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 second untitled work by Nakajima Kiyoshi — printmaker whose poetically titled series and compositions devoted to wind, light, and seasonal atmosphere made him one of the most recognizable figures in Showa-era Japanese printmaking. His subjects are typically women and children in outdoor spaces, the natural world rendered with a painterly delicacy that owes something to nihonga tradition while being thoroughly modern in its emotional sensibility. The atmospheric quality of his prints — the sense of light and air moving through the composition — distinguishes his work from more conventional landscape and figure printmaking.
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.
