Utagawa Kunisada I & Utagawa Hiroshige II – Takanawa in Winter, 1862 | Giclée Print

A woman raises one hand to her brow against the light, a blue cloth tied over her hair, her padded winter coat printed with a wave pattern. Above her, in a fan-shaped opening, is the reason the sheet is called Takanawa: the shore south of Edo under snow, the roofs of the post station white, the bay grey-blue and full of masts, and the far bank a thin pink line at the horizon.

Two hands made it. Kunisada drew the figure — he was the most sought-after portraitist of the late Edo period and by 1862 an old man. Hiroshige II drew the landscape in the fan. The sheet belongs to the series «Famous Places of the Eastern Capital in the Four Seasons», in which the figure carries the season and the cartouche carries the place.

What this is. A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks from the Rijksmuseum’s own open-access photograph of the woodblock print. It is not a woodblock print and is not sold as one.

Scale
Original: 35.6 × 25.3 cm — colour woodcut on paper, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

• 30 × 40 cm / 11.8 × 15.7 in — original size, 1:1. Image 25.02 × 35.60 cm.
• 40 × 50 cm / 15.7 × 19.7 in — enlarged, 1.22× original. Image 30.60 × 43.55 cm.

The print
Giclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, centred on the sheet. The colour of the museum’s file is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.

Provenance
Utagawa Kunisada I (Japanese, 1786–1865) and Utagawa Hiroshige II (Japanese, 1826–1869), Takanawa in Winter, from the series «Tōto shiki meisho tsukushi», 1862; block cutter Koizumi hori Sen, publisher Uoya Eikichi.

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