Nihonbashi: Morning Scene
Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1833–34
$235
Print check at 24 x 16 in: 159 dpi, good. Trimmed 2% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Dawn at Nihonbashi: a daimyō procession steps onto the bridge behind its spear-bearers while fishmongers scatter with the morning catch — the first sheet of the series and the first step of the three-hundred-mile road to Kyoto. Nihonbashi was the zero-marker of Japan, the point from which every distance on every road was measured; Hiroshige opens here at first light, and the series that follows became the best-selling landscape set in the history of the medium. The spear tips crest the arc of the bridge before the marchers do — the procession announced by its silhouette; at left, the fish market that fed Edo is already at work. Every road in Japan begins at this bridge. So does this one.
- 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-00380
| Picture | 24 x 16 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 25.6 x 17.6 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 | 318 | Excellent | Trimmed 2% |
| 16 x 12 in | 216 | Excellent | Trimmed 9.3% |
| 18 x 12 in | 212 | Excellent | Trimmed 2% |
| 24 x 16 in | 159 | Good | Trimmed 2% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | 144 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | 127 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 106 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 86 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 72 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,818 x 2,598 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 80, lights 222 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 7.48
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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