page_title: Kansuke Yamamoto (artist)
section_title: Kansuke Yamamoto as a Surrealist
hierarchical_section_title: Kansuke Yamamoto (artist) / Biography / Kansuke Yamamoto as a Surrealist
caption_attribution_description: English: a page of The Night's Fountain, the surrealist poetry magazine, edited and published by Kansuke Yamamoto 日本語: 『夜の噴水』（編集及び発行人 山本 悍右）第一号の中の1ページ
context_page_description: Kansuke Yamamoto was a photographer and poet.
  He was a prominent Japanese surrealist born in Nagoya, Japan.
context_section_description: The oldest of his existing works is called "Aru Ningen no Shisou no Hatten・・・Moya to Shinshitsu(The Developing Thought of a Human...Mist and Bedroom)", which was published in a magazine in 1932.
  In 1936, he changed his Chinese characters from 勘助(Kansuke) to 悍右(Kansuke). In 1938, he started a surrealist poetry magazine called "Yoru no Funsui(The Night's Fountain)". But the next year, the publication was forced to be discontinued by the authoritative pressure due to　the Peace Preservation Law.
  In 1939, he formed a group called "Nagoya Photo Avant-Garde" with Tajima Tsugio, Minoru Sakata, Shimozato Yoshio, and Yamanaka Chiruu, etc. The group applied surrealism into their photographs and their avant-garde photography gathered national attention by some magazines like "Photo Times" and "Camera Art". He became a member of "VOU" in 1939, belonging until it was dissolved in 1972. He also formed "VIVI" (1948–1950), "Bijyutsu Bunka Association, Division of Photography" (1949–1954), "Mado(Windows)"(1953–1958), "Honoo (Flame)" (1955–1961), "Subjective Photography Federation of Japan" (1956), "ESPACE" (1956–1958), "Arukishine" (1958), "Avant-Garde Association of Poets" (1958) and "Nagoya Five" (1963–1964).
  He often created works which indicated liberty, antiwar and anti-government in surrealistic ways.
caption: "The Night's Fountain" Vol.1
  1 November 1938
  Edited and published by:Kansuke Yamamoto
  Photo by Kansuke Yamamoto
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