Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival
Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 17% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyFrom a window above the Yoshiwara, a white cat watches a festival procession cross distant ricefields toward Mount Fuji. One of the most beloved sheets of Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, and the cat is its entire point of view.
- Maker
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Date
- 1857
- Medium of the original
- Woodblock print
- Original held by
- Library of Congress, Washington
- Credit
- Library of Congress, Washington · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01884
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 | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 85 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 34 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 17 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 684 x 1,024 px, srgb, sRGB IEC61966-2.1
- Tone
- Darks 37, lights 177 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 36.97
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