Takashima Ohisa
Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1793
$90
Print check at 8 x 12 in: 205 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 2.5% 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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Ohisa of the Takashimaya — the cracker-shop owner’s daughter whose face drew customers from across the city — in half-length, composed and self-possessed. She was one of the celebrated “three beauties of the Kansei era”: a shop girl made nationally famous by prints, celebrity manufactured in woodblock a century and a half before the photograph. The crest on her kimono is the shop’s as much as hers — the portrait doubles as the Takashimaya’s advertisement, and Edo read it exactly that way. To be seen once in Edo was to be seen ten thousand times.
- Maker
- Kitagawa Utamaro
- Date
- c. 1793
- Medium of the original
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00402
| 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 | 205 | Excellent | Trimmed 2.5% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 13% 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 | 102 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 2,466 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 55, lights 230 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 8.45
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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