VOU (magazine)
VOU (vol. 30); cover photograph by Kansuke Yamamoto. | |
Native name | ヴァウ |
|---|---|
| Editor | Katsue Kitasono |
| Frequency | Irregular |
| Founder | Katsue Kitasono |
| First issue | 1935 |
| Final issue | 1978 |
| Country | Japan |
| Based in | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
VOU (ヴァウ) was a Japanese avant-garde poetry magazine and the house journal of the VOU Club, founded in July 1935 by the poet Katsue Kitasono and collaborators, and edited by Kitasono.
The magazine published 30 issues through October 1940, then continued under a series of wartime and postwar titles—Shingijutsu (新技術; 1940–1942) and CENDRE (サンドル; 1948)—before resuming as VOU in October 1949; it ceased publication in June 1978 with issue no. 160 after Kitasono's death. In its journal, VOU circulated work by members across media, including poems, photographs, and essays on art, music, and film; contributors and associates included the poet-photographer Kansuke Yamamoto, among others in the VOU circle.