Kitan Club
February 1975
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 2
- PDF pages
- 175
Summary
The February 1975 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive opening photographic presentation with first-person reportage, erotic fiction, experiential testimony, aesthetic essays, serialized narratives, and reader-oriented confessional writing. Its editorial identity rests on the interplay between staged visual documentation and prose that presents sadomasochistic desire as autobiography, observation, fantasy, craft, and subcultural inquiry. The opening section is dominated by photographs associated with Fukada Kikuko, showing varied rope configurations, restrained poses, domestic interiors, suspension arrangements, and alternating black-and-white and color treatments. These images lead directly into Tsukamoto Tetsuzō’s long camera-and-pen report, “Everything About the Woman Who Gave Herself Up, Kikuko,” which follows Fukada’s impending marriage, recalls bondage sessions and travel, and reflects on the photographer-participant’s fascination with her behavior, appearance, and submission.
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Table of Contents 18 items
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Naked Portent of a Wicked Prank
Summary
A commentary on a photograph of a woman tightly bound at the neck, torso, thighs, ankles, and wrists, with her raised feet and restrained posture suggesting suspension and complete immobility. The writer interprets her anguished expression and exposed body as a portent of further sadistic punishment, while acknowledging the scene as an erotic fantasy prompted by the image.
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Everything About the Woman Who Gave Herself Up, Kikuko
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A long-form erotic photo-report follows Kikuko, a woman preparing for marriage, through staged scenes of rope bondage, exposure, immobilization, humiliation, and escalating submission, accompanied by an explicitly subjective narrator’s commentary on her body and reactions.
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My Encounter with Youth and the Strange
Summary
A first-person reminiscence recounts the author’s early fascination with erotic bondage imagery and subsequent encounters with women, rope restraint, punishment, humiliation, and other SM experiences.
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The Proposition of Rope: The Intersection of S and M
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An essayistic and illustrated exploration of rope as the medium through which sadistic and masochistic roles intersect, describing techniques, restraint scenes, bodily control, and the psychological dynamics of bondage.
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The Great Eruption, Part 76
Summary
Part 76 of a serialized erotic fantasy follows the return and renewed adventures of the powerful figure Amei/Akiko amid royal courts, military retainers, female soldiers, sexual display, captivity, and elaborate coercive bondage.
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Scarlet Peony Passion
Summary
An erotic first-person account follows a married couple and their companions through elaborate SM encounters involving bathing, role-play, rope restraints, blindfolding, humiliation, and staged photographic scenes.
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An Unusual Wakame-Sake Incident
Summary
A confessional account describes a man’s fascination with feminine beauty, his use of female hormones to develop breasts and alter his appearance, and the narcissistic and sexual feelings produced by the transformation.
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Woman: The Mysterious Part
Summary
This essay recounts the narrator’s intense fixation on model Maeda Machiko, moving from magazine photographs and voyeuristic fascination to imagined bondage, coercion, and the tension between erotic fantasy and everyday reality.
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The Aesthetics of Questioning, Continued
Summary
A continuation of Funabashi Ichirō’s essay examining voyeurism as an aesthetic and psychological practice, using public toilets, peeping devices, films, bodily functions, and illustrated scenarios to explore spectatorship, secrecy, and the tension between ordinary and eroticized observation.
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An Experience of Seppuku
Summary
A sensational first-person account describing two women’s ritualized seppuku fantasy and enactment, including the preparation, bodily exposure, abdominal cutting, blood, pain, and aftermath, accompanied by graphic erotic illustrations.
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The Female Prisoner, Part 12
Summary
A serialized captivity fantasy follows a female prisoner subjected to harsh surveillance, restraint, punishment, humiliating treatment, and repeated attempts to secure release or legal intervention.
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A Sonnet for the Three Beautiful Flowers
Summary
An illustrated erotic-literary feature presents imaginative tributes to three women, combining floral symbolism, animal imagery, nudity, bondage, and fantasies of female beauty, dominance, and display.
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Gag, Part 4
Summary
A serialized essay on gagging examines historical Chinese and Japanese gag forms, their terminology and construction, and their erotic and disciplinary effects, illustrated with staged bondage scenes and practical variations.
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The Aesthetics of Binding, Final Installment
Summary
The concluding installment considers binding as an aesthetic practice, discussing rope arrangement, posture, bodily display, restraint techniques, and the visual composition of photographic bondage scenes.
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An SM Affair with an Older Woman
Summary
A first-person erotic confession recounts a young man’s increasingly intimate SM affair with an older woman, combining workplace and domestic encounters with voyeuristic observation, submission, and bondage episodes.
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The Gate of Shiran
Summary
A serialized Edo-period erotic SM tale follows a criminal and his associates through abduction, interrogation, elaborate rope bondage, suspension, humiliation, and coercive sexual encounters involving the characters 千登世, 豊香, and 新五郎. The installment emphasizes theatrical cruelty, captivity, and highly detailed restraint scenes.
