Kitan Club

November 1963

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Issue Details

Volume
17
Issue
11
PDF pages
205

Summary

The November 1963 issue of Kitan Club is presented as a special number devoted to confessions, personal experiences, and memoirs. Its editorial structure combines staged photographic portfolios, erotic illustration, autobiographical testimony, psychological reflection, serialized fiction, historical and international curiosities, reader correspondence, and classified community material. The front matter announces Volume 17, Number 11, serial number 182, while the formal contents page establishes a broad sequence extending from visual studies through essays and narratives to an unusually dense concluding section of reader contributions.

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The issue opens with several substantial visual portfolios. Black-and-white photographs document rope restraint, partial suspension, gagging, restrictive posing, and related studio scenarios. These are followed by a long illustrated gallery credited primarily to Shiba Takashi, whose drawings move between historical punishment imagery, domestic dominance, equestrian fantasy, medicalized scenes, and theatrical reversals of gendered authority. Together, these opening sections establish the issue’s characteristic mixture of documentary appearance, staged performance, and imaginative fantasy.

The prose section begins with Kurihara Chō’s reflective essay on the psychological function of an oblate, followed by Ōnaka Tadashi’s translated sadistic story, Sweet Nightmare. A first-person account describes a man’s fascination with receiving slaps and injections from attractive women, while another confession recounts a married couple’s first consciously arranged erotic role-play. Satō Suden’s grotesque account of thirteen condemned women broadens the issue into execution fantasy, and Tsujimura Takashi’s Twenty-Ninth Night continues a recurring narrative series. Later features include a survey of women and horsemanship, memories of provocative scenes in cinema, kimono and travel essays, fetish confession, handmade clothing, and an installment of Dan Oniroku’s serialized novel Flower and Snake.

The latter half mixes fictional episodes, reader memoirs, brief research notes, and correspondence. Topics include rubber play, fabric fixation, pregnancy photography, underwear, women’s feet, bondage, staged cutting imagery, and the aesthetics of female suffering. Several confession pieces are explicitly written by women or presented through female pseudonyms, reinforcing the special issue’s emphasis on testimony and subjective experience. The closing pages contain extensive reader letters, notices, advertisements, club information, and personal-contact listings, showing Kitan Club functioning not only as a magazine of fiction and imagery but also as a participatory subcultural forum.

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Table of Contents 39 items
  1. Four Figures Struggling Beneath Rough Rope
    Summary

    A staged photographic sequence shows a woman bound with rough rope in several floor-level positions, emphasizing bodily struggle, restraint, and the interaction between bound subject and assisting figures.

  2. Prelude of the Suspended Body
    Summary

    This visual feature depicts a woman secured in a rope harness and lifted into suspension, documenting changing suspended poses and the dramatic presentation of the hanging body.

  3. Breasts of a Woman Constricted by Rope
    Summary

    Close-up photographs focus on a woman’s torso and breasts tightly constricted and framed by rope, presenting the body as the central object of a staged bondage image sequence.

  4. Adorable Mare by Shiba Takashi
    14
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a woman posed as an adorable mare, wearing a harness and bit while moving on all fours with reins, a saddle, and a whip nearby.

  5. A Greeting of 'Good Night' by Shiba Takashi
    15
    Summary

    An erotic illustration presents a woman reclining in an elegant night setting while a submissive figure attends to and appears to kiss or worship her foot.

  6. Licking a Foot Covered by a Long Boot by Shiba Takashi
    16
    Summary

    An erotic illustration shows a woman in lingerie and long boots holding a cigarette while a bound man lies at her feet and licks a boot-covered foot.

  7. Female Bandit Arrest Record by Shiba Takashi
    17
    Summary

    An erotic illustrated arrest scene depicts a female bandit being overpowered and restrained by several men.

  8. Enema and Diaper by Shiba Takashi
    18
    Summary

    An erotic illustration presents a diapered woman receiving an enema from a male partner, with medical implements and a basin prominently shown.

  9. The Intoxicating Flavor of Young-Lady Sumo
    Summary

    A photo feature profiles women who enjoy sumo wrestling, showing them staging matches, wearing loincloths, refereeing, and engaging in eroticized grappling.

  10. What Will Attack Next? by Shiba Takashi
    21
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a woman bound and inverted in a staged domestic scene under the teasing heading “What Will Attack Next?”

  11. Female Body Restraint Series, Part Two
    Summary

    This photographic series documents a woman subjected to elaborate rope bondage, gagging, immobilization, and varied seated, standing, and floor-bound positions.

  12. New Model Studies
    Summary

    A sequence of model studies depicts women in lingerie and partial dress posing in staged restraint scenarios, including rope-bound torsos, gagging, and controlled postures.

  13. The Effect of an Oblate by Kurihara Chō
    Summary

    An essay describes the physical and psychological effects of taking medicine wrapped in an oblate wafer, using the experience to reflect on suggestibility, bodily sensation, and the tension between rational explanation and mysterious inner experience.

  14. Sweet Nightmare by Ōnaka Tadashi
    Summary

    A serialized erotic nightmare follows a narrator’s encounters with a beautiful sea woman and a young woman whom he binds, restrains, and humiliates in increasingly elaborate dreamlike scenes of pursuit and captivity.

  15. The Man Who Desires Slaps and Injections from Beautiful Women by Manasu Otoko
    Summary

    In an experience confession, a man recounts his enduring desire to receive slaps and injections from beautiful women, tracing the fixation from childhood medical injections through humiliating encounters with nurses, teachers, and other women.

  16. Women Who Ride by Kura Ryōjin
    Summary

    A photo-rich reportage piece profiles women who ride horses, describing their riding experiences, family backgrounds, training, and participation in equestrian events.

  17. Our First Play by Watanabe Mitsuru
    Summary

    A married couple recounts their first SM play, moving from mutual hesitation to an extended consensual session involving discipline, restraint, and role experimentation.

  18. Thirteen Female Condemned Prisoners, Part One: Beheading by Satō Suden
    Summary

    A serialized, highly graphic narrative presents the executions of thirteen female condemned prisoners, focusing on the rituals, spectatorship, emotional reactions, and bodily violence surrounding beheading.

  19. Tales of the Twenty-Ninth Night by Tsujimura Takashi
    Summary

    A serialized erotic SM narrative follows encounters in which women are photographed, interrogated, and subjected to elaborate rope bondage, gagging, immobilization, and other forms of restraint. The story is accompanied by staged photographic scenes illustrating the episodes.

  20. Recent Female Fighting Scenes in Film by Yamada Takao
    Summary

    This illustrated film commentary surveys recent Japanese and foreign screen scenes of women fighting, wrestling, overpowering one another, and being restrained, emphasizing their sensational and erotic appeal to viewers.

  21. Kimono, Kimono, Kimono Stories by Makibe Takashi
    Summary

    A hybrid instructional and narrative feature explains and illustrates ways of tying women in kimono and obi, while presenting eroticized scenarios of restraint, exposure, humiliation, and bodily control through traditional clothing.

  22. The Pleasures of Travel by Watanabe Kane
    Summary

    A travel memoir presents travel as an escape into unfamiliar landscapes, local customs, personal freedom, and amusing encounters, including sexually charged commercial and enema-related references.

  23. Diary of an Inverted Fetish by Kubo Ichirō
    Summary

    A diary-style fetish confession recounts the narrator’s fascination with long boots, leather, military and school uniforms, swordsmanship, and scenes in which women overpower, discipline, and humiliate men.

  24. A Handmade Loincloth and Red Swimsuit by R. Ichirō
    Summary

    This autobiographical erotic narrative describes a rural visit where a physically timid young man becomes involved in a fetishistic episode centered on a handmade loincloth, a red swimsuit, female control, and enforced submission.

  25. Shigeko's Strange Habit by Onna Gakumai
    Summary

    A narrative about Shigeko’s unusual erotic fixation on women’s feet, restraint, and humiliating physical play, presented through dialogue and illustrated scenes involving female partners.

  26. Flower and Snake, Part Six by Dan Oniroku
    Summary

    A serialized fictional episode in which Kyoko and Shizuko are pursued, captured, stripped, gagged, and subjected to coercive bondage and sexual humiliation by a group of men.

  27. Notes of a Gag-Making Enthusiast by Yutani Teruo
    Summary

    An illustrated enthusiast’s notebook cataloguing several gagging arrangements and materials, with practical descriptions, scenario fragments, and examples of how the restraints affect speech and movement.

  28. Please Torment My Nose by Yoshino Kio
    Summary

    A first-person erotic confession describes a woman’s escalating nose-centered fetish, in which her partner subjects her to humiliating restraint, nose-hair manipulation, fluids, and other forms of punishment and sensory stimulation.

  29. War and the Mood of Cruelty
    Summary

    This essay links wartime atrocities and mass violence, including the killing of Chinese civilians by the Japanese military, to a postwar cultural appetite for cruelty as represented in films, literature, television, and erotic imagery.

