Kitan Club

February 1963

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Issue Details

Volume
17
Issue
2
PDF pages
188

Summary

The February 1963 issue of Kitan Club presents a broad mixture of bondage photography, fetish illustration, theoretical discussion, fiction, personal testimony, cultural reportage, and reader-oriented community material. Its opening pages establish the issue’s visual identity through two substantial photographic portfolios. These emphasize torso binding, cloth gags, floor restraint, partial suspension, compact kneeling positions, kimono bondage, and the process of arranging a model for the camera. A sequence of individually titled illustrations follows, moving from forced ingestion and women displayed as commodities to prison imagery, outlaw heroines, staged disembowelment, and animal-threat fantasy.

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The prose section begins with Shirakawa Yukio’s sustained essay “A Trial Discussion of M and S,” which considers sadism and masochism as psychological, ethical, aesthetic, and social phenomena rather than treating them merely as isolated sexual practices. Tsujimura Takashi’s twenty-second installment of “Thirty-Ninth Night Tales” then supplies a long narrative involving coercion, bondage, punishment, domestic secrecy, and medicalized torment. Shorter features expand the issue’s range through film commentary on spectacular punishment scenes and an observational account of a newly organized women’s sumo association.

The middle of the issue alternates specialized essays with fiction and confession. Articles examine rubber fetishism, gallstones and bodily discomfort, voyeurism, forced enemas, abdominal cutting, and the relation between physical procedures and erotic imagination. Saji Mazō’s “Somewhere in the Universe” introduces speculative fiction, while the Sardinia travel account uses foreign geography and custom as a setting for erotic and ethnographic curiosity. Later pieces include confessional encounters, grotesque short fiction, proposals for unusual restraint devices, dialogue about pregnancy, recurring fictional characters, and stories centered on women’s subjection, bodily marking, and ritualized suffering.

The closing literary section includes “The Devil’s Lips,” accounts of roadside or temple legends associated with abdominal cutting, a discussion of one-piece clothing fetishism, “The Insect in the Hair,” and personal narratives about schoolgirls, servitude, and relations between men and women. The final major article, “The Practice of Bondage Photography,” combines descriptive text with photographs demonstrating posing, rope placement, gagging, and the visual construction of tension. Extensive correspondence, classified exchanges, publication notices, reader reports, and editorial material occupy the back matter, showing Kitan Club functioning not only as a magazine but also as a network for readers seeking information, images, books, and like-minded correspondents.

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Table of Contents 34 items
  1. First Gravure: Bondage and Suspension Studies
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio documents women bound with rope in varied floor, seated, and suspended positions, emphasizing elaborate knots, bodily restriction, and staged bondage tableaux.

  2. Forced to Drink Salt Water by Shima Takashi
    14
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a restrained woman being compelled to drink salt water, presenting forced ingestion as a scene of coercive punishment.

  3. Commodities Displayed Before a Customer by Claude Koga
    Summary

    Illustrations portray women bound and arranged as displayed “merchandise” for customers, using a shop or exhibition metaphor to frame bondage, inspection, and sexual objectification.

  4. The Prison Bride by Shima Takashi
    17
    Summary

    An erotic illustration titled “The Prison Bride” depicts a woman reclining in a prison-like setting while bound with rope, presenting captivity as a staged visual fantasy.

  5. Prison at the Bottom of the Earth by Shima Takashi
    18
    Summary

    An erotic illustration titled “Prison at the Bottom of the Earth” shows a woman restrained by ropes against the walls of an underground cell, emphasizing confinement and helplessness.

  6. The Woman Outlaw’s Suicide on the Rooftop by Shima Takashi
    19
    Summary

    An erotic illustration titled “The Woman Outlaw’s Suicide on the Rooftop” portrays a female outlaw in a dramatic rooftop scene with a sword and a restrained male figure, combining criminal melodrama, erotic staging, and suicide imagery.

  7. The Troupe Leader’s Real-Blade Disembowelment on Stage by Taki Reiko
    20
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a female troupe leader performing a staged real-blade disembowelment on a theater set, combining theatrical spectacle with violent fantasy.

  8. The Terror of Wild Dogs Closing In by Shima Takashi
    21
    Summary

    An erotic illustration shows a gagged woman restrained on the floor while wild dogs approach, framing captivity and animal threat as a scene of terror.

  9. Second Gravure: Rope, Gag, Foot, and Ritual Studies
    Summary

    A photographic gravure portfolio presents staged bondage studies featuring rope restraint, gagging, blindfolding, bound poses, foot-focused imagery, and ritualized dominance.

  10. A Trial Discussion of M and S by Shirakawa Yukio
    Summary

    An essay examines the psychological, ethical, and social meanings of masochism and sadism, contrasting pathological cruelty with the pursuit of pleasure, love, freedom, and self-realization in postwar society.

  11. Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twenty-Second Night by Tsujimura Takashi
    Summary

    This serialized SM tale follows a married couple and their associates through escalating episodes of surveillance, coercion, rope restraint, physical punishment, medicalized experimentation, and sadomasochistic role play.

  12. Film Correspondence: The Burning and Crucifixion of Wakao in The First Emperor by Higashiyama Tarō
    53
    Summary

    A film correspondence piece discusses the staging and erotic impact of Wakao’s binding, crucifixion, and burning in The First Emperor, treating the scene as a striking depiction of historical punishment and visualized suffering.

  13. Birth of the Women’s Sumo Association by Okamoto Yoshio
    Summary

    A reportage-style account of the founding and first meeting of a women’s sumo association, describing its rules, recruitment, organizers, participants, demonstrations, and bouts in an atmosphere that combines athletic spectacle with eroticized observation.

  14. Confessions of a Rubber Maniac: Rubber-Chair Play by Tsuzawa Akiko
    Summary

    A first-person confession by a rubber fetishist describing the design and use of a rubber chair, related rubber garments and cushions, and the tactile, sensory, and erotic pleasures associated with the material.

  15. Gallstone Reflections by Sudō Ritsuo
    Summary

    An essay on navel dirt and omphaloliths that combines medical and anatomical explanation with folklore, wordplay, hygiene advice, fetishistic associations, and personal anecdotes about the navel as an eroticized body part.

  16. A Voyeur’s Almanac by Nagata Toshio
    Summary

    An autobiographical series of recollections about voyeuristic encounters from childhood through adulthood, including peeping at women bathing, dressing, and undergoing medical examinations, alongside reflections on visual fascination, erotic memory, and postwar social life.

  17. Observations on Female Torture: High-Pressure Air Enema and Abdominal Cutting by Ōgita Toshio
    Summary

    A historical erotic tale set amid the fall of the shogunate, in which a geisha and a fugitive samurai confront pursuit, loyalty, suicide, and the ritualized cutting of the woman’s abdomen, accompanied by an illustration of the knife-wielding heroine.

  18. Somewhere in the Universe by Saji Mazō
    Summary

    A serialized SM novel follows a female narrator and a female slave through escapes, recaptures, prison confinement, interrogation, punishment, and eventual separation, combining melodramatic crime plotting with scenes of bondage and humiliation.

  19. Sardinia Travel Notes by Arutame Mataji
    Summary

    A serialized adventure narrative recounts an expedition into Sardinia, portrayed as a slave state where captured women endure restraint, punishment, medicalized cruelty, and forced labor before the protagonists attempt to escape.

  20. Enchanted by Neru’s Discipline by Koshino Nobutoshi
    Summary

    A first-person confession describes the author’s longstanding erotic fascination with women’s buttocks and waists, especially as revealed through clothing, and recounts voyeuristic observation, memories, and personal encounters shaped by that fetish.

  21. The Mystery of the Privy Fly by Masayume Hirōmasa
    Summary

    This strange medical-gothic tale follows a patient whose intense fear of the privy fly develops into bizarre bodily symptoms, hallucinations, and a mysterious illness that doctors struggle to explain.

  22. Ideas for Revolutionary Restraint Devices by Yuki Shun’itsu
    Summary

    An instructional essay proposes innovative leather restraint devices and explains their construction, adjustment, and use in various bondage scenarios, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

  23. Two Pregnant Women by Senuma Shirō
    Summary

    A dialogue and accompanying erotic scenarios focus on pregnant women, marital sexual situations, restraint, and enema-related play, blending conversational narration with fetishistic fantasy.

  24. The Tale of Mrs. Sekiya by Hanada Ichirō
    Summary

    This reflective essay praises and recollects Mrs. Sekiya as a memorable figure in postwar SM culture, discussing her photographic and literary representations alongside an erotic illustration of a woman made a sacrificial victim.

  25. Bound with Her Hands Behind Her Back on Television by Tamura Kiyohiko
    Summary

    A reportage piece examines a televised NHK drama scene in which actress Kimiko Fukuda is restrained with her hands behind her back, discussing the staging, rope work, costume, posture, and visual effect of the performance.

