Print artist. Hashimoto was born in Tottori Prefecture and graduated in 1924 as an art teacher from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. He worked as a school-teacher from 1924 until 1955 and produced art in his spare time. After that he retired from teaching and began a full-time career as an artist. As a young man he pursued oil-painting but took up prints in 1936 as a result of attending Hiratsuka Un'ichi's short course in woodblock printing in Tokyo. He remained a close friend of Hiratsuka's from then on and participated in his various activities, such as the Yoyogi-ha group and the wartime print collection 'Kitsutsuki hangashu' (1943). He first exhibited at the Japanese Print Association show in 1937. He contributed to the last Ichimoku-kai collection in 1950 and from that time began to be better known, especially after appearing in Statler's 'Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn' (1956). Much of his work before and after the Pacific War was devoted to Japanese castles and gardens, including the series 'Kojo jukei' ('Ten Views of Old Castles', 1946), but he also produced floral and figure subjects in his later career. - British Museum