Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)

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.