Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
"Dream Patterns" (夢もよう, yume moyō) transposes Nakajima Kiyoshi's characteristic interest in visible patterns — the kazemoyō of wind effects, the itosame of fine rain — into the register of the unconscious. Dream patterns are by definition elusive, half-remembered, existing at the boundary between experience and imagination. In Nakajima's visual language, this dreamlike quality is rendered through soft edges, atmospheric color, and the suggestion of forms that are present but not fully resolved — the same techniques he uses to capture wind and light, now applied to the interior landscape of sleep and dreaming.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Dream Pattern — 夢もよう was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Dream Pattern — 夢もよう depicts landscapes, figures, and bijin-ga.
