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-seventh untitled work by Nakajima Kiyoshi. His female subjects — typically placed in outdoor settings animated by seasonal change and natural movement — are depicted with a warmth and attentiveness that gives them individual presence without the psychological complexity of his bijin-ga contemporaries. His women are defined by their relationship to the natural world around them rather than by interior psychological states, making them participants in the atmospheric drama of the composition rather than its psychological center.
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.
