# Kusakabe Kimbei - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T06:13:15.592Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 49
- Lots with prices: 32
- First auction date: 1999-05-07
- Latest auction date: 2026-01-06
- Median realised price: $500
- Price range: $30 to $28,000

## Market Takeaway
Kusakabe Kimbei shows developing auction liquidity with 48 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $720. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-06.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($720\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $160 and $1,800.
- 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: 54.8% (17 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 41.9% (13 sales)
- $10,000\+: 3.2% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 8
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $400
- Previous 12 months median: $100
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2026-01-06
- Days since latest sale: 43
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Artcurial: 5 lots
- Antique Arena Inc: 4 lots
- Bassenge Auctions: 4 lots
- Millon & Associes: 4 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 4 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 3 lots
- Waddington's: 3 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Koller Auctions: 2 lots
- Leonard Joel: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-01-06 | Kusakabe Kimbei \(1841\-1934\) Japanese \(twelve\) | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $95
2. 2025-11-23 | Kusakabe KIMBEI \(1841\-1934\)., Album contenant 50 photos du Japon ancien par Kusakabe Kimbei \(1841\-1934\), les couvertures en bois laqué noir et or, avec applications d’ivoire à décor d’une embarcation animée d’un coupl... | MJV Soudant | N/A
3. 2025-06-28 | Kusakabe Kimbei 19thC Japan Photograph Albumen Silver Prints | Kavanagh Auctions | CA$500
4. 2025-06-04 | Japan: Selected views of Japan | Bassenge Auctions | €1,200
5. 2025-06-04 | Japan: People of Japan | Bassenge Auctions | €400
6. 2025-06-04 | Japan: People and Landscapes of Japan | Bassenge Auctions | N/A
7. 2025-03-05 | Kusakabe Kimbei \- Portrait of a Samurai | New England Auctions | $275
8. 2024-07-10 | Kusakabe Kimbei, Group of six works | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $100 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kusakabe-kimbei-group-of-six-works-413-c-b254d6a8c9
9. 2023-12-01 | Kusakabe Kimbei, Twenty\-three works | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $350
10. 2023-12-01 | Kusakabe Kimbei, Nine works | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $150
11. 2023-07-26 | Kusakabe Kimbei, Nine works | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $300
12. 2023-04-06 | Kusakabe Kimbei \(1841\-1934\); 50 Views of Japan; | Bonhams | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kusakabe-kimbei-1841-1934-50-views-of-japan-69-c-ea7418180c
13. 2023-02-11 | JAPANESE PHOTO GEISHA BY KUSAKABE KIMBEI | Antique Arena Inc | $40
14. 2022-11-26 | JAPANESE PHOTO GEISHA BY KUSAKABE KIMBEI | Antique Arena Inc | $60
15. 2022-10-15 | JAPANESE COLORED PHOTO GEISHA BY KUSAKABE KIMBEI | Antique Arena Inc | $40
16. 2022-04-14 | KUSAKABE KIMBEI \(1841\-1934\) Album with 50 hand\-colored photographs, including numerous scenes from temples, occupational tableaux, a ta | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,375
17. 2022-02-19 | JAPANESE COLORED PHOTO GEISHA BY KUSAKABE KIMBEI | Antique Arena Inc | $30
18. 2022-02-10 | KUSAKABE KIMBEI \(1841\-1934\) An elegant Japanese album with 50 hand\-colored photographs depicting cities, temples, landscapes, and garde | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,750
19. 2021-05-11 | Kusakabe KIMBEI \(1841\-1934\) Cooper \[Tonnelier\] \- c. 1870 | Artcurial | €800
20. 2019-12-02 | KUSAKABE KIMBEI | Koller Auctions | CHF 1,600
21. 2019-09-11 | KUSAKABE KIMBEI \(attrib.\), \(JAPANESE, 1841–1934\), ACTRESSES AND VIEW OF SUMIDAKAWA TOKYO \(MOUNTED TO VERSO\) | Freeman's \| Hindman | N/A
22. 2019-06-27 | KUSAKABE KIMBEI | Koller Auctions | CHF 1,400
23. 2018-01-30 | Kusakabe Kimbei, Tamamura Kozaburo et autres | Leclere \- Maison de ventes | €1,403
24. 2017-12-10 | KUSAKABE KIMBEI \(JAPANESE, 1840\-1930\) KAGO \(TRAVELING CHAIR\), C. 1890 ALBUMEN 8 | Heritage Auctions | $110

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