# Utagawa Yoshiiku artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:23:23.000Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Japanese
- Movements: Utagawa school, Ukiyo-e
- Common media: Woodcut and woodblock printmaking, Painting

## About Utagawa Yoshiiku

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.

## 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.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2482193
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/241657397/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500339901
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utagawa_Yoshiiku
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochiai_Yoshiiku
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG7540
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/utagawa-yoshiiku/