Kitan Club

December 1962

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Issue Details

Volume
16
Issue
11
PDF pages
189

Summary

The December 1962 issue of Kitan Club combines rope-bondage photography, fetish illustration, historical and psychological essays, confessional writing, serialized fiction, film commentary, reader contributions, and extensive community-oriented back matter. The issue opens with advertisements and a formal contents page, followed by a long sequence of gravure photographs. These portfolios emphasize cloth gags, upper-body bindings, kneeling and seated postures, compact floor ties, and the visual contrast between rope, skin, patterned fabric, and domestic interiors. Interspersed illustrations broaden the repertoire into imagined punishment scenes involving restraints, chains, forced procedures, female ritual suicide, corporal discipline, and fetishized objects.

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The principal prose section begins with Arai Tamotsu’s illustrated discussion of the conception and visual design of cigarette torture. The article treats smoking as both an instrument of domination and a compositional element in fetish art. Tsukiji Ichirō’s research feature on the deaths and severed heads of female warriors then examines historical and legendary accounts of women facing execution, decapitation, ritualized defeat, and the aesthetic treatment of the severed head. Tsukamoto Tetsuzō’s account of an actual bondage-photo session shifts from historical speculation to documentary narration, describing correspondence with a married female reader, preparations, travel, posing, rope application, photography, and the participant’s reactions.

The middle of the issue moves through confession, psychology, fiction, travel fantasy, medicalized fetishism, and theatrical role-play. A first-person essay on fascination with cross-dressing considers clothing, gender presentation, secrecy, and marital life. Other contributions discuss narcissism, married-couple SM play, sadistic female behavior, enemas and nursing scenarios, and imagined encounters in foreign or speculative settings. The recurring serial “Woman and Snake” and the long SM novel “Somewhere in the Universe” provide extended fictional anchors, while shorter dialogue pieces and experiential essays create frequent changes in tone and format.

The later section contains tattoo-centered confession, commentary on the film Harakiri, essays imagining female abdominal cutting, a discussion of women’s intimate garments, a mountain-villa narrative, and an examination of abnormality in film. A bondage calendar feature presents the motif of “a woman for each month,” and the final substantial fiction, “The Man Possessed by Glass,” carries the literary material into the closing pages. Reader letters, response columns, questionnaires, classified exchanges, editorial notices, tables, and publication information conclude the issue, demonstrating the magazine’s role as a network through which readers shared fantasies, experiences, criticism, requests, and personal contacts.

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Table of Contents 34 items
  1. First Gravure: Rope-Bondage Studies
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presents rope-bondage studies of models in varied seated, kneeling, standing, and floor-bound positions, often incorporating blindfolds, gags, and elaborate body wrapping.

  2. The Kokeshi Cage by Shima Takashi
    14
    Summary

    Shima Takashi’s illustration depicts a woman bound and gagged on a bed within a confined domestic setting, emphasizing elaborate restraint and captivity.

  3. Human-Ginseng Gag by Shima Takashi
    15
    Summary

    Shima Takashi’s illustration portrays a woman immobilized with her wrists and ankles tied and a carrot-shaped gag secured to a chain in a domestic interior.

  4. Suspension Punishment by Shima Takashi
    16
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a man suspended and restrained on a wooden apparatus as part of a punishment scene, with a woman assisting or overseeing the ordeal.

  5. The Female Bandit’s Seppuku by Taki Reiko
    17
    Summary

    An eroticized historical illustration presents a tattooed female bandit beside a sword in a seppuku scene, combining Japanese criminal imagery with death and execution.

  6. Punishment of the Soles by Taki Reiko
    18
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a woman imposing punishment on a prone man through pressure involving the soles of the feet.

  7. Enema and Diaper by Shima Takashi
    19
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a diapered woman restrained on the floor beside enema equipment, combining infantilized presentation with an enema scene.

  8. Water from a Rubber Boot by Shima Takashi
    20
    Summary

    An illustration shows a woman bound to a chair while a man uses a rubber boot to pour or administer water to her, emphasizing coercive restraint and boot-centered fetish imagery.

  9. Baby Car by Shima Takashi
    21
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a woman restrained in a baby carriage or chair while an older man feeds her, surrounded by baby-related objects and presenting a childlike dependency scenario.

