Untitled (hiyoshi-mamoru)

An eighth untitled work by Hiyoshi Mamoru. His consistent focus on the social dimensions of Japanese and Korean life — the communities gathered around common activities, the market's commercial and social functions, the farming household's seasonal rhythms — reflects a humanist orientation in his printmaking practice. People in social contexts, not isolated figures or pure landscapes, are his primary subject, and even the natural world in his work tends to be framed through its relationship to human activity.