A black cat arches and hisses, every hair up, in Shōtei's shin-hanga print of the 1920s. The companion mood to his White Cat — the same brush, the opposite temperament.

Maker: Takahashi Shōtei
Date: c. 1926
Medium of the original: Woodblock print
Original held by: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Credit: Los Angeles County Museum of Art · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01885

As chosen: 12 x 8 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	12 x 8 in
Outside size	13.6 x 9.6 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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
12 x 8 in	160	Good	Trimmed 3%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
14 x 11 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
16 x 12 in	109 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 12 in	106 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
24 x 16 in	80 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 18 in	73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	64 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
36 x 24 in	53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 30 in	43 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	36 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	32 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

1,920 x 1,319 px, srgb, Adobe RGB (1998)

Tone

Darks 2, lights 242 of 255; 0% clipped light, 1.9% clipped dark

Colour

0.2% vivid

Sharpness

4.24

Notes

Colour profile Adobe RGB (1998), converted to sRGB for the screen and the print
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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