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 thirty-second untitled print by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His social-documentary orientation — the focus on communities engaged in shared activities, traditional crafts being practiced, everyday scenes of market and farmland — makes his work valuable to historians of Japanese and Korean social history as well as to collectors and students of printmaking. These prints offer evidence about mid-Showa social life that complements written and photographic records.
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) was created by Hiyoshi Mamoru (日吉護).
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) depicts figures, market scenes, and daily life.
