No Series Kazemoyou
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- ukiyo-e.org
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 standalone work carrying the title Kazemoyou (風もよう, "wind patterns") — a recurrent thematic title in Nakajima Kiyoshi's oeuvre that reflects his sustained interest in the visible and invisible movement of wind through landscape and the bodies of his subjects. Wind, in Nakajima's work, is never simply meteorological but is experienced as a quality of emotional atmosphere: the way a figure's hair and garments move, the way grasses bend, the particular quality of light that accompanies moving air. This sense of atmospheric animation distinguishes his prints from more static figure and landscape work of the Showa period.
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.
No Series Kazemoyou was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
No Series Kazemoyou depicts landscapes, figures, and bijin-ga.
