Nagoya Avant-Garde Club

The Nagoya Avant-Garde Club (ナゴヤアバンガルドクラブ) was a short-lived prewar arts collective in Nagoya, Japan, active from late 1937 to around 1939. Museum accounts describe it as an interdisciplinary avant-garde circle in the city, organized around the critic–poet Chirū Yamanaka (山中散生) and the painter Yoshio Shimozato (下郷羊雄). Its photography section became the nucleus of the independent collective Nagoya Photo Avant-Garde in 1939, in which the poet-photographer Kansuke Yamamoto participated.