I am a collector of many interests and collect various countries and topics.
I also collect various cigarettes of the world, not only stamps.
PROFILE
Author:Wrlz
Action certified using browsers for Macintosh Internet Explorer 5.1 or later: recommended Mozzila or Netscape: almost suitable Opera: almost suitable OS except Mac OS: I did not confirm Font size must be smaller than 100%. Welcome to the world of Philately and Tobaccoes. I can help you with the stamps, FDCs, MCs and booklets of North Korea not listed in Scott if anybody is interested in.
FDCs of "Commemoration of Historic Pyongyang Meeting and Inter-Korean Summit Talks" available. Click to enlarge.
FDC of perf.; $4.00 FDC of imperf.; $10.00 Please add $2.00 postage.
My name "Wrlz" reads"o-wa-las" and it means "It Does Exist" on the other hand "YHWH" in the Bible means "I become (Lord)". The pronuciation is close to the French word "Voila(there is)". mail(please remove the excessive @ to prevent spams)
Favorites Philately(collecting stamps, stationey, cancellations etc.), pipe tobacco and Progressive rock(I like "yes" very much). I also collect various cigarettes of the world, not only stamps.
1976:Removed to Athens. My mother says I was speaking Greek but I don't remember...
1977:Removed to Papua New Guinea.
1978:Returned to Tokyo.
1978:I got my first stamp. It was a stamp of Okinawa with a face value in US$. This stamp very much charmed me and I started collecting stamps.
1980:My mother brought me to a church and I became a Christian but I don't believe in God... My middle name is "Isaac". 1983:Removed to Itabashiku from Mitakaku. Dec.1986:Removed to Ireland and learnt English.
Apr.1989:Removed to Athens.
Dec.1989:Returned to Japan.
Apr.1990:Became a high school student in Saitama, and started oil paintings.
1991: My friend introduced me Hark Rock and Progressive Rock.
Apr.1993:Went to Waseda University and learnt silk screens in the art party.
June 1994:I published my first book. 1994:I started smoking.
1994-1996:Worked for a company of Audio Visual.
1995:Started collecting stamps of PRO China.
1996:Started collecting stamps of DPR Korea.
1997:Printing business.
1998:Bought my first computer and started internet.
Apr.1998:Studied Korean for one year.
Aug.2000:My first entry to a philatelic exhibition-"Let's enjoy Korean stamps"-prize number 4.
2001:I started collecting the stamps of former USSR countries.
1-7 Aug.2001: PHILANIPPON'01, my first entry to an international philatelic exhibition.
2002:Bought a new machine, Macintosh G4 with 1.12GB Ram.
2003:Removed to Itabashiku from Nerimaku.
2004:I met a ferret and brought him home. His name is "Regle".
2008:- I think I have to improve and perfect of equipment with Macintosh G5 in the future. Colour laser printer is one of the thing I want with my job.
"Lark SUPER MILDS" and "Lark EXTRA MILDS" were put on the market from 27 Nov. in Japan(from 29th Wed. in some parts of Japan). I bought the collectors' set with lighters 1 each.
I think I have to report and upload files to CigarettesPedia. Philip Morris Japan calls the method of 3 blended tobaccoes of 4 years' ripening "TRI-BLENDIC FLAVOR" but I did no feel anything special.
There is a guarantee for the lighters as same as the collectors' pack of "Lark SUPER MENTHOL".
As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, a monster appeared in the South-West hex destroyed a part of my island. Bullet marks at hex 4:12 and 6:12 are from my missile launches.
Population: 742,600 Balance: 223,200,000,000Yen Foodstuff: 3,683,000tons Farmhouses: 432,0000 are working Factories: 320,000 can work Stope: 30,000 can work unemployed: --5.31% poultry farm: 2,450,000 cattle What I smoked yesterday Cigarette echo: 1cig
I came to know that there are cigarettes called "CHE" with an illustration(portrait) of Che Guevara and really want to obtain one!!
I have a matchbox but don't have a cigarette.
I used to draw comic arts based on Locke the Superman, Yuki Hiziri. As it was too difficult for me to draw a "cartoon" abruptly, I started from contributing 2 illustrations in 2 month for the little magazine Dreamers. This is the front page I took charge of when Dreamers was retitled Mugen.
This is the first cartoon I drew. It took 3 months to draw only 6 pages... Click to enlarge.
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"STARGAZER" is based on Blackmore's Rainbow(HardRock).
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"SATELLITEMACHINE" is one of my favorites and I put it on the first of When Astronomy Diminish
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As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, I built the 2nd undersea missile launch at hex 3:15.
