Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Suikoden

Kinhyōshi yōrin, hero of the Suikoden

 * Reason:Incredible scan of an apparently significant work of art--important with respect to both literary/social history and the artist's career. (I have tons more sources about the Suikoden craze that I intend to add to the Water Margin article in the near future.)
 * Articles this image appears in:Water Margin, Utagawa Kuniyoshi
 * Creator:Utagawa Kuniyoshi


 * Support as nominator Calliopejen1 (talk) 23:25, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment It's certainly a good scan, but it seems a to be lacking a bit of density to me. Fixing it might be tricky without access to the original, as these things tend to be as prone to over-correction as they are to looking a bit "flat". Lets see how it goes. --mikaultalk 10:04, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * [[image:Crystal_Clear_action_edit_add.png|15px]] Support Very interesting subject, encyclopedic, good scan. Cat-five - talk 08:29, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Prefer Edit 1 to original. Cat-five - talk 08:48, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Support At this point I am leaning towards the original image at least until someone in the know claims that the colours really are that bright. The edit looks a lot prettier, but the level of detail in the original is just crazy; I'd hate to pass that by unless we're sure the edit is at least more true to the proper hues and shades. Any way we could try a colour correction but keep more of the size/detail? Matt Deres (talk) 03:29, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * the full resolution scan maybe more true to the original size of the woodcut, however I doubt there is any visible fine detail not present in the downsampled version & the large increase in resources and bandwidth to display such a big image outweigh it's usefulness (unless you are going to use it for printing purposes rather than online viewing) 3000px seems like a good limit for encyclopedia use Thisglad (talk) 12:04, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

--jjron (talk) 08:50, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support original, oppose edit 1 The original has amazing levels of detail, which the downsampling in edit 1 deletes for no reason that I can see. Also, as Matt Deres said, some verification on what the original looked like would be nice. thegreen J      Are you green?  19:30, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * oppose foot cut off at end, probably incomplete original Thisglad (talk) 03:25, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Either, Prefer Edit 1 Edit 1 does a wonderful job as far as lighting and brightness goes. This woodblock print showcases the brilliance and sheer wonder of Japanese art. -- Shark face  217  03:51, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support either, prefer edit 1. —dima/talk/ 02:47, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support either, prefer edit 1 - meets all the criteria and has historical value.--Svetovid (talk) 12:52, 14 January 2008 (UTC)