Kitan Club

July 1963

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Issue Details

Volume
17
Issue
7
PDF pages
189

Summary

The July 1963 issue of Kitan Club presents a characteristic mixture of staged bondage photography, imaginative torture illustration, reader testimony, erotic fiction, serialized narratives, practical rope discussion, and correspondence. The front matter establishes the issue’s visual vocabulary through photographs of rope and chain restraint, gagging, seated and floor positions, close studies of bound wrists and ankles, and scenes involving metal implements. A second photographic sequence emphasizes compact body positions and self-conscious posing, while another reverses the usual gender arrangement by presenting a costumed woman directing a masked, submissive figure. The illustrated portfolio ranges from fantastic captivity and nasal torment to whipping, ritual abdominal cutting, insect attack, and the downfall of a castle woman, joining contemporary fetish imagery to historical and exoticized settings.

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The prose section begins with Sasaki Tsutomu’s illustrated catalogue of personal sadistic and masochistic fantasies, followed by Shibajima Reiko’s reader letter about loneliness, secrecy, and discovering a community through the magazine. Tsujimura Takashi’s thirty-sixth installment of Tales of the Thirty-Ninth Night then develops a staged photographic narrative in which a model is progressively restrained before an observing group, making the process of image production part of the story itself. Ashizawa Iho’s illustrated confession about abdominal-cutting imagery and Manda Fuji’s Rural Notebook move the issue from spectacle toward personal memory, fantasy, and autobiographical reflection.

The middle of the issue combines reader experiences with essays on punishment fantasies, solitary masochistic desire, rubber fetishism, nasal fixation, and the symbolic appeal of restraint. It also continues Dan Oniroku’s Flower and Snake and includes contrasting accounts of women’s wrestling, one framed as unusual erotic behavior and another as an account of organizing such matches. Discussions of human hair, bodily materials, and specialized collecting extend the magazine’s documentary interest in highly particular fetishes.

The later pages turn toward instruction and extended fiction. A rope-research feature explains binding methods and positional control, while the long novel Wandering in Space shifts confinement into a speculative setting. A reader account connected with the film I Want to Die brings cinema, identification, and masochistic fantasy together. The issue closes with reader communications, replies, exchange notices, advertisements for photographs and publications, ordering information, and editorial matter, reinforcing Kitan Club’s role as both a magazine and a social network for otherwise isolated interests.

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Table of Contents 27 items
  1. Opening Gravure Selection
    Summary

    An opening photographic portfolio presents staged scenes of women bound with rope and restraints in varied seated, reclining, and standing positions, including close studies of bondage equipment and gagging.

  2. Frontispiece Illustration Portfolio by Shima Takashi and Taki Reiko
    Summary

    A portfolio of erotic illustrations depicts captive and restrained women in theatrical historical or fantasy settings, including cage imagery, whipping, humiliation, and punishment scenes.

  3. Later Gravure and Photo Studies
    Summary

    A later photographic sequence shows women in elaborate rope bondage and staged captivity scenarios, using gags, blindfold-like coverings, restrictive positions, and chained restraints.

  4. My Illustrated Scroll of Cruel Delight by Sasaki Tsutomu
    Summary

    An illustrated catalogue of imagined cruel erotic scenes, presenting numerous bondage, restraint, punishment, and domination scenarios through prose and accompanying drawings. The piece emphasizes elaborate rope arrangements, forced postures, humiliation, and theatrical sadomasochistic fantasy.

  5. A Faint Wish by Shibajima Reiko
    41
    Summary

    A reader letter reflecting on personal wishes, emotional vulnerability, and the role of the magazine as a source of companionship and understanding, contributing to the publication’s reader-community exchange.

  6. Tales of the Thirty-Ninth Night: Thirty-Sixth Night by Tsujimura Takashi
    Summary

    The thirty-sixth installment of a serialized erotic tale combining fictional narration with photographs of a woman being bound, gagged, posed, and restrained during an elaborate studio production. The accompanying text also describes the photographers, models, equipment, staging, and backstage process behind the images.

  7. My Miserable Pictures by Ashizawa Iho
    53
    Summary

    An illustrated feature presents grotesque erotic scenes of women subjected to imagined cruelty, framed as the artist’s fascination with creating disturbing pictures and the gap between fantasy and reality.

  8. Rural Notebook: A Confession of Masochistic Love by Manda Fuji
    Summary

    A long first-person rural reminiscence follows a man’s formative relationships with domineering women, tracing humiliation, punishment, bondage, and masochistic longing from childhood through adulthood.

  9. Reader Experiences and Confessions
    Summary

    A reader-oriented feature collects anecdotes about observing and overhearing erotic situations and experimenting with bondage, including suspension and self-binding practices.

  10. The World of Ecstatic Cruelty: Punishment of Women by Etō Masaaki
    Summary

    An autobiographical essay traces the author’s early and adult fascination with the fundoshi, male bodies, bathing, swimming, and bodily exposure, linking these memories to solitary erotic and masochistic feelings.

  11. A Solitary Longing for Masochism by Kurise Takashi
    Summary

    A serialized historical erotic narrative depicts women subjected to wartime captivity, interrogation, punishment, mutilation, and execution, combining tragic romance with sadistic violence and fatalistic suffering.

  12. On Differences in the Binding Process by Makishibamura Toshitaka
    Summary

    A humorous first-person account and dialogue piece discusses enema procedures, bowel cleansing, laxatives, clinic encounters, and the embarrassment and eroticized bodily sensations surrounding them.

