Morning, Tottori

Morning at Tottori, on the Sea of Japan coast, brings low light raking across the sand dunes and harbor town that define the area. Hashimoto likely uses bokashi along the horizon and across dune flanks to register the long shadows and warm color of early light. Whether the print foregrounds the dunes themselves or the architectural fabric of the town, his compositional approach favors clear structural masses over picturesque incident. As one of the sosaku-hanga generation, he carved and printed every block himself on washi, keeping registration tight enough to hold subtle tonal shifts across large open areas. Tottori was a recurring subject for him, treated at different seasons and hours, and the morning prints sit alongside his dune studies as part of a sustained meditation on a single coastal site — a counterpart to the temple and castle series that anchor his catalogue.