Amayadori- Showers in the Farming Land

This impression of Amayadori presents Hiyoshi Mamoru's depiction of farmers taking shelter from a passing shower over a Korean agricultural plain. The title draws on the Japanese word for the act of ducking out of the rain, a quotidian subject that Hiyoshi elevated through careful observation of colonial-era Korean rural custom. The composition likely centers on one or more figures in traditional Korean dress — perhaps white hanbok — pressed against a farmstead wall or beneath a broad-leafed crop as rainfall darkens the field behind them. Hiyoshi's training under Okada Saburosuke at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts gave him a grounding in tonal values that translates here into a nuanced range of grey-green and blue-grey passages rendered through multiple woodblock key and color blocks. This appears to be one of the primary impressions in the series.