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 twentieth untitled print by Nakajima Kiyoshi. Among his most celebrated compositional types are those depicting women and children in autumn landscapes — the falling leaves providing the same wind-animation that grass and water surfaces provide in his other seasonal compositions. Autumn in Japanese aesthetics carries the most emotionally complex seasonal meaning: the beauty of the moment intensified by awareness of its imminent passing. Nakajima's autumn compositions engage this aesthetic directly, placing his atmospheric sensitivity in service of the season's characteristic emotional register.
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 autumn foliage.
