Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Hiroshige Mt Fuji seen across a plain.jpg

Station 13 of the Tokaido (Numazu)[edit]

Of all the Featured Pictures that are artwork, I haven't seen any by Asian artists yet. Here's one by Hiroshige, which comes from The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido series of woodblock prints, 1850 edition (there are a number of different editions, each with different images he did each time). This one seems to be a good quality scan with no noticeable artifacts, although there appears to be some vertical banding. Used in Ukiyo-e.

Nominate and support. howch e ng {chat} 23:37, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but I would like to see more information about it, in the caption perhaps. Specifically, what the text on the image means in english. HighInBC 23:49, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- The text in the box on the right is "13th Station of the Tokaido" (literally, it says "Tokaido 13"), then to the left is "53 (something -- the character means 'next' but it might mean something else in this context)". To its left is "Numazu" (the location). I can't tell what it says in the box on the far left, but it appears on all 53 images in this series (see the other prints at [1]). howch e ng {chat} 00:00, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

the characters are 廣重画, that's the signature of the artist. 廣 is the traditional form of 広.--K.C. Tang 06:27, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. When it's calligraphy like that I can hardly read it, but I did figure it was his signature (although I was also thinking that he would have used a seal instead). howch e ng {chat} 06:36, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The character 次 ("next") in this sense is usually translated "stage": one of the post towns on the highway. Thus the 53 stages of the Tokaido (and varying numbers of stages on other highways). Fg2 07:21, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weak oppose Suffers from colored moiré stripes (vertical yellow bands) over most of the image. Would support a better scan witout this artifact. --Janke | Talk 13:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support. I would give this picture my full support, but Janke brought up a valuable point. However, I don't believe this makes it un-featureable. Nauticashades 17:15, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose would support an edit, or scan that removes the moire. PPGMD 22:08, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per User:Janke, but would support a better scan. --S0uj1r0 04:15, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Per Janke; for these art FPCs, it's crucial to get a good scan, or else there would be a lot more art FPs. --Tewy 23:59, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted