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](/glossary/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](/glossary/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.