# Rakusan Tsuchiya - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T05:43:57.904Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 27
- Lots with prices: 22
- First auction date: 2013-08-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-11
- Median realised price: $260
- Price range: $100 to $650

## Market Takeaway
Rakusan Tsuchiya has 27 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $260. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($260\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $300\) 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% (22 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $225
- Previous 12 months median: $100
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-11
- Days since latest sale: 150
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bradford's: 9 lots
- Eldred's: 5 lots
- Aalders Auctions: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Clars Auctions: 1 lots
- Floating World Auctions: 1 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 1 lots
- Huntington Museum of Art: 1 lots
- Material Culture: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-11 | Tsuchiya Rakusan, Japanese 1896\-1976, Two Works | Abell Auction | $225
2. 2024-08-17 | \(lot of 2\) Japanese woodblock prints by Rakusan Tsuchiya \(1896\-1976\) | Clars Auctions | $100
3. 2024-08-02 | Tsuchiya Rakusan \- Japanese Print \- Rose | Floating World Auctions | N/A
4. 2024-02-08 | TSUCHIYA RAKUSAN \(Japan, 1896\-1976\), Three bird prints:, Woodblock prints, dai oban yoko\-e, 13.5" x 18.5" sight. Framed. | Eldred's | $375
5. 2024-02-08 | TSUCHIYA RAKUSAN \(Japan, 1896\-1976\), Two bird and flower views:, Woodblock prints, dai oban yoko\-e, 13.5" x 18.5". Framed 20" x 25". | Eldred's | $425
6. 2024-02-08 | TSUCHIYA RAKUSAN \(Japan, 1896\-1976\), Three flora and fauna views:, Woodblock prints, oban yoko\-e, 9.75" x 15" sight. Framed 14" x 19". | Eldred's | $325
7. 2024-02-08 | TSUCHIYA RAKUSAN \(Japan, 1896\-1976\), Two floral and insect views:, Woodblock prints, oban yoko\-e, 9" x 14" sight. Framed 14" x 19". | Eldred's | $150
8. 2023-05-17 | RAKUSAN Tsuchiya Signed Quail Block Print | The Benefit Shop Foundation Inc. | $175
9. 2023-05-16 | Tsuchiya Rakusan \(1896 \- 1976\) | Roseberys | £100
10. 2023-04-03 | Tsuchiya Rakusan \(Japanese, 1886\-1976\) | Material Culture | $225
11. 2022-10-01 | Rakusan Tsuchiya \(Japanese, 1896 \- 1976\), "Beach at Low Tide and Long\-Billed Ringed Plovers," a.k.a. "Early Spring," woodblock print on paper | Huntington Museum of Art | N/A
12. 2022-05-20 | RAKUSAN TSUCHIYA \(JAPAN, 1886\-1976\) UNFRAMED | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $650
13. 2022-04-28 | TSUCHIYA RAKUSAN \(Japan, 1896\-1976\), Floral stalk., Woodblock print, oban tate\-e, 14” x 9.5” sight. Framed 24” x 18.5”. | Eldred's | $200
14. 2020-03-22 | Rakusan Tsuchiya "Yellow\-Throated Bunting" Woodblock | Bradford's | $220
15. 2020-03-22 | Rakusan Tsuchiya "Flowers & Great Tits" Woodblock | Bradford's | $300
16. 2020-03-22 | Rakusan Tsuchiya "Greater Bird of Paradise Woodblock | Bradford's | $260
17. 2020-03-22 | Rakusan Tsuchiya "Japanese Grosbeaks" Woodblock | Bradford's | $300
18. 2020-03-22 | Rakusan Tsuchiya "Long\-tailed Rosefinches" Woodblock | Bradford's | $260
19. 2020-03-22 | Rakusan Tsuchiya "Silverberry & Robin" Woodblock | Bradford's | $300
20. 2020-03-22 | Rakusan Tsuchiya "Grey Starling" Woodblock | Bradford's | $280
21. 2020-03-22 | Rakusan Tsuchiya "Snipe & Water\-Lily" Woodblock | Bradford's | $110
22. 2020-03-22 | Rakusan Tsuchiya "Paradise Fly\-Catcher" Woodblock | Bradford's | $260
23. 2019-03-10 | Rakusan Tsuchiya \(1896\-1976\), | Aalders Auctions | N/A
24. 2019-03-10 | Rakusan Tsuchiya \(1896\-1976\), | Aalders Auctions | N/A

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