Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)

A fifteenth untitled work by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His Korean subjects — the totem poles, the market scenes, the laundry scenes, the figures in traditional dress — represent a significant portion of his documented output and reflect the historical moment of his practice: the decades immediately before and after Japan's 1945 defeat, when Korean traditional culture was being documented by Japanese artists in a context of profound historical complexity. His ethnographic prints from this period require historical contextualizing alongside aesthetic appreciation.