Japan, Year of the Dog 2018 issue

I always love japanese lunar new year issue. They release not only the beautiful design stamps but also very nice first day postmark.

 Furthermore, Japan has an abundance of new year cards which is released in serie each year. Here are two unofficial maxicards I got in this mail. The second one I had got the same serie for Year of the Rooster as well.

Thank you so much masako! It is the third time we swap lunar new year issue. Hope to see you again in Year of the Pig.