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Kitan Club

November 1962

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Cover of Kitan Club, November 1962

Issue Details

Volume
16
Issue
10
PDF pages
189

Summary

The November 1962 issue of Kitan Club presents a broad mixture of staged bondage photography, fetish illustration, experiential narratives, serialized fiction, costume and equipment commentary, historical fantasy, reader testimony, and community-oriented closing departments. Its visual identity is established immediately through several gravure sequences. The first photographs move from restrained women in kimono or dark clothing to cloth-gagged models, exposed torso harnesses, bed scenes, and tightly composed close-ups. A central illustrated gallery expands the issue’s imaginary geography through scenes of political interrogation, wartime suicide, ritual abdominal cutting, chair and platform restraint, foot worship, and branding. A second photographic sequence shifts between domestic interiors, outdoor kimono bondage, cloth gags, and compact kneeling or folded positions.

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The numbered prose section opens with Shibari Toshikichi’s experiential fiction “The Inn of Pleasure and Cruelty,” a multi-episode account organized around encounters with women, drinking, coercion, and staged restraint. Yoshino Mayumi’s “Notes of a Gun and Bondage Maniac: Conversations at My Bar” uses reported conversations and anecdotes to document fetish collecting, illicit imagery, and subcultural talk. Tsujimura Takashi’s feature on the appearance of model Mizumoto Shigemi combines photography, editorial observation, and a detailed account of a bondage session, including changes of costume, rope placement, posing, and the model’s reactions. The autobiographical “Temptation of the White Nape” follows with reflections on attraction, factory life, marriage, and a young female worker.

The middle portion alternates among film commentary, the serialized “Woman and Snake,” a biographical or confessional chronology of blind love, equipment experiments, descriptions of women’s underwear usable in sadistic play, and speculative travel writing. Longer fiction occupies a substantial share of the issue, especially “Somewhere in the Universe,” which supplies an extended fantastic narrative, and “The Woman on the Auction Block,” framed as a white-slavery fantasy. Shorter confessions and case histories examine corrective corsets, innocence transformed into cruelty, marital identification, ritual suicide, and historical women facing violence or death.

The final major literary sequence includes the nineteenth installment of “Thirty-Nine Nights,” a short invitation to shared play, confessional reflections, and an illustrated survey of punishments around the world. The back matter contains correspondence, reader submissions, questionnaires, book and magazine notices, classified exchanges, editorial commentary, publication data, and advertisements. Together these departments reinforce Kitan Club’s identity not merely as a collection of fiction and images, but as a participatory subculture in which readers exchanged techniques, fantasies, personal experiences, criticism, and contact information.

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Table of Contents 24 items
  1. First Gravure Portfolio: The Composition of a Certain Moment
    6–13
  2. Illustration Portfolio: Interrogation, Seppuku, Restraint, Foot Worship, and Branding
    14–21
  3. Second Gravure Portfolio: Sketches of Bondage Scenes
    22–29
  4. The Inn of Pleasure and Cruelty by Shibari Toshikichi
    34–39
  5. Notes of a Gun and Bondage Maniac: Conversations at My Bar by Yoshino Mayumi
    40–49
  6. Temptation of the White Nape by Kakinuma Kōjirō
    50–57
  7. Film Report: The Bondage Acting of an Actress by Minamikata Yoshio
    58–59
  8. Woman and Snake, Part 2 by Hanamaki Sōtarō
    60–69
  9. Chronology of Blind Love by Edosei Sakio
    70–77
  10. A Bondage Confession Between Brothers by Sekine Teruo
    78–79
  11. Experimental-Room Report: A Diaper-Cover Maniac’s Prototype by Sanjō Takushi
    80–82
  12. New Women’s Underwear Usable in S-Play by Arutame Mataji
    83–85
  13. Exploring a Slave Nation: A Visit to Sardinia by Arutame Mataji
    86–93
  14. A Certain Crystal Fantasist’s Reverie by Saji Mazō
    94–95
  15. Somewhere in the Universe by Izumi Tatsunosuke
    96–116
  16. The Woman on the Auction Block by Izumi Tatsunosuke
    117–123
  17. The Punishment Corset by Kobayashi Norio
    124–131
  18. The Innocent Devil by Odake Norio
    132–143
  19. I Want to Become a Wife: An Eternal Wish
    144–145
  20. Conceptions of Female Seppuku: Wives of the Loyalists by Tsujimura Takashi
    146–147
  21. Thirty-Nine Nights: Nineteenth Night by Tsujimura Takashi
    148–163
  22. Play with You by Nakada Akira
    164–165
  23. Confessional Thoughts
    166–167
  24. Various Forms of Punishment Around the World by Aramori Jūsuke
    168–177

Highlights

  • The opening gravure portfolio moves through kimono restraint, cloth-gagged torso bindings, bed poses, and close views of rope applied across the chest and arms. (PDF pp. 6–13).
  • A sequence of full-page illustrations depicts interrogation of a female political participant, a wartime suicide, assisted seppuku, timed confinement, a female restraint platform, foot domination, and branding. (PDF pp. 14–21).
  • The second gravure group contrasts indoor kneeling bondage with outdoor kimono restraint, patterned cloth gags, compact folded poses, and close studies of rope pressure. (PDF pp. 22–29).
  • “The Inn of Pleasure and Cruelty” opens the principal prose section with an episodic experiential narrative combining nightlife, sexual bargaining, intoxication, and coercive restraint. (PDF pp. 31–36).
  • “The Appearance of Mizumoto Shigemi” documents a model’s introduction to the magazine through editorial narration and photographs of a staged bondage session. (PDF pp. 39–46).
  • “Temptation of the White Nape” blends autobiographical desire, factory life, marriage, and fascination with a young female worker. (PDF pp. 47–54).
  • The middle of the issue combines film commentary, the serialized “Woman and Snake,” equipment experiments, underwear analysis, speculative travel, and a long science-fiction-inflected SM novel. (PDF pp. 55–113).
  • Later contributions explore an auction-block fantasy, corrective corsets, innocence transformed into cruelty, marital identification, and historical women confronting ritualized death. (PDF pp. 114–160).
  • An illustrated survey of punishments around the world brings together historical examples, brief explanatory entries, and reproductions of punitive scenes. (PDF pp. 165–174).
  • Reader letters, classified exchanges, editorial responses, questionnaires, notices, publication information, and advertisements close the issue. (PDF pp. 175–189).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue:

Kinbaku Today is an independent online journal dedicated to the study, practice, and cultural history of Japanese rope bondage. Blending essays, translations, interviews, and archival research, it explores kinbaku not simply as technique, but as a living dialogue between history, performance, and human connection.
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