  10. Second Gravure: Kneeling and Floor-Bondage Studies
    Summary

    A photographic gravure presents models in varied kneeling, seated, and floor-bound positions, using ropes, blindfolds, and gags to study the visual composition of restrained bodies.

  11. The Conception and Ideas of Cigarette Torture by Arai Tamotsu
    Summary

    A prose-and-illustration feature develops staged scenarios of cigarette-based punishment involving restrained women, emphasizing dramatic poses, smoke, and the visual conception of bondage scenes.

  12. The Deaths and Severed Heads of Female Warriors by Tsukiji Ichirō
    Summary

    This historical essay surveys stories and imagined scenes of female warriors dying in battle and being beheaded, comparing gendered ideals of martial honor while dwelling on the aesthetic and erotic charge of severed heads and illustrated execution imagery.

  13. The Reality of Bondage Photography: Using a Young Wife as a Model by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    Summary

    An experiential account of photographing a young wife in elaborate rope bondage, describing the planning, tying, blindfolding, gagging, lighting, outdoor staging, and the couple’s interactions during the sessions.

  14. Confession: Enchanted by Women’s Clothing by Kuchiki Hiroshi
    Summary

    A personal confession about a married man’s fascination with women’s clothing, recounting his transformation into feminine dress through lingerie, makeup, wigs, and accessories, as well as attempts to appear in public and refine the disguise.

  15. Unfinished Confession: A Preface to My Narcissism by Hata Kōichi
    Summary

    A reflective autobiographical preface on narcissism and self-love, tracing the author’s childhood solitude, family relationships, intellectual development, and persistent tendency toward self-absorption.

  16. Correspondence: A Married Couple’s SM Play by Shingū Akio
    Summary

    A reader correspondence recounts a married couple’s consensual SM play and the ways they incorporate erotic role-play into their domestic relationship.

  17. Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twentieth Night by Tsujimura Takashi
    Summary

    This extended serialized fiction presents interconnected tales of erotic cruelty, supernatural vengeance, death, bodily mutilation, and medicalized punishment, including the recurring story of the ghostly O-Kiku and the fetishized “foot of Venus.”

  18. Caterina Sart: An Incident of Cruelty by Katsura Keiichi
    Summary

    A short fictional incident of cruelty depicts coercive erotic domination through captivity, bodily control, and disturbing medicalized violence.

  19. A Reader’s Account: Record of a Sadistic Woman by Hari'i Mika
    Summary

    A reader recounts her development into a dominant and sadistic woman, describing coercive relationships, bondage, corporal punishment, and the continuing sexual dynamics of marriage and domestic life.

  20. Exploring the Land of Slaves: A Visit to Sardinia by Arutame Mataji
    Summary

    The third installment of a serialized fantasy follows a traveler entering a slave society where women supervise, restrain, punish, and train male captives through elaborate apparatus and physical ordeals.

  21. Behind-the-Scenes Stories about Enemas: A Conversation with a Nurse by Yamagishi Misao
    Summary

    A conversational feature presents a nurse’s candid behind-the-scenes account of enema treatment, discussing patients, clinical procedures, embarrassment, bodily reactions, and the eroticized significance attached to medical care.

  22. Woman and Snake, Part 3 by Hanamaki Sōtarō
    Summary

    This installment of the serialized erotic crime fiction follows the abduction and abuse of a wealthy family, with captors using rope bondage, gagging, humiliation, and enema torture while detectives and associates pursue the case and a ransom scheme unfolds.

  23. SM Dialogue: Theatrical Rehearsal by Nakano Jirō
    Summary

    A scripted SM dialogue presented as a theatrical rehearsal portrays an apartment manager and a television actress in an increasingly coercive encounter involving threats, sexual domination, money, and demands for marriage.

  24. Somewhere in the Universe by Saji Mazō
    Summary

    A serialized SM novella follows a traveler at a rural inn whose interactions with the female servants develop into elaborate scenes of confinement, restraint, punishment, humiliation, and sadistic control, with the narrative escalating through deception, pursuit, and police involvement.

  25. Photo Essay: The Scent of M by Ōtsuka Keiko
    Summary

    An illustrated photo-essay and cultural commentary explores the erotic significance of women’s navels, discussing bodily beauty, celebrity and model imagery, and the visual appeal of the exposed female midriff in erotic media.

