Kaigai Chōgenjitsushugi Sakuhinten
1937 touring exhibition of European Surrealism in Japan

Kaigai Chōgenjitsushugi Sakuhin Ten (海外超現実主義作品展; "Exhibition of Surrealist Works from Overseas") was a touring exhibition that presented European Surrealist works and related materials in Japan in 1937. Its French title was Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, and it is also referred to in English as the International Surrealist Exhibition in Japan.
It opened at the Nippon Salon (日本サロン) in Ginza, Tokyo, in June 1937, and subsequently traveled to Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, and Kanazawa through July. The project was planned by critic-poet Shūzō Takiguchi and the Surrealist artist Chirū Yamanaka, with support from Mizue editor-in-chief Masao Ōshita.
Conceived as a direct encounter with contemporary Surrealism, the exhibition drew on transnational correspondence networks and the circulation of printed documentation and photographic materials. Artscape notes that Yamanaka had cultivated ties with Surrealist figures such as Paul Éluard and André Breton, and that the organizers even contacted Alfred H. Barr Jr. at the Museum of Modern Art in an attempt to bring American Surrealist works to Japan, though this did not materialize.
Later scholarship has described the show as the first—and nearly the only—surrealist exhibition in Japan before the Second World War, while also emphasizing that the majority of the display consisted of photographic reproductions and printed materials rather than original works. In one contemporary accounting it comprised 377 items, spanning both originals (watercolors, drawings, and prints) and reproductions, and included works attributed to major Surrealist artists such as Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, René Magritte, and Giorgio de Chirico. In histories of Japanese avant-garde photography, the exhibition is also cited as an impetus for Surrealist experiments by poet-photographers, including Kansuke Yamamoto.
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