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 twenty-fifth untitled work by Nakajima Kiyoshi. The atmospheric delicacy that characterizes his practice — the way his prints seem suffused with light and air, the figures within them embedded in rather than posed against their natural settings — reflects both the technical sophistication of his woodblock approach and the depth of his observational engagement with the Japanese natural world. These qualities are present in untitled and titled works alike.
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.
