$1,000–$8,000. Tree compositions are among the artist's signature and most valued subjects. Good castle/architectural prints: $2,500–$5,000. Key value factors: Hashimoto's bold castle prints are his most recognizable and collected works. Larger formats command premiums.
Kyokochi (Mirror Pond) sits at the foot of Kinkaku-ji, the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, and Hashimoto's print captures the pond's surface reflecting autumn maples in their full koyo coloration. The composition likely uses the still water as a horizontal divider, doubling the foliage in mirrored registration that demands precise key-block alignment. Hashimoto's color-woodblock practice in the 1960s combined [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) self-printing with controlled [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations to render layered reds, vermilions, and ochres without losing the geometric structure he favored. Edition sizes around eighty, as here, were typical for his mature work after he had refined his blocks for stability across repeated impressions. Within his body of work, Kyokochi koyo extends his preoccupation with Kyoto temple precincts, where architecture and the cultivated landscape function as a single composed subject. He returned repeatedly to these monastery gardens, treating their seasonal moments as architectural events governed by the same compositional logic as his castle and pagoda prints.
Nikko Chuzenjiko
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Niigata Gosaibori
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Maple Trees at Kyoko Pond (Kyokochi koyo) was created by Okiie Hashimoto (橋本興家) in 1968.
Maple Trees at Kyoko Pond (Kyokochi koyo) depicts rivers & lakes, trees, and autumn foliage.
