# Kamisaka Sekka - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T10:36:43.361Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 25
- Lots with prices: 17
- First auction date: 2002-09-18
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-16
- Median realised price: $3,500
- Price range: $80 to $23,940

## Market Takeaway
Kamisaka Sekka has 25 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($3,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,800 to $4,375\) 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: 17.6% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 70.6% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 11.8% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $6,985
- Previous 12 months median: $3,500
- Median shift: 99.6%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-16
- Days since latest sale: 227
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 11 lots
- Christie's: 9 lots
- Gray's Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Cheffins: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-16 | KAMISAKA SEKKA \(1866\-1942\). Chigusa \(A thousand grasses\). 9 3/8 x 13 7/8 in | Christie's | $6,985
2. 2025-03-18 | KAMISAKA SEKKA \(1866\-1942\). Momoyogusa \(Flowers of a hundred worlds\). Woodb | Christie's | $23,940
3. 2025-03-18 | KAMISAKA SEKKA \(1866\-1942\). Chrysanthemums and waves. Two sliding doors mou | Christie's | $11,970
4. 2024-09-26 | KAMISAKA SEKKA \(1866\-1942\). A fan painting of plum blossoms. Framed; ink, c | Christie's | $3,276
5. 2024-05-16 | KAMISAKA SEKKA \(1866\-1942\) AND TORII SOSHUKU \(ACTIVE EARLY 20TH CENTURY\) A Gold\-Lacquered Natsume \(Tea Caddy\) and Cover Taisho \(1912\-1926\) or Showa \(1926\-1989\) era, early 20th century \(3\) | Bonhams | £3,500
6. 2022-05-12 | KAMISAKA SEKKA \(1866\-1942\) Mount Horai Meiji \(1868\-1912\) or Taisho \(1912\-1926\) era, early 20th century \(2\) | Bonhams | £3,800 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kamisaka-sekka-1866-1942-mount-horai-meiji-1868-1912-or-taisho-1912-1926-era-early-20th-century-2-300-c-3104e0184d
7. 2021-05-13 | Kamisaka Sekka \(1866\-1942\) Taisho \(1912\-1926\) or Showa \(1916\-1989\) era, circa 1920\-1940 | Bonhams | £3,200
8. 2020-11-05 | KAMISAKA SEKKA \(1866\-1942\) Meiji \(1868\-1912\) or Taisho \(1912\-1926\) era, early 20th century \(2\) | Bonhams | £1,800
9. 2020-01-29 | Kamisaka Sekka \(Japanese, 1866\-1942\) Figures in a Gust of Wind, Gouache on silk, | Gray's Auctioneers | $550
10. 2019-12-11 | Kamisaka Sekka \(Japanese, 1866\-1942\) Figures in a Gust of Wind, Gouache on silk, | Gray's Auctioneers | N/A
11. 2017-05-11 | KAMISAKA SEKKA \(1866\-1942\) Taisho \(1912\-1926\) or Showa era \(1926\-1989\), | Bonhams | £5,000
12. 2015-12-03 | KAMISAKA SEKKA "A World of Things". Published circa 1910. With gold highlights. Unsigned. | Eldred's | $80
13. 2015-11-12 | Kamisaka Sekka \(1866\-1942\), 'Momoyogusa', volume I, \(of three\) | Cheffins | £4,000
14. 2015-06-05 | Kamisaka Sekka \(1866\-1942\) | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | €806
15. 2015-03-18 | Kamisaka Sekka \(1866\-1942\) Fine Japanese and Korean Works of Art | Bonhams | N/A
16. 2012-03-21 | Kamisaka Sekka \(1866\-1942\) | Christie's | $2,250
17. 2012-03-21 | Kamisaka Sekka \(1866\-1942\) | Christie's | N/A
18. 2012-03-21 | A lacquer and painted inkstone cover | Christie's | N/A
19. 2012-03-20 | Lacquer including a group of Rinpa\-style objects | Bonhams | N/A
20. 2012-03-20 | Lacquer including a group of Rinpa\-style objects | Bonhams | $1,250
21. 2012-03-20 | Lacquer including a group of Rinpa\-style objects | Bonhams | $4,375
22. 2010-09-14 | Kamisaka Sekka \(1866\-1942\) Early 20th century | Bonhams | N/A
23. 2008-09-19 | Kamisaka Sekka \(1866\-1942\) Plum Tree | Bonhams | $4,200
24. 2005-03-10 | Kamisaka Sekka \(1866\-1942\), a kakemono | Christie's | N/A

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