JAPANESE SAMPANS on Hokusai paintings

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JAPANESE SAMPANS on Hokusai paintings

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Oct 29, 2017 7:54 pm

The Maldives used a set of stamps and a miniature sheet in 1989 with paintings from the Japanese artist Hokusai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai
Most stamps show a sampan watercraft. A “sampan” is a light boat of the coastal waters, rivers and harbors of the Far East. Harbour sampans have covering amidships and are powered by sculling over the stern, others on coastal waters use a small matting sail on a single mast.
In Japan, the term applied to a range of crafts, from 1 man boats to 3 masted vessels. Generally have a shallow deadrise from a broad, flat keel. Hard chines. Bottom rakes up to a shallow, square transom; on some, the bottom planks along each extend the transom to join the side planking. Sharp bow with long straight, raking stern; some with recurved stemhead, others greatly elongated. One-man boats sculled from the port quarter or over the transom; larger boats employ multiple sculls, working from both sides. Those that sailed set square sails from 1 – 3 masts. The “sampans” are now mostly motorized.

The paintings after the stamps were designed you can find on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-si ... Mount_Fuji

Source: Internet and Aak to Zumbra a dictionary of the World’s Watercraft.
Maldives 1989 50la/12r sg1319/25 and sgMS1328, scott 1325/1332.
Vietnam 1994 1.00d sg1456. Scott 2518. 2017 6000d sg 3004, scott?
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