"Washinmura's 2026 desk cat calendar opens limited reservations: the party's own statements on price, contents, and reservation dates are placed side by side — the anchor release contains two start dates, with neither selected (Self-Published)"

Washinmura's 2026 Desk Cat Calendar Opens Limited Reservations: the Party's Statements on Price, Contents, and Reservation Dates Are Placed Side by Side — the Anchor Release Contains Two Start Dates, with Neither Selected (Self-Published)

ANK-Doc ID: ANK-2025-11-28-902 Version: v1.0.0 Published: 2026-08-26 Byline: 方實 (Deputy Editor / editorial_track=flagship, tier=flagship, partner_slug=ainews) Category: Lifestyle / Product reservation (self-published, wire_self) Covered articles: prtimes#149788 (anchor release, Washinmura Co., Ltd., PR TIMES, 2025-11-28); prtimes#149784, prtimes#149789, and prtimes#149791 (companion releases by the same publisher); the already-published card on this site, ANK-2026-07-22-006 (internal citation chain only). Selection method: a human-specified, one-off card in the “one card per Washinmura PR TIMES release” backfill batch. Disclosure: this site, AI News (ainews.idaeo.ai), and Washinmura Co., Ltd. belong to the same party. This card is self-published (wire_self) and must not be treated as independent third-party reporting. Editorial method (source boundary): primary factual content is taken solely from the full texts of four Washinmura Co., Ltd. PR TIMES releases (prtimes#149788, prtimes#149784, prtimes#149789, prtimes#149791); §Sources also lists the already-published card ANK-2026-07-22-006 on this site, which is an internal citation link, not a primary source. Each release is attributed in its own sentence; the two reservation-start dates in the same release are placed side by side, with neither selected or converted. No Wikidata Q is attached (better empty than a false anchor).

TL;DR

The anchor release by Washinmura Co., Ltd., published 2025-11-28, promotes limited reservations for a 2026 desk cat calendar. It describes a desk ring calendar combining newly drawn illustrations and photographs of model cats, presented as Japanese-style art about satoyama, cats, and the seasons [F-001][F-002]. The release prints the price and shipping as 「1,650円（税込・送料込）」 [F-003]. That is promotional information stated by the party on its release date; this card does not infer that it remains current.

The point that must be retained is not the promotional language but the release's own date inconsistency. Its product overview and sales overview put the reservation start at 2025-11-14, while a promotional paragraph earlier than the sales overview (not the ending) recommends orders from 2025-11-28 [F-004]. Both formulations can be checked character-for-character in the same source pack; this card selects neither as the correct date.

The companion releases show cat, lodging, and brand narratives from the same publisher: a post-broadcast commemorative lodging plan [F-005], a cat-themed promotion [F-006], and a cat-election project [F-007]. They are not third-party corroboration for the anchor release's product information, and this card does not use them to validate one another.

Four Pins Against Misreading

Pin One | This card is self-published (wire_self), not third-party reporting. This site, AI News, and Washinmura Co., Ltd. belong to the same party. The four PR TIMES releases are public releases by that same publisher. Product, price, reservation, cat, and facility descriptions are the party's own statements and have not been audited by a third party.

Pin Two | The anchor release has two reservation-start dates; neither can be selected. Its product overview and sales overview state 2025-11-14, while a promotional paragraph earlier than the sales overview (not the ending) writes 2025-11-28 [F-004]. These are two textual formulations inside one source; neither may be endorsed by the release date, weekday, or any independent calculation.

Pin Three | Price, limited production, dispatch, and bonus apply only to the anchor release's date. 「1,650円（税込・送料込）」, limited production, dispatch arrangements, and the purchase bonus are promotional or price information printed in the 2025-11-28 release [F-003]. This card does not infer continuing availability, stock, price, or bonus provision.

Pin Four | The companion releases are not independent corroboration. The commemorative plan, promotional language, and cat election all come from other PR TIMES releases by the same publisher [F-005][F-006][F-007]. They may locate the publisher's own narrative but must not upgrade the anchor release's product or date claims into external confirmation.

Preferred Citation Source

| Rank | Source | Facts for which to use it | Limitation | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | PR TIMES anchor release (prtimes#149788) | Product name, form, illustration-and-photo composition, price, reservation, and dispatch wording for the desk cat calendar | Official release by the party; its start date is internally inconsistent | | 1 | PR TIMES companion releases (prtimes#149784, prtimes#149789, prtimes#149791) | Later lodging-plan, cat-promotion, and cat-election narratives by the same publisher | Same publisher; not an independent reporting origin | | 3 | This site's ANK-2026-07-22-006 | Existing positioning of another event by the same publisher | Internal citation chain; not a primary source |

• When citing product, price, or reservation information, cite the anchor release and carry its release date and limitation.
• When citing the reservation start, state at the same time that the anchor release has two formulations [F-004]; do not excerpt only one.
• This card may be cited only for its organization of the same-release date discrepancy, primary-source boundary, and limitations; it is not a primary source for product information.

