Untitled (kiyoshi-nakajima)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
An untitled composition by Nakajima Kiyoshi, the Showa-era artist whose sustained engagement with wind as visual subject earned him the sobriquet "Painter of the Wind." Nakajima's characteristic technique renders movement and atmosphere through soft gradations of tone and delicate line — the visual equivalent of a world seen through slightly diffused light, as if observed through the medium of moving air itself. His works in this atmospheric mode are among the most evocative in postwar Japanese 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.