Kitan Club
December 1974
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 12
- PDF pages
- 174
Summary
The December 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive opening bondage photography portfolio with reportage, serialized fiction, essays on the aesthetics and practices of SM, autobiographical and quasi-documentary writing, illustrated commentary, and travel and cultural observations. The issue identifies itself as Volume 28, Number 12, cumulative number 322. Its editorial identity is strongly centered on kinbaku as both visual spectacle and lived subcultural practice, while also accommodating fiction, fetish theory, correspondence-derived material, and recurring illustrated features.
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Table of Contents 16 items
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Color Photo Section: White Pig Just Arrived
Summary
A photographic portfolio presents staged erotic scenes of nude models subjected to elaborate Japanese rope bondage, including blindfolding, gagging, positional restraint, suspension, and humiliating “white pig” imagery, photographed in domestic and theatrical interiors.
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Please Torment Me
Summary
A photographic feature shows model Keiko Nakagawa tightly restrained and gagged, with Ikeda Masaru’s commentary emphasizing her self-described masochistic identity and the psychological experience of bondage beyond merely displaying the body.
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The Woman Who Wants to Become a Beast
Summary
An extended erotic reportage follows Yamaguchi Eiko, a woman fascinated by SM, through interviews and successive staged bondage sessions in which she is tied, blindfolded, gagged, humiliated, and posed as an animal-like captive, accompanied by detailed photographic documentation.
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In Response to Images by Suzaki Akira
Summary
Kitagawa Mariko responds to reader-supplied requests and images by Suzaki Akira, discussing staged scenes of rope bondage, restraint, humiliation, punishment, and related erotic fantasies. The article emphasizes the collaborative, commissioned nature of the illustrations and their role in the magazine’s reader culture.
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Pastiche: Machiko
Summary
This erotic fiction follows Machiko through coercive encounters involving captivity, forced nudity, physical restraint, and humiliating treatment, presented as a literary pastiche with grotesque and sensational imagery.
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Great Eruption, Part 72
Summary
Part 72 of the serialized erotic narrative depicts an imprisoned woman subjected to escalating coercion, bondage, physical punishment, sexual humiliation, and domination by men in an extravagant foreign setting.
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Female Captive, Part 10
Summary
The tenth installment of a serialized captivity fantasy follows imprisoned women subjected to punitive control, medicalized examinations, forced bathing, restraints, and escalating humiliation by guards and officials.
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The Appeal of Bridal-Furisode Bondage Play
Summary
An illustrated feature discusses the aesthetic and practical appeal of binding a bride in a furisode kimono, emphasizing elaborate rope arrangements, restrictive garments, posture, weight, and staged photographic presentation.
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Sarugutsuwa, Part 2
Summary
The second installment examines the sarugutsuwa gag, combining literary and historical discussion with illustrated examples of different mouth-restraint designs and their sensory and disciplinary effects.
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Diary of Newlywed Erotic Life
Summary
A newlywed husband recounts escalating erotic experiments with his wife, including elaborate restraint, humiliation, nose-focused fetish play, and staged hotel encounters. The diary blends marital intimacy with sadomasochistic performance and repeated use of specialized bondage apparatus.
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The Gate of Shiran, Part 41
Summary
This installment of a serialized period SM novel follows Mizuno and other characters through elaborate scenes of capture, forced display, restraint, suspension, and sexualized punishment. Illustrated set pieces emphasize theatrical bondage tableaux, historical setting, and the shifting struggle for control among the participants.
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The Aesthetics of Bondage
Summary
An illustrated practical essay examines the aesthetics and mechanics of Japanese rope bondage, discussing frog, crab, large-character, and other positions, along with rope placement, suspension, props, photography, and the visual presentation of restrained bodies.
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Masochism and Wages
Summary
A long dramatic account follows the making of a masochistic film, depicting performers, director, supervisor, and crew negotiating staged punishment, bodily endurance, artistic performance, money, and labor during an increasingly intense production.
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Deep Throat and American Pornography
Summary
A critical survey of the American pornographic film Deep Throat examines its commercial impact, theatrical circulation, advertising, performers, and reception, contrasting American and Japanese sexual cultures and censorship practices. It also discusses the film’s representation of oral sex and related sexual techniques within the broader international pornography industry.
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Women's Sumo Notebook, Part 2
Summary
This cultural-historical essay investigates the regional distribution and possible origins of women’s sumo in Japan, drawing on folklore reports, local customs, occupational groups, and historical changes from the Edo period through the modern era. The accompanying erotic illustrations reinterpret women’s wrestling and bodily display through a fetishized visual lens.
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A Parade Dedicated to Fukada Kikuko
Summary
An illustrated erotic narrative dedicated to Fukada Kikuko follows an artist’s obsessive fantasies of depicting her, moving through scenes of sexual coercion, restraint, humiliation, domestic domination, and wartime violence. The text and accompanying drawings deliberately blur artistic imagination, fetishized female imagery, and punitive erotic spectacle.
Highlights
- The opening photographic sequence White Pig Just Arrived presents an extended studio portfolio of rope bondage, gagging, suspension, and floor restraint, with named models and individually captioned poses. (PDF pp. 3–26).
- Tsukamoto Tetsuzo's The Woman Who Wants to Become a Beast is the issue's dominant feature, combining correspondence, first-person reportage, travel, staged bondage, and extensive photographs in a long diary-like account centered on Yamaguchi Tsuyako. (PDF pp. 28–71).
- Kitagawa Mariko's In Response to Images by Suzaki Akira shifts from photographic reportage to illustrated critical commentary and erotic image culture. (PDF pp. 72–79).
- Takahashi Hideki's The Appeal of Bridal-Furisode Bondage Play treats formal bridal dress and kinbaku as a distinct aesthetic and erotic combination. (PDF pp. 103–105).
- Niikawa Hiroo's second installment on the sarugutsuwa examines the gag as an SM object and as an element of visual and psychological restraint. (PDF pp. 106–114).
- The Aesthetics of Bondage by Roman-ha Sei explicitly frames restraint as an aesthetic practice and combines its argument with photographs of posed bondage. (PDF pp. 132–139).
- Haseda Kameji's Hawaii travelogue Deep Throat and American Pornography documents American adult entertainment culture and pornography from a Japanese visitor's perspective. (PDF pp. 155–159).
- The second installment of Women's Sumo Notebook explores women's wrestling as historical, physical, and erotic culture and is accompanied by multiple illustrations. (PDF pp. 160–165).
- Mizue Shin's A Parade Dedicated to Fukada Kikuko combines tribute, commentary, and erotic illustrations in the closing portion of the file. (PDF pp. 166–174).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
