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 fifteenth untitled work by Nakajima Kiyoshi. His printmaking career represents a continuation of the Japanese woodblock tradition into the latter decades of the twentieth century, maintaining the medium's classical concerns with seasonal beauty and atmospheric delicacy while bringing a distinctly modern sensibility to their treatment. The nostalgic emotional register that pervades his work — the sense of a natural world experienced through the lens of cultural memory — was both his most commercially successful quality and his most artistically distinctive contribution.
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.
