ASIAN ART
THE AUCTION WILL RESTART AT 3.00 PM
AUCTION
Thursday 12 June 2025
from 10.00 a.m. (lots 1-260) to 3.00 p.m. (lots 261-470)
Spazio Bolaffi, corso Verona 34/D, Torino
VIEWING
From Friday 6 to Thursday 12 June (Sunday excluded), from 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
Spazio Bolaffi, corso Verona 34/D, Torino
Lot 276
Okimono
Japan, Meiji period
Carved and incised ivory, depicting a standing Benten (one of the Seven Gods of Happiness, Shichifukujin), holding a lute, signature 良光 (Yoshimitsu) incised to the center of the base.
7.5 x 2.8 x 2.4 in.
Lot accompanied by a CITES certificate.
Starting price: € 900
Lot 277
Box with lid
Japan, Meiji period
Carved, incised and inked ivory, the lid with a decoration in relief depicting a woman with baskets and a child.
1.6 x 3.7 x 5.7 in.
Lot accompanied by a CITES certificate.
Starting price: € 900
Lot 278
Okimono
Japan, Meiji period
Carved, incised and inked ivory, depicting Daruma (the founder of Zen Buddhism) standing, holding a scepter in his right hand, a meditative expression, elongated earlobes with circular earring, signature 之正 (Yukimasa) incised on a red lacquer cartouche to the centre of
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Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.700
Lot 279
Pair of Nio
Japan, 20th Century
Gilt-bronze, the two Buddhist guardians depicted standing in the most widespread iconography of these deities.
43.7 x 24.6 x 12.2 in.
Starting price: € 2.500 | Sold for : € 3.200
Lot 280
INAGAKI NENJIRO (MIKUMO) 1902-1963
Landscape
Polychrome print with landscape, signed 'Mikumo, 78/300' and dated 1964 with seal lower right. Within frame and protective glass.
22.83 x 28.74 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 281
INAGAKI NENJIRO (MIKUMO) 1902-1963
Matsuri Procession
Polychrome print with a Matsuri procession with carriage of floats, signed ‘Mikumo, 96/300’ and dated 1963 with a seal lower left. Within frame and protective glass.
22.83 x 17.32 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 282
INAGAKI NENJIRO (MIKUMO) 1902-1963
Market scene
Polychrome print, signed 'Mikumo, 48/300' and dated 1964 lower right, a seal lower left. Within frame and protective glass.
22.44 x 26.77 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 283
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE 1797-1858
No. 11, Hakone, Night Procession in the Mountains (Hakone, sanchū yagyō no zu) 1855
From the series “Famous Views of the Fifty-Three Stations” (Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue) [Vertical Tōkaidō], publisher Tsutaya Kichizō (Kōeidō), large-format polychrome woodblock print (ōban).
14.57 x 9.06 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 284
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE 1797-1858
No. 33, Shirasuka, view of Shimizaka (Shirasuka, Shiomizaka fūkei) 1855
From the series “Famous Views of the Fifty-Three Stations” (Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue) [Vertical Tōkaidō], publisher Tsutaya Kichizō (Kōeidō), large-format polychrome woodblock print (ōban).
14.76 x 10.04 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 320
Lot 285
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE 1797-1858
No. 22 Okabe, the Narrow Ivy-Covered Road to Mount Utsu (Okabe, Utsu no yama tsuta no hosomichi) 1855
From the series “Famous Views of the Fifty-Three Stations” (Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue) [Vertical Tōkaidō], publisher Tsutaya Kichizō (Kōeidō), large-format polychrome woodblock print (ōban).
13.98 x 9.06 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 325
Lot 286
TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI 1839-1892
Fujiwara Yasumasa Playing the Flute by Moonlight (Fujiwara Yasumasa gekka roteki) 1883
A triptych of large-format polychrome woodblock prints (ōban), signed ‘oju Taiso Yoshitoshi sha’ with two seals in the lower left corner, printer’s seal ‘Suri Tsune’, publisher Akiyama Buemon.
13.78 x 28.35 in.
