New Year’s Greetings and Shuri Castle at Sunrise: Japan Post begins limited sale of New Year’s postcard
The Shuri Castle New Year’s lottery postcard design. (Image provided by the Japan Post Okinawa Regional Office)
November 18, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
On November 20, the Okinawa Regional Office of the Japan Post (Regional Office Director Akio Higa) will begin selling New Year’s lottery postcards (nenga-hagaki) featuring a design of Shuri Castle as it used to be. Only 4000 packs of the postcards will be issued. The postcards will be sold at all post offices in Okinawa and show Shuri Castle at sunrise accompanied by the characters 迎春 (geishun, welcoming the New Year) and a New Year’s message.
One pack will contain five postcards and sell for 600 yen (including tax). The postcards will be sold at all post offices in Okinawa, but will not be available at some simplified post office locations, stores selling postage stamps, or online.
(English translation by T&CT and Ellen Huntley)
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