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 fourteenth untitled print by Nakajima Kiyoshi. "The Painter of the Wind" continued working throughout the latter decades of the Showa era, his style evolving but his central concerns remaining consistent: the atmospheric beauty of the Japanese natural world, the emotional charge of seasonal change, the way that wind and light transform the mundane landscape of fields and gardens into something worth looking at with sustained attention. These late works often show a greater economy of means than his earlier compositions — fewer elements, more atmospheric suggestion.
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.
