In 1929, he purchased a photography supply shop in Ashiya, a city in Japan's Hyōgo Prefecture.
The Ashiya Camera Club, a prominent feature of the New Photography movement, formed at the shop in 1930.
Its membership included Iwata Nakayama, Kichinosuke Benitani, Juzo Matsubara, and Korai Seiji.
[2] From May 1932 to December 1933, Hanaya published in the modernist journal Koga.
[2][3] He helped found the Kansai Student Photography League in 1934.