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 twenty-fifth untitled work by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His Showa-era printmaking practice extended the Japanese woodblock tradition's historical interest in genre subjects — the everyday activities of ordinary people — into the mid-twentieth century, a period when this tradition faced competition from photography and film as means of documenting social reality. Hiyoshi Mamoru's choice of the traditional woodblock medium for documentary work reflects a belief in the medium's distinctive capacities for rendering the visual character of social scenes.
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) was created by Hiyoshi Mamoru (日吉護).
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) depicts figures, daily life, and abstract.
