The record behind the sheet in your tube: the file we worked from, what we measured, which impression we chose and why, what we are allowed to sell, and the framing dimensions for this sheet.
The sheet you have
- Work
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), Tekona Shrine and Tsugihashi Bridge through the Maples at Mount Mama (Mama no momiji Tekona no yashiro Tsugihashi), from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, first month of 1857
- Object
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and colour on paper; sheet 35.5 × 24.2 cm
- Held by
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, gift of Louis W. Hill, Jr.
- Accession
- 96.146.193 (Mia object 57878)
- File
- The museum's own image, 3468 × 5039 px
- Crop
- [301, 312, 2947 × 4523] px — trimmed 110 px inside the printed block on all four sides
- Printed at
- 40 × 50 cm sheet: image 20.67 × 31.72 cm, original scale, 1:1 — 362 dpi available. Single format: at the 300 dpi floor the file carries no larger sheet without upscaling.
Which impression, and why this one
This design is a band of red maple hung across the top of the sheet with the ferry and the shrine small underneath, and its whole effect rests on a strip of pink at the horizon that almost every surviving impression has lost. The Minneapolis sheet still carries it. That is why this one comes from Minneapolis while most of the series comes from Chicago — the copy is chosen per work, not per collection.
Why this sheet is trimmed
The four corners of this impression are cut at an angle and the block edge runs out into bare paper. Reproducing the sheet whole would mean reproducing the cut corners, so the file is cropped 110 pixels — about eight millimetres at source scale — inside the measured block on all four sides, to the largest clean rectangle inside the printed picture. Both cartouches and the signature are inside the crop. The four corners were checked again at 1:1 on 2 September 2026 and all of them sit in clean colour, roughly 85 pixels clear of the chamfers.
1:1 refers to the scale, not the extent. The picture is printed at the size Hiroshige's block printed it; it is simply not the whole sheet.
What we are allowed to sell
The work. Hiroshige died in 1858 and the sheet was published in 1857: public domain in every market we ship to.
The photograph. Published by the Minneapolis Institute of Art as public domain, taken from the museum's own file.
What we do not claim. A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks. Not a woodblock print, and not sold as one.
Framing this sheet
- 40 × 50 cm sheet
- A 40 × 50 cm frame, no mat. Nearest standard 16 × 20 in. Margins 9.67 cm each side, 8.50 above, 9.78 below — the widest borders in the shop, because the trimmed picture is small on its sheet.
- If you mat it
- Go one frame size up and cut the window three millimetres inside the printed image on every side. Do not trim the sheet.
Please measure before you buy or cut. These figures describe the file we print from. Sheets are cut by machine to about a millimetre and frames vary between makers. We replace a print that arrives damaged or wrong; we cannot replace a frame or mat that turns out not to fit.
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