# Utamaro (1753) artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/utamaro-1753/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T09:54:59.596Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Color woodcuts and woodblock prints, Works on paper and prints

## Portrait

![Utamaro (1753)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Kitagawa_Utamaro_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Kitagawa_Utamaro_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg)
attributed to Chōbunsai Eishi (1756 - 1829) · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kitagawa_Utamaro_portrait_(cropped).jpg

## About Utamaro (1753)

The current Appraisily record identifies the artist as “Utamaro (1753).” Collected Wikimedia Commons object records credit several color woodcuts and woodblock prints to Kitagawa Utamaro, including images of women, domestic activity, paired figures, and a shamisen player. One candidate belongs to the series Flowers of Edo, Girl Ballad Singers. However, the supplied source pack does not contain a museum biography, scholarly catalogue, library authority record, or canonical entity identifier proving that the auction-directory record and Kitagawa Utamaro are the same entity. It also does not independently establish that 1753 is a birth year. Accordingly, nationality, exact life dates, school, movement, and alternate names remain unstated. Collectors may encounter this record when researching prints or works on paper, but individual objects should be matched through their signatures, inscriptions, subject, dimensions, edition characteristics, provenance, and reliable catalogue references.

## Common works and media

The strongest object-level evidence in the supplied pack concerns works on paper and prints. Collected image records describe color woodcuts or woodblock prints depicting women, paired figures, domestic activity, and a shamisen player. The Appraisily market page also assigns matched lots to broader categories such as fine art and paintings and decorative art and editions, but those labels are not supported by detailed lot-level evidence in this pack. Until the artist identity and matched-name set are reconciled, medium and category descriptions should be treated as research leads rather than a complete catalogue of the artist's output.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily data-basis section reports 33 auction records, including 15 priced records, from 2007 through 2025, with an observed range of US$20 to US$1,800. Another section reports 43 tracked lots and a median near US$400, so the totals require reconciliation before statistical conclusions are drawn. Appraisal should focus on genuinely comparable works sharing the same medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, edition characteristics, attribution status, and provenance. Reported auction amounts may use different fee conventions, while private sales, incomplete feeds, restoration, and later attribution changes may not appear in the public record.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile remains provisional because institution-grade identity evidence was not collected.

## Sources

- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/utamaro-1753/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ase_o_fuku_onna2.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kitagawa_Utamaro_-_Two_Beauties_with_Bamboo_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drying_clothes._Woodblock_print_by_Kitagawa_Utamaro_(CBL_J_2538).jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maple_Leaves_Koyo_and_Shamisen_by_Kitagawa_Utamaro_c1803.png
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kitagawa_Utamaro_portrait_(cropped).jpg