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 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](/glossary/shin-hanga) period's new interest in Japanese daily life. Each tradition inflects this fundamental human interest in observing how people live their lives.
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) was created by Hiyoshi Mamoru (日吉護).
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) depicts figures, daily life, and abstract.
