The Other Side Of The Wind - 風のかなた

The Other Side of the Wind — 風のかなた — completes the wind-themed grouping in Nakajima Kiyoshi's body of work, joining Wind from Faraway, Smell of the Wind, and Words of the Wind as part of a cluster organised around a single phenomenon. The title suggests a composition concerned with what lies beyond, or behind, the visible effects of moving air: a structure that lends itself to figurative or landscape treatments in which the foreground is shaped by wind while the background opens onto something more distant or imagined. In mokuhanga, such atmospheric subjects are typically constructed from multiple carved blocks, with bokashi gradations producing the soft transitions between sky, ground, and figure that the theme requires. The presence of the Japanese title in the work's identification points to a domestic publishing context. Within Nakajima's practice — documented chiefly through print databases rather than English-language scholarship — the wind series stands out as a coherent thematic project.