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-seventh untitled work by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His place in the history of Japanese printmaking is that of a social-documentary practitioner whose subjects were more people than places, more activities than aesthetics, more the ordinary texture of life than its celebrated highlights. This orientation gives his work a particular kind of value — not the value of the masterpiece that transcends its time, but the value of the careful observer who preserves what his contemporaries took for granted.
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) was created by Hiyoshi Mamoru (日吉護).
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) depicts figures, daily life, and abstract.
