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 twenty-third untitled work by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His treatment of social scenes — the community gathered around a shared activity, whether shelter from rain, market commerce, riverside washing, or cormorant fishing — consistently emphasizes the choreography of group behavior rather than the psychology of individual figures. This focus on the collective rather than the individual is characteristic of a social documentary approach and gives his prints a quality of observed social reality that more aesthetically driven work sometimes lacks.
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) was created by Hiyoshi Mamoru (日吉護).
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) depicts figures, market scenes, and daily life.
