Born in 1899 in Tottori Prefecture, Hashimoto Okiie was a sosaku hanga artist, educator, and administrative personnel. From 1921 to 1924, Hashimoto attended a three-year teacher training course at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, during which he received a broad education in nearly every field of art. 

Upon completing his studies, Hashimoto taught art courses at the Tokyo First Women's High School and later served as vice-principal. In addition to teaching, he served on three different committees for the Ministry of Education, tasked with choosing educational reading material and designing standardized art courses. 

During Hashimoto's tenure as an art instructor and committee official, he produced art in his spare time. It was not until 1932, however, that he began to express an interest in woodblock printing. This led Hashimoto to attend a three-day instructional course with Hiratsuka Un'ichi in 1936. The two men quickly developed a strong friendship, and by the late 1930s, Hashimoto had become part of Hiratsuka's inner social circle, known as the Yoyogi-ha. Hashimoto exhibited at the Japanese Print Association in 1937 as well as the Shin Bunten, Nitten, and Shun'yokai organizations. Three years later, he became a formal member of both the Japanese Print Association and Kokugakai. In 1943, Hashimoto contributed to the wartime print collection Kitsutsuki Hangashu and the last Ichimokushu collection in 1950. After the Pacific War, he produced large, strong, colorful prints depicting gardens and castle ruins; he further published several albums including Picture Collection of Japanese Castles (1944), Ten Views of Old Castles (1946), and Picture Collection of Famous Castles in Japan (1962). After retiring from as vice principal in 1955, Hashimoto devoted himself to printmaking for the next several decades until his death in 1993.