Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)

A fifth untitled print by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His interest in Korean subjects alongside his Japanese domestic scenes reflects the historical context of his practice: Japanese artists working during the colonial period and its immediate aftermath often documented Korean traditional culture, creating a body of ethnographic printmaking that now occupies a complex position in the history of Japan-Korea artistic relations. Hiyoshi Mamoru's Korean compositions approach their subjects with the same observational directness as his Japanese ones.