Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival
Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857
$90
Print check at 8 x 12 in: 204 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 3% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $24.80 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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From inside a room in the Yoshiwara, a white cat sits in the lattice window watching the Torinomachi festival procession file across the distant ricefields toward Ōtori Shrine, Fuji pale on the horizon. The most quietly devastating design in the series: the room’s occupant — a courtesan on the quarter’s one busy holiday — is never shown, her whole life implied by the objects left on the sill and the cat that watches the world for her. The festival exists only as a line of tiny figures on the dike; everything near — the cat, the lattice, the hairpins by the window — belongs to the room, and the room belongs to someone we never see. The festival passes. The cat watches. The room stays.
- Maker
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Date
- 1857
- Medium of the original
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00394
| Picture | 8 x 12 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 9.6 x 13.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 204 | Excellent | Trimmed 3% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | 140 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 136 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 102 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 93 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 81 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 68 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 46 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 40 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,686 x 2,452 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 54, lights 229 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 14.08
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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