# Tsuruya Kokei - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-06-19T00:39:58.544Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 21
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2014-06-09
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-13
- Median realised price: $400
- Price range: $63 to $3,500

## Market Takeaway
Tsuruya Kokei has 21 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $400. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $600\) 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: 78.9% (15 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 21.1% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $400
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-13
- Days since latest sale: 370
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Floating World Auctions: 6 lots
- Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes: 6 lots
- Abell Auction: 3 lots
- Eldred's: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Adam's: 1 lots
- Waddington's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-18 | TSURUYA KOKEI \(B. 1946\) Self edition Nakamura Kichiemon II as Matsuomaru Series: Bust Portraits IV 1985 Rare and impressive printing on tracing paper with gold pigment Ōban Japanese woodblock print, 39 x 27.2cm Ref: https://www.roningalle | Adam's | €400
2. 2025-06-13 | Tsuruya Kokei \(born in 1946\) \| Portrait of David Caplan, Respectfully Presented on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday \(Kanreki no Debiddo kyapuran shi zo\) \| Heisei period, late 20th century | Sotheby's | €63 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-tsuruya-kokei-born-in-1946-portrait-of-david-caplan-respectfully-presented-on-the-occasion-of-his-sixtieth-birthday-kanreki-no-debiddo-kyapuran-shi-zo-heisei-period-late-20th-century-804-c-3574445892
3. 2025-06-13 | Tsuruya Kokei \(b. 1946\) \| Three woodblock prints depicting actors \| Showa period, 20th century | Sotheby's | N/A
4. 2024-09-27 | TSURUYA KOKEI \(Japan, 1946\-\), The Tayu, from Ninin Wankyu., Woodblock print on thin ganpi paper, 23" x 16". Unframed. | Eldred's | $200
5. 2024-09-27 | TSURUYA KOKEI \(Japan, 1946\-\), Woman Approaching Middle Age, from Toshima., Woodblock print, 23.5" x 16". Unframed. | Eldred's | $475
6. 2024-08-02 | Tsuruya Kokei \- Japanese Print \- The Ugly Girl and Young Man from Tsuri Onna | Floating World Auctions | $550
7. 2023-06-01 | Tsuruya Kokei \(B. 1946\): Portfolio of Color Woodblock Prints | Abell Auction | $2,000
8. 2023-05-11 | Tsuruya Kokei: Portfolio of Woodblock Prints | Abell Auction | $3,500
9. 2022-11-03 | TSURUYA KOKEI \(B. 1946\): TWO WORKS | Abell Auction | $150
10. 2022-09-28 | Tsuruya Kokei \(1946\) Ichikawa Danjūrō XII as Saint Narukami | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | €200
11. 2022-09-28 | Tsuruya Kokei \(1946\) Matsumoto Koshiro as Miyamoto Musashi | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | €220
12. 2022-09-28 | Tsuruya Kokei \(1946\) Ichikawa Danjūrō XII as Hanakawado Sukeroku | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | €200
13. 2022-09-28 | Tsuruya Kokei \(1946\) Ichikawa Ebizo X as Akushichibei Kagekiyo | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | €1,150
14. 2022-09-28 | Tsuruya Kokei \(1946\) Nakamura Kichiemon II as Matsuomaru | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | €200
15. 2022-09-28 | Tsuruya Kokei \(1946\) Ichimura Uzaemon XVII as Musashibo Benkei | Veilinghuis Onder de Boompjes | €260
16. 2019-05-04 | Tsuruya Kokei \- Japanese Woodblock Print \- Snow from "Sagi Musume" | Floating World Auctions | $1,000
17. 2019-05-04 | Tsuruya Kokei \- Japanese Woodblock Print \- Flowers from "Dojoji" | Floating World Auctions | N/A
18. 2019-05-04 | Tsuruya Kokei \- Japanese Woodblock Print \- The Tayu from "Ninin Wankyu" | Floating World Auctions | $400
19. 2019-05-04 | Tsuruya Kokei \- Japanese Woodblock Print \- Woman Approaching Middle Age from "Toshima" | Floating World Auctions | $425
20. 2019-05-04 | Tsuruya Kokei \- Japanese Woodblock Print \- The Ugly Woman and Young Man from "Tsuri Onna" | Floating World Auctions | $600
21. 2014-06-09 | Tsuruya Kokei \(1946\- \), NAKAMURA TOMIJURO V AS KO NO MORONO | Waddington's | CA$330

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