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-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.
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) was created by Hiyoshi Mamoru (日吉護).
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) depicts figures, market scenes, and daily life.