  26. Prize Confession: Longing for Tattoos by Miyajima Kane
    Summary

    A first-person prize confession describes the author’s intense fascination with Japanese tattoos, especially the erotic appeal of heavily tattooed men encountered in bathhouse and private settings. The narrative links tattoo imagery, bodily display, voyeuristic excitement, and secret sexual desire.

  27. Film Commentary: On Harakiri by Watanabe Kaname
    Summary

    This illustrated personal essay recounts finding an empty enema instrument on Kujūkuri beach and develops the discovery into a humorous reflection on discarded erotic paraphernalia, different enema devices, and the intimate practices associated with them.

  28. Conceptions of Female Seppuku: An Insurance Solicitor’s Abdominal Cutting by Sudō Ritsuo
    Summary

    The film commentary examines Shōchiku’s Harakiri, praising its severe visual style and dramatic treatment of samurai honor, social injustice, revenge, and ritual suicide while discussing the film’s adaptation and performances.

  29. Thoughts on Manga Art: Observations on Women’s Intimate Garments by Tajima Naoshi
    Summary

    An illustrated sensational narrative depicts a recently widowed woman abducted by three men and driven to a violent act of self-disembowelment, combining captivity, sexualized violence, and tragic self-destruction.

  30. At a Deep Mountain Villa by Saitō Isao
    Summary

    This essay examines women appearing in male attire across literature, film, theater, and popular imagery, discussing female swordswomen, jockeys, soldiers, and other forms of cross-gender performance as expressions of changing ideals of femininity.

  31. The World of Abnormality as Seen in Film by Nakahara Isao
    Summary

    The feature considers rubber fetishism and other stigmatized erotic interests through personal reflection and anecdotal scenes, arguing that supposedly abnormal desires should be understood in relation to individual experience rather than dismissed outright.

  32. Bondage Calendar: A Woman for Each Month by Nakanishi Kin
    Summary

    A month-by-month bondage calendar presents twelve seasonal tableaux of women bound in varied rope configurations, combining erotic scenarios with calendar imagery and suggestions for staged visual compositions.

  33. The Man Possessed by Glass by Futaki Yoshio
    Summary

    This erotic story follows a man whose fascination with glass develops into an intense fetishistic fantasy involving glass powder, bodily danger, domination, and a woman’s coercive control over him.

  34. Reader Correspondence and Closing Departments
    Summary

    A closing reader-mail section presents extensive correspondence about readers’ experiences, interests, requests, and reactions to the magazine’s erotic writing and imagery, alongside editorial replies, product and back-issue notices, submission guidelines, and other publishing information.

Highlights

  • The opening gravure sequence presents multiple models in cloth gags and upper-body rope bindings, using kneeling, seated, standing, and floor-bound positions. (PDF pp. 6–13).
  • A gallery of fetish illustrations depicts chained gagging, coerced stretching, corporal punishment, female seppuku, enema scenarios, and forced drinking from a rubber boot. (PDF pp. 14–21).
  • A second photographic portfolio studies torso harnesses, kneeling restraint, compact arm ties, folded-leg positions, and close views of rope compression. (PDF pp. 22–29).
  • “The Conception and Ideas of Cigarette Torture” combines personal commentary with drawings of bound women forced to smoke in several staged configurations. (PDF pp. 31–34).
  • “The Deaths and Severed Heads of Female Warriors” surveys the historical, legendary, and aesthetic treatment of women killed or decapitated in battle and ritualized contests. (PDF pp. 35–44).
  • “The Reality of Bondage Photography” narrates the planning and execution of a session with a married female participant, combining correspondence, travel, posing, and documentary photographs. (PDF pp. 45–50).
  • The central prose section combines confession, couple-oriented SM discussion, psychological commentary, travel fantasy, medical fetish material, and recurring serialized fiction. (PDF pp. 51–138).
  • The late issue includes tattoo confession, film commentary on Harakiri, imagined female seppuku scenarios, and an essay on women’s intimate garments. (PDF pp. 133–150).
  • The closing literary sequence includes abnormality in cinema, a bondage-calendar concept, and the fiction “The Man Possessed by Glass.” (PDF pp. 151–173).
  • Reader correspondence, questionnaires, classified exchanges, editorial responses, notices, tabular information, and publication details form the concluding community section. (PDF pp. 174–189).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue: