# Miyagawa Shuntei artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/miyagawa-shuntei/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:26:16.562Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1873-11-11
- Death date: 1914-07-26
- Nationality: Japanese
- Movements: Ukiyo-e
- Common media: Ukiyo-e prints

## About Miyagawa Shuntei

Miyagawa Shuntei (1873–1914) was a Japanese artist associated with ukiyo-e printmaking during the Meiji period. Authority records identify him as Miyagawa Shuntei and also reverse the name as Shuntei Miyagawa. A French biographical entry gives his birth name as Watanabe Morikichi and places his birth in Aichi Prefecture, while a Japanese entry describes him as a pupil of 富岡永洗 and records the alternate art names 洗圭 and 漁史. The collected evidence therefore presents Shuntei primarily as a print artist working within the late ukiyo-e tradition, although Wikidata uses the broader occupation label “painter.” Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with Japanese prints catalogued under one of these identity variants. Because the available source pack is stronger on identity than on a complete catalogue of works, an object's title, subject, date, series, and signature should be checked against authoritative cataloguing before publication or appraisal.

## Common works and media

The source pack specifically identifies Shuntei with ukiyo-e prints. It does not establish a complete catalogue of media, recurring subjects, named series, or edition practices. In an appraisal context, describe the object itself—including its format, inscriptions, title or series wording, dimensions, and condition—without assuming that every work attributed to Shuntei has the same production characteristics.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected sources establish Miyagawa Shuntei's identity and association with ukiyo-e, but they do not provide accessible lot-level results, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, or edition information. The material therefore cannot support a price trend or a ranking of subjects and series. An appraisal should first confirm the attribution and record the object's title or series wording, medium, measurements, inscriptions, physical condition, and provenance. Those observations can then be compared with relevant public auction records by work type and sale date when suitable records are available. The Appraisily artist endpoint was rate-limited during collection, so its underlying auction entries could not be inspected from this source pack.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Miyagawa Shuntei, this source pack chiefly supports identity; market conclusions require accessible, object-level auction evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11454696
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/220705614/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011186008
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000360143655
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyagawa_Shuntei
- Wikipedia: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%AE%E5%B7%9D%E6%98%A5%E6%B1%80
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/miyagawa-shuntei/