Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)

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.