Recent Bondage in Period Films

Kōji Suma

This section combines a critical review of modern masochist art, film, and illustration with a long fictional account of domestic restraint, staged punishment, and erotic humiliation.

Research on the Navel

Akira Itō

A literary and cultural section discusses fetish writing and imagery, presents the fictional account “Pig Hunting,” and examines representations and techniques of female body bondage in Japanese and Western traditions.

Film and Magazine Communications

Editorial Department

A miscellany of reader-submitted material discusses female bondage and scenes from bondage films, alongside a first-person account of coercive physical training and restraint involving a teacher and student. The contributions combine personal confession, bondage…

A Study of Bound Female Bodies

Seiji Fujimoto

An illustrated series examines supposed character and fortune associations of different navel forms, then surveys varied forms of women’s hairdressing from historical Japanese styles to modern film and popular-media fashions. The discussion treats bodily…

A Wife’s Confession of Torment

Kiyo Inoue

This editorial collection presents reader-submitted erotic anecdotes, including episodes of voyeuristic observation, sexual curiosity, and encounters in or around public and domestic toilets, with commentary framing them as materials for the magazine’s reader community.

My Paradise of Punishment

Senji Kizaki

A staged photo-story presents a daughter-in-law describing sustained abuse by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, including bondage, beatings, humiliation, and other forms of domestic coercion.

A Sadistic Comic

Maruharu Kinoshita

This sensational wartime-themed photo narrative depicts the punishment and abuse of a woman in a Nazi setting, combining historical atrocity imagery with scenes of physical restraint and assault.

Spring and a Woman’s Bare Feet

Shigeru Fujiki

A substantial notices and correspondence section promotes special issues, photographic collections, and mail-order materials while presenting reader letters, editorial replies, submissions, and publication announcements.

Reader Correspondence

Editorial Department

A reader-correspondence and editorial notice addresses the discontinuation of Seppuku Gahō, expressing appreciation for the magazine’s erotic writing and imagery, acknowledging publication constraints and delays, and inviting continued submissions of stories, essays, photographs, and…

Regarding the Discontinuation of Seppuku Gahō

Editorial Department

A reader-correspondence and editorial notice addresses the discontinuation of Seppuku Gahō, expressing appreciation for the magazine’s erotic writing and imagery, acknowledging publication constraints and delays, and inviting continued submissions of stories, essays, photographs, and…

Wearing a Restraint Garment

Takashi Shima

A photographed presentation of a glossy leather restraint garment, describing its close-fitting collar, chest, limb, torso, belt, and buckle components.

Gathering of the Masqueraders

A two-page visual feature reproduces four stylized fetish-costume illustrations from the American magazine Bizarre, depicting figures in cowgirl, fashionable, soldier, and female-officer attire.

Introducing a New Model: Michiko Hanazaka

A photographic model introduction presents Michiko Hanazaka, a long-haired woman from Kyushu, posing for the editorial office in a dark dress while bound with rope in several seated positions.

The Pipe Horse

Ryōji Hida

An illustrated erotic bondage scene presents a young woman in a swimsuit straddling a specially designed pipe horse, with her hands and feet fixed in place and the reader invited to imagine the apparatus…

The Staring Woman

A photographic portrait titled “The Staring Woman” shows Terumi Saga gazing toward readers while tightly wrapped and restrained in a checkered garment, with a caption emphasizing the varied impressions the image may produce.

The Young Lady Who Commands the Horse

Junko Kitahara

An erotic illustration depicts a young woman in revealing attire riding and controlling a horse with reins in a stylized outdoor fantasy scene.

Depictions of Torment in Modern Popular Literature, Part Two

Kaoru Fujimi

Kaoru Fujimi surveys scenes of torment, captivity, binding, assault, and eroticized suffering in modern popular and historical Japanese literature, comparing narrative descriptions with accompanying illustrations and considering their sensational and erotic effects on readers.

My Image: The Revival of Wakashū Kabuki

Norio Kotake

Norio Kotake argues for reviving wakashū kabuki through a proposed young performers’ troupe, discussing its historical significance, recruitment and training, costumes, gendered performance, and the theatrical appeal of youthful actors in female roles.

On Nako’s Self-Love, Part Two

Nako Kadota

In this autobiographical continuation, Nako Kadota describes an intense preoccupation with self-love, bodily appearance, clothing, erotic fantasy, and painful self-directed experiments, presenting autoerotic desire as both psychological confession and masochistic practice.

Ten Months in Confinement

Ichirō Haruta

A prison-guard memoir recounting ten months of work and life around prison wards, including institutional routines, inmate personalities, criminal histories, disciplinary practices, parole interviews, and anxieties surrounding release and rehabilitation.

