New Year’s Eve, by legend: the foxes of the Kantō gather under the old hackberry tree at Ōji, each breathing a pale flame, to dress themselves before proceeding to Inari’s shrine — the fires multiplying away into the dark fields. The one purely supernatural scene in the series and its closing note: farmers watched from a distance on this night and counted the foxfires to divine the coming year’s harvest. Each fox is lit only by its own flame — the light touches muzzle and breast and nothing else; far across the black fields, more fires approach in twos and threes. One night a year, the fields belong to the foxes.

Maker: Utagawa Hiroshige
Date: 1857
Medium of the original: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00399

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	210	Excellent	Trimmed 0.4%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
12 x 18 in	140 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
16 x 24 in	105 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
20 x 30 in	84 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
24 x 36 in	70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
40 x 60 in	42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged