Sand Garden, Konchi-in, Shôwa period, dated 1959

Sand Garden, Konchi-in, dated 1959, presents the dry garden of Konchi-in sub-temple at Nanzen-ji in Kyoto — a garden attributed to the garden designer Kobori Enshu, featuring precisely arranged stones and raked gravel. Hashimoto's engagement with this specific named garden, rather than a generic dry landscape, demonstrates his commitment to architectural and garden documentation. The Konchi-in garden, with its distinctive stone arrangement representing a crane and turtle — symbols of longevity — offered him a subject rich in both formal and symbolic content.