This triptych is among the best known not only in
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Starting price: € 8.000
Lot 287
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE 1797-1858
Dawn in the Yoshiwara (Kakuchū shinonome) 1857
From the series “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (Meisho Edo hyakkei), publisher Uoya Eikichi, large-format polychrome woodblock print (ōban).
13.58 x 8.86 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 288
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE 1797-1858
Edo, market in Asakusa (Edo Asakusa no ichi) 1853
From the series “Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces” (Rokujūyoshū meisho zue), publisher Koshikuraya Heisuke (Koshihei), large-format polychrome woodblock print (ōban).
14.17 x 9.45 in.
Starting price: € 450 | Sold for : € 550
Lot 289
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE 1797-1858
Hyūga, the harbor of Aburatsu, Obi Ōshima (Hyūga, Aburatsu no minato, Obi Ōshima) 1856
From the series “Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces” (Rokujūyoshū meisho zue), publisher Koshikuraya Heisuke (Koshihei), large-format polychrome woodblock print (ōban).
13.58 x 9.06 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 290
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE II 1826-1869
Nakazu Mitsumata 1862
From the series “Thirty-six Views of the Eastern Capital” (Totō sanjūrokkei), publisher Sagamiya Tōkichi (Ai-To), large-format polychrome woodblock print (ōban).
14.37 x 9.84 in.
Starting price: € 350 | Sold for : € 350
Lot 291
DA KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI 1760-1849
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Fine bound volume containing forty-six woodblock prints reproducing in reduced format the prints of the famous series of “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (Fuji sanju rokkei), published in a limited edition by the Tokyo National Museum in the 1960s.
13.78 x 10.43 x 2.36
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Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 292
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE II 1826-1869
The village of Higurashi (Higurashi no sato) 1862
From the series “Thirty-six Views of the Eastern Capital” (Totō sanjūrokkei), publisher Sagamiya Tōkichi (Ai-To), large-format polychrome woodblock print (ōban).
14.37 x 9.06 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 293
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI 1760-1849
Cushion Pine at Aoyama (Aoyama Enza no matsu) 1830-1832
From the series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), large-format polychrome woodblock print (ōban).
9.84 x 14.76 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 294
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI 1760-1849
Quick Pictorial Dictionary (Ehon hayabiki) 1819
Two woodblock volumes, probably a Meiji period reprint.
7.17 x 5.12 in.
(2)
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 295
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI 1760-1849
Scattered Sketches by Hokusai (Hokusai Manga) 1875
Fourteen woodcut volumes, a Meiji period edition of Hokusai’s famous work originally published starting from 1814. The last volume of the fifteen that compose it, considered the work of a pupil, was published in 1878, three years after the series presented here, which
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Starting price: € 3.000
Lot 296
UTAGAWA HIROKAGE
Strong Wind on the Shin-Ohashi Bridge (Shin Ohashi no okaze) 1853
From the series “Comic Views of Famous Places in Edo” (Edo meisho doke zukushi), publisher Tsujioka Bunsuke (Kinshodo), large format polychrome woodblock print (ōban).
19.68 x 14.57 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 297
Five woodblock prints
Japan, late 18th Century
Each depicting a child with attributes that recall the iconography of popular deities, in the style of Kitao Shigemasa (1739-1820).
Wear and tear.
The largest 11.8 x 5.7 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 298
UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI 1798-1861
Kabuki theater actors
Two polychrome woodblock prints depicting Kabuki actors. Within wooden frame and protective glass.
Wear and tear, stains.
17.13 x 12.99 in.
(2)
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 299
KATSUKAWA SHUNSEN 1762-1830
Female figure and child
Polychrome woodblock print depicting a female figure and a child holding an Okame mask, signed lower left. Within wooden frame.
13.39 x 8.86 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 300
KEISAI EISEN
No. 10 Fukaya Station (Fukaya no eki) 1835-1838
From the series “[Sixty-nine Stations] of the Kisokaidō” (Kisokaidō), publisher Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidō), large-format polychrome woodblock print (ōban).
8.46 x 13.19 in.
Starting price: € 350