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Kitan Club

September 1974

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Cover of Kitan Club, September 1974

Issue Details

Volume
28
Issue
9
PDF pages
173

Summary

The September 1974 issue of Kitan Club, Volume 28, Number 9, serial number 319, opens with an unusually extensive photographic presentation before the regular numbered pages begin. The front section includes the photographic series Hamana Lakeside Night, photographed by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō, with named models and individual captions devoted to rope bondage, suspension, leg positions, gags, candles, crotch binding, humiliation, and the visual qualities of the restrained body. This is followed by a color photo section presenting eleven bondage poses across PDF pages 19–26. These opening portfolios are substantive editorial material and form an important part of the issue rather than merely decorative front matter.

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Regular printed pagination begins with printed page 29 on PDF page 27. A short profile, Portrait of a Cute M-Woman, introduces the main textual portion, followed by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō’s much longer Hamana Lakeside Night: A Camera-and-Pen SM Report Investigating the Mystery of Yajima Yasuko’s Masochism. This illustrated report follows Yajima Yasuko through meetings, travel, conversation, and extended bondage sessions, using her reactions and self-presentation to examine the meaning of female masochistic identity. The distinction between documentation and staged erotic performance remains deliberately porous throughout the feature.

The issue then moves through several forms of fiction, correspondence, and participant testimony. Murata Kyōko contributes a Mania Communications update. The seventh M Group work, The Female Captive, is an extended imprisonment and bondage fantasy. Kinosaki Kyōsuke’s Rose Slave on a Hazy Moonlit Night continues the fictional sequence, while Record of Lending Out My Wife shifts into first-person sexual reportage concerning marital experimentation and a third participant. Oka Takashi’s recurring Image Gallery illustrations appear between and within these longer works, including Feet Are for Lips, Siamese Cat and Woman, The Queen’s Anger, and From the Kumosuke Diary.

Marijuana Party, installment 58 of the M-faction social chronicle, portrays the social world of SM enthusiasts through drinking, marijuana, erotic games, jealousy, sexual experimentation, and changing interpersonal roles. It is followed by the serialized novel Great Eruption and the period SM novel The Gate of Purple Orchids. These fictional works extend the issue’s central themes of captivity, domination, humiliation, punishment, and eroticized power into contemporary fantasy and historical melodrama.

The later portion of the surviving PDF returns strongly to confessional and experiential writing. Miki Reiko’s Recommending Anal Drinking describes alcohol administered by enema. Takamura Hiroko’s I Ate the Forbidden Fruit is explicitly presented as an M-Woman Communications confession and combines autobiographical reflection with documentary-style bondage photographs. The prize-winning Confessions of Mr. S and Mr. M ranges more broadly across sadomasochistic identity, heterosexuality and homosexuality, voyeurism, public and private sexual spaces, marital relationships, toilets as erotic environments, and the relationship between fantasy and lived experience.

PDF page 152 begins Takano Harumi’s The Appeal of Pregnant Nudes, framed as a confession by a pregnancy enthusiast. The feature discusses the erotic appeal of pregnancy, bodily transformation, pregnant nude photography, and the restraint of pregnant models, accompanied by photographs of women in advanced pregnancy, several in rope bondage. This feature continues through PDF page 163, corresponding to printed pages 154–165.

The final surviving feature, PDF pages 164–173, is Kitagawa Mariko’s Fantasies of the Slave Wife Mariko, written in response to a present from Suzaka Akira. Combining personal fantasy, correspondence, sexual observation, and illustrations, it explores the author’s imagined position as a submissive or enslaved wife and her fascination with bondage, exposure, and scenes involving multiple participants. The attached PDF ends on printed page 175, in the middle of the issue as described by its formal contents page. The contents advertises additional material beginning on printed pages 176, 200, and 260, but none of those pages is present in this 173-page PDF.

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Table of Contents 23 items
  1. Hamana Lakeside Night: Photographic Section by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    Unpaginated
  2. Color Photo Section: Eleven Poses
    Unpaginated
  3. Portrait of a Cute M-Woman by Inoue Shōtarō
    29
  4. Hamana Lakeside Night: A Camera-and-Pen SM Report Investigating the Mystery of Yajima Yasuko's Masochism by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    30–63
  5. Recent News of Kyōko, Apostle of Enemas by Murata Kyōko
    64–65
  6. The Female Captive by Saji Mazō
    66–79
  7. Feet Are for Lips by Oka Takashi
    73
  8. Rose Slave on a Hazy Moonlit Night by Kinosaki Kyōsuke
    80–92
  9. Siamese Cat and Woman by Oka Takashi
    87
  10. Record of Lending Out My Wife by Gotō Shūsei
    93–97
  11. Marijuana Party by Onizan Kōsaku
    98–111
  12. The Queen's Anger by Oka Takashi
    106
  13. Great Eruption by Chiba Seiki
    112–119
  14. The Gate of Purple Orchids by Fūryū Gokudōken
    120–133
  15. From the Kumosuke Diary by Oka Takashi
    127
  16. Recommending Anal Drinking by Miki Reiko
    134–135
  17. I Ate the Forbidden Fruit by Takamura Hiroko
    136–143
  18. Confessions of Mr. S and Mr. M by Abuno Jōji
    144–153
  19. The Appeal of Pregnant Nudes by Takano Harumi
    154–165
  20. Fantasies of the Slave Wife Mariko by Kitagawa Mariko
    166–175
  21. S Research Group Report: Account of a Play Meeting by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    176–
  22. S Research Group News Special: The Woman Who Volunteered to Become a White Pig by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    200–
  23. Reader Communications by Editorial Department
    260–

Highlights

  • The opening unpaginated section is a substantial photographic program rather than incidental front matter, beginning with Tsukamoto Tetsuzō's Hamana Lakeside Night and presenting individually captioned bondage photographs of named models. (PDF pp. 3, 6–18).
  • A separate color photo section follows, presenting eleven bondage poses across eight PDF pages and extending the issue's opening visual study of rope restraint and bodily display. (PDF pp. 19–26).
  • Tsukamoto Tetsuzō's main Hamana Lakeside Night feature combines photography, interview material, travel narrative, and participant observation in an extended investigation of Yajima Yasuko's masochistic sexuality. (PDF pp. 28–61).
  • The Female Captive, the seventh M Group work, presents an institutional captivity fantasy involving imprisonment, restraints, guards, coercive control, and humiliation. (PDF pp. 64–77).
  • Record of Lending Out My Wife adopts a first-person documentary style to describe marital sexual experimentation involving the narrator's wife and another participant. (PDF pp. 91–95).
  • Marijuana Party documents the recurring social circle of M-faction enthusiasts through intoxication, erotic games, jealousy, sexual experimentation, and shifting relationships. (PDF pp. 96–109).
  • The Gate of Purple Orchids places bondage, punishment, and captivity within the conventions of a period SM novel. (PDF pp. 118–131).
  • Miki Reiko's Recommending Anal Drinking offers a detailed first-person account of administering and absorbing alcoholic drinks through enemas. (PDF pp. 132–133).
  • Takamura Hiroko's I Ate the Forbidden Fruit is presented as an M-woman confession and combines reflections on submission and torment with bondage photography. (PDF pp. 134–141).
  • Confessions of Mr. S and Mr. M broadens the issue's discussion to sadomasochistic identity, homosexuality and heterosexuality, voyeurism, public and private sexual spaces, marital life, and the difference between fantasy and actual practice. (PDF pp. 142–151).
  • The Appeal of Pregnant Nudes is a twelve-page illustrated feature devoted to pregnancy fetishism, bodily transformation, pregnant nude photography, and photographs of pregnant women in rope bondage. (PDF pp. 152–163).
  • Fantasies of the Slave Wife Mariko closes the surviving PDF with Kitagawa Mariko's extended submissive fantasy, combining correspondence, illustrations, sexual observation, and fantasies of bondage and enslavement. (PDF pp. 164–173).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue:

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