Kazemoyou — 風もよう
- 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.
"Wind Patterns" (風もよう, kazemoyō) is one of Nakajima Kiyoshi's most frequently revisited titles, reflecting the centrality of wind-as-subject in his printmaking practice. The word moyō means pattern or design, and kazemoyō suggests the patterns that wind makes visible in the world — the moving texture of tall grass in a field, the rippled surface of water, the complex choreography of flying hair and billowing fabric. Nakajima has been called "the Painter of the Wind" precisely because he renders these transient patterns with such attentiveness and skill, transforming meteorological phenomena into enduring aesthetic experience.
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.
Kazemoyou — 風もよう was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Kazemoyou — 風もよう depicts landscapes, figures, and bijin-ga.
