{"id":8974,"date":"2015-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salvador-dali.org\/fundacio-dali\/noticia\/la-fundacio-dali-compra-un-poemari-de-paul-eluard-en-japones\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:20:11","slug":"the-dali-foundation-purchases-paul-eluard-poetry-collection-in-japanese","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/www.salvador-dali.org\/en\/dali-foundation\/news\/the-dali-foundation-purchases-paul-eluard-poetry-collection-in-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dal\u00ed Foundation purchases Paul \u00c9luard poetry collection in Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fundaci\u00f3 Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed&#8217;s Centre for Dalinian Studies has enriched its library with a little-known publication: the Japanese translation of the poetry collection <em>Les Dessous d&#8217;une vie ou la pyramide humaine<\/em>, by\u00a0Paul \u00c9luard (1926), which appeared in 1937. The book, translated by the poet and artist\u00a0Yamanaka Chiryu,\u00a0includes four illustrations by Salvador Dal\u00ed, two of which are signed and dated 1935.<\/p>\n<p>Only one hundred copies of this beautifully produced book of poems were published in Japan. Two versions were printed with covers in different colours -sky blue or red-, with one of Dal\u00ed&#8217;s illustrations on them.\u00a0The book is made up of twenty sheets of hand-made Japanese paper, with text printed on both sides, and five further sheets of thick white paper with plates by the painter. On the frontispiece, there is a portrait of Paul \u00c9luard.<\/p>\n<p>Yamanaka Chiryu (1905-1977), known as &#8220;Tiroux&#8221;, was one of the Japanese poets who introduced surrealism into his country during the 1930s. Chiryu became aware of this artistic movement thanks to his work for the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation NHK. He made contact with Andr\u00e9 Breton and Paul \u00c9luard (with whom he corresponded continuously until \u00c9luard&#8217;s death) and other surrealists, promoting international exchange among them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both in his magazine<em> Cin\u00e9\u00a0<\/em>and later in <em>Mizu\u00e9<\/em>, Yamanaka&#8217;s articles enthusiastically disseminated the western avant-garde movements: Dadaism and surrealism. In 1937, in collaboration with fellow poet and artist\u00a0Takiguchi Shuzo (1903-1979), he organised the Exhibition of Overseas Surrealist Works in the cities of Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Nagoya. The exhibition had a profound impact on the avant-garde artistic movements in Japan, as well as on Japanese society, which was wary of these new trends. 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