A Brief Life Carved in Wood: The Story of Hashimoto Heihachi Hashimoto Heihachi, born in 1897 in the heart of Mie Prefecture, Japan, lived a tragically short but intensely productive life dedicated to sculpture. His story is one of remarkable talent blossoming amidst a period of rapid modernization and artistic ferment in Japan, a time when artists grappled with reconciling traditional Eastern aesthetics with burgeoning Western influe…