Kitan Club
June 1962
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 6
- PDF pages
- 126
Summary
The June 1962 issue of Kitan Club combines a substantial opening visual section with serialized fiction, adapted stories, personal testimony, cultural commentary, and shorter reader-oriented contributions. Its editorial identity centers on bondage, punishment, submission, bodily endurance, and psychological domination, approached through staged photography, commissioned illustration, crime and suspense fiction, confessional writing, historical fantasy, and commentary on sadomasochistic imagery in cinema and popular culture.
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Table of Contents 28 items
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Weight Test
Summary
An erotic illustration depicts a woman restrained beneath a weighted board while a man supervises a test involving suspended weights.
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Wax-Tear Characters
Summary
An erotic illustration shows a restrained woman undergoing a ritualized scene in which a man appears to inscribe or apply material to her body, evoking wax tears and characters.
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Punishment at the Foot of the Bridge
Summary
An erotic illustration depicts a woman bound and kneeling at the foot of a bridge as part of a public outdoor punishment tableau.
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Fantasy of the Sea: The Seal and the Beauty
Summary
An erotic illustration depicts a bound woman reclining amid rough seas and rain while a seal rises behind her, presenting a surreal fantasy of the sea.
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Reverse Hold
Summary
A staged erotic photograph titled “Reverse Hold” shows a woman kneeling over and physically controlling a prone man in a wrestling-style restraint.
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The Flower of the Storage Shed
Summary
An erotic illustration shows a woman restrained to a chair with ropes around her limbs while a man supports or handles her in a dim storage-shed setting.
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A Nasty Prank
Summary
An erotic illustration depicts a man restraining a seated woman while forcing her mouth open in a cruel prank.
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A Business Girl's Suicide
Summary
An erotic illustration presents a businesswoman kneeling beside a bed with her clothing pulled open and apparent dark stains beneath her, depicting a sensationalized suicide scene.
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Wet Statue
Summary
A photographic bondage study shows a nude woman tightly bound with rope across her torso, arms, and legs in a stylized restrained pose.
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Beauty Between the Boards
Summary
A photographic feature presents a woman posed in multiple rope-bound positions on a wooden-floored interior, emphasizing the visual beauty and composition of kinbaku restraint.
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Writhing Toward the Black Serpent
Summary
A photographic sequence depicts a woman tightly bound on bedding and interacting with a dark rod or cane in an eroticized “black serpent” scenario.
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The Process of Ebi-zeme Play
Summary
A step-by-step photographic feature documents the progression of an ebi-zeme rope-bondage scene, including seated and floor-bound positions, gagging, and manipulation with a rod.
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The Chains of Imprisonment
Summary
A photographic feature presents a woman immobilized with heavy chains in a series of staged imprisonment and bondage scenes.
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I Do Not Want to Go Over There
Summary
A staged photographic sequence depicts a woman resisting being taken away while partially undressed, restrained, and overpowered in a captivity scenario.
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The Whipped Woman
Summary
Nashihana Yuko’s photographic feature portrays a woman bound with cloth and subjected to whipping or punishment in several staged scenes.
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Fantasy of Female Seppuku
Summary
A staged photographic fantasy depicts a woman enacting ritualized female seppuku with a sword, emphasizing theatricalized death, vulnerability, and erotic spectacle.
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Happy Enslavement
Summary
A staged sequence portrays a dominant woman restraining, gagging, and disciplining a male captive with ropes and a cane, presenting enslavement as a comic yet coercive erotic scenario.
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The Naked Corpse
Summary
Setsushun Haruka’s illustrated erotic fiction follows publishers, executives, and their associates through blackmail, sexual coercion, captivity, violence, and elaborate restraint fantasies.
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My Experience
Summary
A young female telephone operator recounts discovering her masochistic desires through the magazine and developing an emotionally intense, same-sex relationship with S, including experiments in restraint and submission before their eventual separation.
