Baseball

This second Baseball composition presents a different vantage on the subject, likely shifting focus to a batter, pitcher, or fielding action distinct from its companion sheet. Wada's design language remains consistent — flat planes of saturated colour, firm contour lines drawn from the key block, and figures arranged across an open ground that evokes the playing field without resort to linear perspective. The handling recalls how earlier meisho-e suggested a known place through emblematic detail rather than spatial illusion. Within Wada's wider body of work, the baseball pair sits alongside his prints of office workers, hairdressers, taxi drivers, and shop clerks, all part of a sustained Showa-era effort to record the textures of modern Japanese life. Producing variant compositions allowed collectors to assemble pendant sheets and gave Wada room to extend the rhythm of the game across two related but autonomous prints, each carrying its own moment of play.