Kitan Club

December 1963

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Cover of Kitan Club, December 1963

Issue Details

Volume
17
Issue
13
PDF pages
205

Summary

The December 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines photographic bondage studies, erotic illustration, personal confession, historical and pseudo-documentary inquiry, serialized fiction, reader communications, and miscellaneous research notes. Its formal contents page presents the publication as a deliberately varied anthology rather than a single-theme special issue. The opening section is unusually substantial: after advertisements and publication preliminaries, the issue presents sequential photographic portfolios of rope restraint, gagging, ankle chains, restrictive posing, kimono disarray, simulated medical or cutting scenarios, and staged domestic torment. These photographs are interleaved with a gallery of illustrations by Kurihara Shin, Shima Takashi, and other contributors depicting tattooed bondage, confinement in a shipping crate, sculptural restraint, female wrestling, workplace domination, disembowelment fantasy, and coerced dental examination.

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The principal prose section opens with Itojima Hiroshi’s prize-winning confession, The Man’s Sadism and the Woman’s Love, a first-person account of marriage, infidelity, jealousy, and consensual domestic bondage illustrated with private photographs. Sade Suto’s second installment of Thirteen Condemned Women turns to hanging and surveys imagined executions across several countries and historical settings. Kurushima Seiro’s masochistic story The Process of Submission follows a husband’s economic decline and progressive domination within marriage, while Tsujimura Takashi’s Thirtieth Night continues the magazine’s recurring collection of strange and erotic tales.

The middle portion broadens the issue’s register. It includes an experiential narrative involving intestinal parasites, another installment of the White Lily erotic-illustration series, a study of women’s sumo, and an installment of Dan Oniroku’s Flower and Snake. The Kiki Salon miscellany gathers short reports and curiosities concerning model photography, unusual sexual practices, film scenes, femininity, and representations of the body. Later essays and confessions examine a dancer subjected to punishment, ideas for distributing private photographs, kimono fetishism, fascination with ritual disembowelment, enemas and intestinal cleansing, sadistic storytelling, lesbian fantasy, and attraction to large-bodied women.

The final major contribution profiles contemporary female courage through the case of Mikoshiba Mari. It is followed by extensive correspondence, confessional fragments, editorial notices, club information, classified advertisements, and personal-contact material. These closing sections reinforce Kitan Club’s dual identity as a commercial magazine and a participatory community in which readers exchanged experiences, fantasies, photographs, requests, and practical information. Across the issue, staged realism and imaginative extremity repeatedly overlap, producing an editorial world in which personal testimony, fictional cruelty, historical curiosity, and visual performance are treated as neighboring forms of erotic research.

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Table of Contents 34 items
  1. Opening Rope-Bondage Gravure
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presents a woman in elaborate rope bondage, shown in varied seated, kneeling, and contorted positions with close views of the bindings.

  2. Women in Ankle Chains
    Summary

    A visual feature depicts women restrained with ankle chains and related metal bondage apparatus in staged seated and reclining scenes.

  3. Kimono Bondage and Staged Torment
    Summary

    A staged photographic sequence combines kimono-inspired dress, rope bondage, facial covering, and scenes of immobilization and torment, including close-ups of the restraint procedures.

  4. Beauty and Tattooing by Kurihara Shin
    14
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a beautiful woman displaying an elaborate traditional Japanese tattoo across her body, emphasizing the visual relationship between feminine beauty and tattoo art.

  5. The Woman in the Shipping Crate by Shima Takashi
    15
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a woman bound and gagged inside a shipping crate while a man observes from outside, framing her confinement as a coercive captivity scenario.

  6. Production of a Nude Sculpture by Shima Takashi
    16
    Summary

    An erotic illustration portrays a nude woman restrained to a chair while a man attends to her in a staged studio-like scene associated with the production of a nude sculpture.

  7. Untitled Illustration
    17
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a woman controlling or restraining a prone male figure outdoors, with a tree and rope-like elements forming the scene.

  8. Female Sumo in the Tatami Room
    18
    Summary

    An erotic illustration portrays two women engaged in a sumo-like wrestling match on a tatami floor, emphasizing physical grappling and reversal of positions.

