Kansuke Yamamoto (In this Japanese name, the family name is Yamamoto; 30 March 1914 – 2 April 1987); photographer and poet. He was a prominent Japanese surrealist born in Nagoya, Japan. He often created works which indicated liberty, antiwar and anti-government in surrealistic ways. Born in Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, the oldest son of Goro Yamamoto, founding member of Aiyu Photography Club. Goro ran a photo studio and a shop selling cameras in Nagoya. He encountered surrealism and dadaism through the poetry magazine "cine´" published by Yamanaka Chiruu, who was promoting surrealism in Japan. In 1929, at 15, when he graduated from the Nagoya Second Commercial School, he started writing poetry. Before graduation, he left Meiji University School of Arts and letters in Tokyo, where he majored in French Literature and then went back to Nagoya. In 1931, at 17, he published his works in the Journal "Dokuritsu (Independent)", published by "Dokuritsu Shashin Kenkyu Kai (Independent Photography Research Association)". The oldest of his existing works, "Aru Ningen no Shisou no Hatten... Moya to Shinshitsu (The Developing Thought of a Human... Mist and Bedroom)", was published in a magazine in 1932. In 1936, he changed his Chinese [sic] 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 discontinue 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. .... From around 1965 to 1975, he coached the younger generation as an adviser of Chubu Photography Federation of Students. He also donated his body to science via Nagoya University School of Medicine upon his death and no funeral was held, in accordance with his living will. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansuke_Yamamoto_(artist)) undefined

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