Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
A tenth untitled print by Nakajima Kiyoshi, one of the most recognizable voices in Showa-era Japanese printmaking. His sustained engagement with wind, light, and seasonal atmosphere — rendered through the woodblock medium with a painterly delicacy unusual in the genre — produced a body of work that speaks to something deep in the Japanese aesthetic tradition: the appreciation of transient natural beauty, the sensitivity to the particular quality of a moment in weather and season, the nostalgia for a natural world that modernization progressively eroded.
More Prints by Nakajima Kiyoshi
More Landscapes Prints
Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)
Woodblock print
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima) was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima) depicts landscapes and abstract.