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 twelfth untitled print by Nakajima Kiyoshi. His compositions typically center on female figures in outdoor spaces — fields, riverbanks, garden paths — where the interaction between the human figure and the natural world's atmospheric conditions creates the work's emotional charge. Women in Nakajima's prints are not positioned against nature as subjects against backgrounds but are embedded within it, their hair and clothing animated by the same wind that moves the grass and water around them, making the figure and the landscape continuous aspects of a single experience.
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.
Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima) was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima) depicts landscapes, figures, and bijin-ga.
