# Ito Sozan - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-02T08:43:15.538Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 20
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2012-12-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-24
- Median realised price: $130
- Price range: $50 to $1,778

## Market Takeaway
Ito Sozan has 20 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $130. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($130\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($80 to $250\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 93.3% (14 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 6.7% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $150
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-24
- Days since latest sale: 189
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Eldred's: 6 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- Helmuth Stone: 2 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Crow's Auction Gallery Ltd: 1 lots
- DuMouchelles: 1 lots
- Mallams: 1 lots
- Michael J Bowman: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-24 | ITO SOZAN \(Japan, 1884\-1926\), Heron on a Branch., Woodblock print, 14” x 6.25” sight. Framed 19.5” x 10.5”. | Eldred's | $250 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ito-sozan-japan-1884-1926-heron-on-a-branch-woodblock-print-14-x-6-25-sight-framed-19-5-x-10-5-3532a-c-5214a26b92
2. 2025-10-24 | ITO SOZAN \(Japan, 1884\-1926\), Three bird studies:, Woodblock prints, approx. 9.5" x 7". Unframed. | Eldred's | $425
3. 2025-09-09 | Ito Sozan \(Japanese, 1884\-?\), Showa period | Chiswick Auctions | £150
4. 2025-05-02 | ITO SOZAN \(JAPAN, 1884\-1926\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $50
5. 2023-05-10 | Ito Sozan \(1884\-?\) \| Two woodblock prints \| Showa period, 20th century | Sotheby's | £1,778
6. 2019-08-21 | ITO SOZAN "Pair of Geese with Frog" and "Parrot on Pomegranate Branch". | Eldred's | $80
7. 2019-04-28 | Ito Sozan "Lady with Doll" Print | Helmuth Stone | N/A
8. 2019-01-20 | Ito Sozan "Lady with Doll" Print | Helmuth Stone | N/A
9. 2017-10-25 | Ito Sozan, Flying Geese and Moon, color woodcut, 6.5" x 4.5" | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $130
10. 2017-06-07 | Ito Sozan, 'White Herons', woodblock print, with seal mark, 4" x 7½" | Crow's Auction Gallery Ltd | £80
11. 2016-10-27 | Ito Sozan \(Japanese, 1884\-?\) Geese flying under full moon, signed, woo | Mallams | £400
12. 2015-09-10 | ITO SOZAN \(Japanese, 19th/20th Century\) | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $87
13. 2015-09-10 | ITO SOZAN \(Japanese, 19th/20th Century\) | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $75
14. 2015-09-10 | ITO SOZAN \(Japanese, 19th/20th Century\) | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $187
15. 2014-12-06 | Ito Sozan \(1884\-?\) \- woodblock print \- Two Ravens in the Snow, with seal signature, 6.5" x 14" | Michael J Bowman | £140
16. 2014-08-13 | ITO SOZAN "White Egret". Artist's seal lower left. Framed. | Eldred's | N/A
17. 2014-08-13 | ITO SOZAN "Blue Parrot". Framed. | Eldred's | N/A
18. 2013-11-14 | Ito Sozan \(1884\- \) | Waddington's | CA$72
19. 2013-08-21 | ITO SOZAN "Homing Geese". Depicting geese in flight across a full moon. Framed. | Eldred's | $110
20. 2012-12-16 | ITO SOZAN, JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT, 7" X 4 3/4", "GEESE AND MOON" | DuMouchelles | N/A

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