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Thoughts of te wind by Nakajima Kiyoshi — Japanese Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Thoughts of te wind

by Nakajima Kiyoshi

Medium:
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Image courtesy of
Saru Gallery

Description

The title — evidently a transcription error for Thoughts of the wind — belongs to a wind-themed cluster within Nakajima Kiyoshi's documented prints that also includes Words of the wind, Wind Thoughts, and Pattern of the wind. The repetition of the motif across multiple titles suggests sustained engagement with wind as a metaphor for cognition, speech, or feeling, in addition to its literal weather connotation. A print on this theme might combine subtle directional gesture — diagonal compositional drift, blown forms, calligraphic strokes — with the atmospheric tonal range available through mokuhanga's layered color and bokashi gradation on washi. Without firm publication records or a confirmed exhibition history, the order in which these wind-themed prints were produced and whether they constitute a formal series cannot be established from currently available English-language sources. The cluster's thematic coherence, however, points toward deliberate exploration of a single territory through varied compositions rather than a one-off treatment — a working method consistent with sosaku-hanga practice, where personal themes guide a body of work over time.

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Thoughts of te wind was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).