Cormorant Fishing at the Nagara River, Gifu — Sugiura Hisui, 1929
Sugiura Hisui, 1929
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 110 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buySugiura Hisui’s travel poster for cormorant fishing and summer pleasure on the Nagara River, Gifu Prefecture. Same commercial-design hand as the subway poster, aimed at leisure travel rather than infrastructure — Sugiura worked both registers for the same modernizing Japan. The firelight of the cormorant boats rendered as flat warm shapes against a cool river. A very old fishing method, sold as a very modern night out.
- Maker
- Sugiura Hisui
- Date
- 1929
- Medium of the original
- Travel poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00876
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 | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 110 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | 100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | 80 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | 50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 48 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 40 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | 36 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 29 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 24 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 20 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 880 x 1,200 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 37, lights 207 of 255; 0.2% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 25.6
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