Utagawa Yoshitora Auction Prices and Value Guide

Utagawa Yoshitora auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 191 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Utagawa Yoshitora auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Utagawa Yoshitora
Source records
191
Market update
2026-02-16

Utagawa Yoshitora market snapshot

Utagawa Yoshitora shows solid auction liquidity with 118 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $275. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-10.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (76.1% · 51 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (22.4% · 15 sales)
  • $10,000+ (1.5% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$350
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
6
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-10

Artist context

About Utagawa Yoshitora

Nationality

Japanese

Also known as

歌川 芳虎, 歌川芳虎

Utagawa Yoshitora was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, an illustrator, and a painter active in Edo from approximately 1850 to 1880. He is associated with the Utagawa school and is described as a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Yoshitora worked during the late Edo and early Meiji context, when Japanese print culture increasingly represented encounters with foreign people and places. His output includes warrior subjects, kabuki actors, beautiful women, and scenes of foreigners often classified as Yokohama-e. He also supplied illustrations for books and newspapers. Collectors may encounter his name in authority records under Romanized and Japanese forms, including Utagawa Yoshitora and 歌川芳虎. Although Wikidata reports the life years 1836–1880, another collected biographical source states that his precise birth and death dates are unknown; those dates therefore remain unresolved here. His varied subjects and documented signature forms make careful identification important when connecting an impression or publication to the artist.

Ukiyo-eUtagawa schoolJapanese color woodblock printsBook and newspaper illustrationPaintingWarriorsKabuki actorsBeautiful womenForeign people and foreign scenes

Common works and media

Works encountered under Yoshitora's name commonly include Japanese color woodblock prints depicting warriors, kabuki actors, beautiful women, foreigners, and imagined foreign scenes. Yokohama-e subjects form an important part of his documented output. Collectors may also encounter illustrated books, newspaper illustrations, and paintings, although the available source pack is strongest for his printmaking and illustration activity. Authority data also associates him with titles including Gaikoku jinbutsu zukushi and Giretsu hyakushu.

Market and appraisal context

Auction and appraisal research for Yoshitora should begin by identifying the object type: a woodblock print, painting, illustrated book, or other printed illustration. Subject matter can help narrow comparisons because his documented themes include warriors, kabuki actors, beautiful women, and foreign people or places. Signature form and attribution also merit close examination, as several Yoshitora signatures are documented. When suitable public records are available, comparisons should consider closely related work types and subjects together with sale dates and realized prices. The collected source pack confirms an Appraisily auction-record presence but does not include detailed major-auction-house catalogue evidence, so it cannot support a general price forecast or market-trend claim.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints
  • Yokohama-e and other prints depicting foreigners
  • Warrior, kabuki actor, and bijin subjects
  • Illustrated books and other printed illustrations

Value drivers

  1. Work type and medium should be matched with comparable records for prints, paintings, or illustrated publications
  2. Subject classification—including warriors, kabuki actors, beautiful women, and foreign scenes—helps identify relevant comparable lots
  3. Signature form and attribution require examination because multiple Yoshitora signature forms are documented
  4. Sale date, realized price, and similarity to publicly recorded auction lots should be considered when comparable records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains an Appraisily auction-record signal but no detailed major-auction-house catalogue entry, so it does not support price-trend or price-prediction claims.
  • The artist's birth and death years conflict across collected sources and should not be treated as settled identity data.
  • Foreign scenes attributed to Yoshitora may have been designed without direct observation, according to the collected biographical summary.

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 Yoshitora

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Utagawa Yoshitora 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.

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