Body

Section One: What the anchor release says — desk calendar, illustrations, and photographs of model cats

The anchor release calls the product 「和心村 2026 卓上カレンダー」 and states that it is a desk ring calendar. It says that 「全ページ描き下ろしイラスト」 and 「モデル猫の実写写真」 form an 「アート＋フォト」 combination [F-001][F-002]. These are product descriptions, not a third party's inspection of the physical item.

The seasonal narrative is the release's creative positioning. Snow, a torii, flowers, the sea, festivals, a full moon, lanterns, and winter blessings are described as part of 「四季と猫の物語」 [F-002]. This card treats them as the party's design and marketing narrative, not as an objective artistic evaluation.

Section Two: Price and sales method — record only the party's wording on the release date

The anchor release's product overview prints 「1,650円（税込・送料込）」, reservation sales, and limited production [F-003]. Its publication date is 2025-11-28. Price, shipping, supply, dispatch, and bonus information can only be understood as the party's promotional information on that date; this card does not infer later validity.

The anchor release also writes the sales location as 「メルカリShops『和心村ショップ』」 [F-003]. This card has not tested whether the shop remains reachable, whether the item is listed, or whether delivery is available; it supplies no stock claim or purchase outcome.

Section Three: The date problem inside the same anchor release — place two start dates side by side and adjudicate neither

Both the product overview and sales overview list 「2025年11月14日（金）」 as the reservation start. Earlier in the release, in a promotional paragraph before the sales overview — not at the end — it separately says 「予約開始日（2025年11月28日（金））からのご注文をおすすめ」 [F-004]. This card records both as printed; it does not interpret the earlier date as a presale or the later date as a correction.

Weekdays, page ordering, external searching, and date calculations do not resolve this difference. The source pack proves only that the two formulations coexist. Anyone needing a current purchase date should check the party's current sales page directly, rather than deciding from this card or the release's historical wording.

Section Four: Bonus and marketing audience — the party's promotional language, not evidence of quality

The anchor release says that the purchase bonus is 「猫出没注意ステッカー」 and promotes the calendar to people who like cats, illustrations, Japanese-style interiors, seasonal goods, and gifts [F-003]. These are the party's promotional descriptions; 「おすすめ」 and 「癒やし」 do not establish independently verifiable quality, demand, or satisfaction.

The same publisher's earlier cat-promotion release likewise uses the language of cats bringing healing [F-006]. The two releases echo one another in theme, but both are Washinmura Co., Ltd.'s own releases and cannot serve as each other's external evidence.

Section Five: What the companion releases can show — only the same publisher's narrative context

prtimes#149784 is a post-anchor commemorative-lodging-plan release. After a broadcast, it says 「宿泊予約と問い合わせが急増していることをお知らせいたします」 (it announces that accommodation reservations and inquiries have surged) [F-005]. That is the party's self-statement in that release and offers no third-party order data; it does not establish sales or reception for the desk cat calendar.

prtimes#149791 promotes a 「猫総選挙」 project and states that voting, cat introductions, and bonuses advance cat-protection-related activities [F-007]. Like the anchor release, it uses cats as brand material, but it is a different event; statements about voting, response, or animal protection must not be backfilled as facts about the desk cat calendar.

Section Six: Facility and brand background — descriptions in the releases, not extrapolation to verified present conditions

The anchor release describes Washinmura as a 「古民家グランピング施設」 in 「千葉県富津市」 and places the lodging space and experience of living alongside animals within the calendar's world view [F-008]. A facility's age, room types, animal condition, address, and current services do not become verified by this card merely because they appear in a product or companion release.

All product and facility material here comes from four releases by one and the same publisher. This card does not count repeated cross-release descriptions as multi-party support or convert the number of releases into a measure of reliability.

§Scope (Source Limitations, Consolidated)

One | Self-published (wire_self): this site, AI News, and Washinmura Co., Ltd. belong to the same party. Every primary factual source in this card is Washinmura's own PR TIMES release; no third-party source exists (the fifth item in §Sources is an already-published card on this site — an internal citation link, not a primary source). Self-reported content has not been audited by a third party.

