Kyoto: The Great Bridge at Sanjō
Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1833–34
$82
Print check at 10 x 8 in: 152 dpi, good. Trimmed 9.3% 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 journey ends: travelers, porters, and pilgrims cross the long wooden span of the Sanjō Bridge over the Kamo River into the imperial capital, the Higashiyama hills soft and green beyond the rooftops. The final sheet of the series — arrival, after fifty-three stations. And a famous tell hides in it: Hiroshige drew the bridge’s celebrated stone pilings as plain wood, a slip taken as evidence he composed the capital from other men’s pictures rather than from the road itself. The bridge fills the sheet edge to edge, everyone on it mid-crossing; beyond the far bank, Kyoto is rooftops dissolving into the green of the hills — a destination kept just out of reach even now. Every arrival is imagined long before it is reached.
- 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-00391
| Picture | 10 x 8 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 11.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | 152 | Good | Trimmed 9.3% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | 140 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | 111 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 12 in | 101 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | 93 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | 76 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 16 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | 67 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | 50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 24 in | 46 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 40 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,686 x 1,223 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 65, lights 214 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 9.31
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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