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 nineteenth untitled work by Nakajima Kiyoshi. His printmaking technique — a woodblock approach with painterly qualities, soft tonal gradations, and atmospheric delicacy — represents a synthesis of traditional and modern Japanese aesthetic concerns. The traditional element is the heightened sensitivity to seasonal and atmospheric beauty; the modern element is the interest in individual emotional experience and the psychological interiority of the female figures who inhabit his compositions. This synthesis made his work accessible to collectors across the traditional-modern spectrum of Japanese aesthetic taste.
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.
