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