Home made postcards from children.

**ghp95134** · 12-23-2017, 02:55 AM

絵手紙 e-tegami [picture letter] is still a popular hobby in Japan. Well, I don’t know if “popular” is the correct word ... but it’ still done today.

—Guy

**ghp95134** · 12-23-2017, 03:04 AM

絵手紙
Do a google image search of the kanji, you’ll see what I mean.

I’m on this acursed iPhone and don’t know to attach the URL when it doesn’t appear on the phone. Besides I touch type and have a hell’uva time “hunt-n-pecking.”

—Guy

**MAP** · 12-23-2017, 03:56 AM

by ghp95134

絵手紙
Do a google image search of the kanji, you’ll see what I mean.

I’m on this acursed iPhone and don’t know to attach the URL when it doesn’t appear on the phone. Besides I touch type and have a hell’uva time “hunt-n-pecking.”

—Guy

Here is the google image search based on the Kanji you provided

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E7%...w=1920&bih=888

**ghp95134** · 12-23-2017, 04:07 AM

by MAP

Here is the google image search based on the Kanji you provided

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E7%...w=1920&bih=888

That’s it!! Many thanks.

—Guy

**Mathieu C** · 12-23-2017, 10:18 AM

This is a very fine hobby, I like it ! Thank you for learning me it's name.

Thanks to your help I have found this interesting blog. This time the letters didn't came from home to the field, but from a soldier in the field, to Japan. Je ended on Okinawa. You can check his story and work here :

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Many new things to read ! Thanks again.

**ghp95134** · 12-23-2017, 08:39 PM

by Mathieu C

This is a very fine hobby, I like it ! Thank you for learning me it's name.

Thanks to your help I have found this interesting blog. This time the letters didn't came from home to the field, but from a soldier in the field, to Japan. Je ended on Okinawa. You can check his story and work here ...

Itō Hanji was apprenticed as a lantern maker at age 19 and married the lantern master's daughter; he also studied Japanese painting. In 1940, age 27, he was conscripted and went into the artillery. He was dispatched to Manchuria; later, KIA in the Battle of Okinawa, 1944.

--Guy