Dune, early spring, Tottori

Early spring at Tottori finds the dunes still cool, with sparse grass beginning to return and the sea wind continuing to reshape the ridges. Hashimoto likely keeps the palette restrained — pale ochres, muted greens, a clear sky — and uses bokashi to register the soft seasonal light without the saturation of summer or the gold of autumn. The composition probably emphasizes the long contour of a dune ridge against open ground, treating the landscape as a sequence of broad planes. His architectural sensibility carries into the natural subject: clear edges, controlled mass, minimal incidental detail. As a sosaku-hanga artist, he designed, carved, and printed every block himself on washi, working with a baren to register each color. The print belongs to his extended Tottori series, in which the same site is rendered across seasons as a sustained study of place.