Yui: Satta Peak
Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1833–34
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 20% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe cliff path over Satta Peak: two tiny travelers cling to the pass and peer over the precipice, Suruga Bay a sheet of deep blue far below, Fuji rising clear across the water. The Satta pass gave the Tōkaidō its most celebrated view of Fuji and its most dangerous footing at once — Hiroshige puts you on the edge with the travelers rather than safely before a vista. One traveler leans out over the drop while his companion hangs back; the pines grow bent away from the sea wind, and the bay is one unbroken field of blue. The finest view on the road asks the worst footing.
- 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-00386
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 | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | 134 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 19% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | 89 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 67 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | 53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 20% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 44 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | 26 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,686 x 1,074 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 74, lights 229 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 16.29
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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