Nippon Shuzō — Woman in Blue Kimono, c. 1915
USC Libraries, hosted on Wikimedia Commons., 1915
$270
Print check at 18 x 24 in: 225 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 8% 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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A high-resolution sake advertisement from a Yonezawa-area brewer, part of the same bijin-ga beauty-print tradition as the Sakura Beer poster — a woman in a blue kimono, printed by Ichida Offset Printing Co. Whether this specific brewer is still trading was not independently confirmed in this house's research pass — held live/uncertain rather than guessed dead, the conservative default. The print quality — this is the single best-resolution scan to come out of the Japan research pass, from a university East Asian poster collection rather than a dealer or fan reproduction. Sold as art, labeled honestly as uncertain.
- Maker
- USC Libraries, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
- Date
- 1915
- Medium of the original
- Poster
- Original held by
- USC Libraries, East Asian poster collection
- Credit
- USC Libraries, East Asian poster collection · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00586
| Picture | 18 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 19.6 x 25.6 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 | 489 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.4% |
| 12 x 16 in | 337 | Excellent | Trimmed 8% |
| 12 x 18 in | 326 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.4% |
| 16 x 24 in | 244 | Excellent | Trimmed 3.4% |
| 18 x 24 in | 225 | Excellent | Trimmed 8% |
| 20 x 30 in | 195 | Good | Trimmed 3.4% |
| 24 x 36 in | 163 | Good | Trimmed 3.4% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 135 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 112 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 4,050 x 5,871 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 49, lights 197 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 9.74
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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