Hakone: The Lake
Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1833–34
$90
Print check at 12 x 8 in: 155 dpi, good. Trimmed 2.2% 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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The road’s hardest passage: a daimyō procession threads the Hakone pass as a line of tiny figures, jagged crags towering in bold faceted color above the deep blue of Lake Ashi, Fuji white and small beyond. Hakone was the Tōkaidō’s most feared barrier — the steepest climb and the strictest checkpoint — and Hiroshige answers it with the boldest invention in the series, a mountain broken into planes of raw color a century before anyone called such seeing modern. The crags are pure invention — no outline holds them, only faceted patches of green, blue, ochre and rust; the procession is reduced to ant-small figures swallowed by the pass. The mountain is crossed one small figure at a time.
- Maker
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Date
- c. 1833–34
- Medium of the original
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00382
| 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | 155 | Good | Trimmed 2.2% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | 105 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | 103 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 77 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | 62 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 51 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 35 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 31 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,864 x 1,270 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 71, lights 222 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 14.22
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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