Clear autumn day

An autumn-foliage subject treated through the sosaku-hanga discipline Hashimoto practiced throughout his career, with the artist responsible for design, carving, and printing of every block. The title indicates a daylight scene without rain or atmospheric haze, allowing the koyo coloration - reds, ochres, yellows - to register at full saturation against blue-sky negative space. Hashimoto's autumn prints typically include an architectural anchor, often a temple roof, gate, or stone path, that organizes the foliage masses into a structured composition rather than letting them spread as decorative ground. Mokuhanga technique in this register relies on flat color blocks for the leaves and bokashi gradation for sky and distance, with key-block carving kept restrained so that the hue contrasts carry the image. Within his body of work, autumn subjects belong to the same sustained engagement with Kyoto and Nara temple precincts that produced his maple-pond prints, treating seasonal display as a feature of cultivated architectural space.