Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)

A twelfth untitled print by Hiyoshi Mamoru. The social-documentary quality of his practice — his interest in ordinary people engaged in everyday activities rather than idealized figures in timeless settings — connects him to the broader tradition of genre painting that runs from Pieter Bruegel's Flemish peasant scenes through Hokusai's Manga to the Shin-hanga period's new interest in Japanese daily life. Each tradition inflects this fundamental human interest in observing how people live their lives.