Mt Fuji

Flat plate printing. Smaller image: 22 x 18.4 mm.
Issue of Stamps Featuring Scenery
In 1925 the Overseas Postal Regulations were revised and postal charges were reduced. To correspond with .. Read more »the new overseas postal charges, three types of stamps featuring Mount Fuji, the Tosho Shrine in Nikko and Nagoya Castle were issued.
These were the first standard stamps in Japan to have a rectangular shape. The stamps feature well-known places in Japan and the stamps have become known as the 'Scenery stamps.'
These stamps were issued on various types of paper and in different colors until 1937.

Country:	Japan
Type:	Postage stamps
Series:	Regular series: Scenery (1926)
Nominal:	2 Japanese sen
Year:	1926
Material:	Granite Paper
Size:	26 x 22 mm
Perforation:	comb 13½ x 13