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The Iron Finger
Summary
This fictional narrative follows Maki, a forceful woman moving through postwar Japanese and military-associated settings, whose unusual strength and “iron finger” enable her to dominate, punish, and humiliatingly overcome men and other antagonists.
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Cruel Scenes of the Silver Screen
Summary
A film commentary surveys memorable cruel and torturous scenes from Japanese cinema, especially period films, emphasizing the visual staging of suffering, punishment, and sadistic spectacle.
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Akemi, Writhing in Agony
Summary
A serialized erotic fiction follows Akemi, a stage performer whose role as a female thief leads to increasingly elaborate bondage, restraint, punishment, and coercive performances before a violent resolution.
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A Strange Tale of Mourning Love
Summary
This historical erotic tale centers on Edo-period physician Sugita Genpaku and an anatomical dissection, blending medical curiosity, morbid romance, and elaborate scenes of restraint and suffering.
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A Wife's Account
Summary
Presented as a wife’s account, this narrative describes married domestic life shaped by a husband’s controlling fetishism, including prescribed kimono and underwear, bondage, humiliation, and eroticized restraint.
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Somewhere in the Universe
Summary
A serialized SM story follows enslaved and captive characters subjected to confinement, restraints, coercive discipline, and sadistic domestic control, with recurring tensions between submission, escape, and ownership.
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Dark Sorrow: Legs and Sadism
Summary
An illustrated essay examines erotic fixation on women’s legs and bodily form in relation to sadistic desire, using photographic examples and speculative psychological classification.
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Impure Sacred Object
Summary
This section presents an impure-sacred-object fantasy built around a women’s toilet and voyeuristic or fetishistic workplace humor, followed by masochistic fantasy involving female authority, enforced service, and horse riding.
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The Banquet of Pan
Summary
A serialized erotic fantasy follows girls drawn into a sinister religious institution, where coercive priests and ritualized worship subject them to captivity, punishment, humiliation, and violent sacrificial scenarios. The illustrated narrative builds a grotesque atmosphere around forbidden rites, supernatural imagery, and the conflict between religious authority and bodily resistance.
Highlights
- A formal illustrated contents spread identifies the principal fiction, essays, confessions, visual portfolios, and recurring columns, with printed pagination extending considerably beyond the preserved final page. (PDF p. 4).
- The opening visual section presents a long succession of illustrated and photographic bondage scenarios, moving from pulp-style drawings to studio photography and sequential narrative tableaux. (PDF pp. 6–29).
- Wet Statue, composed by Tsukamoto Tetsuzo, begins a series of photographic rope studies emphasizing pose, bodily tension, and the transformation of a model into a sculptural object. (PDF pp. 14–18).
- Happy Enslavement reverses the dominant visual pattern of the opening portfolios by depicting a seated woman directing and controlling a restrained man. (PDF pp. 27–29).
- Setsushun Haruka's The Naked Corpse is the issue's opening long-form fiction, combining newspaper-office intrigue, kidnapping, imprisonment, murder, and elaborate punishment imagery. (PDF pp. 31–40).
- Matsumoto Sachiko's My Experience offers a first-person account of an intense relationship between women and the narrator's recognition of her own masochistic responses. (PDF pp. 41–44).
- Nishida Jin's The Iron Finger is a pulp adventure set partly outside Japan, mixing violence, military and colonial settings, criminal encounters, and coercive sexuality. (PDF pp. 45–51).
- Saji Kumazo's Somewhere in the Universe introduces speculative-fiction imagery and an otherworldly setting into an issue otherwise dominated by contemporary and historical scenarios. (PDF pp. 75–88).
- Minakata Yoshio's illustrated essay on legs and sadism examines a specific bodily fetish through commentary and photographic examples. (PDF pp. 89–92).
- The later pages form a dense miscellany of reader essays, film commentary, recollections, practical notes, and illustrated contributions, giving the magazine the character of an active specialist community rather than a fiction anthology alone. (PDF pp. 108–126).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:


