Baseball Tournament
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art of Japan
Description
"Baseball Tournament" brings Kawakami's observational style to the sport that Japan adopted from America and made entirely its own — high school baseball tournaments (particularly the Koshien tournament) being among the most emotionally charged events in the Japanese sporting calendar. The scene likely depicts the pageantry of a tournament: the lined field, the uniformed players, the crowd, the intense concentration of sport as ritual. Kawakami's warm, simplified style gives the athletic occasion the same quality of cultural affection he brought to his historical Nagasaki subjects.
More Prints by Sumio Kawakami
![Title unknown [Flowers in a vase] by Sumio Kawakami](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135636.jpg)
More Urban Scenes Prints
A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Kiyonaga's Pipe (Edo zumi hyaku shoku: Kiyonaga no kiseru)
Woodblock print
View of Kabuki Theater from Matsuya (Ginza Matsuya yori Kabukiza), no. 3 from the series "Pictures of Ginza, First Series (Gashu Ginza dai isshu)"
1928
Color lithograph
Distant View of Mitsukoshi Movie Theater in Shinjuku from the Sixth Floor of Hoteiya (Hoteiya rokkai kara Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Musashi no kan enbo zu), no. 1 from the series "Scenery of Shinjuku (Gashu Shinjuku fukei)"
1930
Color lithograph
Spring Dusk at the Tōshō Shrine in Ueno
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Baseball Tournament was created by Sumio Kawakami (川上澄生).
Baseball Tournament depicts urban scenes, figures, and daily life.