Kitan Club

July 1962

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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
    Summary

    A monochrome erotic illustration depicts a man restraining and tending to a reclining woman in an enclosed room, under the heading “Neck-Turning Doll.”

  2. Fragrance Amid the Stench by Shima Takashi
    7
    Summary

    A monochrome erotic illustration shows a woman bound amid dense foliage or refuse while a masked, formally dressed man watches from behind a wall, contrasting beauty with a foul environment.

  3. Revolving Pain by Shima Takashi
    8
    Summary

    A monochrome erotic illustration depicts a woman bound to the framework of a large revolving wheel while a man observes from below, emphasizing immobilization and perilous positioning.

  4. Greetings by Kurihara Shin
    9
    Summary

    A full-page erotic illustration presents a reclining woman and kneeling male figure in a staged, sexually charged encounter, captioned as a greeting.

  5. The Defeated Homeland: The Final Moments of a Female Volunteer Corps Member by Taki Reiko
    10
    Summary

    This illustrated wartime tragic narrative portrays the final moments of a young female volunteer corps member in a rocky setting, with a sword beside her.

  6. Smoke Torture by Shima Takashi
    11
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a woman tightly bound with rope while subjected to smoke torture, emphasizing punishment and restrained vulnerability.

  7. Now, What Shall I Do with You? by Shima Takashi
    12
    Summary

    A staged scene depicts a man confronting a seated, gagged woman in an atmosphere of threatened captivity and control.

  8. A Jewel in the Hand by Shima Takashi
    13
    Summary

    A staged erotic tableau shows a man standing beside a woman bound and gagged against a doorway, presenting her as an object under his control.

  9. Fantasy of Beauty and Pantomime by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio follows a woman in theatrical Japanese dress as she is gagged, stripped of layers, and progressively tied to trees and restrained outdoors in a pantomime-like sequence.

  10. White Skin Gasping
    Summary

    A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman immobilized in elaborate rope arrangements and large padded ring-like restraints, emphasizing bodily confinement and breathless theatrical poses.

  11. Rubber Covering and Adhesive Touch
    Summary

    A staged photographic feature presents models tightly enclosed in rubber coverings and bindings, focusing on the tactile, adhesive, and fetishistic qualities of rubber restraint.

  12. Fantasy of Female Seppuku
    Summary

    A staged erotic photo sequence presents a woman enacting a fantasy of female seppuku with a sword, candlelit theatrical framing, ritualized kneeling poses, and simulated bodily peril.

  13. Happy Subordination
    Summary

    A photographic feature depicts a woman directing and physically controlling a bound male partner in a series of staged outdoor scenes, presenting subordination as pleasurable.

  14. The Weight of the Go Board
    29
    Summary

    Photographs show a restrained woman lying beneath a weighted Go board and its pieces, emphasizing the physical pressure and immobilization produced by the bondage apparatus.

  15. Honor Student of the Slave Academy by Abe Storie
    Summary

    Abe Storie’s fictional narrative follows students and staff at a coercive slave academy where new pupils are ranked, trained, punished, and subjected to an elaborate hierarchy of discipline, favoritism, and domination.

  16. Thirty-Nine Strange Nights: Sixteenth Night by Tsujimura Takashi
    Summary

    A serialized erotic-fiction installment combines an Edo-period tale of betrayal, captivity, binding, stabbing, and retaliatory punishment with a modern medical narrative about artificial insemination, bodily control, and experimental reproduction. The linked stories frame violence and medical intervention as sensational forms of erotic fantasy.

  17. My Opinion on the Recommendation of the Kanagawa Prefectural Child Welfare Council by Mōri Ritsuo
    Summary

    Mōri Ritsuo argues against a child-welfare council’s recommendation targeting the magazine, defending erotic publishing as a form of expression and criticizing censorship based on claims of harm to youth. He discusses editorial responsibility, public morality, distribution, and the danger of suppressing controversial literature and imagery.

  18. My Hobby: The Silver Wheel by Urakawa Kōzaburō
    Summary

    A first-person confessional essay set around Ginza nightlife recounts conversations and encounters involving a hostess known as Madam, moving between stock-market speculation, fortune-telling, bodily talk, and erotic intimacy. The piece blends urban entertainment reportage with fascination toward the female body and the performative culture of hostess bars.

  19. A Woman’s Record by Sudō Ritsuo
    Summary

    A first-person confession recounts a woman’s enthusiasm for horseback riding, riding clothes, and the psychological excitement associated with equestrian scenes and encounters at a riding club.

  20. Somewhere in the Universe by Saji Mazō
    Summary

    This serialized SM fiction follows a young male captive forced into domestic labor and subjected to restraint, corporal punishment, humiliation, and domination by women who control his movements and daily life.

  21. Someday, Back Then by Mizuki Seiichi
    Summary

    A fetish memoir recalls an earlier fascination with an older woman, presented through nostalgic dialogue and an accompanying erotic illustration.

  22. To Leave the Familiar Hell Behind by Umeda Hisafumi
    Summary

    A confessional erotic narrative follows a woman trapped in a degrading marriage and her encounters with bondage, humiliation, and sadomasochistic desire as she seeks a way out of her familiar emotional and sexual hell.

