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Japanese Woodblock Prints
Plum Garden at Kameido, c. 1843
Kameido umeyashiki no zu — Utagawa Hiroshige, from Famous Places in the Eastern Capital
From the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Japanese prints collection · 1843
$119Charged in USD at checkout; local currency shown for reference.
Source scan:LOC (Prints & Photographs Division, Japanese prints). Rights statement of the archive: “No known restrictions on publication. Ukiyo-e print by an artist who died before 1930; the impression itself was published before 1930 — public domain in the United States, Japan and the EU.” Original print: Utagawa Hiroshige, 1843, 1 print : woodcut, color ; 24.7 x 36.9 cm.. Verified 2026-09-13.
This product is a new archival print made from a restored scan of that print. It is not an original antique and is not sold as one.
The story of this print
The plum garden at Kameido, east of the Sumida, was where Edo went to see the first blossom of the year, and its celebrity was a single tree: the Garyūbai, the Sleeping Dragon plum, whose trunk had grown along the ground and rooted again so that one tree became a grove. Hiroshige drew it more than once. His famous vertical close-up of the trunk in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is the one Van Gogh copied; this is the earlier, horizontal view from the 1840s, in which you see the whole garden — rows of gnarled trees in white blossom, families strolling and sitting beneath them, tea-house awnings at the edge, and the low sprawling dragon tree in front.
It is a picture of a crowd enjoying itself, printed in soft greens, pinks and greys with the blossom left as bare paper, and it is one of the gentlest sheets in the Library of Congress’s Hiroshige holdings. The impression is early and has toned warmly; we have kept that, cleaned the dust and restored the line without redrawing.
The 2:3 sheet fits our 12×18, 16×24, 20×30 and 24×36 sizes exactly.
Printed to order on archival matte paper or canvas, framed in the country of delivery.
Before and after
Left: the archive scan exactly as published. Right: the file that goes to the printer.
Restoration notes
Restoration: trimmed the mount and scanner margins, balanced levels while keeping the paper tone and the flat colour blocks of the woodblock impression (85% of the original colour retained), removed dust and specks, applied gentle sharpening. Toning, wormholes, the printer's registration and the collector's seals are kept where they belong to the object; nothing is redrawn.
Every print carries its archive credit on the packing slip. Paper tone and small imperfections of the original are kept on purpose; nothing is redrawn.
Pairs well with
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Informational purposes only, no warranties, not professional advice. All products are new archival prints made from restored scans of historical maps held by public archives; they are not original antiques. Colours vary by screen and by paper.
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