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-ninth untitled work by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His woodblock prints preserve aspects of mid-Showa Japanese and Korean material culture — the tools, garments, structures, and social arrangements of traditional community life — with a precision that photography of the period often lacked: where a photograph records the particular, the woodblock print's process of reduction to essential lines and forms also records the typical, the characteristic, the representative instance of a subject type.
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) was created by Hiyoshi Mamoru (日吉護).
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) depicts figures, daily life, and abstract.
