Misty Dream — 夢がすみ
- 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.
"Dream Mist" or "Misty Dream" (夢がすみ, yume gasumi) — the kasumi (spring mist) that appears in traditional Japanese painting as a compositional and atmospheric device, here combined with the realm of dreaming to produce a title that hovers between meteorological and psychological. Kasumi in classical Japanese aesthetics functions as a veil that partially obscures and thereby beautifies: mountains seen through mist are more beautiful than mountains seen clearly, because the mist suggests depth and distance that sharp vision would eliminate. Nakajima Kiyoshi applies this aesthetic principle to the dreamscape, rendering it through the same soft atmospheric quality that distinguishes his landscape compositions.
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.
Misty Dream — 夢がすみ was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Misty Dream — 夢がすみ depicts landscapes, figures, and spring.
