Utagawa Yoshiiku Auction Prices and Value Guide

Utagawa Yoshiiku auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 183 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Utagawa Yoshiiku auction prices: quick answer

Utagawa Yoshiiku auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Utagawa Yoshiiku
Source records
183
Market update
2026-02-16

Utagawa Yoshiiku market snapshot

Utagawa Yoshiiku shows deep auction liquidity with 150 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $175. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 7 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-17.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (81.9% · 77 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (14.9% · 14 sales)
  • $10,000+ (3.2% · 3 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$150
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
7
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-17

Artist context

About Utagawa Yoshiiku

Born

1833

Died

1904

Nationality

Japanese

Also known as

Ochiai Yoshiiku, Yoshiiku Utagawa, 歌川 芳幾, 落合 芳幾

Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833–1904), also catalogued as Ochiai Yoshiiku, was a Japanese artist associated with the Utagawa school and the ukiyo-e tradition. Authority records preserve several forms of his name, including Japanese-script entries using both Utagawa and Ochiai. VIAF describes him as a Japanese woodcutter, while biographical discovery sources also identify him as a painter active in the early Meiji period. These overlapping descriptions place his work within the print and image-making culture that connected established ukiyo-e practice with a changing nineteenth-century Japan. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on Japanese woodblock material, in museum and library catalogues, or in auction records indexed under different Romanized and Japanese name forms. Careful entity matching matters because Utagawa was shared by numerous artists, and Yoshiiku’s records may be filed under either his artistic or family-name form. His documented lifespan and stable authority identifiers provide the strongest basis for distinguishing his work from similarly named artists.

Utagawa schoolUkiyo-eWoodcut and woodblock printmakingPainting

Common works and media

The available authority and biographical sources most clearly support Japanese woodcut or woodblock-print material associated with ukiyo-e. Painting is also mentioned in discovery material, but the collected sources do not establish a detailed catalogue of Yoshiiku’s subjects, formats, editions, or named series. Auction and appraisal records should therefore describe the particular object directly instead of assuming a subject or format from the artist’s school affiliation.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Yoshiiku should begin by confirming that its signature, catalogue entry, and artist name correspond to the authority-record identity shared by Utagawa Yoshiiku and Ochiai Yoshiiku. The work type and medium should then be matched with genuinely comparable public auction records rather than with the broader Utagawa school as a whole. Useful comparisons require accessible lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, and evidence that the works concern the same artist. The present source pack confirms identity and artistic context but does not contain lot-level auction-house evidence, so it cannot support a price forecast, market trend, or claim about which subjects command stronger results.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Japanese woodcut and woodblock prints
  • Ukiyo-e works

Value drivers

  1. Secure attribution across the Utagawa Yoshiiku and Ochiai Yoshiiku name forms
  2. Correct identification of the work type and medium
  3. Comparison with relevant public auction records when lot descriptions, sale dates, and realized prices are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house biography or lot-level result suitable for supporting price trends or subject-specific market claims.
  • The Appraisily artist-page request was rate-limited during collection, so its underlying auction records were not available for individual verification.
  • Authority records confirm identity variants and lifespan more strongly than they document individual works, subjects, editions, or series.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Utagawa Yoshiiku

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Utagawa Yoshiiku worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

Can Appraisily value my Utagawa Yoshiiku artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.