  30. New Harima Dish Mansion by Manda Fujin
    Summary

    A historical erotic tale set in the Harima domain depicts escalating schemes of captivity, rope restraint, humiliation, coercion, violence, and sexualized punishment among samurai-era characters. The narrative culminates in brutal sadistic confrontations and execution-like imagery.

  31. Fabric of Mad Love by Nonaka Nobutoshi
    Summary

    A first-person confession traces the author’s intense fetishistic attraction to women’s obi and other waist garments, from childhood memories and voyeuristic observation to fantasies and encounters involving wearing, touching, and collecting such clothing.

  32. Concerning Pregnancy Photographs by Kageura Sakae
    Summary

    This illustrated essay examines erotic pregnancy photography and related medicalized scenes, discussing posed images of pregnant bodies, examinations, childbirth, nudity, and the viewer’s fascination with maternal transformation. It combines commentary on photographic technique and publishing with reflections on pregnancy fetishism and visual spectatorship.

  33. The Sweet Life of Rubber Play by Tsuda Akiko
    Summary

    A personal confession describes the author’s long-standing fascination with rubber, including sleeping on rubber sheets, using rubber clothing and accessories, and finding tactile pleasure in increasingly elaborate rubber play.

  34. Underwear Made of Paper by Okayama Fujin
    Summary

    An illustrated erotic feature presents paper underwear as an unusual novelty, combining product-like claims about its feel and use with suggestive imagery and testimonials aimed at readers interested in fetish garments.

  35. Women's Feet and Underwear by Himeuma Fujin
    Summary

    A personal narrative traces the author’s fascination with women’s feet and underwear from childhood memories through adult encounters, describing stockings, bare feet, foot-focused fantasies, and voyeuristic observation.

  36. When a Woman Is Bound by Nakayashiki Makoto
    Summary

    The author recounts his longstanding fascination with artistic and cinematic depictions of women being attacked or cut, tracing the interest from illustrated fiction to contemporary films and popular visual culture. The piece reflects on the erotic and psychological appeal of violent imagery rather than documenting actual events.

  37. When a Woman Is Cut by Okamoto Fujin
    Summary

    A first-person report on attending an amateur women’s sumo event in Nagasaki describes the contestants, their bodies and costumes, the physical intensity of the bouts, and the excited spectatorship surrounding the matches.

  38. My Image: A Parade of Ecstatic-Cruelty Beauties by Kondō Kichio
    Summary

    An illustrated erotic feature presents a parade of women staged in scenes of restraint and humiliation, combining photographs, drawings, and commentary on poses, costumes, bodily presentation, and bondage techniques.

  39. Reader Letters, Notices, Club Information, and Classified Listings
    Summary

    A large reader-services section combines personal correspondence and confessional responses with editorial notices, club and event information, submission calls, issue contents, and extensive mail-order advertisements and classified listings for erotic publications and restraint-related goods.

Highlights

  • An extensive opening photographic portfolio presents sequential rope restraint, partial suspension, gagging, and posed studio scenarios. (PDF pp. 6–13, 22–29).
  • Shiba Takashi's illustrated gallery ranges across equestrian fantasy, historical punishment, domestic dominance, medical imagery, and female-led scenes. (PDF pp. 14–21).
  • Kurihara Chō's essay considers the psychological and symbolic effects of an oblate and uses the object as a metaphor for concealed desire. (PDF pp. 31–32).
  • Sweet Nightmare is a translated sadistic story of captivity, coercion, and ritualized violence in an isolated coastal setting. (PDF pp. 33–38).
  • A detailed experiential confession describes a man's desire to be slapped and injected by attractive women, linking childhood memories, medical treatment, and adult fantasy. (PDF pp. 39–42).
  • Women Who Ride surveys women equestrians and reproduces historical and international photographs connecting femininity, public spectacle, and horsemanship. (PDF pp. 43–46).
  • Thirteen Female Condemned Prisoners presents an illustrated execution fantasy organized around multiple methods of capital punishment. (PDF pp. 49–54).
  • The issue includes the sixth installment of Dan Oniroku's Flower and Snake, one of its major serialized literary features. (PDF pp. 93–103).
  • The late confessional section gathers accounts concerning rubber play, pregnancy photography, underwear, women's feet, restraint, and staged cutting imagery. (PDF pp. 149–183).
  • The back matter contains a large body of reader correspondence, notices, contact listings, and classified advertisements documenting the magazine's community function. (PDF pp. 184–205).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue: