While in prison, Hayashi was subject to self-criticism and underwent an ideological reversal before his release in 1932. After his release, he moved to Kamakura and wrote "Seinen" ("Youth"). This was quickly followed by "Bungaku no Tame ni" ("For Literature"), "Sakka to shite" ("As an Artist"), whose themes deny the subordination of literature to politics. Hayashi joined Kobayashi Hideo, Kawabata Yasunari, Hirotsu Kazuo and others to publish the mainstream literary journal "Bungakukai" ("Literary World") in 1933. From 1934-1935, he moved to Itō, Shizuoka, where he wrote "Roman Shugisha no Techo" ("Notes of a Romanticist") in 1935, declaring his estrangement from Marxism.