Plum Estate, Kameido
Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857
$90
Print check at 8 x 12 in: 206 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 1.8% 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 garden’s most famous tree — the "Sleeping Dragon" plum — fills the entire foreground, its dark trunk and branches cropping the view, while strollers admire the blossom in the garden beyond and the sky flushes red behind the white flowers. Van Gogh copied this print in oil, red sky and all — one of the two Hiroshige designs he set directly on canvas, and proof of how radical this close-up seeing looked to Europe. You are made to look through the tree, not at it: the trunk slices the sheet and the garden exists only in the gaps between its branches, against a sky wiped from white to red in a single gradation. Stand close enough to one tree and it becomes the whole world.
- Maker
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Date
- 1857
- Medium of the original
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00393
| 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 206 | Excellent | Trimmed 1.8% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | 140 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 137 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 103 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 93 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 82 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 68 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 | 41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,686 x 2,483 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 67, lights 239 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 7.66
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
Shipping for this piece to a US address is $24.80, the print room’s own rate, charged per piece. Checkout shows the total before you pay.
Every piece is printed after you order it, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and ships from there. For now we ship to US addresses only.
A piece that arrives damaged, misprinted or in the wrong size is replaced at our cost. The details: shipping and returns and replacements.
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