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Kitan Club

December 1950

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Cover of Kitan Club, December 1950

Issue Details

Issue
25
PDF pages
110

Summary

This issue of Kitan Club is organized as a broad entertainment miscellany centered on erotic curiosity, romantic intrigue, sexual confession, comic anecdote, crime, and unusual human behavior. The opening material is substantial rather than merely decorative: after the illustrated cover, PDF pages 2–5 present an extended nude photographic portfolio, followed on pages 6–13 by humor, reader-oriented miscellany, short anecdotes, cartoons, and advice-like material. A one-page comic on PDF page 14 then leads directly into the issue’s featured Ancient and Modern Curious Tales Compared sequence. These early pages are an important part of the issue’s editorial identity, establishing the combination of visual titillation, jokes, confessional storytelling, and sensational curiosity that continues throughout the magazine.

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The first major textual group begins on PDF page 15 with short narratives drawn from contemporary life and sexual rumor. The pieces include The Company President Who Became the Seed of a Novel, Pillow Talk in a Haunted House, The Tooth of Desire, and the longer The Poor Rich Man, which occupies much of the twenties. These are followed by a memoir-like account of captivity and displacement in North Korea and Siberia beginning on PDF page 29. Together, these opening articles range from humorous and erotic anecdote to postwar hardship, producing a striking tonal mixture within the first third of the issue.

From the thirties onward, the magazine turns more heavily toward courtship strategy and erotic fiction. The entertainment-district feature Boogie-Woogie in the Amusement Quarter is followed by the baseball-themed erotic melodrama Song of Bodily Sorrow and a sequence of pieces framed as practical or semi-confessional romantic tactics: Young Swallow Tactics, Strategy for Capturing an Idle Madam, Awakening of the Female Body, A Guide to the Art of Love, The Woman in the Movie Theater, Pure-Hearted Tactics, and methods for overcoming marital or romantic stagnation. These articles repeatedly present desire as a contest of observation, deception, opportunity, and technique, often mixing first-person testimony with magazine-style instruction.

The later middle section broadens again into sensational narrative and comic exotica. A modern tale of an adulterous husband who was thought dead is followed by stories of strange appearances, urban erotic episodes, an apartment-house kaleidoscope, and the curious story of an ape said to have fathered a human child. The recurring Favorite Variety section contributes comic erotic tales including The Bear’s Paw and Madame Skunk. Historical fantasy then takes over in House of the Lustful Bhikkhuni, after which the Night-Blooming Flowers erotic-story collection provides another anthology-like change of pace.

The closing third includes the illustrated crime story The Completely Naked Charred Corpse, an unusual discussion of a bride’s sexual modesty, and the serialized Southern Squabble Picture Scroll installment Breast Commotion. The issue ends with the continuation of this long comic-erotic narrative, reader and editorial material, submission information, and publication notices. Across the issue, Kitan Club presents itself as a hybrid popular magazine in which nude photography, cartoons, romantic gamesmanship, postwar experience, crime, erotic fiction, confessional material, and strange tales coexist without firm genre boundaries. Its strongest recurring concerns are the tactics of seduction, female and male sexual desire, jealousy, bodily curiosity, scandal, voyeurism, and the transformation of everyday urban life into sensational anecdote.

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Table of Contents 29 items
  1. The Lover of Mrs. Chakkari by Akashi Sanpei
    15
  2. The Company President Who Became the Seed of a Novel by Yamamoto Sakae
    16
  3. Pillow Talk in a Haunted House by Hyogo Ippei
    18
  4. The Tooth of Desire by Sasaki Kurumanao
    20
  5. The Poor Rich Man by Tsujimura Enezaburo
    22
  6. North Korea and Siberia Prisoner Wanderings: Exhibitionism at the Latrine by Anabuki Takeshi
    30
  7. Boogie-Woogie in the Amusement Quarter by Kado Kotaro
    32
  8. Song of Bodily Sorrow by Aiyama Hisashi
    36
  9. Young Swallow Tactics: I Was Juggling Four at Once by Teramoto Akira
    40
  10. Strategy for Capturing an Idle Madam: How I Won a Beautiful Widow by Saotome Akira
    42
  11. Awakening of the Female Body: An Old Maid Falls by Arisawa Aro
    44
  12. A Guide to the Art of Love: An Episode of Bedroom Play by Hanaki Minoru
    46
  13. The Woman in the Movie Theater by Tomita Shinji
    48
  14. Pure-Hearted Tactics: What's Inside the Handbag? by Kojima Shinichi
    50
  15. Secret Method for Breaking Through the Period of Marital Boredom: The Surprise Tactic That Worked by Tsubaki Akihiko
    52
  16. The Distance of the Body by Naoki Ryunosuke
    55
  17. The Adolescent Girl by Hirai Kyosuke
    58
  18. The Adulterous Husband Was Alive by Kasagi Yoshio
    60
  19. The Man Who Crawled Out from Beneath the Stage
    64
  20. One Hundred Curious Tales of Urban Licentiousness by Shinji Kanro
    66
  21. Pink Apartment Kaleidoscope by Yakusa Kyosuke
    70
  22. The Story of an Ape That Fathered a Human Child by Natsuhara Tsuneo
    74
  23. Favorite Variety, Part 1: The Bear's Paw by Isshotei Shujin
    76
  24. Favorite Variety, Part 2: Madame Skunk by Isshotei Shujin
    83
  25. House of the Lustful Bhikkhuni by Midori Sumariyuki
    84
  26. Night-Blooming Flowers: Erotic Story Collection
    90
  27. The Completely Naked Charred Corpse
    96
  28. The Bride's Sexual Modesty by Yoshinobu Takashi
    102
  29. Breast Commotion: Southern Squabble Picture Scroll, Part 4 by Tsukiya Seishi
    104

Highlights

  • The issue opens with a substantial nude photographic portfolio before moving into humor, cartoons, reader-oriented miscellany, and short erotic anecdotes, making the first dozen pages an integral editorial section rather than disposable front matter. (PDF pp. 2–13).
  • The Ancient and Modern Curious Tales Compared feature begins immediately after the opening comic material with The Company President Who Became the Seed of a Novel, Pillow Talk in a Haunted House, and The Tooth of Desire. (PDF pp. 15–20).
  • The Poor Rich Man occupies a substantial early run and combines economic comedy, erotic adventure, and postwar urban observation. (PDF pp. 21–28).
  • A North Korea and Siberia captivity memoir begins before PDF page 30, introducing wartime and postwar displacement into an otherwise heavily erotic and humorous issue. (PDF pp. 29–30).
  • A concentrated sequence of articles from Young Swallow Tactics through Pure-Hearted Tactics treats romance and seduction as techniques to be studied, practiced, and strategically managed. (PDF pp. 39–50).
  • Song of Bodily Sorrow uses the scandal surrounding a professional baseball player as the framework for an erotic melodrama, linking contemporary celebrity culture to the magazine's fiction. (PDF pp. 35–38).
  • The Favorite Variety section shifts into comic and grotesque erotic storytelling with The Bear's Paw and Madame Skunk. (PDF pp. 75–82).
  • House of the Lustful Bhikkhuni is a sustained historical erotic narrative, providing a period-fiction counterpoint to the issue's contemporary urban material. (PDF pp. 83–88).
  • The Completely Naked Charred Corpse is an extended illustrated murder story combining crime reportage conventions with sensational popular fiction. (PDF pp. 95–100).
  • The closing Breast Commotion installment of Southern Squabble Picture Scroll occupies most of the final substantive pages before reader, submission, and publication notices. (PDF pp. 103–109).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue:

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