Kitan Club

June 1954

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Summary

The June 1954 issue of Kitan Club combines technical bondage studies, imported Western fetish imagery, staged photography, punishment illustration, prison and institutional memoir, female masochistic confession, queer and gender-variant testimony, literary and historical research, cross-dressing, fashion fetishism, female dominance, accounts of corporal punishment, and several substantial works.

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The cover depicts a frightened or startled woman crouching beside a large vessel in a dark interior. Unlike the more comic May cover, this image emphasizes pursuit, concealment, and threatened discovery. The interior portfolio then shifts immediately into a dense catalogue of restraint and punishment.

PDF page 6 reproduces a chaotic historical scene associated with the disturbances around the Ise pilgrimages. A woman is exposed and surrounded by a turbulent crowd, while trees, banners, buildings, and numerous spectators make bodily vulnerability part of a public social upheaval.

The imported imagery on PDF pages 7–8 shows women threatened with whipping, bound in Western clothing, and dressed in equestrian or animalized fetish costumes. The “pony” image is especially revealing of the period’s fascination with translating riding equipment, posture, and training into an erotic hierarchy.

PDF pages 9–10 present an illustrated catalogue of positions involving blinds, beds, ceiling points, ladders, frames, and a cross-like support. Each arrangement is numbered. The body becomes one component in a system of architectural leverage, with furniture and fixtures determining posture.

The photographic scenes on PDF page 11 show a woman under another woman’s foot and restrained near furniture. Female dominance is represented through domestic staging rather than historical fantasy. On PDF page 12, photographs of male musculature, female clothing, and tight binding of the feet are juxtaposed, turning gendered bodies and garments into objects of comparative study.

The female-wrestling photographs on PDF page 13 belong to the issue’s broader interest in women’s physical control over other women. PDF page 14 then returns to a conventional studio bondage portrait, isolating a gagged model in stockings against a dark background.

The American-style restraint drawings on PDF pages 15–16 employ wheels, pulleys, frames, and overhead suspension. These images make restraint appear mechanical and futuristic, in contrast with the issue’s Japanese domestic and historical settings.

The Woman in White, on PDF pages 17–18, uses photographs of a kimono-clad model in compact floor positions. The pale clothing, soft fabric, and close framing give the sequence a more intimate visual texture than the hard apparatus surrounding it.

PDF pages 19–20 are among the issue’s clearest technical studies. Multiple front, rear, and side photographs compare chest harnesses, arm bindings, and rope paths. The model’s torso is treated almost as a three-dimensional diagram. The images provide valuable evidence of how rope was visually classified, but they contain no modern discussion of nerve safety, breathing restriction, circulation, or emergency release.

Takiko’s Storehouse and Basement, on PDF pages 21–22, use enclosed architecture to produce suspense. Chains, barrels, ladders, darkness, and narrow rooms turn captivity into an environmental condition rather than merely a tie.

PDF pages 23–24 present further illustrated methods using a pole and a chair. The body is balanced, inverted, folded, or threaded through furniture. The chair becomes an adaptable restraint frame rather than a neutral household object.

PDF pages 25–29 collect historical and pseudo-historical punishment images: beheading, firing squad execution, burning, and a post-mounted restraint. This sequence broadens the opening portfolio from erotic bondage into state, military, and ritual violence.

The prose body begins on PDF page 31 with Tsujimura Takashi’s The Construction of Tight Binding and Ideas for Torment. The article discusses posture, rope paths, photographs, body types, and the visual effect of different arrangements. It is less a modern instructional guide than an aesthetic and practical reflection on constructing scenes.

The Room of Evil, beginning on PDF page 41, concludes Futamata Shizuko’s recurring enclosed-room series. The story returns to secrecy, beds, hidden observation, manipulation, and private interiors. Across its installments, the room has functioned as a sealed world where ordinary identity and social rules are suspended.

Tsuritobi: A Juvenile Reformatory Experience, beginning on PDF page 51, presents institutional violence and adolescent imprisonment through an apparently autobiographical voice. It describes confinement, discipline, beatings, surveillance, and the informal hierarchy among inmates. The reformatory becomes a total environment in which submission is enforced socially as well as physically.

