Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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 fourth untitled work by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His genre subjects — the everyday activities of farming communities, market scenes, fishing practices, traditional craft — document aspects of Japanese social life in the Showa period that were undergoing rapid transformation under the pressures of modernization and economic development. These prints acquire documentary significance beyond their artistic merit: they preserve visual records of practices and settings that have since largely disappeared from the Japanese landscape.
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) was created by Hiyoshi Mamoru (日吉護).
Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru) depicts figures, daily life, and abstract.