  9. The President's Office Mistress by Shima Takashi
    19
    Summary

    An erotic illustration set in a president’s office depicts a seated, commanding woman with another figure bent or kneeling before her amid office furnishings.

  10. Disembowelment of a Female Ninja by Shima Takashi
    20
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a female ninja being attacked and disemboweled by a male swordsman in a violent historical-fantasy scene.

  11. Dental Examination by Shima Takashi
    21
    Summary

    Photographs stage a dental examination in which a woman’s mouth is restrained and examined by a male practitioner, emphasizing medicalized control and oral vulnerability.

  12. Cord-Bondage Model Study
    Summary

    A photographic model study demonstrates several forms of cord bondage, showing women tied in varied seated, standing, and contorted positions.

  13. Staged Domestic Torment Sequence
    Summary

    A staged photographic sequence depicts a woman subjected to domestic bondage, including rope restraint, gagging, blindfolding, and immobilized poses in household settings.

  14. Additional Rope-Restraint Studies
    29
    Summary

    A short photographic feature presents additional studies of women tied with rope in varied restrained poses.

  15. The Man's Sadism and the Woman's Love by Itojima Hiroshi
    Summary

    In a first-person account, a husband describes his long-term bondage relationship with his wife Emiko, recounting domestic tying sessions, gagging and restraint, changing emotional dynamics, and accompanying photographs.

  16. Thirteen Condemned Women, Part Two: Hanging by Sade Suto
    Summary

    A sensational, extensively illustrated account of thirteen condemned women subjected to hanging, describing the executions, the condemned prisoners’ reactions, and the observers’ responses in graphic detail.

  17. The Process of Submission by Kurushima Seiro
    Summary

    A narrative follows a husband’s escalating control and punishment of his wife, portraying her gradual conditioning into a submissive domestic and sexual role through coercion, discipline, and physical abuse.

  18. Tales of the Thirtieth Night by Tsujimura Takashi
    Summary

    A serialized collection of fictional SM episodes depicting coercive and consensual erotic scenarios involving bondage, suspension, gagging, punishment, captivity, and medicalized fetish play, accompanied by dramatic illustrations and theatrical imagery.

  19. Intestinal-Worm Account by Kurise Cho
    Summary

    An illustrated mock-clinical account of intestinal-worm treatment that eroticizes enemas, deworming medicines, laxatives, abdominal examination, and repeated bowel evacuation through detailed bodily and sensory description.

  20. White Lily Selection: Erotic-Cruelty Illustrated Lantern, Part Two by Manda Fujin
    Summary

    A fictional erotic-cruelty narrative accompanied by illustrations, depicting women subjected to coercive, humiliating, and sadistic ordeals in staged and captive situations.

  21. A Study of the History of Women's Sumo, Part Seven by Okahira Yoshio
    Summary

    A historical survey of women’s sumo from the Edo period through the modern era, tracing performances, wrestlers, regional traditions, public spectacle, and changing social attitudes toward the practice.

  22. Flower and Snake, Part Five by Dan Oniroku
    Summary

    A continuation of Dan Oniroku’s serialized erotic fiction in which women are drawn into coercive relationships and subjected to rope bondage, captivity, humiliation, and sadistic control.

  23. Kiki Salon
    Summary

    A multi-page Kiki Salon department combining reader correspondence, personal erotic reports, practical bondage and punishment scenarios, fetish-oriented fiction, photographic and illustrated features, and notices about submissions and magazine participation. Its material ranges from kinbaku and domestic restraint to female dominance, corporal punishment, enema play, fetish clothing, and sensational erotic reportage.

  24. Memoirs of Customs: Tormenting a Beautiful Dancer by Koshihara Hideyoshi
    Summary

    A memoir-style erotic account describes the staged torment, binding, humiliation, and punishment of a beautiful dancer, presented through extended narrative and dialogue.

  25. Ideas for Distributing Photographs by Nagato Hiroshi
    122
    Summary

    An editorial proposal discusses how to distribute and develop serialized SM photographs, suggesting staged compositions, performers, props, bondage arrangements, and recurring visual scenarios.

