This card is a promo for a Japanese animated basketball movie called The First Slam Dunk . It's based on a manga series called Slam Dunk . It grossed $258 million worldwide becoming the fifth highest grossing anime film every. The protagonist is Ryota Miyagi of the Shohuku High School basketball team. They challenge for the inter-high school basketball champions, Sannoh Kogyo High School. 

A lovely painting of Mount Fuji  富士山 . Mount Fuji is, of course, Japan's most famous natural landmark. It is an active stratovolcano and is 3776 meters high. Fuji is considered one of Japan's "Three Holy Mountains  三霊山. " The Three Holy Mountains are: Mount Fuji Mount Haku 白山 Mount Tate 立山 Mount Haku is the home of  Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama, both are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Mount Tate, or Tateyama, has three peaks -  Ōnanjiyama (大汝山, 3,015 m), Oyama (雄山, 3,003 m), and Fuji-no-Oritateyama, (富士ノ折立, 2,999m).  There are four major routes to the summit of Mount Fuji - Kawaguchiko, Subashiri, Gotemba, and Fujinomiya. On each trail are numbered stations. Many climbers take a car or bus to the fifth stations. The summit is the tenth station. Many climbers hike Fuji at night so they can be at the summit for the sunrise. They morning light is called  御来光   goraikō, "arrival of light." July and August are the most popular times to climb Fuji. Climbing between Oct

Oberheimbach was first mentioned in documents in 983. Today there are 529 people living in this wine growing region.

"March Midnight" is from Sir Robert Stawell Ball's (1840-1913 book, Ball's Popular Guide to the Heavens . Ball was an Irish astronomer who founded the screw theory. 

Jani Hakanpää hails from Kirkkonummi. He is a player for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. Previous NHL stops include Anaheim and Carolina, and he also took a couple of years off from the NHL to play for  Oulun Kärpät  of the Liiga.  In 2017-18,   Hakanpää helped  Oulun Kärpät win the Kanada-malja as the Liiga champions. I hadn't heard of the Kanada-milja before so I was intrigued. Kanada-malja means "Canada Bowl." It was donated by Canada's Finnish community in 1951 to be awarded to the champion of the Liiga playoffs. Like the NHL's Stanley Cup, the winning players and staff get their names added to the trophy. The current champion is Tappara. In 1991 a copy of the Kanada-malja was created with the original trophy kept and displayed at  Suomen Jääkiekkomuseo, or the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame. The original cup is always presented to the champions, but then is returned to the Suomen Jääkiekkomuseo and a the copy is given to the team for the year. 

Amtzell is a small community of about 4300 people found in the very south of Germany. The card is a beer advertisement, with a little boy on it(?).  Allgäuer Brewery has been around since 1911 and was founded by the Weixler family. Today it is owned by the Radeberger Group and offers about 20 different beers. 

What a beautiful card from Sapporo. The artwork was created in the 13th century CE, during the Kamakura Period of Japanese history. This is a time in Japan where the Kamakura shogunate governed much of Japan, but not Hokkaido. The samurai also emerged at this time, creating a warrior caste. Feudalism was also established during this time, too.  The Kamakura Period last from 1185, with Minamoto no Yoritomo  源 頼朝  as the first  shōgun, and ends when Nitta Yoshisada  新田 義貞  conquers and destroys Kamakura during the Seige of Kamakura in 1333.  On 27 May 1293, a major earthquake and tsunamis hit Sagami Bay and Kamakura, killing just over 23 000 people. Kublai Khan and the Mongols also tried to invade Japan twice in 1274 and 1281, but were repelled by a typhoon both times. 

Sušičko is a small town in  Šumava, or the Bohemian Forest. The forest is in the Czech Republic and Germany. The mountains in the Forest are 800 m to 1400 m high. The highest peak is  Großer Arber at 1456 m, and is on the German side. 

This photo is of Bec Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec). It is a Benedictine monastic foundation found in the Bec Valley in Normandy, France.  The abbey was founded in 1034 by Saint Herluin, a former Norman knight. He left the knighthood to devote himself to religion. Over the centuries, land was added, new buildings. Bec Abbey was damaged during the Wars of Religion and then left in ruin during the French Revolution. The St. Nicholas Tower, built in the 15th century remained standing.  In 1948, the site was re-established as the Abbaye de Notre-Dame du Bec by Olivetan monks. It has links with the Anglican Church, and has 5000 works concerning Anglicanism. Today the Abbey is best known for the pottery the monks produce.