Utagawa Hiroshige, Maples at Mama, 1857 - the printed image trimmed to a clean rectangle, red maple leaves above the Tekona shrine and the winding river

Utagawa Hiroshige – Maples at Mama, 1857 | Giclée Print

40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in — Original size, 1:1
CHF 59.00
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Utagawa Hiroshige, Maples at Mama, 1857 - the printed image trimmed to a clean rectangle, red maple leaves above the Tekona shrine and the winding river
  • Utagawa Hiroshige, Maples at Mama, 1857 - the printed image trimmed to a clean rectangle, red maple leaves above the Tekona shrine and the winding river
  • Hiroshige's Maples at Mama as a 40 × 50 cm giclée print, unframed, hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard
  • Detail at actual print size: the maple branch, the hand-wiped gradation of the sky and the paper grain of the impression
  • The 40 × 50 cm giclée print of Hiroshige's Maples at Mama, unframed, shown flat with its white border
  • Scale diagram: the 40 × 50 cm sheet hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard, printed image area 21 × 32 cm
  • Utagawa Hiroshige, Maples at Mama, 1857 - the printed image trimmed to a clean rectangle, red maple leaves above the Tekona shrine and the winding river
  • Hiroshige's Maples at Mama as a 40 × 50 cm giclée print, unframed, hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard
  • Detail at actual print size: the maple branch, the hand-wiped gradation of the sky and the paper grain of the impression
  • The 40 × 50 cm giclée print of Hiroshige's Maples at Mama, unframed, shown flat with its white border
  • Scale diagram: the 40 × 50 cm sheet hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard, printed image area 21 × 32 cm
Utagawa Hiroshige – Maples at Mama, 1857 | Giclée Print

Utagawa Hiroshige – Maples at Mama, 1857 | Giclée Print

CHF 59.00
Size40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in — Original size, 1:1

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Red maple leaves hang across the whole top of the sheet, so close that the branch is cut off by the frame. Underneath, far below and very small, a teahouse, a pine, the roofs of the Tekona shrine and a strip of water. The eye is put where a person standing under the tree would have it — a piece of framing so modern it looks like a photograph taken by accident.

Hiroshige made it in the first month of 1857 for One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, his last great series. Mama, in what is now Chiba, was a half-day trip from the city and famous for its autumn colour. The deep red is a printed gradation, wiped onto the block by hand before each pull, so no two impressions are quite alike.

What this is. A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks. It is not a woodblock print and is not sold as one — a woodblock print is pulled by hand from cut cherry blocks, and the good impressions are in museums.

Scale
Original sheet: 35.5 × 24.2 cm / 14.0 × 9.5 in
40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in — original size, 1:1. Image 21.09 × 32.36 cm.

The print
Giclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The paper tone of the original is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.

Provenance
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), Maples at Mama (Mama no momiji), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), 1857, 1st month; colour woodblock print, ōban, 35.5 × 24.2 cm.

Where this comes from
The museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: the record for this sheet.

Further reading
Why This Print Is Not Bigger

The record behind this sheet — which impression we chose and why, what we measured, what we are allowed to sell, and the framing dimensions for this sheet.

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