Negourukatachi — Blossoms of Dharma

Within the Negourukatachi sequence — Hayashi's "forms of wishing" series — this print turns explicitly to Buddhist imagery, with "Blossoms of Dharma" drawing on the flowering of teaching or doctrine common in Mahayana visual vocabulary. The image likely takes the form of a clustered or radiating motif, blossom-like in arrangement, rendered through the layered intaglio process Hayashi uses across the series: etched line and drypoint over aquatint, with chine-collé applications of gampi or similar washi to introduce translucent inserts. The religious classification reflects subject content rather than function; Hayashi's prints are not devotional objects but contemplative images that draw on Buddhist iconography as part of a broader engagement with East Asian thought, alongside the Taoist and animistic references found elsewhere in his output. Compositionally, the small-format plate likely concentrates marks toward a central area, the gampi inserts catching ink slightly differently from the surrounding sheet. The work belongs to an extended arc in his practice in which religious and philosophical motifs are absorbed into a personal language of sign rather than illustrated as recognizable iconography.