  13. Rubber-Mania Correspondence by Hirayama Fushizō
    Summary

    A roundtable compares Japanese kinbaku with foreign bondage practices, discussing rope techniques, restraint styles, cultural differences, photography, film, and the experiences of participants and enthusiasts.

  14. The Garden of Pleasure by Shima Hiroshi
    Summary

    A rubber-fetish correspondence feature discusses readers’ interests, submitted experiences, fetish preferences, and the role of specialist magazines in connecting rubber enthusiasts.

  15. Prelude to the Nose by Akutsu Katsumi
    Summary

    An illustrated erotic fiction depicts a female-dominated household in which servants are subjected to escalating bondage, humiliation, discipline, and sexual control.

  16. Flower and Snake, Part Four by Dan Oniroku
    Summary

    The fourth installment of the serial fiction follows grotesque coercive encounters centered on exaggerated noses, bodily humiliation, and domination, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

  17. Women’s Wrestling: An Unusual Erotic Account by Ashihara Mutsuo
    Summary

    This erotic narrative depicts a woman subjected to escalating bondage, forced exposure, physical punishment, and humiliating sexualized control within a sadistic domestic setting.

  18. How a Masochistic Women’s Wrestling Group Was Formed by Okahira Yoshio
    Summary

    The feature presents an account of women’s wrestling as an organized masochistic spectacle, emphasizing staged grappling, submission, bodily control, and the formation of a participating group.

  19. To the Human-Hair Maniac by Fukuda Hisafumi
    Summary

    A fetish-oriented piece addressing an obsessive attraction to human hair, presenting hair as an object of erotic fascination and personal fixation.

  20. A Solitary Longing for Masochism by Tama Hiroshi
    Summary

    An illustrated masochistic fantasy depicts a male subject undergoing escalating female domination, restraint, humiliation, and physical punishment, framed by reflections on solitary masochistic desire.

  21. A Curious Return Visit by Ōnaka Tadashi
    Summary

    A narrative of a return visit to a rural family home develops nostalgia for worn clothing and ragged appearance into an eroticized account of domestic tension, illness, dependence, and forbidden desire.

  22. Bondage Research Course: Classroom of Binding Methods by Shibawa Yoshihiro
    Summary

    An illustrated instructional feature explains rope-binding methods, terminology, body positioning, and progressively more complex restraints, including techniques for tying the wrists, arms, legs, torso, and suspension points.

  23. Wandering in Space by Saji Asako
    Summary

    A serialized captivity fantasy follows women and men subjected to military, institutional, and maritime confinement, interrogation, punishment, forced labor, and elaborate restraints amid recurring scenes of escape, pursuit, and recapture.

  24. Reader Experience: Concerning the Film I Want to Die by Iwasaki Sashiko
    Summary

    A first-person reader account recounts encounters with a physically powerful man, escalating bondage and sexual coercion, and the narrator’s later retaliation against him. The narrative emphasizes fear, humiliation, bodily control, and the complicated emotional aftermath of abusive erotic experience.

  25. Instructional Advice for Binding by Endō Hajime
    Summary

    This feature discusses the film “I Don’t Want to Die,” focusing on gas-chamber execution, imprisonment, fear, and the staged restraint and punishment of a female prisoner. Its commentary combines cinematic spectatorship with graphic imagery of captivity, bodily suffering, and death.

  26. Reader Letters and Communications
    Summary

    The communications and publishing material discusses the presentation of female models as erotic ideals, editorial selection of photographs, and the circulation of specialized bondage and fetish image collections through mail order. It also reflects on changing standards of beauty, photographic styling, and readers’ interest in published erotic imagery.

  27. Model and Reader Correspondence by Ayasaka Tarō
    170
    Summary

    This reader-correspondence section presents letters from readers discussing their long-term interest in the magazine, reactions to bondage-oriented illustrations and models, requests for fresher material, and feedback on editorial policies, submissions, and readership.

Highlights

  • The opening photographic portfolio combines rope bondage, metal restraints, gagging, close studies of wrists and ankles, and the use of tools as visual accessories. (PDF pp. 6–13).
  • A group of full-page illustrations by Shima Takashi and Taki Reiko depicts fantastic captivity, nasal torment, abdominal cutting, whipping, insect attack, and historical punishment. (PDF pp. 14–21).
  • Later gravure sequences contrast compact floor bondage with a theatrical female-dominant scene involving a masked submissive figure. (PDF pp. 22–29).
  • Sasaki Tsutomu’s illustrated feature assembles a wide-ranging inventory of personal cruelty and submission fantasies, drawing on historical, exotic, theatrical, and domestic imagery. (PDF pp. 31–37).
  • Shibajima Reiko’s reader letter describes isolation, secrecy, and the emotional significance of finding Kitan Club and its readership. (PDF p. 38).
  • The thirty-sixth installment of Tales of the Thirty-Ninth Night incorporates a staged photo session into its narrative, documenting a model’s progressive restraint before photographers and observers. (PDF pp. 39–49).
  • Ashizawa Iho’s illustrated confession discusses a fascination with abdominal-cutting scenes and connects fantasy, drawing, and bodily vulnerability. (PDF p. 50).
  • The central essays and testimonies examine punishment fantasies, lonely masochistic desire, rubber fetishism, nasal fixation, and the appeal of specialized materials. (PDF pp. 63–99).
  • The later fiction section includes Dan Oniroku’s Flower and Snake, accounts of women’s wrestling, a rope-instruction feature, and the long speculative novel Wandering in Space. (PDF pp. 100–154).
  • The closing section combines a reader account associated with the film I Want to Die, reader letters, exchange notices, advertisements, ordering information, and editorial publication matter. (PDF pp. 155–189).

Contributors

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