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.
A second exploration of "Dream Patterns" (夢もよう) by Nakajima Kiyoshi, returning to a title he has visited multiple times in his career as he explores different aspects of the dreamlike and atmospheric quality that characterizes his printmaking practice. If wind patterns (kazemoyō) are the visible record of an invisible force, dream patterns (yume moyō) are the visual record of an interior experience — the images that form in sleep and dissolve on waking, leaving only a residue of feeling. Nakajima's soft, atmospheric technique is well-suited to rendering this liminal quality between perception and imagination.
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 Patterns - 夢もよう was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Dream Patterns - 夢もよう depicts landscapes, figures, and bijin-ga.
