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Utagawa Yoshishige

Tamagawa

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Regionally Produced. Reduced Impact.

Your print is produced locally in your region (US, EU, UK, Australia) and ships directly to you.
Shorter distances mean less environmental impact.
Production: 1-3 business days
Shipping: 2-4 business days

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Fine Art Giclée Print

Printed using the Giclée process, the standard used by galleries and museums for fine art reproduction. Each print is produced individually to order.

Paper: Enhanced Matte Art paper. A heavyweight 200gsm stock with a smooth, natural white finish. The matte surface removes glare and holds detail well across both highlights and shadow.

Inks: Pigment-based archival inks, chosen for their colour depth and long-term stability when displayed indoors.

Frame: Solid wood frame with a satin-laminated finish.

Stretched Canvas Print

Printed onto 400gsm artist-grade cotton canvas, a finely woven substrate that holds fine detail and tonal depth well, giving prints a tactile, gallery-style finish. Rated for over 200 years of display permanence indoors.

Canvas: Hand-stretched over a 38mm frame built from European kiln-dried, knotless pine. The stretcher bars are finger-jointed for strength, with corner wedges added on larger formats to keep the canvas taut over time.

Inks: Printed using latex and UVgel inks, for a durable, fade-resistant finish.

Hanging: Canvas prints don't come with hanging hardware. They're designed to sit flush against the wall on a single nail or screw, so no fixings are needed or included.

Global Delivery

Orders are fulfilled from print facilities near your location to reduce shipping time, import tariffs, and environmental impact. Your print arrives carefully packaged.

Fulfillment from: UK, EU, US, Australia

Packaging: Protective cardboard packaging

Framed Prints — Ready to Hang

Your framed print arrives ready to display, with hanging hardware pre-fitted to the frame (a sawtooth hanger or cobra hook, depending on size). Simply hang using a single nail or screw.

If you'd prefer a renter-friendly option, Command Strips fixed along the edge of the frame work well too. As a rough guide, use around 4 per frame for A3, and 6 per frame for A2 and larger.

Canvas — Sits Flush, No Hardware Needed

Our canvas prints are stretched over a solid wooden frame and designed to sit flush against the wall, so they don't come with hanging hardware, and they don't need it. A single nail or screw is enough for most sizes. For larger canvases, we'd suggest two fixings spaced across the width, for a level and secure hang.

Command Strips are also a good renter-friendly option for lighter canvases — just check the weight rating before use.

Caring for Your Print

Keep away from direct sunlight and reflected light (mirrors, glass) to preserve colour over time. Display at room temperature in a stable, moisture-free environment, away from direct heat sources such as radiators or fireplaces.
Tamagawa

Utagawa Yoshishige

Utagawa Yoshishige (active circa 1831 to 1860), a lesser-known figure within the Utagawa school of Japanese woodblock printmaking, is remembered almost entirely for one remarkable act of homage. In 1848, more than a decade after Utagawa Hiroshige's Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō had become one of the defining print series of the era, popular both in Japan and among European Impressionist artists, Yoshishige reimagined it through an entirely different medium. Working with bonkei artist Kimura Tōsen, he had each of the fifty-three stations along the Tōkaidō road rebuilt in miniature, tiny sculpted landscapes of terrain, water, and rock, assembled inside bowls in the traditional Japanese art of bonkei, a close cousin of bonsai and tray gardening. Yoshishige then drew and printed these miniature scenes as woodblock prints of their own, publishing fifty-six in total across two volumes as The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō as Potted Landscapes. Look closely and Hiroshige's original travellers reappear, dressed and occupied exactly as before, now standing inside painted sand and sculpted clay rather than a real landscape: a print of a miniature of a print, tribute folded inside tribute. No trace of the original bonkei survives, not the landscapes themselves nor any record of how they were built. Everything known of them today exists only because Yoshishige drew and printed what stood in front of him, the only record of a set of miniature worlds that otherwise left nothing behind.

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