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 seventh untitled work by Nakajima Kiyoshi, the Showa-era printmaker who built his career on compositions evoking the atmospheric beauty of the Japanese natural world. Wind, rain, clouds, and light — the invisible forces that animate outdoor space — are his primary subjects, rendered through their visible effects on the figures and landscapes that populate his prints. This investment in the imperceptible made perceptible gives his work a quality of heightened attention to nature that aligns it with both the Japanese literary tradition and the modern environmentalist sensibility.
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.
