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.
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.
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.
