Kitan Club
January 1953
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- PDF pages
- 174
Summary
This January 1953 issue of Kitan Club combines erotic fiction, first-person confessional narratives, historical and quasi-ethnographic writing, sexual humor, reader discussion, bondage photography, and illustrated essays. Its contents move between contemporary domestic scenarios, historical accounts of sexuality and punishment, discussions of sadomasochistic impulses, male homosexuality, chastity devices, prostitution, fetishism, and criminal obsession. The issue also includes a substantial reader roundtable on the psychology of inflicting pain, a selection of erotic folk songs, translated or adapted foreign material, and numerous drawings and photographs. The complete PDF contains 174 viewer pages, including the continuation and conclusion of the final story through PDF page 173 and advertising on PDF page 174.
Table of Contents 26 items
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Frontispiece: The Suspended Woman (吊り下げられる女)
Summary
A frontispiece illustration by Kita Reiko presents an adult woman suspended in a restraint scene, using the elevated body and rope-supported pose as the central visual motif.
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Color Frontispiece: Apostle of Love (愛の使徒)
Summary
A color frontispiece presents an allegorical or romanticized erotic figure under the title Apostle of Love, functioning primarily as decorative visual art rather than narrative prose.
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Romantic Photography: Drawing a Bound Woman (縛った女を描く)
Summary
A staged photographic sequence of a bound adult woman combines photographs with drawn studies of restrained poses, treating bondage simultaneously as an erotic subject and a problem of visual composition.
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Love Slave (らぶ・すれいぶ)
Summary
A long first-person erotic narrative centers on submission, coercive fantasy, and changing relationships of control, using the language of servitude to explore dependence and erotic power.
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The Fallen Man (脱落者)
Summary
A short illustrated literary piece concerns a man's fall or loss of standing, framing personal decline through eroticism, transgression, and psychological drama.
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Record of Tokugawa Bedchamber Passions (徳川閨門痴情録)
Summary
A historical article surveys intimate and sexual episodes associated with the Tokugawa ruling household and its bedchamber culture, presenting elite sexuality as historical curiosity and anecdotal record.
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Diary of a Wartime Woman (戦争処女の手記)
Summary
A first-person wartime account describes a woman's experiences amid displacement, sexuality, survival, and exploitation, linking intimate biography to the upheavals produced by war.
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Reflections on the Nagasaki Rashamen (長崎らしゃめん考)
Summary
A historical reflection examines the Nagasaki rashamen, women associated with foreign men in the port city's history, placing sexual relationships within the broader setting of international contact and local social custom.
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Strange Questions and Answers (変の字問答)
Summary
An extended question-and-answer feature treats unusual sexual subjects through a conversational format, combining curiosity, explanation, humor, and popular sexological discussion.
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Lustful Fire (淫火)
Summary
An erotic literary narrative organized around consuming desire uses the metaphor of fire to portray sexual passion as an obsessive and potentially destructive emotional force.
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Selected Erotic Folk Songs (好色民謡選)
Summary
A curated selection of sexually suggestive folk songs presents vernacular expressions of desire, courtship, bodily humor, and erotic double meaning as part of Japanese popular tradition.
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A Wife's Confession: The Wife's Revenge (人妻告白記 妻の復讐)
Summary
A confessional narrative presented from a married woman's perspective centers on revenge within an intimate relationship, joining marital grievance, jealousy, and sexuality in a melodramatic personal account.
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Wrapped in a Pink Veil: I Tried Being Bound (桃色のベールに包まれて—縛られてみて)
Summary
A brief first-person account describes the experience of being bound, focusing on the emotional and bodily sensations produced by restraint rather than presenting bondage only as an external spectacle.
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The End of the Masochist (マゾヒストの果て)
Summary
An illustrated narrative examines an extreme trajectory of masochistic desire, presenting masochism as an identity and obsession capable of reshaping behavior and personal relationships.
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Reader Roundtable: The Psychology of the Impulse to Inflict Pain During Sexual Pleasure (読者座談会 交悦に伴う責めの衝動心理)
Summary
A reader roundtable examines the psychological impulse to inflict pain during sexual pleasure, with participants discussing sadistic desire, torment, marital sexuality, fantasy, and personal experience.
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The Obsession with Paste (糊の執著)
Summary
A fetish-oriented piece explores an unusual fixation on paste or adhesive material, treating an ordinary substance as the focus of persistent sensory and erotic fascination.
