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 work by Nakajima Kiyoshi from his Showa-era printmaking practice. Nakajima's prints are distinguished by their characteristic use of the Japanese natural world — fields, forests, river banks, domestic gardens — as both setting and emotional field. The wind that animates these outdoor spaces in his work is not merely physical but carries the feeling of a particular season, a particular hour, a particular quality of light and air that makes a specific natural moment memorable and worth capturing. His technique translates these transient atmospheric conditions into lasting printed images.
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.
