Buddhist Temple's Birdcage
| Buddhist Temple's Birdcage | |
|---|---|
| Japanese: 伽藍の鳥籠 | |
1989 photograph featuring Variation of "Buddhist Temple's Birdcage" in connection with Photo Avant-Garde, NAGOYA, Nagoya City Art Museum | |
| Artist | Kansuke Yamamoto |
| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Photograph |
| Movement | Surrealism |
| Location | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago |
Buddhist Temple's Birdcage (伽藍の鳥籠, Garan no torikago; also rendered as Birdcage at a Buddhist Temple) is a 1940 photographic work by Kansuke Yamamoto. It was published as a sequence of two photographs in the second issue of Kōkaku in August 1940 and was submitted together with Yamamoto's poem Garan no densetsu. Produced as Surrealist activity in Japan came under increasing wartime pressure, the work has been discussed in scholarship on Surrealist photography and in later exhibition catalogues; one 1940 version is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a related 1940 variant is held by the Nagoya City Art Museum.