# Masamitsu Ota - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T21:48:25.945Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 27
- Lots with prices: 18
- First auction date: 2016-11-05
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-20
- Median realised price: $225
- Price range: $50 to $1,100

## Market Takeaway
Masamitsu Ota has 27 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $225. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 13 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 \($225\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $400\) 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: 88.9% (16 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 11.1% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 13
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $350
- Previous 12 months median: $200
- Median shift: 75%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-20
- Days since latest sale: 146
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Clars Auctions: 8 lots
- JG Auction: 5 lots
- Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals: 5 lots
- Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales: 4 lots
- Woodblock Prints World: 3 lots
- Hessink's: 1 lots
- Huntington Museum of Art: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-20 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\) \- Moritsuna of Ichikawa zebizo IX | Clars Auctions | $225
2. 2025-12-20 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\) \- Onoe Kikugoro VI as the maiden Yayoi in Kagami\-jishi | Clars Auctions | $50
3. 2025-11-22 | Japanese woodblock Print Ota Masamitsu | Woodblock Prints World | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-japanese-woodblock-print-ota-masamitsu-10-c-99aefe79bd
4. 2025-11-21 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\) \- No 5, Benkei of Matsumoto Koshiro VII | Clars Auctions | $225
5. 2025-11-21 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\) \- Crazy for Autumn Leaves: The actor Onoe Baikojo VI | Clars Auctions | $600
6. 2025-11-21 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\) \- Mizutani Yaeko as Madama Butterfly | Clars Auctions | $350
7. 2025-11-21 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\) \- No 3: Tatsugoro of the Me\-gumi Firefighter Brigade | Clars Auctions | $300
8. 2025-11-21 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\) \- Moritsuna of Ichikawa zebizo IX | Clars Auctions | N/A
9. 2025-11-21 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\) \- Onoe Kikugoro VI as the maiden Yayoi in Kagami\-jishi | Clars Auctions | N/A
10. 2025-07-08 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\), The actor Matsumoto Koshiro VII in the role of Benkei | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £1,100
11. 2025-07-08 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\),The actor Ichikawa Jukai III in the role of Shirai Gonpachi | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £900
12. 2025-07-08 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\), The actor Nakamura Kichiemon I in the role of Kiyomasa | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | N/A
13. 2025-07-08 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\), Two woodblock prints from the series Figures of the Showa Stage | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £1,100
14. 2025-03-15 | Japanese woodblock Print Ota Masamitsu | Woodblock Prints World | N/A
15. 2024-07-20 | Masamitsu Ota, Kabuki, Japanese Woodblock Print | JG Auction | £200
16. 2024-05-18 | Masamitsu Ota, Kabuki Actor, Japanese Woodblock Print | JG Auction | £240
17. 2024-04-06 | Japanese woodblock Print Ota Masamitsu | Woodblock Prints World | $250
18. 2020-04-04 | Masamitsu Ota, Modern Kabuki, Woodblock print | JG Auction | N/A
19. 2020-04-04 | Masamitsu Ota, Modern Kabuki, Japanese Woodblock print | JG Auction | N/A
20. 2020-04-04 | Masamitsu Ota, Actress, Kabuki, Japanese Woodblock print | JG Auction | £400
21. 2018-06-17 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\) | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | $200
22. 2018-06-17 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\) | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | $200
23. 2018-06-17 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\) | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | N/A
24. 2018-06-17 | Ota Masamitsu \(1892\-1975\) | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | $200

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