![[Western Games] by Inoue Yasuji — Japanese Woodblock print](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/famsf/images/3306201405530023.jpg)
$1,000–$8,000. Common views: $1,000–$2,500. Key value factors: Inoue's Meiji-era Tokyo views, influenced by his teacher Kiyochika, have both artistic and historical value. His early death makes works scarce.
Western games — the recreational forms imported from Europe and America as part of Japan's Meiji modernization — are depicted here in a print that documents the cultural curiosity and social ambition of the era's embrace of foreign customs. The adoption of Western sports and games was part of a broader project of cultural transformation, and Yasuji's documentation of these activities places them alongside his topographic views of buildings and infrastructure as evidence of the comprehensive change reshaping Japanese society. The print offers a glimpse of the social dimension of modernization.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
[Western Games] was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
[Western Games] depicts figures and daily life.
