The estimated number of New Year’s cards delivered on Jan. 1 plunged 34 ... to have prompted additional people to discontinue the custom of sending nengajo, which feature numbers for a special ...
In 1908, Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912), a poet born in Iwate Prefecture, sent a brush-written “nengajo” (New Year’s greeting card) to the linguist Kyosuke Kindaichi (1882-1971), a fellow ...