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The Alluring Rubber Raincoat
Summary
An essay on the erotic appeal of rubber rainwear surveys rubberized raincoats, capes, masks, gloves, boots, and related garments, combining fetish commentary with practical suggestions for wearing them in indoor, outdoor, water, and role-play situations. Illustrations depict stylized rubber-clad scenes and reinforce the garment-centered visual fetish.
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Nostril Photography Meeting
Summary
Satō Mitsuyasu reports on a specialized nostril-photography gathering, describing the selection and posing of female models, close-up camera and lighting techniques, participants’ fetishistic fascination with noses, and several staged bondage-style photo sessions.
Visual Catalog 11 sequences
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Kitan Club, February 1975 Archival title: February 1975 wraparound cover Cover Mechanical Wraparound issue cover with bold publication typography, issue/date matter, and an inset camera photograph showing rope restraint.
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Opening classified and mail-order advertisements Advertisement Dense boxed advertising and mail-order notices immediately inside the cover.
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The Woman Who Gave Herself Completely, Fukada Kikuko Archival title: Opening black-and-white bondage gallery Photographic Portfolio Sustained monochrome gallery of camera photographs showing multiple adult women in rope restraint across tatami and interior settings. The run includes seated, kneeling, standing, reclining, spread-arm, raised-leg, and gagged positions, with both single-image and multi-image page layouts.
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Opening color bondage gallery Photographic Portfolio Eight-page color photographic gallery showing multiple adult women in varied interior rope setups, including seated, standing, reclining, raised-limb, post-adjacent, and gagged configurations. Single-photo and multi-photo layouts alternate without a clear editorial break.
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“Camera and Pen” SM Reportage: Everything About Kikuko, the Woman Who Gave Herself Completely Archival title: Kikuko black-and-white photographic reportage Photographic Portfolio Extended text-and-photography feature repeatedly showing one adult woman in a consistent monochrome interior rope study across standing, seated, kneeling, reclining, raised-leg, and wide-leg positions.
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Two-page illustrated restraint scenes Illustration Sequence Two adjacent prose pages each contain a substantial black-and-white line illustration of adult figures in staged erotic or restraint scenes.
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Transport-themed two-page illustration run Illustration Sequence Two adjacent line illustrations showing adult figures with carried or wheeled apparatus, rendered in a consistent cartoon-like style.
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Two-page eye-covering photographic pair Photographic Portfolio Two consecutive text pages contain related black-and-white camera photographs of an adult woman with a dark eye covering; rope or cord is visible in the photographic setups.
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Four-page rope-restraint photographic study Photographic Portfolio Four consecutive prose pages contain black-and-white camera photographs of an adult woman in standing, floor, and bent or kneeling rope-restraint positions.
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Three-page decorative illustration run Illustration Sequence Three consecutive pages contain large line illustrations of adult figures with decorative animal, floral, drinkware, and feline motifs in a consistent graphic style.
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The Aesthetics of Bondage (Final Installment) Archival title: Bedding-and-rope photographic sequence Photographic Portfolio Six consecutive pages form a concentrated black-and-white camera-photography study of one adult woman on bedding or a studio floor, emphasizing torso and limb rope, raised-leg positions, close detail, and anchored spread-leg restraint.
Highlights
- An extended opening portfolio presents Fukada Kikuko and other models in diverse rope arrangements, ranging from floor bondage and spread-eagle poses to suspension and color studio compositions. (PDF pp. 3–26).
- Tsukamoto Tetsuzō's camera-and-pen report “Everything About the Woman Who Gave Herself Up, Kikuko” combines autobiographical narration with photographs, tracing Fukada Kikuko's marriage plans, travel, bondage sessions, and the narrator's changing relationship to her. (PDF pp. 28–57).
- Kashiwagi Hajime's “The Proposition of Rope” frames bondage through a personal account of the interdependence and instability of sadistic and masochistic identities. (PDF pp. 64–67).
- Chiba Seiki's serialized novel “The Great Eruption,” installment 76, demonstrates the issue's continued investment in long-form erotic fiction alongside documentary and testimonial material. (PDF pp. 68–75).
- Tonegawa Gorō's “Woman: The Mysterious Part” shifts the issue toward interpretive commentary on female sexuality and masculine uncertainty. (PDF pp. 90–95).
- Funabashi Ichirō's continuing essay “The Aesthetics of Questioning” examines interrogation as an eroticized form governed by technique, psychology, authority, and performance. (PDF pp. 96–105).
- Yoshiya Kazuko's “An Experience of Seppuku” records a staged bodily ordeal in first-person form, illustrating the magazine's characteristic blending of ritual imagery, physical sensation, and experiential confession. (PDF pp. 106–111).
- Roman-ha Sei's final installment of “The Aesthetics of Binding” discusses restraint as visual composition and embodied technique, supported by photographic examples. (PDF pp. 140–145).
- Aoyama Ken'ichi's “An SM Affair with an Older Woman” situates sadomasochistic experience within youthful recollection, confession, and the emotional dynamics of an age-disparate relationship. (PDF pp. 146–149).
- Satō Mitsuyasu's closing testimonial “Nostril Photography Meeting” documents a specialized fetish photography session and provides evidence of the magazine's prize-supported amateur contribution culture. (PDF pp. 168–175).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