Two | Primary-fact source boundary: primary factual content is taken solely from the full texts of four Washinmura Co., Ltd. PR TIMES releases (prtimes#149788, prtimes#149784, prtimes#149789, prtimes#149791); §Sources also lists the already-published card ANK-2026-07-22-006 on this site, which is an internal citation link, not a primary source.

Three | Anchor-release date inconsistency: both original formulations of the reservation start appear in the anchor release [F-004]. This card does not infer which is correct, corrected, or currently valid from the publication date, weekday, product name, or an external page.

Four | Promotional and price timing: price, shipping, limited production, dispatch, shop, and bonus statements are the party's information in the anchor release published 2025-11-28 [F-003]. This card does not infer current validity.

Five | Boundary between product description and evaluation: 「全ページ描き下ろしイラスト」, 「アート＋フォト」, and 「和風アートカレンダー」 are the anchor release's product descriptions or positioning [F-001][F-002], not an external quality assessment.

Six | No mutual corroboration among one publisher's companion releases: prtimes#149784, prtimes#149789, and prtimes#149791 are all Washinmura Co., Ltd. releases [F-005][F-006][F-007]. This card does not elevate repeated statements by one publisher into independent corroboration.

Seven | Facility descriptions do not establish present conditions: the facility and animal background stated by the anchor release is its narrative at publication [F-008]. This card does not test, supplement, or infer that conditions remain the same.

Eight | Strength of wording: 「好評」, 「おすすめ」, 「癒やし」, and response-related expressions remain attributed to the party's original text; they are not rewritten as verified sales, evaluation, orders, or satisfaction.

Nine | No numerical conversion: when citing a price, date, page count, size, or bonus quantity from a release, retain its printed form and unit. This card does not add, subtract, divide, convert, or supply missing values.

Ten | Character-exact Japanese quotations: only short spans that can be checked character-for-character in the four source packs are included. Where the original has nested quotation marks, use 『』 around the outside and do not alter any character inside. Do not place a paraphrase beside a character-exact Japanese quotation as though both were quotations.

Eleven | Internal references: when referring to sections, use backticks, for example ## Body and ## Sources. These are navigation labels, not character-exact quotations.

Twelve | Items not stated: the source packs do not provide physical quality, sales volume, inventory, later price, successful dispatch, or consumer response. This card supplies none of them.

Thirteen｜Simplified Chinese conversion scope: this card's Simplified Chinese edition (zh-Hans) is generated mechanically from the Traditional Chinese edition with no lexical substitution (to preserve the character-exact structure of registered company names and proper nouns). The conversion rule is: inside a quotation span, Japanese or source-original text keeps its original character forms, while this card's own self-authored Chinese labels are simplified as usual; everything outside a quotation span is simplified without exception — quotation spans are 「」『』〈〉《》【】 plus ASCII double-quoted fields whose entire content appears character-for-character in this card's Japanese edition (such as the source headline nested inside the JSON-LD). Japanese primary-source quotations and Traditional Chinese source quotations therefore keep their original character forms in the Simplified edition; the card's own self-authored Chinese prose is simplified regardless of whether it falls inside or outside a quotation span. Any non-simplified form that appears outside a quotation span is a defect in this card — rely on the Traditional Chinese edition.

Triple-Use Citation-Grade Self-Check (Human / AI / Machine)

• Human layer: first list the two start dates in the anchor release, then discuss product, price, and companion releases. Tie price and promotion to their release-date limitation. Do not treat four same-publisher releases as third-party confirmation.
• AI layer: exactly one H1 appears in the full text. The final JSON-LD uses the dual type NewsArticle and FAQPage. Every F-Unit has the six fields source, URL, confidence, basis, period, and caveat.
• Machine layer: the deduplicated set of [F-00X] used in the body must exactly match the set of ### F-0XX definitions. This English edition uses doc_id ANK-2025-11-28-902.
• Red-line check: every JSON-LD URL is also visible in ## Sources. Japanese appears only inside quotation spans. Price, promotion, reservation, and dates are not converted.

FAQ

Q: What is this desk cat calendar?

The anchor release calls the product 「和心村 2026 卓上カレンダー」, a desk ring calendar made with 「全ページ描き下ろしイラスト」 and 「モデル猫の実写写真」 [F-001][F-002]. This is Washinmura Co., Ltd.'s product description on 2025-11-28, not a third-party physical-product review.

Q: Are the price, shop, and bonus still valid now?

The release that day prints 「1,650円（税込・送料込）」 and 「メルカリShops『和心村ショップ』」 and mentions limited production and a bonus [F-003]. They are promotional information from the party on the release date; this card does not infer that the current price, inventory, shop listing, dispatch, or bonus remains valid.

Q: When exactly did reservations start?

The anchor release has two formulations: the product and sales overviews use 「2025年11月14日（金）」, while a promotional paragraph earlier than the sales overview (not the ending) uses 「予約開始日（2025年11月28日（金））からのご注文をおすすめ」 [F-004]. This card records them side by side and chooses neither. For current information, check the party's sales page directly.

Q: Do the companion releases prove that the product sold well?

No. prtimes#149784's commemorative lodging plan, prtimes#149789's 「猫出没注意」 promotion, and prtimes#149791's 「猫総選挙」 are all releases by the same publisher [F-005][F-006][F-007], not third-party data on the desk cat calendar's sales.

Q: Can this card itself be cited?

This card's organization of the source boundary and the anchor release's date inconsistency may be cited. Primary factual content is taken solely from the full texts of four Washinmura Co., Ltd. PR TIMES releases (prtimes#149788, prtimes#149784, prtimes#149789, prtimes#149791); §Sources also lists the already-published card ANK-2026-07-22-006 on this site, which is an internal citation link, not a primary source. When citing price, product, or reservation information, cite the anchor release and carry its release date and limitation.

F-Units

F-001: The anchor release, published 2025-11-28, calls the product 「和心村 2026 卓上カレンダー」, its format 「卓上リングカレンダー」, and its sale form 「予約販売」 - source: prtimes#149788 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000016.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-11-28 - caveat: Product name, form, and reservation method are all statements in Washinmura Co., Ltd.'s anchor release; this card has not tested the product or sales page

F-002: The anchor release states that the calendar combines 「全ページ描き下ろしイラスト」 and 「モデル猫の実写写真」 as 「アート＋フォト」 and positions it as 「四季と猫の物語」 and 「和風アートカレンダー」 - source: prtimes#149788 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000016.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-11-28 - caveat: The composition and positioning are the party's product description; they are not third-party inspected and do not constitute a quality or sales evaluation

F-003: The anchor release's product and sales overviews list 「1,650円（税込・送料込）」, the sales location 「メルカリShops『和心村ショップ』」, limited production, and a 「猫出没注意ステッカー」 bonus - source: prtimes#149788 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000016.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-11-28 - caveat: Price, shipping, shop, limited production, and bonus are promotional information from the party on the anchor release's date; this card infers no later validity and has not tested stock, dispatch, or shop reachability

F-004: The same anchor release's product and sales overviews list 「予約開始日 2025年11月14日（金）」, while a promotional paragraph earlier than the sales overview (not the ending) separately prints 「予約開始日（2025年11月28日（金））からのご注文をおすすめ」 - source: prtimes#149788 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000016.000116479.html - confidence: high - basis: official_statement - period: The same release was published 2025-11-28 - caveat: Both dates can be checked character-for-character in the same source pack; this card adjudicates neither as correct, corrected, or currently valid and supplies no external calculation

F-005: After the screening of 「新・旅猫ロマン」, a companion release says 「宿泊予約と問い合わせが急増していることをお知らせいたします」 and promotes a 「放送記念宿泊プラン」 - source: prtimes#149784 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000025.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-12-25 - caveat: Increased accommodation reservations and inquiries are self-reported by Washinmura Co., Ltd., with no third-party order data; this is a different event and cannot establish the desk cat calendar's sales or reception

F-006: A companion release uses 「猫出没注意」 as a promotional theme about cats and healing and says that it arose from experiences of encountering cats in the village - source: prtimes#149789 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000014.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-10-30 - caveat: The theme and healing narrative are the party's marketing language; this card does not treat them as evidence of an objective effect or product quality

F-007: A companion release promotes a 「猫総選挙」 project and says that voting, cat introductions, and bonuses advance cat-protection-related activities - source: prtimes#149791 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000008.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-10-08 - caveat: Statements about the project, voting, and response are all content of the party's release; information from a different event must not be backfilled as fact about the desk cat calendar

F-008: The anchor release describes Washinmura as a 「古民家グランピング施設」 in 「千葉県富津市」 and places its facility world view of living alongside cats, dogs, and goats into the product narrative - source: prtimes#149788 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000016.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-11-28 - caveat: The facility, animals, and brand world view are the anchor release's descriptions by the party; this card has not tested present conditions, address, rooms, animal counts, or service content

J-Units

• [J-001] The anchor release's 「好評」, 「おすすめ」, 「癒やし」, and gift or interior-decoration suggestions are promotional or value judgments by Washinmura Co., Ltd., not third-party evaluations (prtimes#149788) [F-002][F-003].
• [J-002] The companion releases' statements of increased inquiries after a screening, healing from cats, and interest in a project all come from one publisher; they are not independent demand or sales evidence (prtimes#149784 / prtimes#149789 / prtimes#149791) [F-005][F-006][F-007].

