Smell of the wind

Smell of the Wind extends Nakajima Kiyoshi's recurring engagement with wind as a structuring theme. The title's appeal to scent rather than sight points to a print built around evocation: such compositions in mokuhanga typically use atmospheric bokashi, soft outlines, and selective areas of saturated colour to imply a season — often spring or early summer, when blossom or grass carries identifying fragrance. The technique relies on multiple carved blocks aligned by kentō registration marks, with the printer's baren producing the even tonal fields characteristic of post-war Japanese woodblock work. Within Nakajima's body of work, the print belongs to the same wind-themed cluster as Wind from Faraway, Words of the Wind, and The Other Side of the Wind. The grouping suggests a sustained interest in synaesthetic titles, where each work isolates a different sensory aspect of the same phenomenon, treated through related but not identical compositional means.