Kannonji Temple in Beppu- Kankaiji Temple - 別府温泉

This impression of Kankaiji Temple is identified with the notation 別府温泉 (Beppu Onsen), situating the subject explicitly within Beppu's identity as Japan's most celebrated hot spring resort. The notation underscores that the temple existed in a landscape defined by geothermal activity — steam rising from the city's jigoku springs would have been visible from the hillside temple grounds on cool days. Hasui's compositions of Beppu temple subjects typically integrate this sense of place, the serene Buddhist architecture set against the active, steaming landscape below. The print employs the layered color printing characteristic of shin-hanga work for Watanabe Shozaburo, with the temple structure rendered in warm ochres and grays against the cooler tones of the surrounding vegetation and distant water.