# Kenji Ushiku - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-26T02:15:31.194Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 20
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2015-02-11
- Latest auction date: 2026-02-08
- Median realised price: $70
- Price range: $25 to $260

## Market Takeaway
Kenji Ushiku has 20 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $70. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($70\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($50 to $160\) 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: 100% (15 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $60
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2026-02-08
- Days since latest sale: 105
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Floating World Auctions: 3 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 3 lots
- Auctions at Showplace: 2 lots
- Bargain Hunt Auctions: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots
- Charlton Hall: 1 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Danielle Elizabeth Antique & Estate Auctioneers: 1 lots
- DuMouchelles: 1 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-09 | Kenji Ushiku \(1922\-2012\) Japanese, Signed and Numbered Woodblock Print | Sarasota Estate Auction | $60 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kenji-ushiku-1922-2012-japanese-signed-and-numbered-woodblock-print-1762-c-6a61f79a8f
2. 2025-09-16 | Kenji Ushiku Etchings, 2 | Auctions at Showplace | $50 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kenji-ushiku-etchings-2-428-c-37843a9a36
3. 2024-05-17 | KENJI USHIKU \(1922\-2012\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
4. 2023-10-24 | KENJI USHIKU \- ETCHINGS, GROUP OF 5 | Capsule Gallery Auction | $150 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kenji-ushiku-etchings-group-of-5-118-c-0ce4435ae5
5. 2022-12-15 | Kenji Ushiku ''Tree with Birds'' 1981 Etching | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $70
6. 2022-11-06 | Kenji Ushiku \(Japanese, b.1922\) Etching Landscape | Lion and Unicorn | $60
7. 2021-09-09 | KENJI USHIKU \(JAPANESE 1922\-2012\) WOODBLOCK PRINT, H 16", W 12", \#17/100 | DuMouchelles | $175
8. 2021-06-17 | Kenji Ushiku Signed Etching | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $70
9. 2020-08-22 | 2 Kenji Ushiku etchings | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $50
10. 2020-06-27 | 2 Kenji Ushiku etchings | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | N/A
11. 2020-04-26 | Kenji Ushiku \(Japanese 1922\-2012\), untitled | Bargain Hunt Auctions | A$220
12. 2020-01-16 | Kenji Ushiku \(Japanese, b. 1922\), Two Etchings | Leland Little Auctions | $160
13. 2019-09-26 | Kenji Ushiku | Charlton Hall | $123
14. 2018-07-28 | Kenji Ushiku \- Japanese Print \- Two Doves | Floating World Auctions | $50
15. 2018-07-28 | Kenji Ushiku \- Japanese Print \- Landscape | Floating World Auctions | N/A
16. 2018-07-28 | Kenji Ushiku \- Japanese Print \- Blue Bird in Trees | Floating World Auctions | $50
17. 2017-09-23 | Kenji Ushiku etching | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | N/A
18. 2017-06-25 | Kenji Ushiku \(Japanese, b. 1922\)\- Etching | Auctions at Showplace | N/A
19. 2015-02-11 | Kenji Ushiku, Japanese 20th Century, Birds in the marsh, etching and aquatint, | Link Auction Galleries | $25
20. 2026-02-08 | Kenji Ushiku \(1922\-2012\) Limited Editions | Danielle Elizabeth Antique & Estate Auctioneers | A$260 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kenji-ushiku-1922-2012-limited-editions-177-c-c3d5475f4a

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