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-third untitled work by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His sustained engagement with both Japanese and Korean traditional subjects across his career gives his oeuvre an unusual cross-cultural scope within the Showa printmaking tradition. Most Japanese printmakers of his era focused primarily or exclusively on Japanese subjects; Hiyoshi Mamoru's repeated engagement with Korean traditional life places him among the small group whose documentary interests crossed the national boundary that politics reinforced.
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) was created by Hiyoshi Mamoru (日吉護).
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) depicts figures, daily life, and travel scenes.
