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Auction Name Japanese and Korean Art Total Sales (USD) 1,896,678.00
Auction Date September 17, 2024 - September 17, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,026,000.00
Sale Number #23151 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,428,000.00
Total Lots 78
Sold Lots 73 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,070,000.00
% of Lots Sold 93.59% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,489,000.00
Unsold Lots 5 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 127.38%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

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

USD 500,000.00 - 700,000.00 USD 856,800.00
258 UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Ohashi Atake no yudachi (Ohashi bridge, sudden shower at Atake)

9th month 1857 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 118,440.00
269 UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1798-1861)

Sanuki no in kenzoku o shite Tametomo o sukuu zu (Picture of Retired Emperor Sanuki sending allies [tengu] to rescue Tametomo)

USD 36,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 60,480.00
266 UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1798-1861)

Sanuki no in kenzoku o shite Tametomo o sukuu zu (Picture of Retired Emperor Sanuki sending allies [tengu] to rescue Tametomo)

circa 1851-52 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 56,700.00
250 UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Kanbara yoru no yuki (Evening snow at Kanbara)

circa 1834 USD 36,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 44,100.00
221 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Edo Surugacho Mitsui mise ryakuzu (A sketch of the Mitsui shop in Surugacho, Edo)

circa 1830-31 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 37,800.00
232 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Ono no Takamura (Poem by Sangi Takamura)

circa 1835-36 Not Available USD 37,800.00
216 KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1754-1806)

Uwaki no so (The fickle type)

1792-93 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,280.00
257 UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Asakusa Kinryuzan (Kinryuzan temple, Asakusa)

7th month 1856 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 32,760.00
268 UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)

The Ghosts of the Taira Attack Minamoto Yoshitsune in Daimotsu Bay

circa 1849-53 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 32,760.00
234 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Toru daijin (The minister Minamoto no Toru)

circa 1833 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 30,240.00
233 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Yoshino (Cherry blossoms at Yoshino)

circa 1833 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,200.00
260 UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

An album of twenty prints of large fish

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 23,940.00
224 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Sunshu Ejiri (Ejiri in Suruga Province)

circa 1830-31 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 21,420.00
230 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Poem by Sarumaru Dayu

circa 1835-36 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 21,420.00
237 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Fugaku hyakkei (One hundred views of Mount Fuji)

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 21,420.00
215 KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1754-1806)

Courtesan holding a pipe

circa 1803-04 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 20,160.00
270 UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)

Hito katamatte hito ni naru (Men come together to make a man)

1847 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 20,160.00
272 UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786-1864)

Shokunin (Artisans)

circa 1857 Not Available USD 20,160.00
203 NISHIMURA SHIGENAGA (1697-1756)

Haru hanami no sakura oyashiki fu (Cherry blossom viewing part in Spring)

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 16,380.00
225 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Bushu Senju (Senju in Musashi Province)

circa 1832 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,380.00
253 UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Meguro Taikobashi Yuhinooka (The Drum Bridge and Sunset Hill in Meguro)

4th month 1857 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 13,860.00
267 UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)

Yoshitsune ichidaiki Gojo-no-hashi no zu (Biography of Yoshitsune: Gojo Bridge)

circa 1839 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 13,860.00
249 UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Hamamatsu, fuyugare no zu (Hamamatsu: winter scene)

1833--34 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,600.00
202 TORII KIYONOBU II (ACT. C. 1725-1760)

Actor Ichimura Takenojo IV

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 11,970.00
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    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.
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