Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)

A thirty-seventh untitled work by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His place in the broader history of Japanese printmaking — as a social-documentary practitioner working in the Showa period — is not yet fully established in the scholarly literature, partly because his work has not received the systematic research attention given to more celebrated contemporaries. These untitled works represent an invitation to that future scholarship: to identify, date, and contextualize a body of work that captures something essential about mid-century Japanese and Korean social life.