  23. A Letter to a Slave Writer by Akashi Masuo
    99
    Summary

    This letter responds to a woman’s account of an attempted ritual disembowelment, reflecting on female seppuku, samurai honor, bodily pain, and the erotic fascination such death imagery held for the writer.

  24. The Abused Spring by Yoshino Mayumi
    Summary

    A confessional masochistic narrative traces a man’s fixation on female cruelty from childhood fantasies through humiliating relationships, culminating in scenes of female domination, bondage, and punishment.

  25. The Abused Chair by Nishida Hitoshi
    Summary

    A confessional essay recounts the author’s encounters with women who eroticize domestic discipline, humiliation, and physical punishment, including scenes of marital and household abuse framed through sexual psychology.

  26. The Circus Troupe’s Daughter by Ueda Takako
    Summary

    An illustrated first-person-style feature about a circus troupe’s daughter presents acrobatic performance, bodily display, rigorous training, and eroticized scenes of control, chastisement, and staged submission.

  27. The Barrier by Hakusan Shigeru
    Summary

    An essay and accompanying male nude image examine the Japanese fundoshi loincloth, its styles and practical use, and its links to masculine bodily display, tradition, and erotic appeal.

  28. A Short Account of Women’s Sumo
    116
    Summary

    A first-person reminiscence describes a women’s sumo troupe and the spectacle of its matches, including the wrestlers’ techniques, physicality, and audience response.

  29. Record of Women’s Sumo
    117
    Summary

    A purported record of a women’s sumo event in Imari recounts the competitors, bouts, techniques, and local exhibition setting in documentary-style detail.

  30. Biographies of Courageous Contemporary Women by Sagami Shō
    Summary

    This multi-page biographical feature recounts episodes of courageous contemporary women, including a woman doctor who uses judo and physical force to confront and subdue male criminals and attackers.

  31. The Springtime of My Youth by Iizuka Hide美
    Summary

    A personal reminiscence of youthful fascination with onnagata performance, describing the author’s early encounters with female-role acting, theatrical makeup, feminine beauty, and the experience of performing women’s parts on stage.

  32. The Washerman’s Fantasy by Akiba Etsuo
    Summary

    An erotic fantasy narrated through a washerman’s fixation on women’s underwear, dirty garments, laundering, and the illicit pleasure associated with handling and imagining the wearer’s clothing.

  33. Pack-Horse Number by Kawabata Takako
    Summary

    A first-person account of discovering that a loved woman had previously appeared as a bondage model, prompting an obsessive search through old erotic magazines and feelings of jealousy, shock, and forbidden fascination.

  34. Invitation to Suspension by Nakada Akira
    140
    Summary

    The author responds enthusiastically to a reader interested in intense suspension scenes, discussing suspension arrangements and proposing ideas for staged hanging and restraint presentations.

  35. The Company President and the Female Secretary by Nakano Saburō
    141
    Summary

    A comic erotic dialogue depicts a female secretary reversing the office hierarchy by overpowering, humiliating, and demanding obedience from her company president.

  36. Hōya Shirō on Law by Nakajima Kōdō
    Summary

    This critical essay examines the erotic and grotesque imagery of a seppuku-centered illustrated narrative in which a young man and woman express love through ritualized abdominal cutting and mutual death. It considers the work’s historical-literary sources, visual composition, sensational impact, and the relationship between sexuality, sacrifice, and violence.

  37. My Nursing Diary by Kirishima Jirō
    Summary

    An autobiographical hospital diary recounts the author’s prolonged treatment for kidney disease, including edema, strict salt restriction, injections, dietary routines, relapses, and eventual improvement, while emphasizing the emotional support exchanged with fellow patients and family. The narrative also reflects on illness, hope, faith, and the difficulties of returning to ordinary life.

  38. The Image of Newspaper Articles by Inano Fumijirō
    Summary

    This feature presents short illustrated erotic narratives modeled on sensational newspaper reports, depicting nurses, girls, and other figures subjected to elaborate tying, gagging, forced postures, and staged scenes of restraint or captivity. Its visual and textual treatment turns crime-report imagery into stylized bondage fantasies.

  39. The Woman in the Third Special Interrogation Room Underground by Takami Ryōichi
    Summary

    A fictional account set in an underground special interrogation room depicts a woman subjected to coercive questioning, humiliation, forced undressing, binding, gagging, and prolonged positional restraint by male interrogators. The accompanying illustrations intensify the atmosphere of captivity and institutional violence as erotic fantasy.

  40. Practical Bondage Photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    Summary

    An illustrated instructional feature on photographing kinbaku scenes, covering model direction, pose selection, camera and lighting choices, seasonal and outdoor conditions, and the practical challenges of producing convincing bondage images. The accompanying photographs demonstrate varied rope-bound poses and expressions involving several female models.

  41. Reader Correspondence and Club Communications
  42. Reader Communications
    Summary

    A wide-ranging reader-communications section presents letters about readers’ erotic and SM experiences, responses to magazine content, requests for advice and photographs, and exchanges among readers, alongside editorial replies, club notices, and publication announcements. It also advertises erotic photographs, fiction, and other specialist material available through the magazine.

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: