Kitan Club
December 1960
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 16
- PDF pages
- 239
Summary
The December 1960 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive opening sequence of bondage illustration and photography with historical fantasy, contemporary erotic fiction, essays, reader contributions, serial narratives, and editorial correspondence. Its editorial identity rests on the movement between visual demonstrations of restraint and literary examinations of domination, humiliation, fantasy, punishment, and secrecy.
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Table of Contents 27 items
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Hanging-Play Instruction Room
Summary
An illustrated instructional feature presents a range of rope-suspension bondage positions, including partial and inverted hangs, supported by staged photographs and diagrams emphasizing pose, balance, and visual composition.
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Ecstatic Female Body Highlights
Summary
A photographic portfolio by Fujimi Shirō presents women in elaborate rope-bound and otherwise restrained poses, including gagging, blindfolding, seated and reclining bondage, and staged scenes emphasizing ecstatic bodily expression and hair styling.
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The Tale of Princess Yuki
Summary
A serialized historical erotic tale set in the Edo period, following Princess Yuki as she is abducted, bound, humiliated, and subjected to coercive treatment by samurai and household authorities.
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A Woman for Display
Summary
A photographic and narrative feature presents a woman arranged for display in elaborate rope bondage, describing the staging, restraint methods, observers’ reactions, and the scene’s eroticized performance.
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Yamamoto Fujiko as Shirakoya Komako
Summary
A film review examines Yamamoto Fujiko’s portrayal of Shirakoya Komako in a historical Japanese film, emphasizing the character’s beauty, suffering, bondage, and eventual punishment.
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A White Flower Under Abuse
Summary
A serialized SM narrative follows a young woman drawn into an escalating cycle of coercion, captivity, bondage, and physical abuse orchestrated by male captors. Its dramatic scenes emphasize her fear, forced submission, and attempts to endure or escape prolonged mistreatment.
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One Thief, Two Maids, Three Concubines
Summary
This crime-and-captivity fiction depicts a thief and a group of maids and concubines whose encounters involve abduction, restraint, interrogation, sexual coercion, and punitive domination. Illustrations reinforce the narrative’s staged scenes of bondage and female vulnerability.
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A Delicious Thing on the Ground
Summary
A concluding SM fiction episode centers on a woman subjected to coercive sexual control, humiliation, and severe physical punishment within an intimate domestic relationship, with the narrative dwelling on endurance, domination, and bodily vulnerability.
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Somewhere in the Universe
Summary
A serialized SM fiction narrative follows a male prisoner subjected to escalating surveillance, confinement, restraint, humiliation, corporal punishment, and electrical punishment by female guards and other authorities.
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Female Beauty Revealed in Women’s Wrestling
Summary
An illustrated historical-cultural essay examines representations of women’s wrestling in Japanese art and literature, discussing female wrestlers, eroticized athletic bodies, and changing cultural interpretations of the subject.
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Burning Star
Summary
A serialized science-fiction SM narrative follows aerospace trainee Kumi as she undergoes increasingly extreme military experiments involving cold, heat, oxygen deprivation, injections, restraint, and eventual death, while her comrades and commanders treat her endurance as a test of duty and sacrifice.
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The Path of a Heretic
Summary
A serialized erotic narrative follows Kimi, a female factory worker caught in labor-union conflict, whose workplace tensions and relationships lead into coercive sexual domination, bondage, humiliation, and repeated physical restraint.
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Thoughts on Foreign Magazines
Summary
An editorial comparison of Japanese and foreign erotic magazines discusses sensational reportage, sexual imagery, readership, censorship, and the influence of imported visual conventions, illustrated with foreign-style equestrian scenes.
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How About This Enema Device?
Summary
A practical feature presents and discusses several enema devices, describing their construction, operation, attachments, and possible uses in erotic play.
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Unrequited Love
Summary
A serialized erotic novella follows an intense relationship between Enko and Masuyo involving jealousy, coercive control, bondage, corporal punishment, humiliation, and escalating sexual domination.
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Thoughts on the Akebono Society Incident
Summary
An extended editorial investigation and critique of the Akebono Society incident examines sensational media coverage, police intervention, alleged sexual misconduct, and the ethical and evidentiary problems involved in judging the participants.
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Zhu Jin Zhao
Summary
This illustrated historical erotic narrative follows the capture and interrogation of Zhu Jin Zhao, portraying military authority, secrecy, coercion, and humiliating bodily punishment within a period setting.
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The Land of Shadows
Summary
A serialized erotic captivity narrative depicts schoolgirls and other women subjected to abduction, interrogation, rope restraint, corporal punishment, forced exposure, and escalating coercive treatment by male authorities and captors.
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The Life and Opinions of Mr. Asō Tamotsu
Summary
A first-person confession describes the pleasures and complications of male cross-dressing, including dressing in women’s clothing, presenting femininely in public, and incorporating the practice into married life.
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My Fantasy Inspired by Chrysanthemums
Summary
This illustrated fantasy feature gathers erotic imaginings centered on chrysanthemums, idealized female bodies, clothing, restraint, and other stylized scenes, while inviting readers to contribute their own fantasies and images.
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The Strange Hell Hut
Summary
A profile and opinion piece on Asō Tamotsu recounts his domestic and erotic interests, including spanking and bodily display, alongside reflections on erotic publications and changing sexual attitudes.
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From the Notebook of a Dreamer
Summary
A dreamlike literary narrative explores interracial desire, slavery, coercion, and domination through a white woman’s encounters with Black men, blending erotic fantasy with reflections on racial hierarchy and historical power.
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Acrobatic Cruelty Record
Summary
A period sadistic tale follows servants and travelers through abduction, confinement, punishment, and elaborate rope-bound scenes, including physically acrobatic suspension and public humiliation.
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Hot-Spring Hell
Summary
A first-person erotic bondage account describes two women being restrained, blindfolded, gagged, and subjected to escalating rope techniques and suspension under a teacher’s direction, presented as part of an “acrobat cruel record.”
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The Underground City of Female Slaves
Summary
A serialized SM fantasy follows a group of men who abduct and restrain women in an underground bathhouse and subject them to elaborate bondage, coercion, punishment, and sadistic ordeal scenes before police intervention and further captivity.
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Editorial Notes and Afterword
Summary
An editorial afterword discusses the magazine’s new issue, reader submissions, commissioned illustrations, editorial selection, and the publication’s continuing role as a specialist erotic magazine.
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Readers’ Correspondence
Summary
A multi-page readers’ mail section presents personal responses to the magazine’s bondage, fetish, erotic photography, and illustrated material, alongside requests, critiques, reports of readers’ interests, and submissions or ideas for future issues.
Highlights
- The opening “Hanging-Play Instruction Room” illustrates multiple suspension concepts and evaluates them primarily as visual compositions rather than as practical techniques. (PDF pp. 5–14).
- The large “Ecstatic Female Body Highlights” portfolio presents numerous models in rope bondage across Japanese rooms, bedrooms, mirrored interiors, and outdoor locations, creating one of the issue’s most substantial visual sections. (PDF pp. 15–47).
- “The Tale of Princess Yuki” opens the literary section with an illustrated feudal fantasy centered on capture, restraint, threatened execution, and political intrigue. (PDF pp. 49–57).
- “A Woman for Display” combines photographs of a bound model with an essay on the female body as an object of visual contemplation. (PDF pp. 58–64).
- “A White Flower Under Abuse” uses modern crime melodrama and illustrations of restraint to develop the issue’s recurring association between innocence, victimization, and erotic danger. (PDF pp. 65–74).
- “Female Beauty Revealed in Women’s Wrestling” examines staged struggle between women through explanatory text and sequential illustrations of holds and throws. (PDF pp. 101–108).
- Chigusa Tadao’s “The Path of a Heretic” is a substantial reflective narrative that links transgressive desire, social alienation, and personal identity. (PDF pp. 121–130).
- Matsui Reiko’s “Unrequited Love” continues a recurring erotic-fiction series with illustrations of binding and punishment integrated into the narrative. (PDF pp. 137–148).
- Numa Shōzō’s “From the Notebook of a Dreamer” presents an extended sequence of imagined scenarios, reinforcing the magazine’s self-conscious treatment of fantasy as a private literary archive. (PDF pp. 195–204).
- “The Underground City of Female Slaves” closes the principal fiction with a hidden-world narrative of organized captivity, coercive authority, and fantastic social control. (PDF pp. 213–229).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Akagawa Michirō
- Asō Tamotsu
- Chigusa Tadao
- Fujimi Shirō
- Fujiyama Hideo
- Furuta Sumio
- Hayashi Tadashi
- Higashiyama Eishi
- Kan Ryōta
- Kitagawa Haruo
- Kurahito Naruhito
- Matsui Reiko
- Mizuta Makiko
- Nakai Teruo
- Nishida Jin
- Numa Shōzō
- Ochiba Jūrō
- Saji Shinzo
- Shima Takashi
- Shōyō Jūrō
- Taki Reiko
- Toyama Kasuhiko
- Tsujimura Takashi
- Yagiri Jūhachi
- Yukizaki Kyōto