Population: 606,900 Balance: 98,300,000,000Yen Foodstuff: 1,532,800tons Farmhouses: 392,000 are working Factories: 269,000 can work Stope: 10,000 can work unemployed: -10.56% poultry farm: 10,270,000 cattle What I smoked yesterday Cigarette SevenStars REVO LIGHTS MENTHOL: 2cig
This is one of the cautions printed on cigarettes sold in Japan
and it says "Smoking will be one of the reasons of lung cancer for you".
The followings are the correspondence of Japanese characters and English words.
This character is pronounced "kitt" and it means "taste".
This character is pronounced "en" and it means "smoke".
This is also pronouced "kemuri". "en" is the way reading Chinese character in phonetically("Kanji" characters were invented in ancient China), "kemuri", reading Chinese character in its Japanese pronunciation.
Thus, "kitt"+"en" is pronounced "kitsuen" and it means "smoking".
This character is pronounded "hai" and it means "lung".
There are 2 ways how to write "cancer" in Japanese. The one is using Kanji and another way is to use "Hiragana", the original letters of Japan.
Both pronounced "gan".
We use "Katakana", the square form of "Kana" when writing adopted words like "tar", "nicotine".
We donot distinguish the differences between "c" and "k", "ch" and "t","l" and "r". I bought "Winston(soft)" and another "echo" yesterday.
"Winston" is the brand of R.J.Reynolds but JT is producing the same brand since 1995. As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, the big earthquake destroyed the part of my island but I've built up.
An ice rink at hex 7:2, undersea missile launch at hex 2:15.
Population: 609,300 Balance: 200,500,000,000Yen Foodstuff: 2,430,600tons Farmhouses: 382,000 are working Factories: 295,000 can work Stope: 10,000 can work unemployed: -12.75%% poultry farm: 8,590,000 cattle I have arranged the rest of the definitives of Heisei era. 80Yen is a specimen. As for 70Yen and 110Yen, I bought a ready-made FDC but also went to Tokyo CPO to make my original. Click to enlarge.
I'm going to send the 3rd lot of empty cigarette packs of JT to Mr.E.R. whom I met at CigarettesPedia. The stamp on the right is the P-stamp(personalised stamp) I made.
As he told me I can send the packs in open and flattened forms so I was killing time analysing the empty packs. 7 "echo"s. This is my daily cigarette.
I've bought "HOPE LIGHTS" and "HOPE SUPER LIGHTS" today(I've already sent him the original "HOPE"). "HOPE MENTHOL" is not available at my local tobacco store. The original "HOPE" and "HOPE LIGHTS" do not adopt charcoal filter but the filter of "HOPE SUPER LIGHTS" is charcoal.
I think I'm going to send them on Monday. 2 days is enough to finish 20 cigarettes.
As he told me "FREE" is a popular brand in Brazil, I referred to the database of CigarettesPedia and came to know there are a lot of versions.
As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, I built a baseball ground at hex 7:5 instead of an amusement park. There are wasteland from hex 7:3 to 13:3 and I am planning to operate railways. I made an order of sailing a battleship from hex 5:7. This will attack the monster which appeared during my absence.
Population: 606,400 Balance: 207,100,000,000Yen Foodstuff: 7,618,100tons Farmhouses: 358,000 are working Factories: 296,000 can work Stope: 10,000 can work unemployed: -9.50% poultry farm: 7,670,000 cattle
The tax rate is 8% now. What I smoked today Cigarette echo: 1cig
I ordered(snet the image to Japan Post) on 25 Oct. and arrived in the evening of 8 Nov. It was fast this time. Block of 6, click to enlarge.
Immediately sent 2 letters to the collectors with whom I am exchanging P-stamps.
This is the original image of the picture I painted.
As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, the 2 fisherboats both went down and I made another order of sailing from hex 4:7. Ther is an ice rink at 3:4 from whick I can ean 100,000,000,000Yen approx per turn. The university at hex 9:5 is raising a monster.
Population: 589,400 Balance: 196,000,000,000Yen Farmhouses: 312,000 are working Foodstuff: 2,714,300tons Farmhouses: 332,000 is working Factories: 282,000 can work Stope: 10,000 can work unemployed: -5.87% poultry farm: 680,000 cattle What I smoked today SomeTime LIGHTS: 1cig
This time, I enclosed 1 unopened "Peace", the most deliciours cigarette of Japan. Hope he likes it.
I haven't scanned all of what he has sent me yet. There are more than 50! Brazil & Paraguay, please wait.
I went to my local tobacco store and bought SomeTime LIGHTS and Caster.
As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, 2 fisherboats are earning a lot of foodstuff.
