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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Table of Contents 27 items
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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.
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Frontispiece Illustration Portfolio
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.
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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.
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My Illustrated Scroll of Cruel Delight
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.
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A Faint Wish
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.
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Tales of the Thirty-Ninth Night: Thirty-Sixth Night
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.
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My Miserable Pictures
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.
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Rural Notebook: A Confession of Masochistic Love
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.
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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.
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The World of Ecstatic Cruelty: Punishment of Women
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.
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A Solitary Longing for Masochism
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.
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On Differences in the Binding Process
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.
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Rubber-Mania Correspondence
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.
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The Garden of Pleasure
Summary
A rubber-fetish correspondence feature discusses readers’ interests, submitted experiences, fetish preferences, and the role of specialist magazines in connecting rubber enthusiasts.
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Prelude to the Nose
Summary
An illustrated erotic fiction depicts a female-dominated household in which servants are subjected to escalating bondage, humiliation, discipline, and sexual control.
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Flower and Snake, Part Four
Summary
The fourth installment of the serial fiction follows grotesque coercive encounters centered on exaggerated noses, bodily humiliation, and domination, accompanied by erotic illustrations.
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Women’s Wrestling: An Unusual Erotic Account
Summary
This erotic narrative depicts a woman subjected to escalating bondage, forced exposure, physical punishment, and humiliating sexualized control within a sadistic domestic setting.
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How a Masochistic Women’s Wrestling Group Was Formed
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.
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To the Human-Hair Maniac
Summary
A fetish-oriented piece addressing an obsessive attraction to human hair, presenting hair as an object of erotic fascination and personal fixation.
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A Solitary Longing for Masochism
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.
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A Curious Return Visit
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.
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Bondage Research Course: Classroom of Binding Methods
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.
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Wandering in Space
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.
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Reader Experience: Concerning the Film I Want to Die
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.
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Instructional Advice for Binding
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.
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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.
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Model and Reader Correspondence
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
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Akutsu Katsumi
- Ashihara Mutsuo
- Ashizawa Iho
- Ayasaka Tarō
- Dan Oniroku
- Endō Hajime
- Etō Masaaki
- Fukuda Hisafumi
- Hirayama Fushizō
- Iwasaki Sashiko
- Kurise Takashi
- Makishibamura Toshitaka
- Manda Fuji
- Okahira Yoshio
- Ōnaka Tadashi
- Saji Asako
- Sasaki Tsutomu
- Shibajima Reiko
- Shibawa Yoshihiro
- Shima Hiroshi
- Shima Takashi and Taki Reiko
- Tama Hiroshi
- Tsujimura Takashi