ANUS Bullying, beginning on PDF page 56, is a confessional feature by Numa or Numata. It focuses on anal humiliation, bodily vulnerability, and coercive memory. The article illustrates the magazine’s willingness to isolate a highly specific bodily theme and give it an extended personal narrative.

Diary of My Selfish Heart: A Masochistic Woman’s Journal, beginning on PDF page 59, is one of the issue’s most significant female-voiced pieces. The diary form explores marriage, fantasy, observation, jealousy, bodily response, and the narrator’s effort to understand her own masochistic desires. As with other purported confessions, the degree of literal autobiography cannot be established, but the editorial effect is clear: a woman interprets her own desire rather than appearing only as a photographed or illustrated body.

The diary runs through PDF page 72 and repeatedly connects fantasy with ordinary domestic life. Photographs, rooms, clothing, husbands, lovers, and memories become triggers through which the narrator organizes her identity.

The Beautiful Tyrant, beginning on PDF page 73, is a prize-winning story by Mazoku Tamotsu. It centers on a powerful woman whose sexuality, wealth, race, and authority are filtered through the exoticizing language of the period. The story uses servitude, colonial fantasy, bodily worship, and status difference to build its hierarchy.

Uses of Clothing, beginning on PDF page 89, continues the overseas-sadism notebook series. Skirts, corsets, stockings, high heels, hobble garments, and restrictive fashion are treated as technologies that shape movement and posture. Clothing is not decoration. It becomes a form of soft restraint.

Infatuation, beginning on PDF page 97, continues Oniyama’s fetish-oriented series. It combines short episodes involving coercion, clothing, bodily fixation, and domestic situations. The fragmented structure resembles a notebook of recurring scenes rather than a single continuous narrative.

Itō Seiu’s Sexual Fluids, Part Five, beginning on PDF page 107, again joins bodily material to folklore, history, anecdote, and sexual observation. Seiu’s method is characteristically unruly: archival fragments and intimate experience sit side by side without the boundaries expected in conventional scholarship.

My Record of Perversity: Beheading and Strangulation in Strange Punishments, beginning on PDF page 112, presents execution and strangulation as long-standing personal fascinations. The writer connects childhood impressions, historical stories, pictures, and later erotic response. The article is historically important as a record of how punishment imagery could become incorporated into personal identity.

My Honeymoon, beginning on PDF page 115, places female restraint inside marriage and travel. The story combines newlywed intimacy, jealousy, danger, concealment, and coercive fantasy. Its imagery turns the honeymoon from a conventional romantic ritual into a test of power.

The Man I Sought, Part Six, beginning on PDF page 121, continues Matsui Raikō’s long autobiographical fiction. The narrator again seeks a man capable of fulfilling a particular emotional and submissive role. Rope, confinement, betrayal, and dependency are treated as aspects of romantic recognition.

The Juvenile Reformatory’s Folding Bars, beginning on PDF page 133, returns to institutional experience. It examines the architecture, equipment, punishments, and social world of the reformatory, reinforcing the issue’s interest in systems that organize bodies through routine discipline.

Confession of an Effeminate Man, beginning on PDF page 137, gives gender nonconformity a first-person voice. The narrator describes clothing, mannerisms, social ridicule, desire, and relationships with men. The period’s terminology is pathologizing and cannot be mapped neatly onto present-day identities, but the article remains a substantial example of gender variance narrated from within.

Longing for Enema, beginning on PDF page 140, is another narrowly focused confession. Medical equipment, bodily invasion, care, humiliation, and anticipation become the components of a specialized fetish narrative.

Sentimental Education, beginning on PDF page 141, continues the magazine’s recurring account of erotic formation. It uses employment, social contact, clothing, and interpersonal manipulation to present sexuality as something learned through experience and humiliation.

The earlier 150-page analysis would have missed nearly one-third of the issue.

The Portrait of Blame, beginning on PDF page 153, reflects on shame, moral accusation, punishment, and the subject’s self-image. The accompanying portrait photograph and bodily illustration place psychological confession beside visual evidence.

An Examination of the Navel: My Bodily-Fetish Record, beginning on PDF page 157, gives the navel sustained autobiographical and quasi-medical attention. The writer moves among childhood memory, aesthetic judgment, anatomy, photography, and erotic fixation. It is a classic example of Kitan Club transforming a small bodily detail into a complete field of study.

