Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)

A thirteenth untitled work by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His treatment of communal activities — the shared labor of farming, the social space of the market, the traditional craft occupations maintained by specific communities — reflects an interest in the forms of collective life that modernization was progressively dissolving into more individuated and private arrangements. The social world preserved in his prints is one in which work and community were still deeply integrated, before the separation of economic and social life that characterized Japan's postwar industrial development.