Summer B

The "B" designation suggests this print belongs to a small seasonal series, with Summer appearing in alternative versions or compositional variants typical of Hashimoto's working method. Summer subjects in his catalogue tend toward subdued green and ochre palettes — the heavy foliage of midsummer, shadowed eaves, dense vegetation around a temple or farmhouse — rather than the atmospheric weather effects favored by shin-hanga summer prints. The print likely centers on an architectural or landscape motif typical of his oeuvre, treated with the firm contour and limited tonal range characteristic of sosaku-hanga practice. Hashimoto's seasonal prints reflect his interest in how a single site reads differently across the year, recording the same kind of structural subject under varied light and vegetation conditions, with the wood block's grain and the baren's pressure contributing texture to the image.