Thoughts of the Wind - 風の想い
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
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.
A second version of "Thoughts of the Wind" (風の想い) — Nakajima Kiyoshi's return to this philosophically evocative title suggests that the concept required more than one compositional exploration to exhaust its possibilities. The personification of wind as a thinking, feeling entity aligns with a Japanese animist tradition in which natural phenomena are understood as having consciousness and intention — the wind is not merely a meteorological event but a presence with its own interiority. Nakajima's prints render this interiority as atmospheric quality: the particular emotional charge of a windblown landscape is legible as something more than physical description.
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.
Thoughts of the Wind - 風の想い was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Thoughts of the Wind - 風の想い depicts landscapes, figures, and bijin-ga.
