# Kogyo Tsukioka artist context and auction value notes

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Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Japanese
- Common media: Color woodblock prints, Paintings

## About Kogyo Tsukioka

Kogyo Tsukioka (1869–1927), also known as Kōgyo Tsukioka and Kōgyo Sakamaki, was a Japanese artist active during the Meiji period. He was a student and adopted son of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and also studied with Ogata Gekkō. His career is especially associated with imagery of Japanese Noh theatre. He treated those subjects in both paintings and color woodblock prints, while occasionally addressing other themes. Many of his prints appeared as named series and were sold in multi-volume groupings. Examples include Nōgaku zue and Nōga taikan, which could be preserved in album formats with accordion-style or sewn bindings. Collectors therefore encounter his work both as individual sheets and as components of larger publication projects. Institutional authority records provide stable identity anchors, while careful identification of a print’s series and original format can clarify how an auction or appraisal object relates to Kogyo’s broader body of work.

## Common works and media

Collectors most often encounter Kogyo’s color woodblock prints depicting subjects from Japanese Noh theatre. These may appear as individual sheets, as prints associated with named series such as Nōgaku zue or Nōga taikan, or as preserved albums and multi-volume sets. The documented formats include accordion-style and sewn bindings. Paintings, including larger-format works, also form part of his practice, although the collected sources associate most of his career with Noh imagery in painted and printed form. Because loose sheets may once have belonged to a larger publication, series and volume identification are useful parts of cataloguing.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first establish whether the object is a painting, an individual color woodblock print, or part of a bound album or multi-volume publication. Because many prints were issued in series, an individual sheet should be identified by title, series, and volume context when the available evidence permits. Paintings and prints should not be treated as interchangeable comparables. For bound material, completeness and preservation of the original accordion-style or sewn format may also affect how the object is described and compared. Public auction records can provide sale dates, realized prices, lot descriptions, and related examples when available, but this source pack does not support a price trend or forecast.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3201273
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dgyo_Tsukioka
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500337474
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/26172844/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88289497
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb16546025g
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG3161
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/kogyo-tsukioka/