Old garden of Tokushima temple

This print depicts a temple garden in Tokushima, on the island of Shikoku — likely a composition organized around stone arrangements, moss, clipped shrubs, or a stone lantern set against the eaves of temple architecture. Old temple gardens are a [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) subject by inheritance, but Hayashi's treatment would translate the scene through the flattened forms and earthy palette typical of his work rather than the atmospheric realism associated with [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) landscape masters. The compositional grammar of garden prints relies on a few carefully placed mass shapes — a roof line, a tree, a rock — with intervals of negative space standing in for raked gravel or quiet ground. Carved-line emphasis and limited color separations are characteristic of [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) production, where the artist's hand is meant to remain visible. The Tokushima setting locates the work outside the better-known Kyoto and Kanto temple circuits, consistent with Hayashi's attention to provincial Japanese life.