Bound and Rebound, beginning on PDF page 161, discusses repeated restraint, recovery, and the desire to return to binding. Its title captures the magazine’s recurring cycle: bondage is not represented as an isolated event but as a repeated psychological and narrative pattern.

Numa Shōzō’s From a Masochist’s Notebook, beginning on PDF page 163, continues his long-running intellectual history of masochism. The installment surveys European cases, literary works, terminology, historical figures, and medical sources. The notes create an international genealogy through which Japanese readers could place their own desires.

The Buttocks Person, beginning on PDF page 169, is a prize-winning confession by Kimura Michiko. It treats the buttocks as a central erotic object and discusses bodily preference, beauty, observation, and personal experience.

On the Beauty of Women’s Noses and Nasal Cavities, beginning on PDF page 173, is an unusual aesthetic and bodily study. The feature combines medical discussion, photographs, profile analysis, and erotic attention. It demonstrates the extraordinary specificity of the magazine’s fetish taxonomy.

Rehabilitation of Former Juvenile Soldiers, beginning on PDF page 176, shifts toward a social and institutional subject. Military youth, discipline, postwar reintegration, and psychiatric or behavioral treatment are discussed through reportage and commentary.

Morimoto Aizō’s Cruel Women, beginning on PDF page 179 under the German title Das Grausame Weib, continues the translated European series. It gathers historical, criminological, and literary examples of women exercising cruelty or authority.

From Husband to Wife, beginning on PDF page 185, examines marital intimacy from a husband’s perspective. The essay considers domestic power, sexual compatibility, secrecy, and the ways private desires survive or fail within marriage.

My Model, beginning on PDF page 189, is a prize-winning story by Tobita Ryōji. It follows a man’s fascination with a woman who becomes a model, object of observation, and participant in his fantasy. Art, photography, posing, and desire become difficult to separate.

The story continues through PDF page 204, making it one of the issue’s principal late works. Illustrated scenes show women against posts, in hanging or raised positions, and subjected to the controlling gaze of the narrator.

My Favorite Way of Being Bound, beginning on PDF page 205, is a first-person account by Kawabata Tanako. The writer discusses preferred body positions, rope placement, emotional response, and the difference between merely being tied and being bound in a way that fits her own desires. This is one of the issue’s clearest attempts to describe bondage from the restrained participant’s point of view.

The Ceremony of the Straw Doll, beginning on PDF page 207, presents a woman’s account of ritualized punishment, folklore, curse practices, and bodily identification. The straw doll becomes a proxy body through which aggression and erotic fascination are displaced.

The final substantial recurring column, Correspondence, begins on PDF page 217 and continues through page 220. Readers debate earlier articles, terminology, illustrations, and personal experience. These pages reveal the magazine not merely as a publication but as an active network of contributors responding to one another.

Read across all 221 pages, June 1954 shows Kitan Club functioning simultaneously as visual archive, technical workshop, confessional forum, research society, and correspondence network. Rope is diagrammed and photographed, but also described by people who desire to be bound. Specific body parts become fields of aesthetic research. Queer and gender-variant contributors speak in the first person. Institutions such as prisons, reformatories, armies, and marriage are examined as systems of discipline. The magazine’s ethical framework remains far removed from contemporary consent-centered practice, yet the issue is unmistakably constructing a language through which isolated readers could recognize themselves and one another.

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Table of Contents 49 items
  1. The Madness of the Ise Pilgrimage by Itō Seiu
    6
    Summary

    An illustrated account of the Oyama/Afuri Shrine area describes Ryōben Falls, reputed in the Edo period to cure madness. It recounts the legend of a madwoman being bound, taken beneath the freezing waterfall, and struck with a ritual 金剛杖, accompanied by Itō Seiu’s dramatic depiction of the scene.

  2. Fear of Being Whipped
    7
    Summary

    A photographic scene portrays a woman confronted with the frightening prospect of having a bit-like gag placed in her mouth, emphasizing apprehension, restraint, and controlled submission.

  3. Western Binding and Pony Training
    8
    Summary

    A photographic feature presenting Western-style binding, gagging, and pony-themed fetish imagery, with women shown in staged restraint scenes and costume.

