Kaze no Kahori — 風のかほり
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
"The Fragrance of the Wind" (風のかほり, kaze no kahori) — an evocative title that appeals to a sense other than sight, suggesting the way wind carries scent across a landscape, delivering the fragrance of distant blossoms or the salt of the sea to a waiting figure. Nakajima Kiyoshi's compositions frequently engage with this synesthetic quality of outdoor experience: the way the natural world addresses all the senses simultaneously, so that the sight of wind in a field of flowers is inseparable from the imagined fragrance it carries. The archaic spelling of kahori (かほり rather than the modern かおり) gives the title a classical literary resonance.
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Kaze no Kahori — 風のかほり was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Kaze no Kahori — 風のかほり depicts landscapes, figures, and bijin-ga.