Words of the Wind — 風ことば
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
"Wind Words" or "Words of the Wind" (風ことば) — a title that captures the essence of Nakajima Kiyoshi's artistic preoccupation with the invisible made visible, the atmospheric given form. In his printmaking practice, wind is not merely a physical phenomenon but a kind of language: it communicates the season, the time of day, the emotional register of a scene through its effects on the elements it touches — hair, garment, grass, branch, water. This print renders those wind-words in the visual vocabulary of woodblock printing, capturing the breath of a moving world in a moment of fixed pigment on paper.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Words of the Wind — 風ことば was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Words of the Wind — 風ことば depicts landscapes, figures, and bijin-ga.