The Attraction of a Woman Marked by Moxibustion

Shōichi Iwase

An essay presents moxibustion scars as a source of erotic fascination, combining reflections on pain, endurance, bodily marking, and sadistic desire with illustrated fantasies of women subjected to ritualized burning and restraint.

The Red Flowers Are Weeping, Part Four

Rōko Matsui

Part four of a serialized erotic novel follows Masaki, Misako, Teruko, and Shōko through scenes of deception, drinking, theatrical display, and escalating rope bondage in which women are coerced, restrained, and subjected to sadistic…

A Method for Increasing a Boy’s Physical Growth Using a Body-Building Machine

Shun'ichi Kumagai

A practical guide to improving boys’ physical development through a body-building machine, describing medical checks, exercise routines, massage, hydrotherapy, adjustable apparatus, and training precautions.

From My Collection

Sōkichi Kakuma

A collector’s miscellany combining discussions of disgust, sexual abnormality, and sensational anecdotes with literary-biographical essays on Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky, linking artistic creativity to psychological suffering, sexuality, and spiritual striving.

Thoughts on Torment in Theater

Chūjirō Honda

A theater essay examines staged torment scenes, detailing the use of ropes, poles, bindings, lighting, movement, and multiple performers while debating realism, spectacle, and audience response.

The Love of Kajii

Fujio Maki

A serialized erotic tale set in a hospital follows Kajii, a gravely ill patient, and the narrator’s obsessive fascination with the attractive attendant Tamako, whose flirtations, gossip, jealousy, and bodily humiliations create an increasingly…

A Young Man’s Zen Record

Kōichi Yamaguchi

In this autobiographical recollection, a man traces his early erotic fascination with sashes, clothing, male bodies, bathing, and the exposed or restrained figure from childhood through adolescence. Memories of boys’ bodies and private acts…

Recent Magazine Communications

Editorial Department

This editorial news-and-magazine feature discusses a Muromachi-period love story in which religious devotion, male-male attachment, jealousy, and erotic obsession are entangled, drawing on classical literary and historical sources to show how the relationship eventually…

Living Volcano

Minoru Aoba

A fictional SM narrative in which characters engage in escalating restraint, humiliation, and sadistic bodily control, culminating in a violent and highly coercive encounter.

Selected Manuscripts and Gleanings

Editorial Department

An editorial anthology of submitted manuscripts and literary fragments, combining erotic narrative excerpts with commentary and glimpses of the magazine’s manuscript-selection and reader-submission culture.

The Bondage Complex

Tamiko Takamura

A serialized bondage narrative centered on a psychologically charged relationship between a male customer and a female entertainer, depicting repeated rope restraint, coercion, humiliation, and the protagonist’s fixation on bondage.

A Woman’s Fantasy of Seppuku

Shigetaro Narutake

A fictionalized psychological account explores a woman’s fantasies of ritual suicide and bodily injury, framing seppuku through eroticized scenes of fear, surrender, and death.

Confessions of an Underwear Fetishist

Shinko Furui

In this first-person fetish confession, a woman describes her growing fascination with black silk underwear, nylon stockings, and the erotic excitement produced by purchasing, handling, viewing, and wearing them.

The Eve of Annihilation

Sōichi Tsuchiji

This serialized SM fiction follows espionage and international-conflict intrigue involving the fictional Y country, as a woman is captured and subjected to coercive interrogation, mechanical restraint, punishment, and sexualized bodily examination.

A Female Soldier’s Death: An Eyewitness Account of a Woman’s Suicide

Hanjirō Saji

An eyewitness-style wartime account describes the death of a woman attached to a Japanese military unit, recounting her isolation, sexual vulnerability, coercion, and eventual suicide amid violence on the front. The narrative combines sensational…

Reflections on Masochism

Shigehide Amadoro

This essay surveys masochism as a psychological and sexual phenomenon, discussing its relationship to self-punishment, desire, pathology, religion, art, and social behavior. It draws on sexological and psychological ideas while considering how masochistic tendencies…

Mr. H’s Strange Confession

Jiei Kitaya

A lengthy, highly unusual first-person confession and editorial commentary center on an obsessive fetish for women’s noses, including childhood memories, imagined scenarios, bodily inspection, and repeated attempts to classify or perfect the ideal nose.…

Sadistic Fiction

Yoshihiro Izumi

A sadistic short story in which a woman is abducted, bound with rope, and subjected to escalating coercion, punishment, and sexualized violence by male characters.

I Am a Diaper Fetishist

Yoshiaki Kawano

A correspondence-style personal account about an intense diaper fetish, discussing the writer’s attraction to wearing diapers, associated shame, and the difficulty of reconciling the fetish with everyday life.

Sudan

Kyōsuke Kawano

A serialized historical erotic adventure set in colonial Sudan around 1899, following Mary and John amid British military operations, interracial tensions, capture, abuse, and violent conflict involving Sudanese forces.

A Maiden’s Seppuku

Narutake Shigetaro

A serialized historical erotic fiction narrative presents four episodes of women caught in coercive sexual situations, violent captivity, murder, and ritualized self-disembowelment in an Edo-period setting.

Limited Editions and Special Photographic Publications

Editorial Department

The editorial department announces limited-edition special publications and catalogs new erotic photographic collections, including portfolio formats, print quantities, prices, and ordering information.

Kitan Club Back-Issue Contents Index

Editorial Department

A back-issue contents index lists articles, fiction, photographic features, correspondence, and special issues from earlier Kitan Club volumes to support archival reference and reordering.

Tenseisha Selected Photographic Publications

Editorial Department

An editorial catalog presents Tenseisha’s selected photographic publications, listing numerous themed erotic photo sets involving bondage, nudity, clothing, punishment, and other fetish scenarios, along with set contents and prices.

Reader Correspondence

Editorial Department

A multi-page reader-correspondence section publishes letters and editorial replies about the magazine’s erotic photographs, fiction, illustrations, special issues, sales and delivery, personal sexual concerns, and readers’ responses to the publication’s representations of gender, bondage,…

One-Hundred-Thousand-Yen Prize Essay Competition

Editorial Department

The magazine solicits original manuscripts for a 100,000-yen prize competition, specifying awards, submission rules, format and length requirements, deadlines, and publication arrangements while encouraging readers to participate as contributors.

A Beautiful Tokonoma

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration presents a woman bound and gagged within a Japanese tokonoma, transforming the traditional alcove into a stylized scene of restraint.

The Slide

A photographic feature stages the restraint of a female model on an amusement-park slide, emphasizing outdoor bondage and posed erotic spectacle.

Illustrated Story: A Splendid Private Punishment

Yamazaki Kiyoya

This illustrated erotic story follows two academically competitive female classmates whose jealousy and rivalry escalate into reciprocal abduction, bondage, and elaborate private punishment.

Bondage Pictures Seen in an American Magazine

W. M. Francis

A visual feature reproduces bondage imagery from W. M. Francis’s “The Brass Monkey,” published in Esquire in September 1949, showing a nude woman restrained in an interior setting.

Depictions of Torment in Popular Literature

Fujimi Kaoru

Fujimi Kaoru examines depictions of torment, coercion, punishment, and sexualized violence in Japanese popular literature, discussing works and scenes alongside accompanying illustrations.

The Wretched-Picture Maniac

Kyōraku-sei

Kyōraku-sei surveys the tradition of cruel and gruesome erotic imagery, discussing illustrated scenes of violence, bodily injury, nakedness, and sadistic domination in Japanese popular visual culture.

Memories of My Days as a Private Second Class

Ō Shōgo

An autobiographical military memoir recounts the author’s conscription, barracks life, harsh discipline, hazing, and humiliating encounters with superiors during service as a private second class.

Bondage Complex, Part Two

Takamura Tamiko

The second installment of a bondage narrative describes elaborate restraint scenes involving a woman, including tied limbs, forced positions, photographic staging, and the psychological dynamics between captive and participants.

Correspondence: Recollections of a Bondage-Picture Enthusiast

Watanabe Nōsuke

A reader’s memoir recalls his longstanding fascination with bondage pictures and reflects on the images, artists, and personal experiences that shaped his interest.

Through the Light: Record of My Suicide Attempt

Kondō Kikuya

An autobiographical account of a suicide attempt shaped by chronic illness, marital breakdown, family difficulties, and profound emotional crisis, followed by hospitalization and a gradual return toward life. The narrative presents survival as a…

An Old Man’s Soliloquy

Naniwa Rōjin

A satirical old man’s monologue reflecting on women, gender relations, and the supposedly proper use of restraint, reprimand, and punishment in intimate relationships.

An Open Letter to the Editor from a Reader

Hatanaka Toshio

A reader’s open letter congratulates Kitan Club on its revival while critically assessing its sales, editorial policies, visual presentation, and treatment of sadistic and masochistic material. It advocates stronger reader participation, more effective photographs…

Chūshingura Secret Tale: The Woman Who Cut Open Her Abdomen in the Genroku Era

Kawano Kyōsuke

A historical erotic tale set in the Genroku era and connected to the Chūshingura tradition, in which a woman’s secret, marital intrigue, and violent abdominal cutting unfold amid samurai honor and revenge.

