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  2. Envelope - Wikipedia

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    Japanese traditional rectangular (角形, kakugata, K) and long (長形, nagagata, N) envelopes open on the short side, while Western-style (洋形, yōgata, Y) envelopes open on the long side. The Japanese standard JIS S 5502 [10] was first published in 1964.

  3. Shūgi-bukuro - Wikipedia

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    A shūgi-bukuro (祝儀袋, lit. 'celebratory gift bag') is a special envelope in which money is given as a gift of celebration in Japan, especially at weddings or other auspicious occasions, such as a birth or celebrating a new home.

  4. Japanese funeral - Wikipedia

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    The majority of funerals ( 葬儀, sōgi or 葬式, sōshiki) in Japan include a wake, the cremation of the deceased, a burial in a family grave, and a periodic memorial service. According to 2007 statistics, 99.81% of deceased Japanese are cremated. [1] Other practices in Japan include Shinto funerals and the Ryukyuan people ’s indigenous ...

  5. Mizuhiki - Wikipedia

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    Mizuhiki (水引, lit. 'water-pull') is an ancient Japanese artform of knot-tying, most commonly used to decorate envelopes, called kinpū, which are given as gifts during holidays like Japanese New Year (and are then called otoshidama) or for special occasions such as births and weddings ( shūgi-bukuro) or funerals ( kōden-bukuro ).

  6. Seal (East Asia) - Wikipedia

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    A seal, in an East and Southeast Asian context, is a general name for printing stamps and impressions thereof which are used in lieu of signatures in personal documents, office paperwork, contracts, art, or any item requiring acknowledgement or authorship. On documents they were usually used to print an impression using a pigmented paste or ink ...

  7. Address - Wikipedia

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    Japanese-style envelopes are vertically aligned and the address is written from top to bottom, then right to left. Western-style envelopes are horizontally aligned and the address is written from left to right, top to bottom.