$1,000–$8,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Hashimoto's bold castle prints are his most recognizable and collected works. Larger formats command premiums.
Castle in the Moon, printed in 1978 in an edition of twenty-two, places a castle's donjon against a luminous moon — one of Hashimoto's most poetically charged compositions. The moon was among the most potent symbols in Japanese aesthetic tradition, associated with beauty, melancholy, and the passage of time, and its conjunction with a castle's martial architecture creates a tension between the permanent and the transient, the fortified and the vulnerable. The moonlit castle becomes something both more and less than a military structure — a form suspended in time and legend.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Castle in the moon was created by Okiie Hashimoto (橋本興家) in 22/300, 1978.
Castle in the moon depicts castles, moonlight, and night scenes.
