Flowers and Figures No. 6

The numbered title places this print within Hashimoto's Flowers and Figures sequence, a series that pairs young women with seasonal blossoms in compositions built around the geometry of upright stems and seated or standing forms. Number 6 in such a series typically signals a specific flower-figure pairing — irises, peonies, camellias, or chrysanthemums — though without inscription the precise blossom can only be inferred from the impression itself. Hashimoto's series prints share a consistent compositional logic: the figure occupies a vertical strip at the side or center, the flowers fill the remaining field as a flat decorative screen, and the background is held to one or two block colors. Carving is direct, with the leaf and stem lines reading as deliberate gouge cuts rather than as drawn contour. The numeric suffix on the slug suggests this is a second state, restrike, or alternate edition of the same plate. The series stands as Hashimoto's principal contribution to postwar bijin-ga within the sosaku-hanga idiom.