Today in Postal History
Japan to Denmark
December 12, 1923
This picture post card shows the devastation in Yokohama
caused by the Great
Kanto earthquake of September 1, 1923.
The message is datelined Nagoya.
The destination was Mariager which is about 60 km
north of Arhus, via Randers, on the
Jylland peninsula.
The stamps are imperf 4s gray green from 1923 (Scott
183).
The pair shows some evidence of having been privately rouletted.
An unusual feature of this card is that it was typed.
It would have been unusual for a traveler to have taken a typewriter.
I've turned the postcard sideways in hope that someone could translate it for us.
*Thanks to Knud-Erik Anderson, a resident of Randers,
we have a translation of the card: