"Red and Black" (Magazine) - Aka to Kuro

Japanese: 《赤と黒》（雑誌） - あかとくろ

... The Dada movement also spread to Italy, Russia, Spain, the Netherlands, and Hungary. In Japan, in 1923, Takahashi Shinkichi published "Poetry of Dadaist Shinkichi" and the anarchist poetry magazine "Red and Black" was launched, which was close to Dada. Later, Murayama Tomoyoshi, who had returned from Germany, launched "Mavo" (1924) with the slogan "To the streets, to the squares, to despair, to nothingness, to the transformation of the atom!" The Futurist, Action, and Mavo groups joined the Sankakai, an open exhibition, and Murayama Tomoyoshi's "Theatre no Sanka" (Sanka Society) combined poetry, art, drama, and dance. However, the enthusiasm for this movement faded within a few years as anarchism was reorganized into communism. According to Richter, "Dada not only had no platform, it was completely anti-platform. ...

From Kyojiro Hagiwara

…He was greatly influenced by the works of Kropotkin. In 1923, he founded the anarchist poetry magazine "The Red and the Black" with Jun Okamoto and Shigeji Tsuboi, and was active as an anarchist poet, participating in the poetry magazine "Dumb-Dum" and the avant-garde art magazine "Mavo." In 1925, he published a collection of poems, "Death Sentence," which transformed nihilistic feelings into desperate mania and the dynamic layout of the pages, making full use of large and small type and symbols, made a great impact on the poetry world. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "The Red and the Black" (magazine) is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…　ダダの運動はそのほかイタリア，ロシア，スペイン，オランダ，ハンガリーにも波及した。日本でも1923年，高橋新吉の《ダダイスト新吉の詩》の刊行やダダに接近したアナーキストの詩誌《赤と黒》の創刊がみられ，その後，ドイツ帰りの村山知義を中心に，〈街頭へ，広場へ，絶望へ，虚無へ，アトムの転換へ！〉を合言葉とした《マボMavo》の創刊(1924)，〈未来派〉〈アクション〉〈マボ〉グループの公募展〈三科会〉への合流，村山知義の詩，美術，演劇，舞踏を合成した〈劇場の三科〉などが続いたが，その熱気もアナーキズムが共産主義に再編される過程で数年で消えた。　リヒターによれば，〈ダダには綱領がないだけでなく，徹頭徹尾反綱領的であった。…

【萩原恭次郎】より

…クロポトキンの著作に大きな影響を受けた。23年，岡本潤，壺井繁治らとアナーキズム詩誌《赤と黒》を創刊，次いで詩誌《ダムダム》や前衛美術雑誌《マヴォ》に参加するなどアナーキスト詩人として活躍。25年，詩集《死刑宣告》を刊行したが，その虚無的な心情を絶望的狂躁に転換した内容と，大小の活字や記号を駆使したダイナミックな紙面構成とは詩壇に大きな衝撃を与えた。…

※「《赤と黒》（雑誌）」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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