Japanese New Year’s Card 2012 – (3)
As the New Year is coming only ten days time, Nippon Yubin (Japan Post) and many
Sites started to show free New Year’s Card design 🙂
(Though, some are too keen to use it as a tool for their business promotion, it is not necessary straight forward,
such as Japan Post’s images are now in [png] not easy jpeg (you can tinker in Photoshop) as they expecting
the user to compose the image in their format — still, you may go to their site direct and download the image,
from their 3,000 image collection ! —— (but, it’s in Japanese !)
Japan Post’s site ; —– http://www.yubin-nenga.jp/index.html
http://www.yubin-nenga.jp/search/search_parts.php
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And, following are from the Canon’s site = Yes, Canon of camera and the printer !
With the clout of the global company, they are generous and the design quality is pretty high.
Their site is ; —- http://cp.c-ij.com/ja/event/nenga/index.html —– (there are hundreds of samples !)
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Powerful Calligraphy above is the character [龍／Dragon], —- ( never mind the rest = all saying ” Happy New Year “)
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Here, he is saying ” Glad, we got happy new spring 🙂 ” ————–(right) [Kyoga-shin-nen] = Happy New Year.
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In the old Moon calender, New Year was about February = beginning of the spring, hence the right one
is saying ” Congratulate the Early New Spring”.
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Above left says ” Akemashite Omedetou-Gozaimasu” —————- (right) ” Shinshun” = New Spring.
= Congratulate for having New Year.
Three plants images are Pine, Bamboo and Plum (松，竹，梅) as they are regarded to be auspicious.
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Another Japanese site is Epson, though, to download the sample image, it seems necessary to register.
http://my.epson.jp/myepson/alluser/printown/nenga/index.jsp
So, have a fun to look around and create nice Card.
(My Greeting Card may come soon or later 🙂 )
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