# Katsukawa Shunko - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T06:52:31.867Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 49
- Lots with prices: 32
- First auction date: 2001-10-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-04
- Median realised price: $1,320
- Price range: $50 to $10,158

## Market Takeaway
Katsukawa Shunko has 49 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,320. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 6 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 \($1,320\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($750 to $3,107\) 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: 34.4% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 59.4% (19 sales)
- $10,000\+: 6.3% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 6
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $889
- Previous 12 months median: $280
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-04
- Days since latest sale: 148
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 24 lots
- Sotheby's: 5 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Artcurial: 3 lots
- Piasa: 3 lots
- Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals: 2 lots
- Cordier Auctions & Appraisals: 1 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Floating World Auctions: 1 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-04 | Katsukawa Shunko \(1743\-1812\), Three Woodblock Prints of Actors, 胜川春工 \(1743\-1812\) 役者木版画 一组共三幅 | Waddington's | CA$1,250
2. 2025-06-13 | Katsukawa Shunko \(1743\-1812\) \| Actors Otani Hiroemon III and Bando Mitsugoro I in the role of two swordsmen in a night duel \| Edo period, 18th century | Sotheby's | €7,620
3. 2025-06-13 | Katsukawa Shunko \(1743\-1812\) \| The actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II in an onnagata role \| Edo period, late 18th century | Sotheby's | €762
4. 2025-06-13 | Katsukawa Shunko \(1743\-1812\) \| An actor performing the Lion Dance \(Shakkyo\) \| Edo period, 18th century | Sotheby's | €889
5. 2025-06-13 | Katsukawa Shunko \(1743\-1812\) \| Actors Onoe Matsusuke I and Ichikawa Monnosuke II in the roles of Watanabe no Tsuna and the Ibaraki Demon \| Edo period, late 18th century | Sotheby's | N/A
6. 2025-06-10 | Katsukawa Shunko | Nagel Auction | €110
7. 2024-05-18 | Katsukawa Shunko, Set of 2, Japanese Woodblock Print | JG Auction | £280
8. 2023-09-19 | KATSUKAWA SHUNKO \(1743\-1812\) The actor Sakata Hangoro Hosoban: 12 ¼ x 5 7/8 | Christie's | $5,670
9. 2023-09-19 | KATSUKAWA SHUNKO \(1743\-1812\) The actor Ichikawa Danjuro Hosoban: 12 ½ x 5 7 | Christie's | N/A
10. 2023-09-19 | KATSUKAWA SHUNKO \(1743\-1812\) The actor Ichikawa Komazo Vertical hosoban: 12 | Christie's | $2,520
11. 2022-09-27 | KATSUKAWA SHUNKO \(1743\-1812\) A group of three actor prints 1\) Hosoban: 12 1 | Christie's | $2,520
12. 2022-09-27 | KATSUKAWA SHUNKO \(1743\-1812\) A group of two actor prints 1\) Hosoban: 11 7/8 | Christie's | N/A
13. 2021-09-21 | KATSUKAWA SHUNKO \(1743\-1812\) Wrestlers Uzugafuchi and Sekinoto in the ring | Christie's | $10,000
14. 2021-07-01 | Katsukawa Shunko \(1743\-1812\) 胜川春吉\(1743\-1812\) | Artcurial | N/A
15. 2021-03-16 | KATSUKAWA SHUNKO \(1743\-1812\) Portrait of an actor Hosoban: 12 7/8 x 5 ¾ cm | Christie's | $1,375
16. 2020-12-11 | Katsukawa Shunko \(1743\-1812\) | Artcurial | €200
17. 2019-11-11 | Katsukawa Shunko, Japanese 1743\-1812, Two actor pr… | Roseberys | £600
18. 2019-05-14 | KATSUKAWA SHUNKO \(1743\-1812\) A STANDING SUMO WRESTLER EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY \| | Sotheby's | N/A
19. 2019-03-20 | Katsukawa Shunko \(1743\-1812\) Edo period \(1615\-1868\), circa 1783 | Bonhams | $1,020
20. 2019-03-20 | Katsukawa Shunko \(1743\-1812\) Edo period \(1615\-1868\) | Bonhams | $1,912
21. 2018-06-17 | Katsukawa Shunko \(1743\-1812\) | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | $50
22. 2018-05-23 | Katsukawa Shunko \(1742 \- 1812\) Partie d'un polyptyque, l'acteur Nakamura Tomijûrô I exécutant la danse du lion \(Shakkyô\) dans la piè. | Artcurial | €3,250
23. 2018-05-05 | Katsukawa Shunko \- Japanese Print \- Danjuro V | Floating World Auctions | N/A
24. 2017-10-08 | KATSUKAWA SHUNKO\(1743\-1812\) | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | N/A

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