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 ninth untitled work by Nakajima Kiyoshi. His printmaking practice demonstrates the continued vitality of Japanese woodblock printing in the Showa period, when the medium might have seemed threatened by photography and other reproductive technologies but instead found new expressive possibilities in the hands of artists like Nakajima. His particular contribution — the rendering of atmospheric and meteorological phenomena with the sensitivity and precision usually reserved for figure drawing — opened new territory for the woodblock medium.
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.
