When you want to design a Japanese New Year card (nengajo) with vertical text and print it at home, or quickly put together a mourning postcard (mochū hagaki, the New Year's greeting-absence card), this tool lays your text out on a **standard hagaki size (100×148mm, portrait)** and exports a print-ready PNG. **Pick the type — New Year or mourning — and the headline, message, year and sender are pre-filled** with a sensible template, so you only edit the names and wording. The text is placed in the classic Japanese layout: a **large greeting at the top, the message in the middle as vertical columns (right to left), and the sender's name at the bottom left**, with the font size auto-fitted to each area. Choose a style (mincho serif or gothic sans), ink color (black, light sumi grey, vermilion, gold or navy), and resolution (300 / 350 / 600 DPI); mourning cards default to the subdued light-sumi color. Each line of the message becomes one vertical column, so you control the wrapping with line breaks. You can toggle a faint cut guide on or off. The finished card is a white-background PNG you can print at actual size on hagaki paper or send to an online print service. Everything — typing the text and drawing the card — runs locally on a Canvas in your browser, so the names, addresses and wording you enter are **never uploaded or stored** (no account needed). Note this lays out the message side only; it does not do address-side mail-merge or include illustrations.