Does Anyone Sell Utagawa Hiroshige Art on a T-Shirt?
Yes. Vestige Press currently sells 2 different Utagawa Hiroshige works printed on heavyweight garment-dyed t-shirts, each made from an archival public-domain scan of the original and numbered as an archive plate. They are listed on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/VestigePress. The Utagawa Hiroshige designs sit in the japanese woodblock category of the archive.
Every Utagawa Hiroshige design currently in print
- Eight Views of Kanazawa at Night (1857) — Archive Plate No. 019, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 106962.
- Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake (1857) — Archive Plate No. 028, Cleveland Museum of Art, artwork 103244.
Why these are legal to print
Every work above predates copyright expiry and is published under an open-access license by the institution that holds it — the catalog number and license for each one is listed on its own page. Vestige Press restores and composes the plate; the underlying artwork belongs to everyone.