Landscape with Yumedono, Shôwa period, dated 1973

The Yumedono — Hall of Dreams — is an octagonal single-story structure within Horyu-ji's Eastern Precinct in Nara, built in the eighth century and associated with Prince Shotoku. Dated 1973, this print situates the Yumedono within its landscape rather than isolating it as an architectural study, suggesting the composition includes the garden plantings, stone paths, or surrounding wall that frame the hall in site. The octagonal plan, unusual in Japanese Buddhist architecture, presents Hashimoto with a geometric challenge distinct from his castle tower subjects — faceted walls receding at equal angles, repeated bracketing at each face, a pyramidal tiled roof. His oil-painting background and decades of block-carving experience equipped him to render the volumetric complexity of the structure while sustaining the flat tonal areas characteristic of his mature sosaku-hanga style.