# Shotei Watanabe - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T04:01:33.631Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 27
- Lots with prices: 20
- First auction date: 2010-11-07
- Latest auction date: 2026-02-07
- Median realised price: $240
- Price range: $5 to $976

## Market Takeaway
Shotei Watanabe has 27 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $240. 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 \($240\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($70 to $325\) 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% (20 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: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $70
- Previous 12 months median: $100
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2026-02-07
- Days since latest sale: 81
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 5 lots
- Weschler's: 5 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 2 lots
- Signens Kunstauktionen: 2 lots
- ACA Auctions: 1 lots
- Auctions Van de Wiele: 1 lots
- Auktionshaus Zofingen: 1 lots
- Bassenge Auctions: 1 lots
- Bubb \> Kuyper: Auctioneers of Books, Fine Arts & Manuscripts: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-07 | Shotei, Watanabe: Ôume Kaidô | Bassenge Auctions | €800
2. 2025-06-10 | Shotei, Watanabe | Nagel Auction | €70
3. 2025-03-21 | SHOTEI, Watanabe | Auctions Van de Wiele | €320
4. 2024-11-05 | Shotei Watanabe \(Japanese 1851–1918\), Two Egrets Under a Willow Tree, Woodblock Print, Frame: 16 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. \(42.5 x 32.4 cm.\) | Weschler's | $300
5. 2024-01-30 | SHOTEI WATANABE \(1851\-1918\): FROM SEITEI'S ALBUM OF KACHOGA; 1890, two original Japanese woodblock prints, \(2\) | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £5
6. 2023-12-19 | SHOTEI WATANABE \(1851\-1918\): FROM SEITEI'S ALBUM OF KACHOGA; 1890, three original Japanese woodblock prints, \( | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £35
7. 2023-12-19 | SHOTEI WATANABE \(1851\-1918\): FROM SEITEI'S ALBUM OF KACHOGA; 1890, two original Japanese woodblock prints, \(2\) | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
8. 2023-11-23 | Shotei Watanabe | Auktionshaus Zofingen | CHF 240
9. 2023-11-17 | SHOTEI WATANABE \(1851\-1918\): FROM SEITEI'S ALBUM OF KACHOGA; 1890, three original Japanese woodblock prints, \( | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
10. 2023-11-17 | SHOTEI WATANABE \(1851\-1918\): FROM SEITEI'S ALBUM OF KACHOGA; 1890, two original Japanese woodblock prints, \(2\) | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
11. 2023-10-10 | Seitei \(Shotei\) Watanabe \(Japanese 1851 \- 1918\), Rat Foraging, Two Woodblock Prints Framed as One, Frame: 13 1/4 x 19 3/4 in. \(33.7 x 50.2 cm.\) | Weschler's | $175
12. 2022-02-12 | Shotei Watanabe woodblock | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $325
13. 2020-05-28 | Seitei \(1851\-1918\). \(Seated bijin reading a book\). Col. woodcut kuchi\-e, signed Seitei hitsu. | Bubb \> Kuyper: Auctioneers of Books, Fine Arts & Manuscripts | €70
14. 2016-10-16 | Shotei \(Seiti\) Watanabe \(1851\-1918\), Woodblock print, Kuchi\-e, Hand Coloured Book Plate, Japanese | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$300
15. 2026-02-07 | Seitei \(Shotei\), Watanabe | Das Auktionshaus Pforzheim | N/A
16. 2024-11-30 | Seitei, Watanabe, 1851\-1918, Oban aus einem Album | Signens Kunstauktionen | €60
17. 2024-11-30 | Seitei, Watanabe, 1851\-1918, Oban aus einem Album | Signens Kunstauktionen | €100
18. 2024-09-27 | Seitei, Watanabe | Kiefer Buch\- und Kunstauktionen | N/A
19. 2023-10-10 | Seitei \(Shotei\) Watanabe \(Japanese 1851 \- 1918\), Birds on Branch, Four Woodblock Prints Framed as One, Frame: 24 1/2 x 18 in. \(62.2 x 45.7 cm.\) | Weschler's | $225
20. 2023-10-10 | Seitei \(Shotei\) Watanabe \(Japanese 1851 \- 1918\), Duckling, Two Woodblock Prints Framed as One, Frame: 13 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. \(33.7 x 51.4 cm.\) | Weschler's | $150
21. 2023-01-24 | Seitei \(Shotei\) Watanabe \(Japanese 1851 \- 1918\), Nine Crows, Woodblock Print, Matted as diptych, Frame 16 1/4 x 19 5/8 in. \(41.3 x 49.8 cm.\) | Weschler's | $600
22. 2015-11-30 | WA \- cuff links and pins | ACA Auctions | €280
23. 2011-11-10 | A large silk picture Circa 1900 | Bonhams | £500
24. 2011-07-20 | A large silk picture Circa 1900 | Bonhams | N/A

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