Calendar sheet for November 1942 (Showa 17)

Calendar prints have a long tradition in Japanese printmaking, and Hashimoto's 1942 example — dated to Showa 17, the first full year of Japan's Pacific War — occupies a particular historical moment. Calendar sheets of this period combined a printed image with a date grid for the designated month, typically in a compact format. The subject for November is unspecified beyond the title, but Hashimoto would have drawn on his established repertoire of architectural or landscape subjects. The print reflects the wartime context in which [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) artists continued to produce work despite material shortages; paper and pigment availability constrained mokuhanga production throughout the war years. As a functional printed object, the calendar sheet differs from Hashimoto's exhibition prints in scale and purpose, though the same hand-carving and hand-printing techniques apply. Such ephemeral pieces are less commonly documented than independent prints, making dated examples from 1942 valuable records of Hashimoto's practice during a constrained period in Japanese printmaking history.