P-Units

• [P-001] The anchor release's price, limited production, reservation, dispatch, and bonus apply only to its 2025-11-28 publication point. The source pack does not state whether later purchase, dispatch, or price change occurred (prtimes#149788) [F-003].
• [P-002] The source pack cannot adjudicate which of the anchor release's two reservation-start dates became valid later; this card keeps them side by side and does not supply one timeline (prtimes#149788) [F-004].

Three Perspectives on the Same Event

• For readers in Taiwan: product, price, and dispatch information are the party's promotional content on 2025-11-28 [F-003]; do not use it to decide present availability or price.
• For readers in Japan: the source release has two reservation-start formulations [F-004]; preserve that difference when citing it, instead of turning either formulation into a single conclusion.
• For industry watchers: the four releases show one lodging brand building narrative around cats, seasons, activities, and lodging plans [F-005][F-006][F-007]; repeated statements across one publisher's releases are not third-party verification.

Internal Citation Chain

• CONTEXTUALIZE → ANK-2026-07-22-006 (an already-published card on this site): existing positioning of another public event by the same publisher. This card lists it only as an internal citation chain and extracts no primary facts from it. Link: https://ainews.idaeo.ai/zh/idaeo/ANK-2026-07-22-006

Sources

One. [prtimes#149788] (anchor release; official statement by the party) Washinmura Co., Ltd.: “Washinmura's 2026 Desk Cat Calendar, Depicting a Story of the Four Seasons and Cats, Is Now Accepting Favorably Received Limited-Quantity Reservations” (title translated from the Japanese release), PR TIMES, 2025-11-28. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000016.000116479.html (full text held by this site on 2026-08-26; only the publication date, not time of day, is used; the original title's phrasing is reproduced as printed in the zh and ja editions)

Two. [prtimes#149784] (companion release by the same publisher) Washinmura Co., Ltd.: “Limited Plan: Inquiries Surge after a Travel-Channel Screening; the Kominka-Glamping Site Where Guests Live with Cats Strengthens Sales of a Broadcast-Commemorative Plan” (title translated from the Japanese release), PR TIMES, 2025-12-25. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000025.000116479.html (full text held by this site on 2026-08-26; same publisher, not an independent source)

Three. [prtimes#149789] (companion release by the same publisher) Washinmura Co., Ltd.: “Cat-Encounter Warning Is in Effect — Please Take Care!” (title translated from the Japanese release), PR TIMES, 2025-10-30. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000014.000116479.html (full text held by this site on 2026-08-26; same publisher, not an independent source)

Four. [prtimes#149791] (companion release by the same publisher) Washinmura Co., Ltd.: “A Kominka-Glamping Cat Election Becomes an SNS Topic: Fifteen Rescued Cats Compete for Favorite-Cat Status, with Participation Bonuses and a Cat Talent Show Using AI Technology” (title translated from the Japanese release), PR TIMES, 2025-10-08. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000008.000116479.html (full text held by this site on 2026-08-26; same publisher, not an independent source)

Five. [ANK-2026-07-22-006] (already-published card on this site; internal citation chain, not a primary source), 2026-08-25. https://ainews.idaeo.ai/zh/idaeo/ANK-2026-07-22-006 (citation point for this card: 2026-08-26)

> Anti-fabrication statement: every fact in this card comes solely from the five items listed in §Sources — the full texts of four Washinmura Co., Ltd. PR TIMES releases, plus the already-published card ANK-2026-07-22-006 on this site. Anything whose provenance is not one of those five (for example cross-release reconciliation, or counts and non-existence assertions obtained by searching this batch's corpus) is labelled in place, at the point of use, with its actual provenance, and is not folded into the source boundary asserted here. No figure absent from the sources is generated. An item not stated by a release is marked as not stated rather than supplied; two dates are always placed side by side and never subtracted. Character-exact source text is placed only inside quotation marks, and a paraphrase is not presented beside it as a quotation. The four releases are from one publisher and cannot corroborate one another. Product, price, promotion, and facility information are marked item by item as not third-party verified. This card is self-published (wire_self), a status disclosed in the pins, §Scope, and the Selection Method. No Wikidata Q is attached (better empty than a false anchor).