of all N.P.-s.s.


to view the inner pages of the folder,pl.open Japan 292A

 

issued Aug.21st,1940; 350.000 sets and 50.000 s.s. were printed.


to view the inner pages,pl.open Japan 296A;

 

The series for the Daiton-NP/Nitaka-Arisan-NP and for the Tugita-
Taroko-N.P. in Taiwan were issued on March 10th,1941.
350.000 sets each and 76.000 s.s. each were printed.
Both s.s.shared one single folder,sold for 90 Sen.
This is the only N.P.-issue of Japan with two s.s. in a single folder.
Due to the war there were issued no further National-Park-series till 1949.
To view the inner pages of this folder,pl.open Japan 302A.

 

In 1949 the National-Park series was resumed.Main difference was,
that the face values of the stamps now were in Yen and no longer in
Sen due to the inflation what hit Japan after the (lost) war.

issued April 10th,1949
1 million sets and 200.000 s.s. were printed.

To view the inner pages of the folder pl. open Japan 442A

 

set issued July 15th,1949,print 5 millions;
s.s. issued Nov.20th,1949,print 200.000;

to view the inner pages of the folder,pl.open Japan 452A;

 

set issued July 15th,1950;print 500.000 sets
s.s. print 200.000


The back of the folder shows the sale price lowered to 50 Yen.
I have no knowledge why and when this was done.
To view the inner pages of the folder,pl.open Japan 502A.

 

issued July 20th,1951;print:500.000 sets,200.000 s.s.


to view the inner pages of the folder,pl.open Japan 539A

 

A very nice series Werner

 

issued July 5th,1952;print: 1 mill. (perforated) sets;
souvenir sheet,issued Sept.26th,1952;print: 200.000;
From here on all following national park s.s. were issued imperforated,
without gum,while set stamps were perforated with gum.
To view the inner pages,pl.open Japan 593A.

 

The last of the large sized (128 x 182 mm) souvenir sheets,issued
on Oct.18th,1952 (set),Dec.10th,1952 s.s.
Print: 1 mill.perforated sets,100.000 s.s.

To view the inner pages (sorry,not upright),pl.open Japan 602A.

 

From here on national park issues were made up of two perforated
stamps and one imperforated souvenir sheet.The s.s. were printed
on ungummed paper.Size: 148 x 105 mm
Issued July 25th,1953.Print: 4 mill.sets and 100.000 s.s.

Folder front page

inner page,text in English

 

issued Oct.2nd,1953;print 4 mill.sets,200.000 s.s.

Folder back- and frontpage

inner page,text in English

 

issued Nov.20th,1953; print: 4 mill.sets,200.000 s.s.

folder front page
inner page with text in English

 

issued June 25th,1954; print: 4 mill. sets,200.000 s.s.

folder back- and front page

inner page with text in English

 

issued March 1st,1955 print: 4 mil. sets,200.000 s.s.


folder front page


inner page,with text in English