Late autumn in Ôyama (Tottori)

Late autumn in Ôyama (Tottori) depicts the volcanic peak of Mount Daisen (Ōyama) in Tottori Prefecture during the closing weeks of the foliage season, when the lower slopes carry russet, ochre, and umber while the summit reads as a dark mass against a cooling sky. Hashimoto would have built the image from a strong silhouette of the mountain laid against flatter colour fields, using bokashi for atmospheric recession and reserving the keyblock for the linear definition of branches, ridgelines, and any farmhouses or paths in the foreground. The print belongs to his sustained engagement with named meisho throughout western Japan, where he worked from on-site sketches before returning to the studio to cut his own blocks. As an architectural specialist within sosaku-hanga, Hashimoto consistently sought subjects where natural form had a clear structural armature, and Ōyama's pyramidal mass offered the same compositional discipline that drew him to castle keeps and pagoda silhouettes.