Born in Tottori Prefecture, Hashimoto graduated from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts as an art teacher in 1924. He worked as a teacher until 1955, creating art in his spare time. It was not until he retired from teaching that he became a full-time artist. He took to the print medium i꧅n 1936 after attending Hiratsuka Un'ichi's (1895-1997) short course in woodblock printing in Tokyo. He exhibited at the Japanese Print Association for the first time in 1937 and his reputation continued to grow over the following𒊎 decades. Japanese castles, gardens and landscapes were the predominant subjects of his work, however he went on to produce figure and floral subjects later in his career.

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