# Keisai Eisen - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T06:40:27.440Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 354
- Lots with prices: 241
- First auction date: 2002-09-18
- Latest auction date: 2026-03-28
- Median realised price: $300
- Price range: $25 to $25,400

## Market Takeaway
Keisai Eisen shows deep auction liquidity with 349 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $300. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 29 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($300\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $100 and $1,270.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 67.9% (161 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 30.4% (72 sales)
- $10,000\+: 1.7% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 29
- Previous 12 months sales: 48
- Recent 12 months median: $600
- Previous 12 months median: $110
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 64
- Market velocity: high

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 47 lots
- Bonhams: 38 lots
- JG Auction: 24 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 18 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 17 lots
- Galerie Zacke: 11 lots
- Antique Arena Inc: 10 lots
- Nagel Auction: 8 lots
- Piasa: 8 lots
- Sotheby's: 8 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-17 | KEISAI EISEN \(1790 \- 1848\), A Courtesan Wearing a Kimono | Gibson's | A$420
2. 2025-03-02 | ANTIQUE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK BY KEISAI EISEN SIGNED | Antique Arena Inc | $60 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-antique-japanese-woodblock-by-keisai-eisen-signed-14-c-9a943eb8f0
3. 2025-01-31 | EISEN KEISAI \(1790\-1848\), EIZAN KIKUKAWA \(1787\-1867\), YOSHIKAZU UTAGAWA \(act. 1850\-1870\): EDO BEAUTIES, eight | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £65
4. 2025-01-19 | Keisai Eisen \(1790\-1848\) Japanese, Woodblock Print | Sarasota Estate Auction | $100
5. 2025-01-19 | Keisai Eisen \(1790–1848\) Japanese, Woodblock Print | Sarasota Estate Auction | $450 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-keisai-eisen-1790a-1848-japanese-woodblock-print-1653-c-f8f456c89a
6. 2024-12-12 | KEISAI EISEN \(1790 \- 1848\) AND CHŌKŌSAI EISHŌ \(AKT. CA. 1790\) | Nagel Auction | €120
7. 2024-11-03 | Keisai Eisen \(1790\-1848\) Japanese, Woodblock Print, "Okazaki: Aimachi of the Sugata\-Ebiya" | Sarasota Estate Auction | N/A
8. 2024-09-04 | KEISAI EISEN: FUTAKAWA, EGUCHI AND ENOGIKU OF THE MARU\-EBIYA | Galerie Zacke | N/A
9. 2023-12-19 | Keisai Eisen \(1790–1848\) \| A geisha writing a letter \| Edo period, 19th century | Sotheby's | £3,810
10. 2023-09-02 | JAPANESE UKIYO E WOOD BLOCK PRINT BY KEISAI EISEN | Antique Arena Inc | $60 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-japanese-ukiyo-e-wood-block-print-by-keisai-eisen-9-c-93d4a34b09
11. 2023-05-09 | KEISAI EISEN \(1790 \- 1848\) | Sheppards | €260
12. 2021-09-22 | KEISAI EISEN \(1790\-1848\), KAWANABE KYOSAI \(1831\-1889\), UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE 1 \(1797\-1858\), UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI \(1797\-1861\), YOSAI NOBUKAZU \(1872\-1944\), AND SHUNSAI TOSHIMASA \(1866\-1913\) Edo period \(1615\-1868\) to Meiji era \(1868\-1912\) | Bonhams | N/A
13. 2011-02-11 | KEISAI EISEN \(Japanese, 1790\-1848\). GEISHA, Together with KITAGAWA UTAMARO, Japanese, 1753\-1806, TWO ACTORS and GEISHA AND ATTENDANTS, | Sloans & Kenyon | $700
14. 2026-03-28 | Japanese woodblock Print Keisai Eisen | Woodblock Prints World | $300 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-japanese-woodblock-print-keisai-eisen-49-c-2344e8059d
15. 2026-03-07 | Keisai Eisen & Another Bijin\-ga Woodblock Prints 4 | Roland Auctions NY | $200
16. 2025-12-16 | Keisai Eisen \(1790\-1848\), "Tozan of the Okamoto House," circa 1820s | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
17. 2025-12-06 | Kesai EISEN: "Courtesan beneath an Autumn Moon". | Armstrong Fine Art | N/A
18. 2025-11-18 | KEISAI EISEN \(JAPANESE 1790 — 1848\) Edo period, early 19th century | Azca Auctions | N/A
19. 2025-11-15 | Keisai Eisen, | Auktionshaus Arnold | N/A
20. 2025-10-24 | KEISAI EISEN \(Japan, 1790\-1848\), Snow on the Sumida River., Woodblock print, oban yoko\-e, 9.5" x 14" sight. Framed 16" x 21". | Eldred's | $250
21. 2025-09-25 | KEISAI EISEN \(1790\-1848\). Monkeys reaching for moon in the water. Shikishib | Christie's | N/A
22. 2025-09-25 | KEISAI EISEN \(1790\-1848\). Toyoyama of the Okamotoya, kamuro Yamaji and Nish | Christie's | $1,016
23. 2025-09-25 | KEISAI EISEN \(1790\-1848\). No. 35 Yoshida Station. Vertical oban: 13 7/8 x 9 | Christie's | $1,270
24. 2025-09-20 | Three of Keisai Eisen 1790\-1848 shunga | SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL AUCTION PTE LTD. | $600

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