Genzo Temple, Miyazaki, Saitama Prefecture (Miyazaki Genzoji (Saitama ken))

Genzo Temple at Miyazaki in Saitama Prefecture, published in July 1955, depicts a rural Buddhist temple in the farm village of Miyazaki in present-day Saitama city — likely Hasui's penultimate or final published landscape, as he died in 1957. The rural temple setting — thatched or tile-roofed hall, ancient cryptomeria, summer foliage, the quiet of a country precincts — represents the most intimate scale of Japanese Buddhist architecture: not the grand temple complexes of Nara or Kyoto but the local community temple that defined the spiritual center of village life. The July date suggests the lush full-summer foliage of deep green that would have surrounded the modest temple precinct.