{"id":1134,"date":"2012-01-17T21:47:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T12:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:16:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T03:16:19","slug":"shigas-die-cut-postcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/shigas-die-cut-postcards\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiga’s die-cut postcards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Omi-shonin merchant die-cut postcard issued in 2011.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

If you’ve been to a post office in Shiga, you probably noticed those unique-shaped, die-cut postcards featuring one of Shiga’s symbols like the Shigaraki tanuki<\/a> raccoon dog, Hikone Castle<\/a>, and an Omi shonin merchant. The Japan Post Office has been issuing these charming postcards since 2009. One die-cut postcard per year has been issued for each prefecture. So each prefecture now has three die-cut postcards. Shiga’s die-cut cards issued so far are shown here.<\/a> In Japanese, they call it gotochi form cards<\/em> (\u3054\u5f53\u5730\u30d5\u30a9\u30eb\u30e0\u30ab\u30fc\u30c9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each prefecture’s die-cut cards are sold only in that prefecture’s post offices. Each card costs 180 yen and requires a 120 yen stamp for domestic mail. Some cards have sold out, but they will be reissued soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are a postcard collector like me, you may wonder what the other die-cut postcards in other prefectures look like. Well, there is a Web site where you can see the postcard designs for each prefecture. Just click on a prefecture to see the three cards so far. You can then see the prefecture’s unique symbols and attractions: http:\/\/postacollect.com\/gotochi\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also read about Shiga’s postage stamps here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been to a post office in Shiga, you probably noticed those unique-shaped, die-cut postcards featuring one of Shiga’s symbols like the Shigaraki tanuki raccoon dog, Hikone Castle, and an Omi shonin merchant. The Japan Post Office has been… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-in-shiga-prefecture","category-shigabrand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8767,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/8767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}