Population: 570,100 Balance: 71,000,000,000Yen Farmhouses: 312,000 are working Factories: 256,000 can work Stope: 10,000 can work unemployed: -4.89% poultry farm: 3,900,000 cattle
Many people think that the native Americans are the origin of tobacco, as Christopher Columbus brought the tobacco in the Large navigation age, but it was used as an equipment for the "contact with god" in ancient Maya. A man smoking a cigar is graved on the deity and many ancient pipes were graved at South America.
Tobaccoes were first introduced to Japan in the 16th century but it was a cigar that Portuguese were smoking. As tobaccoes were expensive, we developed our own "shredded tobacco(kizami)" in Japan. You may find khsier and tobacco tray of the Meiji era in old houses.
"Yamabuki" is no longer available.
Tobaccoes were started cultivated in Japan and they are called "native kind". "Enshu", "Daruma", "Hakushu" etc. exist. There are various opinions about the place and time when tobacco was first cultivated in Japan. 1605 Kagoshima is an established theory.
On the other hand, tobacco introduced by Columbus was marked as an almighty medical herb in Europe. It was the time when the black plague in vogue and doctors pressed that tobaccoes work for any medical diseases. However, the monotheism did not allow the fact that tobaccoes have holy spirit and once suppressed but this prohibition made tobaccoes in much fashion. People who removed to the new land, America, started cultivating tobaccoes at Virginia state, This is the origin of Virginia tobacco. Tobaccoes can be classified in 7. -Virginia -Orient -Kentucky -Burley -Cavendish -Perique -Latakia
At the French Court, it was said that noble people should not spue smoke from their mouthes and noses, and snuff tobaccoes without smoke became in fashion. At this time, pipe tobaccoes were the tastes of the lower classes. This relation was reversed at the French Revolution in 1789. The mainstings of the revolution were the generals who were smoking tobaccoes "with" smoke. Snuffs were drove out and pipe tobaccoes and cigars won the championship.
"Cigarette" is thought to be the result of the Crimean War but we can go back to the 1850s Russia. However, cigarettes were holed cheap as "people who don't know the taste of tobacco smoke them". Cigarettes came into fashion after the Industrial revolution. The age changed in speedy and easy cigarettes were paid attention. The cigarettes in the 1850s differ from the ones we smoke now. There were empty spaces at the filters. The reason is, it was difficult to cram tobaccoes at both ends. We had to wait for the improvement of the rolling method. The filtered cigarettes came out from 1950s. The first cigarette with filter is said to be "KENT/1952".
The former cigarettes were in simple blends of Virginia and Orient. In 1913, "CAMEL" adopted Burley which was said not suitable for cigarettes and added spices. This method is called "American blend".
As when the spices were burnt, harmful objects come out from the blue smoke, filtered cigarettes became popular. In Japan, charcoal filter is adopted for most of the cigarettes, which was first used for "SevenStars" in 1969 in Japan. Charcoals are seldom used in cigarettes of Europe.
To go back with pipes, the clay pipes were in common with no durability. Sailors bought a lot of clay pipes of consumption for an voyage. When Briar pipes and Meerschaum pipes appeared, they are not consumptions and the beauty of the grains was observed and fixed the prices. Pipes held authority over the nobles.
Before WWII, tobacco tax ranked 40% of the total in Japan. After the war, British American Tobacco(BAT) tried to enter the tobacco market of Japan but it was criticized that "the policy of BAT is similar with colonialism" and Japan Tobacco & Salt Public Corporation was established in 1 June 1949. The first filtered cigarette in Japan "HOPE" came out in 1 July 1957, the space age symbol "SevenStars" came out in 1 Feb.1969.
Handmade pipes are made not only in Japan but in Europe and 10,000,000Yen class pipes are sometimes dealt. Cigars are also in a boomlet among young ladies.
More than 500 brands are sold in Japan now, but light-tobacco intention is going too far, many brands but only few of them are attractive.
I've just finished packing and sending the empty cigarette packs to Mr.E. whom I met at CigarettesPedia.
(private message to Mr.E.R.; you can trace the EMS numbering EI679907878JP from Japan Post) I'm sanning each cigarette little by little.
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These 2 maybe "L&M" sold in Brazil or Paraguay.
He sent I 50 but I could only send -echo(3 different cautions) -GOLDEN BAT -Peace -HOPE -Mine -ALPHABET C -MILDSEVEN PRIME SLIMS 3 -hi-lite RUM MENTHOL -CHERRY -KOOL NIGHTS(Japanese version)
To make up amends, I enclosed a letter with detailed explanation.
