ASIAN ART
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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