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Kitan Club

May 1974

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Cover of Kitan Club, May 1974

Issue Details

Volume
28
Issue
315
PDF pages
179

Summary

The May 1974 issue of Kitan Club is a dense specialist publication devoted to Japanese SM culture, fetishism, bondage, sexual confession, erotic fiction, and the visual representation of domination. Its formal contents pages organize a mixture of photographic portfolios, first-person reports, critical essays, serialized fiction, personal memoirs, and reader-oriented departments. The issue’s editorial identity lies in its movement between private fantasy and public subculture: experiences are presented as letters, club reports, research accounts, confessions, literary narratives, and photographic evidence.

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The opening section is dominated by an extensive bondage photography feature associated with an SM research and discussion group. Its black-and-white and color images show adult female models in rope bondage, suspension, blindfolding, immobilization, and staged domestic interiors. This visual material leads into a psychological discussion of human-animalization desire and then into Tsukamoto Tetsuzō’s lengthy account of an SM gathering, correspondence network, group photography session, and the social dynamics of shame, exhibitionism, spectatorship, and authority.

The central portion broadens the issue’s range of fetish subjects. A woman’s rubber-play confession describes clothing, masks, hoods, boots, solitary fantasy, and self-observation. Serialized erotic fiction supplies historical torture, captivity, coercion, punishment, and theatrical domination, while The White Irrigator presents a medicalized experience account centered on an enema and contrast examination. Reader testimony about group sexual fantasy and a mock-scientific study of female urination further demonstrate the magazine’s recurring transformation of private or taboo practices into published case material.

Later sections include captivity fiction, a memoir about seeking rubber clothing, and a substantial critical study of Tsukamoto’s writing and photography. Serialized narratives continue with Great Eruption, Thin Binding, SM Swapping, and the M-group friendship series, combining dialogue, illustrations, image galleries, club settings, role-play, discipline, and partner exchange. The closing pages shift toward a nose-fetish essay, a woman’s SM correspondence, a serialized erotic narrative, a sexual memoir, and the Edo Cruelty Chronicle’s supernatural tale of the beckoning cat. Across its genres, the issue repeatedly links bondage and fetishism with confession, commercial scarcity, reader participation, visual culture, theatricality, and the uneasy boundary between documentation and fantasy.

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Table of Contents 26 items
  1. Understanding the Psychology of the Desire for Human-Animalization by Fujikawa Tōjirō
    29
    Summary

    A brief illustrated discussion interprets a fetishistic desire described through human-animalization terminology, linking private fantasy, bondage imagery, and psychological explanation.

  2. S Research Group Gossip-Meeting Report: How Yasuko Yajima Came to Be Tied Up by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    30–?
    Summary

    A substantial photographic portfolio documents staged bondage and shibari involving numerous adult female models. Its captions and sequences emphasize rope technique, suspension, immobilization, blindfolding, domestic-room staging, and the transformation of SM performance into erotic photographic documentation.

  3. An SM Discussion Amid Shame by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    52
    Summary

    Tsukamoto records an SM study-group meeting, its correspondence network, travel and hotel arrangements, photographic sessions, and the interaction of embarrassment, exhibitionism, authority, and spectatorship.

  4. Confession: Lonely, Sleepless-Night Rubber Play by Umekawa Sachiko
    52–55
    Summary

    A first-person confession describes elaborate rubber clothing, masks, boots, gloves, belts, and a full hood, followed by solitary dressing, mirror observation, fantasy, and bathing imagery.

  5. Serial: The Gate of Shiran — Southern Barbarian Torture by Fūryū Gokudōken
    56–67
    Summary

    An installment of the historical-fantasy serial places characters in aristocratic and pseudo-historical settings of torture, restraint, suspension, forced display, punishment, and spectatorship, with accompanying illustrations and image-gallery material.

  6. Experience Account: The White Irrigator by Naeki Yōko
    68–73
    Summary

    A dramatized first-person account follows hospital preparation, enema administration, barium imaging, catheterization, bodily sensation, embarrassment, and interactions with nurses, with medical intestinal diagrams throughout.

  7. A Woman with Domestication Desire: An Appeal for Gang-Rape Desire by Toiri Hisomu
    74–79
    Summary

    A signed reader submission recounts a group SM encounter involving restraint, humiliation, anal stimulation, and fantasies of collective coercion, presenting extreme intensity as both troubling and pleasurable.

  8. A Strange Melody: A Study of the Realities of Female Urination by Saji Mazō
    80–81
    Summary

    A mock-research report classifies female urination by posture, angle, force, sound, smell, and aftercare, turning ordinary bodily functions into objects of fetishistic observation and purported scientific analysis.

  9. Serial M-Group Work: Woman Captive by Saji Mazō
    82–99
    Summary

    A continuing captivity narrative follows Ryōe through workplace humiliation, coercive examinations, surveillance, interrogation, transport, restraint, punishment, and institutional domination, with embedded visual galleries.

  10. Prize-Submission Work: The Abused Person by Kirishima Jirō
    100–110
    Summary

    A long illustrated first-person narrative depicts women subjected to service-based exploitation, economic dependence, bondage, humiliation, punishment, and sadistic control in domestic and commercial settings.

  11. My Résumé: Seeking Hope in a Rubber Manto by Tsurusaki Yoshio
    111–114
    Summary

    The author recalls a lifelong fascination with rubber garments, unsuccessful searches for a rubber cape, changing availability, consumer scarcity, and hopes for renewed production and contact with fellow enthusiasts.

  12. A Study of S&M: A Sketch of Tsukamoto Tetsuzō by Maekawa Keiichirō
    115–123
    Summary

    A critical essay studies Tsukamoto’s writing and photography through staging, pose, ropes, props, models, humiliation, voyeurism, and the relationship between literary description and photographic evidence.

  13. Serial Novel: Great Eruption, Episode 67 by Chiba Seiki
    124–131
    Summary

    This comic-adventure serial episode combines diplomatic intrigue, hotel scenes, surveillance, captivity, disguise, escape, sexualized coercion, and the recurring figure of Goliath.

  14. My Family’s Birthday Present: Thin Binding by Hayaki Yumeji
    132–137
    Summary

    A first-person birthday scenario escalates through numbered stages of bondage, interrogation, embarrassment, pain, control, and photographic role-play, supported by staged images.

  15. Serial: SM Swapping, Pinocchio by Akitsu Shinjirō
    138–146
    Summary

    A continuing role-play narrative moves from discipline and rope restraint in an SM club to hotel meetings, multiple participants, exchanged keys, and planned partner swapping.

  16. Obsessed with Beautiful Noses: Reflections on Nose Punishment by Sugiyama Junzō
    147–149
    Summary

    An illustrated essay considers ideals of nose shape, facial beauty, rhinoplasty, popular taste, and the eroticized humiliation or fetishization of a bodily feature.

  17. M-Woman Communications: Hiroko Is a Trembling Lamb by Takamura Hiroko
    150–155
    Summary

    A woman’s correspondence-style memoir describes attraction to an older partner, bondage, discipline, fear, staged abuse, fantasy, and erotic surrender, accompanied by photographs.

  18. Serial: M-Group Friendship Record no. 50, The Dancing Male Leopard by Kiyama Kensaku
    156–170
    Summary

    A dialogue-heavy serialized narrative follows performers and associates of an SM-oriented theatrical group through drinking, rivalry, humiliation, role-play, hotel encounters, and staged sexual performance.

  19. Confession of an Abnormal Sexual Experience: Recollections of My Sexuality by Togoshi Harutarō
    170–175
    Summary

    A married middle-aged narrator recalls adolescent and adult sexual experiences, SM interests, fetish imagery, bondage, prostitution, coercive encounters, and the formation of his sexual imagination.

  20. Edo Cruelty Chronicle: The Uncanny Beckoning Cat by Shiratori Daizō
    176–181+
    Summary

    An Edo-period supernatural-cruelty narrative begins around a prosperous tea shop, a beautiful proprietress, and a mysterious beckoning cat, then develops through erotic exploitation, abduction, binding, mutilation, criminal violence, and grotesque retribution.

  21. A Camera-and-Pen Reportage: The Owner of a Famous Organ Worth a Thousand Centipedes by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    182
  22. An Adolescent Daydream: In the Bundle of Straw by Hara Kimiko
    212
  23. Hiroshi Goes (4): Bye—the Sun Sets on ‘Kura’ by Kuruki Sakae
    222
  24. Color Photo Section (11 Poses) by Kasai Naoko; Yajima Yasuko; Fukada Kikuko; Akino Eiko; Maeda Machiko; Takamura Hiroko; Naeki Yōko; Fukui Momoko
    227
  25. Kiku Salon
    234
  26. Readers’ Correspondence
    274

Highlights

  • The extensive S Research Group photographic feature presents staged Japanese bondage photography, including suspension, blindfolding, immobilization, and numerous named models. (PDF pp. 3–27).
  • Tsukamoto Tetsuzō’s report on an SM discussion gathering connects correspondence, clubs, photography, shame, spectatorship, and the social organization of enthusiasts. (PDF pp. 29–49).
  • The rubber-play confession combines fetish clothing, masks, hoods, solitary fantasy, diagrams, photographs, and bathing imagery. (PDF pp. 50–53).
  • The White Irrigator turns a hospital enema and contrast examination into a detailed medicalized experience narrative accompanied by intestinal diagrams. (PDF pp. 66–71).
  • The serialized captivity fiction Woman Captive uses workplace, police, medical, and institutional authority as settings for restraint, interrogation, punishment, and coercion. (PDF pp. 82–97).
  • The essay on Tsukamoto Tetsuzō examines the aesthetics and ethics of staged SM photography, including pose, props, models, humiliation, and voyeuristic spectatorship. (PDF pp. 113–121).
  • SM Swapping combines serialized role-play fiction, an organized club, discipline, multiple participants, and planned partner exchange. (PDF pp. 136–144).
  • The closing Edo Cruelty Chronicle blends a beckoning-cat motif, tea-shop folklore, erotic exploitation, mutilation, and grotesque supernatural violence. (PDF pp. 174–179).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue:

Kinbaku Today
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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