  26. The Devil’s Lips by Tanuma Toshio
    Summary

    This serialized SM fiction follows the narrator’s fixation on Akemi, whose beauty, physical strength, cruel temperament, and enjoyment of humiliating and physically tormenting others shape a series of sadistic erotic encounters.

  27. Travels in Search of Torment Materials: The Legend of the Small Disembowelment Jizō by Izumi Tatsunosuke
    Summary

    A narrative travelogue follows Abe and Reiko through meetings, journeys, and intimate episodes connected with the search for punishment-related materials, combining erotic restraint scenes with an interest in old erotic publications, historical customs, and archival research.

  28. Female Disembowelment Secret Tales: The Origin of the Disembowelment Jizō by Ishii Yasuzō
    Summary

    A historical erotic legend recounts the violent self-disembowelment of women during a samurai-era conflict and the later origin of a memorial Jizō associated with the event. The narrative combines battlefield violence, female sacrifice, local shrine history, and graphic illustration.

  29. One-Piece Dress Fetishism by Yumehara Kōichi
    Summary

    A first-person fetish confession describes an intense fascination with enemas, enema instruments, bodily sensations, and medicalized sexual fantasy.

  30. The Insect in the Hair by Ninchōji Yoshiko
    Summary

    A long fictional narrative follows an artistically minded man whose attraction to women’s long black hair develops into a consuming romantic and erotic fixation, expressed through hair imagery, jealousy, intimacy, and staged scenes.

  31. The Sadistic Schoolgirl and Her Slave by Takashima Midori
    Summary

    A first-person erotic narrative recounts a sadistic schoolgirl’s domination and humiliation of a male servant through verbal abuse, beatings, bondage, and coercive sexualized games.

  32. Men’s Hearts and Women’s Hearts by Azusa Kayoko
    Summary

    This experiential novel follows an office romance and affair involving a married woman and male colleagues, escalating through sexual jealousy, emotional manipulation, violence, and marital conflict.

  33. The Practice of Bondage Photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    Summary

    A practical feature documents staged bondage photography, describing how models are posed, tied, struck, restrained, and photographed with ropes, gags, blindfolds, and other props.

  34. Reader Communications and Mrs. Sekiya’s Bondage Diary V
    Summary

    A multi-page reader-communications section presents personal letters and experiential accounts, including the fifth installment of Mrs. Sekiya’s bondage diary, alongside reader requests, editorial replies, club notices, publishing information, and advertisements for bondage photographs and models.

Highlights

  • The first gravure sequence presents torso binding, cloth gags, recumbent restraint, partial suspension, and a photographed step-by-step transition from kimono dress into a compact rope position. (PDF pp. 6–13).
  • The opening illustration gallery includes forced salt-water ingestion, women displayed as merchandise, prison and torture fantasies, an outlaw heroine, staged abdominal cutting, and a bound woman threatened by dogs. (PDF pp. 14–21).
  • A second photographic portfolio contrasts close studies of rope pressure with standing bondage, cloth gags, foot domination, and a staged woman preparing for ritual self-cutting. (PDF pp. 22–28).
  • Shirakawa Yukio’s “A Trial Discussion of M and S” develops an extended theoretical account of sadism and masochism in relation to freedom, love, religion, idealization, health, and social order. (PDF pp. 30–33).
  • The twenty-second installment of “Thirty-Ninth Night Tales” is a long serialized narrative combining domestic secrecy, coercive bondage, bodily marking, medical torment, and criminal intrigue. (PDF pp. 34–48).
  • The account of the newly formed women’s sumo association documents an organized female physical-culture event and the spectators, participants, and social atmosphere surrounding it. (PDF pp. 50–55).
  • The central essays and stories move among rubber fetishism, medical and digestive subjects, voyeurism, forced enemas, speculative fiction, and women’s torture imagery. (PDF pp. 56–89).
  • The Sardinia travelogue uses Mediterranean geography, customs, and encounters as the basis for an extended erotic travel narrative. (PDF pp. 90–97).
  • Later fiction and essays revisit restraint devices, pregnancy, abdominal-cutting legends, clothing fetishism, schoolgirl servitude, and relations between male desire and female subjection. (PDF pp. 98–161).
  • The closing bondage-photography article combines practical commentary with demonstration photographs, followed by correspondence, classified exchanges, book notices, and editorial communications. (PDF pp. 162–188).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue: