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Auction Date
September 25, 2025 - September 25, 2025
Page Size: 135 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
162 Published by UNAC Tokyo, ed. by Masaomi Unagami

A COMPLETE SET OF YU-ICIHI (YU-ICHI INOUE); CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE WORKS 1949-1985 (VOL. 1-3)

 1998; 2000; 1996 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
163 TORII KIYOHIRO (ACT. 1737-1776)

Dancer

 circa 1750s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,270.00
164 ISODA KORYUSAI (1735-1790)

Lovers next to a lamp

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
165 KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO (1726-1792)

Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV

 1780 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 889.00
166 UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI (1769-1825)

A group of two prints

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
167 KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1754-1806)

Komurasaki and Gonpachi

 circa 1801 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,048.00
168 KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1754-1806)

Parody of an imperial carriage scene

 circa 1798 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,397.00
169 KITAGAWA SHIKIMARO (CIRCA 1810S)

Hanazuma of the Matsubaro, Sakura and Miyako

 3rd month 1813 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
170 VARIOUS ARTISTS

A group of five beauty prints

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,048.00
171 VARIOUS ARTISTS

A group of five prints

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 889.00
172 UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI (1769-1825)

A group of two surimono prints of Danjuro

 circa 1820s USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,286.00
173 UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI (1769-1825)

Parody of Act Four of the play Genpei Nunobiki no Taki

 circa 1795-1801 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,016.00
174 KEISAI EISEN (1790-1848)

No. 35 Yoshida Station

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,270.00
175 KEISAI EISEN (1790-1848)

Toyoyama of the Okamotoya, kamuro Yamaji and Nishiki

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,016.00
176 KEISAI EISEN (1790-1848)

Monkeys reaching for moon in the water

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
177 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Poem by Fujiwara no Toshiyuki Ason

 circa 1835-36 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,970.00
178 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Tokaido Ejiri Tago no ura ryakuzu (Tago Bay near Ejiri on the Tokaido)

 circa 1830-31 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 13,970.00
179 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Joshu Ushibori (Ushibori in Hitachi Province)

 circa 1830-31 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,620.00
180 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa) ["Great Wave"]

 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 508,000.00
181 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Gaifu kaisei (Fine wind, clear weather) ["Red Fuji"]

 late 1831 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 228,600.00
182 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Sanka hakuu (Storm below the summit) ["Black Fuji"]

 late 1831 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 114,300.00
183 UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Horse mackerel, freshwater prawns, and seaweed

 circa 1832-33 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,826.00
184 UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Sea bream and sansho pepper

 1832 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,826.00
185 UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Kanbara yoru no yuki (Evening snow at Kanbara)

 circa 1834 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,255.00
186 UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Awa, Naruto no fuha (Wind and waves at Naruto, Awa Province)

 circa 1853 USD 8,500.00 - 12,000.00 USD 24,130.00
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