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In Praise of the Nasal Cavity (鼻腔礼讃)
Summary
A short bodily-fetish feature celebrates the nasal cavity as an object of unusual attention, turning a normally mundane anatomical feature into a subject of erotic curiosity and fascination.
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The Flower Path of Male Love (男色の花道)
Summary
A historical-cultural discussion of male love examines traditions of male same-sex desire and their representation within Japanese sexual culture.
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Strange Short Piece: Three Windows of the Naked Woman (妖奇掌篇 裸女の三窓)
Summary
A compact erotic literary vignette uses the image of three windows onto a naked adult woman to structure a scene of looking, bodily display, and imaginative spectatorship.
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My Record (僕の記録)
Summary
A first-person record presents personal experience and sexual self-observation in confessional form, documenting unconventional desire through individual testimony.
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A Boy's Love (少年の恋)
Summary
A literary piece centers on youthful love and emotional attachment, treating formative affection and longing as a subject of personal and psychological reflection.
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Introduction to World Erotic-Humor Literature: The Chastity-Belt Curiosity (世界艶笑文学紹介 貞操帯奇譚)
Summary
A short historical-literary introduction discusses European chastity belts as erotic curiosities and illustrates a metal restraint device, presenting sexual control through the language of foreign cultural history.
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Beneath Your Whip (あなたのムチの下に)
Summary
A brief erotic literary piece uses submission beneath a whip as its governing image, associating flagellation with hierarchy, surrender, and the emotional appeal of domination.
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When I Draw a Woman in Torment (女の責場を描く時の心境)
Summary
Itō Seiu reflects autobiographically on his lifelong practice of depicting women in scenes of torment, discussing live models, theatrical performers, photography, anatomical observation, and artistic composition. He treats torment imagery as an aesthetic practice and comments on the artistic development of Kita Reiko.
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An Unusual Strategy (風変りな作戦)
Summary
A short fictional piece turns on an unconventional strategy or scheme, using calculated action and reversal as the mechanism for an unusual intimate or erotic situation.
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Confession of a Condemned Prisoner: The Man Possessed by Red (或る死刑囚の告白 赤に憑かれた男)
Summary
A long crime narrative framed as the confession of a condemned prisoner follows a man whose fixation on the color red becomes intertwined with criminal behavior, psychological obsession, and his eventual path toward execution.
Highlights
- A formal illustrated contents spread identifies the issue's fiction, essays, confessions, historical pieces, reader discussion, and visual features. (PDF p. 4).
- The opening photographic feature presents a staged sequence of a bound woman, combining documentary-style photographs with drawn studies of restrained poses. (PDF pp. 7–14).
- Love Slave is a long first-person narrative centered on submission, coercive fantasy, and changing relationships of control. (PDF pp. 16–25).
- The Diary of a Wartime Woman gives an extended first-person account shaped by wartime displacement, sexuality, survival, and exploitation. (PDF pp. 36–43).
- The reader roundtable on the impulse to inflict pain records several participants debating sadistic desire, punishment, marital sexuality, fantasy, and personal experience. (PDF pp. 94–105).
- An essay on chastity belts introduces historical European devices and includes an illustration of a metal restraint apparatus. (PDF pp. 136–137).
- When I Draw a Woman in Torment presents Itō Seiu's reflections on depicting female suffering, artistic observation, models, and the construction of scenes. (PDF pp. 140–141).
- The final and longest late-issue story, The Man Possessed by Red, follows a condemned prisoner's confession and continues well beyond PDF page 150, concluding on PDF page 173. (PDF pp. 148–173).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Fujiyasu Setsuko
- Fukuda Eiichi
- Georges Hercule
- Hanayama Kensaku
- Itō Seiu
- Kawabata Tanako
- Kita Reiko
- Kiyama Yakusaku
- Komorihara Hei
- Kuroi Chinpei
- Masuoka Kinkichi
- Matoba Tōru
- Matsui Keiko
- Mitomi Hiroo
- Morita Yūji
- Mukudori
- Nagaoka Hen'ichirō
- Sasada Yutaka
- Shichijō Mikiko
- Tsuji Kazuko
- Tsujimura Takashi
- Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
- Tsunoda Heihachi
- Tsutsumi Yukifusa
- Uemura Hideo
- Ukiie Takazō
English Translations from This Issue
- When I Draw a Woman in Torment (女の責場を描く時の心境) — Itō Seiu


