#45 - from Aichi, Japan

It's the oldest castle in Japan. Inuyama Castle was unique in Japan in that it was privately owned and has national treasure status.

These stamps very special because they older than me, hahaha... really so cool!! Especially the 20-yen stamp on the right, I like it very much :D It's a Japanese painter Kishida Ryūsei (1891-1929)'s works. When his daughter Reiko five-year-old, Kishida suffer from pulmonary tuberculosis, he has a premonition of death, and therefore he took his beloved daughter Reiko as the model to start portrait of Reiko creation!! Thank you very much to Yuko.

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National treasure Inuyama Castle