Slashing “The Season of the Sun”

Onizuka Kensaku

A critical essay examines the novel and film versions of Shintarō Ishihara’s The Season of the Sun, comparing their treatment of youth, sexuality, violence, disability, censorship, and postwar commercial culture.

Three Beautiful Youths Who Appeared in History

Nishimura Kōnan

This historical-literary essay profiles three celebrated beautiful youths—Rokudai, Mori Ranmaru, and Taira no Atsumori—drawing on chronicles, war tales, and later cultural memory to discuss youthful male beauty, eroticized devotion, and tragic death.

Twelve Months in Confinement, Part Two

Higashida Ichirō

A first-person prison memoir recounts a prisoner’s escape, recapture, confinement, parole, institutional routines, and eventual return to ordinary life, with detailed observations of prison staff, fellow inmates, food, work, and rehabilitation. The narrative also…

A Former Military Nurse’s Suicide

Kadota Nako

A wartime account describes Japanese military nurses trapped during the Saipan campaign who choose collective suicide rather than surrender, including the battlefield circumstances, the group’s deliberations, and the lethal injections administered by a military…

On Haruko’s Sensation of Pleasure

Higashida Nako

This sexological and autobiographical essay examines Nako’s developing awareness of anal pleasure through bodily sensation, self-observation, sexual fantasy, and repeated experimentation, including references to enemas and rectal stimulation. It presents anal sensation as a…

The Staked Enema

Yazaki Ryūichi

An erotic SM fiction depicts young men wagering over an enema contest, with the loser subjected to escalating restraint, humiliation, and painful punishment in a drinking establishment.

From Recent Bondage Films

A film-review feature surveys recent Japanese bondage films, discussing their plots, performers, staged restraint scenes, and sensational appeal.

The Red Flowers Are Weeping, Final Installment

Matsui Rōko

The final installment of Matsui Rōko’s serialized SM novel follows jealousy and marital suspicion into confrontations involving infidelity, coercive control, bondage, and punishment, culminating in a highly melodramatic resolution involving the recurring red flowers.

From a Kitan Club Reader’s Collection

Maki Senjirō

An essay defending Kitan Club’s cultural and research value, arguing that its distinctive materials preserve otherwise neglected facts and create a shared field of inquiry for readers, writers, and scholars.

From My Collection

Kadoki Chūnosuke

A bibliographic essay introducing collected writings and biographical materials on writers such as Maupassant, Baudelaire, and Strindberg, emphasizing their unusual personalities, sexuality, psychological conflicts, and literary achievements.

Record of a Youth Soldier

Yamaguchi Kōichi

An autobiographical continuation recalling the author’s adolescent fascination with boys’ bodies, loincloths, swimming and sumo wrestling, and the secret pleasure of observing, imagining, and collecting images of male physicality.

A Word About the Editorial Policy of K Magazines

Satō Maiichi

An editorial statement explains Kitan Club’s publishing policy, acknowledges changes in distribution and content, and asks readers to judge the magazine against their expectations while reaffirming a commitment to distinctive specialist material.

The Eve of Black-Wave Gorge

Tsuchiji Sōichi

A serialized erotic bondage thriller follows Reiko and other characters through captivity, coercive sexual domination, physical punishment, humiliation, and escalating abuse against a backdrop of espionage, institutional intrigue, and imagined wartime crisis.

Recent Bondage-Film News

A news and review column surveys recent Japanese bondage films, describing plots, performers, restraint scenes, and production details, with accompanying illustrations and notices about forthcoming film coverage.

Bondage-Film Report

A survey of contemporary Japanese films, organized by production company, describes plots featuring rope bondage, captivity, restraint, crime, and sensational sexual situations.

My Various Torments

A reader correspondence feature presents a woman’s account of romantic frustrations, age differences, and her attraction to pantyhose, followed by an advice-oriented response.

From My Collection: Scarlet Paper

Ogata Ayumi

An illustrated literary essay from a collection of erotic pulp material reflects on changing erotic tastes while recounting scenes of women being captured, bound, and tormented with rope.

Selected Contributions and Gleanings

Editorial Department

An editorial selection of previously unpublished or omitted manuscripts discusses the magazine’s treatment of reader submissions and presents excerpts involving personal confession, criminality, and unusual domestic relationships.

A Seppuku Incident Reported in the Newspapers

Fujimori Kazuo

Fujimori Kazuo recounts a sensational newspaper-reported incident in which a man violently killed a woman and then attempted or committed suicide by seppuku, framing the episode as crime reportage.