Wind Thoughts — 風の想い
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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.
"Wind Thoughts" or "Thoughts of the Wind" (風の想い, kaze no omoi) — a title that personifies wind as a thinking entity, or alternatively suggests thoughts that have the quality of wind: invisible, moving, carrying things from one place to another. Nakajima Kiyoshi's sustained preoccupation with wind as subject and metaphor reaches its most philosophically abstract in compositions like this, where the subject becomes not wind's visible effects but wind's interiority — the thoughts or feelings that wind might have if it were a sentient being, or the thoughts that wind-like and wind-moved phenomena inspire in the human figures who experience them.
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.
Wind Thoughts — 風の想い was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Wind Thoughts — 風の想い depicts landscapes, figures, and bijin-ga.
