Kokusenpū Riki — the “Black Whirlwind,” the novel’s berserker — storms into the fight with an axe in each fist. Bakin’s translations had made the Water Margin Edo’s favorite novel, and readers loved its wildest hero best: loyal beyond reason, violent beyond restraint, and drawn by Kuniyoshi at maximum. The silhouette is built from the two axe-arcs — the figure carved as pure motion, nothing at rest anywhere on the sheet. Loyalty, with an axe in each hand.

Maker: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Date: c. 1827–30
Medium of the original: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00412

As chosen: 8 x 12 in, art print, classic frame
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.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	201	Excellent	Trimmed 4.6%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
12 x 16 in	140 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 18 in	134 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
16 x 24 in	100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	93 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	80 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
24 x 36 in	67 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	40 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged