
Endless Night
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Ronin Gallery
- Image courtesy of
- Ronin Gallery
Description
This print's title signals a temporal and atmospheric subject—extended darkness, its psychological weight, its visual qualities—approached through Kurosaki's geometric abstract method. Deep blacks and dark blue-violet color fields likely dominate the composition, with Kurosaki exploiting the woodblock medium's capacity for dense, opaque ink surfaces to render sustained nocturnal darkness. The sosaku-hanga tradition gave him full control over ink saturation, allowing him to calibrate the depth and opacity of dark passages precisely. Against such fields, lighter geometric elements may suggest stars, artificial light sources, or the boundary between dark and darker. The print reflects Kurosaki's recurring interest in pushing geometric abstraction toward psychological content—using formal means to evoke states of duration, enclosure, or existential suspension rather than describing observable phenomena.
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Evening Moon at Nakanoshima, Sapporo (Sapporo Nakanoshima no yuzuki), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan, Eastern Japan Edition (Nihon fukei shu higashi Nihon hen)"
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Endless Night was created by Akira Kurosaki (黒崎彰).
Endless Night depicts night scenes.



