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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

JAPAN, 平成23年用年賀郵便切手 - November 10, 2010


http://www.post.japanpost.jp/kitte_hagaki/stamp/tokusyu/2010/h221110_t.html

Monday, December 27, 2010

2010 Cheongju JikJi Festival - September 3, 2010


Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose full title can be translated "The Monk Baegun's Anthology of the Great Priests' Teachings on Identification of the Buddha's Spirit by the Practice of Seon." Printed during the Goryeo Dynasty in 1377, it is the world's oldest extant movable metal print book. UNESCO confirmed Jikji as the world oldest metalloid type in September 2001 and includes it in the Memory of the World Programme.

Jikji was published in Heungdeok Temple in 1377, 78 years prior to Johannes Gutenberg's acclaimed "42-Line Bible" printed during the years 1452-1455. The greater part of the Jikji is now lost, and today only the last volume survives, kept at the Manuscrits Orientaux division of the National Library of France.