Yoru no Funsui
A page from the first issue of Yoru no Funsui (1938). A 1938 gelatin silver print by Kansuke Yamamoto (Untitled (sea egg/distant horizon)) is in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Asian Art collection. | |
| Categories | Surrealist poetry journal |
|---|---|
| First issue | November 1938 |
| Final issue Number | October 1939 4 |
| Country | Japan |
| Based in | Nagoya, Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Yoru no Funsui (夜の噴水; lit. "The Night's Fountain") was a Japanese Surrealist art-and-poetry journal published in Nagoya in 1938–1939. Produced and edited by the poet-photographer Kansuke Yamamoto, it combined poems and texts with drawings and photographs by Yamamoto himself.
The journal was short-lived, running for four issues (nos. 1–4) from November 1938 to October 1939. It ended under conditions of wartime cultural policing: the Getty notes that Yamamoto ceased publication after the Tokkō (special police) expressed concern about its contents, and other accounts describe the journal as ending due to police censorship after the fourth issue.