Kinryūzan Temple, Asakusa
Utagawa Hiroshige, 1856
$90
Print check at 8 x 12 in: 207 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 1.8% 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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Snow falls on Asakusa: seen from within the great gate — its giant votive lantern hanging into the frame overhead — the temple approach runs white between vermilion buildings toward the main hall, worshippers dotted under umbrellas. The series’ beloved winter devotion: Edo’s most popular temple on a snow morning, the crowd thinned to a few faithful, red architecture burning against the white. You stand inside the gate looking out — the huge lantern crops the top of the sheet from above, an interior’s view of an entire snowbound precinct. The temple keeps every season. Snow is the year’s quietest offering.
- Maker
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Date
- 1856
- Medium of the original
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00397
| 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 | 207 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.8% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | 140 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 138 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 103 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 93 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 82 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 69 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 | 41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,686 x 2,484 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 78, lights 230 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 3.68
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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