Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)
- 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.
A tenth untitled print by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His woodblock compositions — whether depicting rural labor, market commerce, traditional crafts, or Korean ethnographic subjects — share a quality of social attentiveness: the artist observing the human choreography of activity within specific settings and rendering it with enough precision that the woodblock image preserves both the specific scene and the broader social patterns it represents. This quality of attentiveness is the essential quality of the genre painter, and Hiyoshi Mamoru possessed it fully.
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) was created by Hiyoshi Mamoru (日吉護).
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) depicts figures, daily life, and abstract.
