# Kihei Sasajima - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T12:38:02.019Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 19
- Lots with prices: 13
- First auction date: 2008-10-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-08-21
- Median realised price: $120
- Price range: $30 to $300

## Market Takeaway
Kihei Sasajima has 19 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $120. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($120\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($60 to $175\) 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% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $50
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-08-21
- Days since latest sale: 252
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Floating World Auctions: 5 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 3 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 2 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots
- Keystone Auctions LLC: 1 lots
- Leonard Auction: 1 lots
- Lots Road Auctions: 1 lots
- Ripley Auctions: 1 lots
- Skinner: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2022-08-21 | Kihei Sasajima \(Japanese, 1906\-1993\) Embossed Woodcut | Leonard Auction | $175 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kihei-sasajima-japanese-1906-1993-embossed-woodcut-108-c-b4f4a54b87
2. 2025-08-21 | Kihei Sasajima \(1906\-1993\) Woodblock | Keystone Auctions LLC | $50
3. 2025-05-02 | KIHEI SASAJIMA \(JAPAN, 1906\-1993\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $50
4. 2021-09-23 | KIHEI SASAJIMA \(Japan, 1906\-1993\), "Seacoast Futoni"., Dai Oban woodblock print, 9.75" x 19" to the plate line. Framed 19" x 28". | Eldred's | $90
5. 2021-06-24 | Kihei Sasajima | Hindman | N/A
6. 2019-05-04 | Kihei Sasajima \- Japanese Woodblock Print \- Girl Holding a Cat | Floating World Auctions | N/A
7. 2019-05-04 | Kihei Sasajima \- Japanese Woodblock Print \- Girl Holding a Cat | Floating World Auctions | N/A
8. 2019-02-09 | Kihei Sasajima woodcut | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $150
9. 2018-11-18 | Kihei SASAJIMA \(1906\-1993\) | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | $175
10. 2017-09-23 | Kihei Sasajima woodblock | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $120
11. 2017-09-23 | Kihei Sasajima woodblock | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $160
12. 2015-09-19 | Kihei Sasajima \(1901\-1993\), Mountain Stream \(Aizu\), Japan, 1954, 35/50, ink woodblock, depicting a stream in a gorge in Aizu, Fukushima | Skinner | N/A
13. 2014-12-12 | KIHEI SASAJIMA \(Japanese, b. 1901\). TREE, Woodcut, signed and sealed, number 4/30, dated 1960. Framed. | Sloans & Kenyon | $100
14. 2014-11-15 | KIHEI SASAJIMA \(Japanese, b. 1901\). TREE, Woodcut, signed and sealed, number 4/30, dated 1960. Framed. | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
15. 2014-09-13 | Kihei Sasajima, The Goddess Banziten K | Floating World Auctions | $60
16. 2011-10-30 | KIHEI SASAJIMA, 'Landscape with Houses', woodblock | Lots Road Auctions | £200
17. 2009-11-07 | Kihei Sasajima, Mountain Brook | Floating World Auctions | $300
18. 2009-11-07 | Kihei Sasajima, Fudo Myoo No. 45 | Floating World Auctions | N/A
19. 2008-10-25 | Kihei Sasajima 1957 Japanese Woodblock Print | Ripley Auctions | $30

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