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-sixth untitled print by Nakajima Kiyoshi, one of the Showa era's most distinctive printmakers. His sustained focus on wind, light, and seasonal atmosphere as primary subjects in their own right — rather than simply as settings for figure or landscape compositions — represents a genuine innovation within the Japanese printmaking tradition, one that earned him both popular success and critical recognition as "the Painter of the Wind."
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.
