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Kitan Club

July 1962

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Cover of Kitan Club, July 1962

Issue Details

Volume
16
Issue
7
PDF pages
189

Summary

The July 1962 issue of Kitan Club is a densely varied publication combining staged bondage photography, fetish illustration, serialized fiction, personal testimony, cultural commentary, psychological reflection, and extensive reader-oriented departments. Its opening pages establish the issue’s visual vocabulary through dramatic illustrations of confinement, abduction, punishment, foot worship, military defeat, and threatened violence. These are followed by several photographic portfolios: an outdoor kimono sequence built around tree restraint and cloth binding; a studio series combining rope bondage with a large artificial serpent; compact kneeling poses using rubber coverings and adhesive material; a ritualized female self-disembowelment fantasy; a female-dominance sequence in which a woman restrains and tramples a man; and a tableau using a heavy wooden game board as a burden.

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The prose section opens with Abe Storie’s “Honor Student of the Slave Academy,” a long satirical fantasy about a secret school where women are trained through humiliation, discipline, forced labor, and elaborate punishments before being sold into servitude. The sixteenth installment of “Thirty-Nine Strange Nights” follows, presenting historical and comparative reflections on impalement, torture, execution, and artificial gestation. Subsequent essays move between public-policy commentary and intensely personal fetish writing, including discussion of child-welfare censorship, a confession centered on riding and equestrian imagery, and a long science-fiction narrative, “Somewhere in the Universe,” that relocates coercion, captivity, and hierarchical sexuality to an imagined world.

The middle of the issue mixes memoir, fiction, and specialized fetish studies. Subjects include bath-related nostalgia, leaving an oppressive domestic environment, female acrobatics, circus discipline, punishment memoirs, women’s wrestling, biographies of forceful women, washing and laundry fantasies, pack-horse role play, corporate authority, and the erotic meaning of uniforms and bodily restraint. Several pieces adopt the form of first-person confession, allowing contributors to frame unusual desires through memories of childhood, workplaces, hospitals, theater, family life, or encounters with performers.

Later sections include reflections on newspaper imagery, a report on photographing a bound model, correspondence, reader rankings, questionnaires, club information, advertisements, editorial notices, and publication data. The issue’s identity emerges from the dialogue between visual spectacle and reader testimony: bondage is treated not merely as an isolated fantasy, but as a field linking literature, photography, social commentary, historical punishment, gendered authority, and a participatory community of correspondents.

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Table of Contents 42 items
  1. Neck-Turning Doll by Shima Takashi
    6
  2. Fragrance Amid the Stench by Shima Takashi
    7
  3. Revolving Pain by Shima Takashi
    8
  4. Greetings by Kurihara Shin
    9
  5. The Defeated Homeland: The Final Moments of a Female Volunteer Corps Member by Taki Reiko
    10
  6. Smoke Torture by Shima Takashi
    11
  7. Now, What Shall I Do with You? by Shima Takashi
    12
  8. A Jewel in the Hand by Shima Takashi
    13
  9. Fantasy of Beauty and Pantomime by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    14–20
  10. White Skin Gasping
    21–22
  11. Rubber Covering and Adhesive Touch
    23–24
  12. Fantasy of Female Seppuku
    25–26
  13. Happy Subordination
    27–28
  14. The Weight of the Go Board
    29
  15. Honor Student of the Slave Academy by Abe Storie
    36–45
  16. Thirty-Nine Strange Nights: Sixteenth Night by Tsujimura Takashi
    46–59
  17. My Opinion on the Recommendation of the Kanagawa Prefectural Child Welfare Council by Mōri Ritsuo
    60–64
  18. My Hobby: The Silver Wheel by Urakawa Kōzaburō
    65–69
  19. A Woman’s Record by Sudō Ritsuo
    70–71
  20. Somewhere in the Universe by Saji Mazō
    72–87
  21. Someday, Back Then by Mizuki Seiichi
    88–89
  22. To Leave the Familiar Hell Behind by Umeda Hisafumi
    90–98
  23. A Letter to a Slave Writer by Akashi Masuo
    99
  24. The Abused Spring by Yoshino Mayumi
    100–101
  25. The Abused Chair by Nishida Hitoshi
    102–109
  26. The Circus Troupe’s Daughter by Ueda Takako
    110–113
  27. The Barrier by Hakusan Shigeru
    114–115
  28. A Short Account of Women’s Sumo
    116
  29. Record of Women’s Sumo
    117
  30. Biographies of Courageous Contemporary Women by Sagami Shō
    118–124
  31. The Springtime of My Youth by Iizuka Hide美
    126–133
  32. The Washerman’s Fantasy by Akiba Etsuo
    134–135
  33. Pack-Horse Number by Kawabata Takako
    136–139
  34. Invitation to Suspension by Nakada Akira
    140
  35. The Company President and the Female Secretary by Nakano Saburō
    141
  36. Hōya Shirō on Law by Nakajima Kōdō
    142–147
  37. My Nursing Diary by Kirishima Jirō
    148–157
  38. The Image of Newspaper Articles by Inano Fumijirō
    158–163
  39. The Woman in the Third Special Interrogation Room Underground by Takami Ryōichi
    164–167
  40. Practical Bondage Photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    168–173
  41. Reader Correspondence and Club Communications
    174–177
  42. Reader Communications
    178–194

Highlights

  • A preliminary illustrated gallery presents punishment, abduction, military defeat, foot worship, gagging, and confinement in a series of individually titled plates. (PDF pp. 3–13).
  • “Fantasy of Beauty and Pantamime” stages a kimono-clad model outdoors, progressing from undressing and cloth restraint to gagging and binding against trees. (PDF pp. 14–20).
  • The studio portfolio “White Skin Gasping” combines rope bondage with an oversized artificial serpent wrapped around the model’s neck and torso. (PDF pp. 21–22).
  • A succession of fetish tableaux explores rubber coverings, adhesive materials, ritualized self-disembowelment, female trampling, and the weight of a wooden game board. (PDF pp. 23–29).
  • “Honor Student of the Slave Academy” develops an extended institutional fantasy of female training, punishment, servitude, examination, and sale. (PDF pp. 31–40).
  • The sixteenth night of “Thirty-Nine Strange Nights” combines historical torture lore, impalement, execution, bodily penetration, and artificial gestation. (PDF pp. 41–54).
  • “Somewhere in the Universe” is a substantial serialized SM science-fiction work using an imagined society to examine enslavement and sexual hierarchy. (PDF pp. 67–82).
  • The issue devotes a cluster of later articles to circus women, acrobatics, female wrestling, forceful contemporary women, and the eroticization of athletic authority. (PDF pp. 95–128).
  • A practical photographic feature documents the staging and photographing of a bound model, pairing descriptive commentary with several photographs. (PDF pp. 163–168).
  • Reader communications, questionnaires, rankings, club material, notices, editorial columns, and publication information occupy the closing portion of the issue. (PDF pp. 169–189).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue:

Kinbaku Today is an independent online journal dedicated to the study, practice, and cultural history of Japanese rope bondage. Blending essays, translations, interviews, and archival research, it explores kinbaku not simply as technique, but as a living dialogue between history, performance, and human connection.
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