  4. On Restraint: Seven Positions by Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain
    Summary

    An illustrated instructional feature presenting seven rope-restraint positions using swings, ladders, bars, wooden structures, and other apparatus, accompanied by commentary on the importance of rope technique.

  5. A Slave Beneath Her Lady’s Feet by composition by Tsujimura Takashi
    11
    Summary

    A staged photographic scene depicts a submissive male prostrate beneath a dominant woman’s feet, accompanied by a second image of the woman compelling him to rise. The feature centers on female authority, male submission, and eroticized foot worship.

  6. Male Beauty, Women’s Clothing, and Tight Foot Binding
    12
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents an athletic nude male portrait alongside images of a woman in a patterned skirt and a woman bound at the feet and lower body. The visual sequence combines ideals of male beauty, women’s clothing, simulated seppuku imagery, and tightly bound feet and buttocks.

  7. Two Female-Wrestling Scenes
    13
    Summary

    A two-image photographic feature depicting women engaged in staged wrestling scenes, emphasizing physical struggle and posed domination.

  8. Stockings: A Helpless Pose by model Itō Mieko
    14
    Summary

    A photographic feature showing model Itō Mieko in stockings and a restrained, helpless seated pose, with rope binding across her torso and arms.

  9. American-Style Torment, Part Three by composition by Sugiura Kōji
    Summary

    The third installment of “American-Style Torment” presents highly theatrical bondage scenes, combining illustrated tableaux with photographic imagery of multiple people tied in elaborate, uncomfortable positions and apparatus. The feature emphasizes spectacle, restraint, and staged torment.

  10. The Woman in White by composition by Tsujimura Takashi; model Chiba Chizuko
    Summary

    “The Woman in White” is a photographic feature featuring model Chiba Chizuko in white clothing, bound with rope in a series of staged reclining and suspended poses. The images foreground costume, immobilization, and the visual presentation of female submission.

  11. Photographic Studies of Chest and Arm Binding
    Summary

    A photographic study documenting multiple rope-binding configurations around the chest, arms, and torso, shown from front, back, and side views. The sequential images emphasize the appearance and positioning of the restraints as a practical visual record of kinbaku technique.

  12. Storehouse by Takiko
    21
    Summary

    An illustrated erotic narrative scene set in a storehouse, in which a woman is confronted and restrained after being discovered with a younger man. The accompanying text uses threats, betrayal, and criminal authority to frame the scene as coercive captivity and punishment fantasy.

  13. Basement by Takiko
    22
    Summary

    An illustrated captivity scene depicts Tamiko bound with her hands behind her back and gagged in a dark, windowless basement or storage room. The accompanying text presents the image as a scene from Sakiko Okada’s story “Revenge.”

  14. Pole Binding by Takiko
    23
    Summary

    An erotic illustration feature depicts three women restrained with ropes to wooden poles in different kneeling, crouching, and seated positions. The images focus on pole-based immobilization and the visual display of bound bodies.

  15. Using a Chair by Takiko
    24
    Summary

    An illustrated feature presents several women tied to chairs in varied positions, emphasizing the chair as a means of restraint and display. The imagery focuses on rope binding and immobilized posture rather than accompanying procedural text.

  16. Beheading by Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain
    25
    Summary

    An erotic illustration titled “Beheading” depicts a kneeling nude woman threatened by an armed soldier, accompanied by Japanese text describing a girl stripped of family, property, clothing, chastity, and ultimately life. The scene combines sexualized captivity with execution imagery.

  17. Execution by Firing Squad by Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain
    26
    Summary

    An illustrated execution scene depicts a beautiful female spy calmly awaiting death by firing squad while a female officer photographs or observes her final moments. The presentation combines execution imagery with an explicitly staged, voyeuristic erotic spectacle.

  18. Burning at the Stake by Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain
    Summary

    This illustrated historical punishment feature portrays a woman bound to a stake and burned, with accompanying text referring to Joan of Arc, Japanese fire executions, and the treatment of condemned women. The imagery emphasizes public punishment, bodily exposure, restraint, and death by burning.

  19. Post-Mounted Restraint by Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain
    29
    Summary

    An illustrated feature depicts a nude woman bound against a wooden post while a kimono-clad swordswoman stands nearby. The accompanying text presents binding as a historical form of disgrace or punishment associated with samurai culture.

  20. The Construction of Tight Binding and Ideas for Torment by Tsujimura Takashi
    Summary

    A practical and aesthetic guide to constructing bondage photographs and developing ideas for torment scenes. It discusses rope arrangements, poses, props, models, body presentation, hair and clothing, indoor and outdoor settings, and the balance between visual beauty, realism, cruelty, and photographic composition.

  21. The Room of Evil, Final Installment by Futamata Shizuko
    Summary

    The concluding installment of Futamata Shizuko’s serialized erotic crime narrative follows a web of coercion, betrayal, and retaliation involving abducted and restrained women, violent men, and a dangerous household. Through shifting encounters in rooms, hotels, and domestic spaces, the story brings its bondage-centered conflicts and psychological tensions toward a violent resolution.

  22. Tsuritobi: A Juvenile Reformatory Experience by Orihara Osamu, romanization uncertain
    Summary

    A first-person account of life in a juvenile reformatory, focusing on the systematic abuse inflicted by a guard through beatings, forced nudity, inspections, rope binding, and other humiliating punishments. Photographs and illustrations reinforce the testimony’s depiction of coercive restraint and institutional violence.

  23. ANUS Bullying by Numata Fusaji, romanization uncertain
    Summary

    An erotic narrative centered on “ANUS bullying,” in which a male subject is dominated and tormented by women through forced positions, spanking, foot pressure, restraint, and anal-focused humiliation. The accompanying illustrations depict the staged scenes of female control and sexualized punishment.

  24. Diary of My Selfish Heart: A Masochistic Woman’s Journal by Furukawa Yūko
    Summary

    Furukawa Yūko presents a first-person diary of her masochistic desires, marital bondage, fantasies of restraint and punishment, and the tensions between private erotic life and respectable postwar society. The extended confession also reflects on her psychological self-understanding, fetish interests, and the ways readers and editors interpret her unusual experiences.

  25. The Beautiful Tyrant by Mazoku Tamotsu
    Summary

    An erotic first-person narrative about a man’s escalating fascination with Yuriko, a beautiful and imperious woman who subjects him to increasingly demanding acts of service, humiliation, and bodily submission. The story centers on her control over his movements and desires, especially his compelled worship of her feet, culminating in a sustained master–servant relationship.

  26. Overseas Sadism Notes: Uses of Clothing by Azuma Shin
    Summary

    Azuma Shin surveys the erotic and sadistic uses of women’s clothing, discussing hobble skirts, corsets, high heels, long boots, and other garments as means of emphasizing the body, restricting movement, or symbolizing discipline. The article combines commentary on overseas fetish imagery with historical examples, illustrations, photographs, and anecdotes about clothing-based training and restraint.

  27. Infatuation by Oniyama Yakusaku, romanization uncertain
    Summary

    A serialized erotic fiction narrative in which the narrator leads the forty-year-old Miki into an obsessive labyrinth of jealousy, voyeurism, and sexual manipulation involving Kiyomi and her domestic relationship. The successive episodes depict escalating psychological control, humiliation, and erotic fixation alongside Miki’s changing social and professional life.

  28. Sexual Fluids, Part Five by Itō Seiu
    Summary

    The fifth installment of Itō Seiu’s “Sexual Fluids” presents an erotic nonfiction-style account of travel, theatrical entertainment, lodging, meals, and encounters involving performers and patrons. The narrative emphasizes backstage and pleasure-district culture, sexualized performance, bodily appearance, and intimate social relations.

  29. My Record of Perversity: Beheading and Strangulation in Strange Punishments by Uemura Etsuhisa, romanization uncertain
    Summary

    This autobiographical record of the author’s fascination with unusual punishments examines staged or magical representations of crucifixion, beheading, and strangulation. Illustrated scenes of women bound to crosses and subjected to execution-like restraint frame the discussion as a personal account of an enduring macabre and erotic interest.

  30. My Honeymoon by Tominaga Kazuo
    Summary

    In this autobiographical account, a newly married man describes seeking a wife who could accommodate his sadistic and bondage-oriented desires. He recounts meeting and observing a young nurse, developing their relationship, introducing rope restraint and coercive sexual play into the marriage, and taking his wife on a honeymoon during which their erotic dynamic intensifies.

  31. The Man I Sought, Part Six by Matsui Raikō
    Summary

    The sixth installment of Matsui Raikō’s serialized SM narrative follows an emotionally volatile encounter involving Inoue and Ogata. The characters bind, restrain, and manipulate one another through rope, furniture, and bodily control, while jealousy, concealed desire, humiliation, and shifting sexual power intensify the relationship.

  32. The Juvenile Reformatory’s Folding Bars by Nonomura Yukio
    Summary

    A first-person account set in a juvenile orphanage describes staff discipline and elaborate punishments, including tying children to beds or boards, striking them, and forcing uncomfortable positions. The illustrated feature presents these institutional correction practices as an eroticized confession.

  33. Confession of an Effeminate Man by Shinohara Yukio
    Summary

    A male narrator confesses to adopting feminine dress, cosmetics, mannerisms, and domestic presentation, recounting how this gendered self-fashioning shapes his relationships and erotic encounters. The piece combines autobiographical testimony with reflections on effeminacy, sexual identity, and social performance.

  34. Longing for Enema by Yamada Yoshie
    140
    Summary

    Yamada Yoshie presents a personal confession about her growing fascination with enemas, recalling a hospitalized friend’s medical treatment and later persuading and administering an enema to another young woman. The account emphasizes bodily vulnerability, shame, observation, and the excitement of imposing an intimate medical procedure.

  35. Sentimental Education by Azuma Shinsaku; illustrations by Kurihara Shin
    Summary

    A serialized erotic narrative follows the troubled marriage of Shōzaburō and Kyōko amid poverty, debt, jealousy, and manipulation. Their relationship becomes entangled with coercive sexual encounters, bondage, humiliation, violence, and shifting control between spouses and outside figures.

  36. The Portrait of Torture by Koshino Yoshio
    Summary

    A confessional narrative recounting the author’s impoverished childhood, his relationship with his mother, and episodes of suffering, coercion, and punishment. The text is accompanied by a photograph of his mother and an illustration dramatizing the article’s sadomasochistic imagery.

  37. An Examination of the Navel: My Bodily-Fetish Record by Sudō Ritsuo
    Summary

    An autobiographical examination of the author’s intense fetishistic interest in women’s navels. It classifies navel shapes and appearances, recalls personal encounters and formative influences, and discusses the fetish’s representation in photographs, films, illustrations, and other visual media.

  38. Bound and Rebound by Numata Masami, romanization uncertain
    Summary

    An editorial-style response to Takahashi Tetsu revisits arguments and terminology from the April issue, especially the definition and translation of “scatology.” The author disputes several dictionary, quotation, and bibliographic claims and criticizes careless editorial handling of sexual-language scholarship.

  39. From a Masochist’s Notebook by Numa Shōzō
    Summary

    A serialized masochist’s notebook presents confessional fantasies of male submission to aristocratic and financially powerful women, including servitude, humiliation, animalization, and the surrender of property and domestic authority. Chapters 54–56 combine narrative letters with illustrations depicting staged scenes of female dominance, slave-wife fantasy, and human-as-animal imagery.

  40. The Buttocks Person by Kimura Michiko
    Summary

    A first-person erotic confession about a woman’s marriage and her husband’s intense fixation on buttocks. The narrative follows marital tensions, relationships with other people, and the eventual emergence of a man whose unusual buttocks fetish reshapes the narrator’s understanding of desire and domestic life.

  41. On the Beauty of Women’s Noses and Nasal Cavities by Masago Jūroku
    Summary

    An illustrated essay on the aesthetic and erotic significance of women’s noses and nostrils, discussing admired examples and standards of facial beauty. It also recounts cosmetic efforts to reshape the nose and narrow the nostrils, including tape-based techniques and photographic documentation.

  42. Rehabilitation of Former Juvenile Soldiers by Maeda Shinji
    Summary

    A narrative about a former child soldier advancing through military training and serving in a remote frontier environment. It depicts harsh discipline, hierarchy, camaraderie, and the protagonist’s efforts to adapt to postwar military life.

  43. Cruel Women by translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō
    Summary

    Morimoto Aizō translates and explains accounts of “cruel women” drawn from a 1901 German illustrated book, presenting historical anecdotes of women abusing servants, enslaved people, and other dependents. The article combines sensational descriptions of torture and punishment with reproduced or referenced foreign illustrations and source commentary.

  44. From Husband to Wife by Kurume Eizō
    Summary

    An exchange of letters between a separated husband and wife reflects on their marriage, jealousy, emotional dependence, and shared experiences of tying during their relationship. Framing bondage as a means of understanding rather than merely controlling one another, the piece presents intimate marital self-examination and confession.

  45. My Model by Tobita Ryōji
    Summary

    A first-person erotic narrative follows a model trainer who recruits and develops a young woman, shaping her appearance, clothing, poses, and professional presentation for fashion and fetish imagery. The story increasingly centers on staged restraint, immobilization, and suspension as the model is transformed into the narrator’s ideal subject.

  46. My Favorite Way of Being Bound by Kawabata Tanako
    Summary

    Kawabata Tanako responds to readers by describing her preferred forms of bondage and recounting intimate experiences of being tied in different positions and with varied rope arrangements. The article is accompanied by erotic photographic and illustrative material depicting restraint.

  47. The Ceremony of the Straw Doll by Segawa Yasuko
    Summary

    Segawa Yasuko introduces and discusses a rare historical erotic text, The Ceremony of Marriage, which presents ritualized marital bondage, abdominal cutting, and violent sexual play through narrative passages, procedural descriptions, and graphic illustrations. The article frames these practices as part of an older sexual-cultural tradition while emphasizing their sadistic and fatalistic imagery.

  48. Reader Correspondence by multiple contributors
    Summary

    A multi-page reader-correspondence section presents letters responding to the magazine’s fiction, illustrations, photographs, and editorial choices, alongside requests, critiques, and discussion of reader interests. It also reflects the participatory culture surrounding Kitan Club through exchanges about submissions, clubs, and future contents.

  49. Editorial and Publication Information
    221
    Summary

    An editorial and publication-information page solicits manuscripts and artwork, explains submission and editorial policies, advertises subscriptions and back issues, and announces club or membership opportunities. It documents the magazine’s administrative and participatory infrastructure as a specialist erotic publication.

Highlights

  • The opening Ise-pilgrimage illustration places bodily exposure within a chaotic public event rather than an isolated private scene (PDF p. 6).
  • The numbered restraint diagrams use shutters, beds, ceilings, frames, ladders, and crossbars to make architecture an active component of bondage (PDF pp. 9–10).
  • The chest-binding photographs provide multiple views of rope routing and torso compression, turning the body into a visual diagram (PDF pp. 19–20).
  • Takiko’s Storehouse and Basement use chains, barrels, ladders, and dark rooms to make captivity environmental (PDF pp. 21–22).
  • The Construction of Tight Binding and Ideas for Torment discusses bondage as a deliberately composed visual and bodily system (PDF pp. 31–40).
  • Diary of My Selfish Heart gives masochism an extended female first-person voice grounded in domestic life, memory, jealousy, and fantasy (PDF pp. 59–72).
  • Uses of Clothing treats corsets, hobble skirts, stockings, and heels as technologies that regulate movement and reshape the body (PDF pp. 89–96).
  • My Record of Perversity traces fascination with beheading and strangulation from childhood images into adult erotic identity (PDF pp. 112–114).
  • Confession of an Effeminate Man offers a substantial first-person account of gender nonconformity within the restrictive language of 1954 (PDF pp. 137–139).
  • An Examination of the Navel turns one small bodily feature into a personal, aesthetic, anatomical, and photographic research subject (PDF pp. 157–160).
  • Numa Shōzō’s From a Masochist’s Notebook constructs an international history of masochism through literature, medicine, biography, and European case studies (PDF pp. 163–168).
  • On the Beauty of Women’s Noses and Nasal Cavities demonstrates the extraordinary specificity of the magazine’s developing fetish taxonomy (PDF pp. 173–175).
  • My Model is the issue’s major late narrative, continuing for sixteen PDF pages and linking artistic observation, posing, restraint, and desire (PDF pp. 189–204).
  • My Favorite Way of Being Bound centers the preferences and bodily experience of the person being tied rather than merely the appearance of the finished pose (PDF pp. 205–206).
  • The four-page reader correspondence section confirms that the issue continues through PDF page 220 and reveals an active network debating terminology, articles, and personal experience (PDF pp. 217–220).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue: