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 sixteenth untitled print by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His woodblock prints document a world — mid-century Japanese and Korean rural and small-town life — that has since been thoroughly transformed by economic development, urbanization, and the global homogenization of material culture. The specificity of his observations — the particular tools of traditional craft, the arrangement of goods in a traditional market, the social postures of figures engaged in communal activities — gives his prints an archival value that supplements their aesthetic interest.
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) was created by Hiyoshi Mamoru (日吉護).
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) depicts figures, daily life, and abstract.
