Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)

A thirty-fifth untitled work by Hiyoshi Mamoru. The pattern of his documented works — the farming community sheltering from rain, the market vendors and their customers, the traditional craft practitioners at their work, the Korean traditional subjects — suggests an artist with an anthropologist's curiosity about how people organize their lives within specific cultural and material conditions. This curiosity, applied through the woodblock medium, produced a body of work that reads as a small visual ethnography of mid-Showa East Asia.