Kitan Club

November 1963

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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
    6–10
  2. Prelude of the Suspended Body
    9–10
  3. Breasts of a Woman Constricted by Rope
    11–13
  4. Adorable Mare by Shiba Takashi
    14
  5. A Greeting of 'Good Night' by Shiba Takashi
    15
  6. Licking a Foot Covered by a Long Boot by Shiba Takashi
    16
  7. Female Bandit Arrest Record by Shiba Takashi
    17
  8. Enema and Diaper by Shiba Takashi
    18
  9. The Intoxicating Flavor of Young-Lady Sumo
    19–20
  10. What Will Attack Next? by Shiba Takashi
    21
  11. Female Body Restraint Series, Part Two
    22–26
  12. New Model Studies
    27–29
  13. The Effect of an Oblate by Kurihara Chō
    34–35
  14. Sweet Nightmare by Ōnaka Tadashi
    36–41
  15. The Man Who Desires Slaps and Injections from Beautiful Women by Manasu Otoko
    42–45
  16. Women Who Ride by Kura Ryōjin
    46–49
  17. Our First Play by Watanabe Mitsuru
    50–51
  18. Thirteen Female Condemned Prisoners, Part One: Beheading by Satō Suden
    52–57
  19. Tales of the Twenty-Ninth Night by Tsujimura Takashi
    58–71
  20. Recent Female Fighting Scenes in Film by Yamada Takao
    72–73
  21. Kimono, Kimono, Kimono Stories by Makibe Takashi
    74–78
  22. The Pleasures of Travel by Watanabe Kane
    79–81
  23. Diary of an Inverted Fetish by Kubo Ichirō
    82–87
  24. A Handmade Loincloth and Red Swimsuit by R. Ichirō
    88–89
  25. Shigeko's Strange Habit by Onna Gakumai
    90–95
  26. Flower and Snake, Part Six by Dan Oniroku
    96–106
  27. Notes of a Gag-Making Enthusiast by Yutani Teruo
    107–109
  28. Please Torment My Nose by Yoshino Kio
    110–112
  29. War and the Mood of Cruelty
    113–115
  30. New Harima Dish Mansion by Manda Fujin
    136–145
  31. Fabric of Mad Love by Nonaka Nobutoshi
    146–151
  32. Concerning Pregnancy Photographs by Kageura Sakae
    152–159
  33. The Sweet Life of Rubber Play by Tsuda Akiko
    160–161
  34. Underwear Made of Paper by Okayama Fujin
    162–171
  35. Women's Feet and Underwear by Himeuma Fujin
    172–177
  36. When a Woman Is Bound by Nakayashiki Makoto
    178–179
  37. When a Woman Is Cut by Okamoto Fujin
    180–181
  38. My Image: A Parade of Ecstatic-Cruelty Beauties by Kondō Kichio
    182–183
  39. Reader Letters, Notices, Club Information, and Classified Listings
    184–208

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).
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