Swaying — ゆらめき
- 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.
"Swaying" (ゆらめき, yuramexi) — the visual quality of gentle oscillation, the barely-perceptible movement of something under the influence of a light force. Nakajima Kiyoshi's work is pervaded by this quality of gentle motion: figures whose garments move in a light breeze, grasses that lean under wind pressure, water surfaces disturbed by a breath of air. The Japanese word yuramexi carries a specific acoustic quality — the repeated middle syllables suggest the rhythm of the swaying itself — that Nakajima translates into visual terms through his treatment of line and the placement of figures within windswept 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.
Swaying — ゆらめき was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Swaying — ゆらめき depicts landscapes, figures, and bijin-ga.
