$1,000–$8,000. Common subjects: $1,000–$2,500. Key value factors: Hashimoto's bold castle prints are his most recognizable and collected works. Larger formats command premiums.
The karesansui, or dry landscape garden, offered Hashimoto a subject ideally suited to his geometric and architectural sensibilities. Raked gravel patterns and carefully placed stones — reduced to their essential forms — translate directly into the precise carving and flat color areas of his printmaking practice. Produced in 1966 and issued in an edition of ten, this rock garden composition is among his most meditative works, the garden's symbolic compression of landscape into pattern mirroring his own reduction of complex visual reality to essential structure.
![[Garden of] Taj Mahal, No. 1 (Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi) by Hiroshi Yoshida](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/230993a7-d4f0-c979-c267-127d48e1ef1c/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
Taji Maharu no niwa, dai ichi
1931
Color woodblock print; oban
January 1938
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1938
Color woodblock print; oban
Shôwa period, 1926-1989
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Rock garden was created by Okiie Hashimoto (橋本興家) in 10/70, 1966.
Rock garden depicts gardens.
