Kaze no Kahori — 風のかほり
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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.
"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.
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.
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.