  26. Kimono, Kimono Stories by Maki Takashi
    Summary

    A richly illustrated kimono-centered erotic story combines reflections on clothing and textile beauty with a fictionalized scenario of a kimono-clad woman being captured, bound, displayed, and punished.

  27. Disembowelment Experience: Longing for Seppuku by Tsuda Akiko
    Summary

    A first-person account describes a staged disembowelment experience modeled on seppuku, including ritual preparation, abdominal cutting, blood, pain, and the aftermath witnessed by others.

  28. Enema Mania: Daydream by Tojiro
    Summary

    This erotic daydream depicts women subjected to elaborate enemas, saline irrigation, bodily exposure, and humiliating restraint within a highly theatrical fantasy scenario.

  29. Sadistic Story Series: Hatsuko and the Man by Onaka Tadashi
    Summary

    A serialized SM fiction narrative follows Hatsuko through escalating coercion, bondage, punishment, and outdoor restraint orchestrated by an older figure and associated characters.

  30. Mania Correspondence: To Miss Yuriko, Whose Wish Came True by Nakada Akira
    Summary

    A correspondence piece recounts Yuriko’s wish to become an SM model and the training, restraint, and eroticized discipline through which it is fulfilled, followed by reflections on narcissism, female beauty, fetishism, and gendered social standards.

  31. Continued: From the Town of Wind — Mayumi Yamabe's Confession by Yamabe Mayumi
    Summary

    Mayumi Yamabe’s continuing confessional narrative describes an intimate relationship structured by bondage, coercive erotic play, submission, and domestic control, accompanied by an illustration of a restrained woman.

  32. Confession: Longing for a Plump Woman by Toi Ryuji
    Summary

    Toi Ryuji’s confession explores his intense longing for and erotic idealization of a plump woman, presenting bodily size as the focus of a personal fetishistic fantasy.

  33. Once Again on a Journey of Erotic Cruelty: The Land of Fire by Hosen Satoko
    Summary

    An erotic travelogue through Kyushu’s “Land of Fire” combines sightseeing and local scenery with episodes of coercive bondage, whipping, punishment, and sexually charged cruelty.

  34. Contemporary Heroines: The Case of Mikoshiba Mari by Morooka Tateo
    Summary

    A profile of Mikoshiba Mari presents a physically powerful contemporary woman shaped by judo and martial-arts training, emphasizing her assertive authority, gender-role reversal, and dominance within marriage and erotic relationships.

Highlights

  • The opening gravure sequence presents rope bondage, gagging, ankle chains, kimono restraint, and staged scenes of coercive control in studio and domestic interiors. (PDF pp. 6–13, 22–29).
  • The opening illustrated gallery includes tattooed bondage, confinement in a shipping crate, sculptural restraint, female wrestling, workplace domination, disembowelment fantasy, and dental examination. (PDF pp. 14–21).
  • The Man's Sadism and the Woman's Love combines an autobiographical marital narrative with private bondage photographs, presenting negotiated restraint as part of a continuing intimate relationship. (PDF pp. 31–36).
  • The second installment of Thirteen Condemned Women surveys hanging fantasies involving women from several countries and historical settings. (PDF pp. 37–47).
  • The Process of Submission depicts the progressive reversal of authority within a marriage after the husband's professional and financial decline. (PDF pp. 48–52).
  • The issue continues Dan Oniroku's Flower and Snake, a central serialized work in the magazine's literary program. (PDF pp. 85–93).
  • The Kiki Salon section assembles compact reports on erotic models, film imagery, bodily fetishes, unusual sexual practices, and reader-supplied curiosities. (PDF pp. 94–109).
  • Late confessional pieces explore ritual disembowelment, enemas, sadistic fantasy, lesbian desire, and attraction to large-bodied women. (PDF pp. 129–168).
  • The closing profile of Mikoshiba Mari forms part of a series on contemporary courageous women and shifts the issue from erotic confession toward biographical admiration. (PDF pp. 169–180).
  • Reader letters, club notices, personal advertisements, editorial matter, and publication information document the magazine's function as a participatory network. (PDF pp. 181–205).

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