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 thirtieth untitled print by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His treatment of the snowman subject alongside more ethnographically serious subjects like Korean totem poles and traditional farming practices reflects the breadth of his interest in ordinary Japanese social life: not only its labor and communal activities, but also its pleasures and seasonal games. The snowman, built by children for the pleasure of building it and watched by adults with nostalgic warmth, belongs to the same world of community and shared experience as the market scene and the rain-shelter scene.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) was created by Hiyoshi Mamoru (日吉護).
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) depicts snow scenes, daily life, and abstract.
