Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
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.
More Prints by Nakajima Kiyoshi
More Landscapes Prints
Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Autumn Maple Leaves at Takao, from the album Eight Views of Kyoto (Kyôto hakkei)
Woodblock print
The Beach at Kaiganji in Sanuki Province (Sanuki Kaiganji no hama), from the series "Collection of Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition (Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen)"
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Tea Kettle, section of a sheet from the series "Mirror of Stone Rubbings of Views of the Provinces" (Kohon meihitsu ishizuri kagami)
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima) was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima) depicts landscapes, figures, and bijin-ga.