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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The issue opens with an illustrated contents spread and a long sequence of pictorial features. These range from drawn scenes of restraint and punishment to staged photographic portfolios employing rope, chains, gags, implements, and hierarchical role-play. Several sequences are constructed as miniature narratives rather than isolated images, including Wet Statue, Beauty Between the Boards, Writhing Toward the Black Serpent, The Process of Ebi-zeme Play, The Chains of Imprisonment, I Do Not Want to Go Over There, The Whipped Woman, Fantasy of Female Seppuku, and Happy Enslavement. The visual material alternates between theatrical tableaux, domestic interiors, historical costume, and modern studio settings.

The principal prose section begins with Setsushun Haruka’s The Naked Corpse, a crime-inflected story involving journalists, business intrigue, abduction, captivity, and elaborately staged punishment. It is followed by Matsumoto Sachiko’s first-person My Experience, a confessional account organized around an intimate female relationship and the narrator’s developing awareness of masochistic desire. Nishida Jin’s The Iron Finger shifts to an overseas-set pulp adventure involving a Japanese protagonist, violence, coercion, and encounters shaped by colonial and military circumstances.

Later contributions broaden the issue’s register. Yoshida Kazuo surveys cruel or punitive scenes in motion pictures, while Kondo Kageichi’s Akemi, Writhing in Agony adopts a more intimate fictional mode. Ito Etsuyo’s A Strange Tale of Mourning Love and Maki Takashi’s A Wife’s Account move between historical melodrama, domestic confession, and punishment narratives. Saji Kumazo’s Somewhere in the Universe introduces speculative-fiction elements, contrasting with Minakata Yoshio’s essay on legs and sadism and Toyama Kazuhiko’s Impure Sacred Object. The final major fiction, Kashii Takahiko’s The Banquet of Pan, develops an extended fantasy of ritualized submission and mythic eroticism.

The closing pages shift into shorter essays, reminiscences, reader reports, notes on foreign films, practical observations, and illustrated columns. These contributions reinforce the magazine’s community character by mixing personal testimony with commentary on performance, cinema, modeling, rope practice, and readers’ reactions. The preserved issue ends during a continuing article, while the printed contents indicates additional material beyond the final preserved page.

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Table of Contents 28 items
  1. Weight Test by Kurokawa Fujio
    6
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a woman restrained beneath a weighted board while a man supervises a test involving suspended weights.

  2. Wax-Tear Characters by Shima Takashi
    7
    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.

  3. Punishment at the Foot of the Bridge by Shima Takashi
    8
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a woman bound and kneeling at the foot of a bridge as part of a public outdoor punishment tableau.

  4. Fantasy of the Sea: The Seal and the Beauty by Ryu Reiko
    9
    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.

  5. Reverse Hold
    10
    Summary

    A staged erotic photograph titled “Reverse Hold” shows a woman kneeling over and physically controlling a prone man in a wrestling-style restraint.

  6. The Flower of the Storage Shed by Kurokawa Fujio
    11
    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.

  7. A Nasty Prank by Kurokawa Fujio
    12
    Summary

    An erotic illustration depicts a man restraining a seated woman while forcing her mouth open in a cruel prank.

  8. A Business Girl's Suicide by Ryu Reiko
    13
    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.

  9. Wet Statue by Tsukamoto Tetsuzo
    14
    Summary

    A photographic bondage study shows a nude woman tightly bound with rope across her torso, arms, and legs in a stylized restrained pose.

  10. Beauty Between the Boards by Kinukawa Fumiyo
    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.

  11. 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.

  12. The Process of Ebi-zeme Play by Otsuka Keiko
    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.

  13. The Chains of Imprisonment
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a woman immobilized with heavy chains in a series of staged imprisonment and bondage scenes.

  14. I Do Not Want to Go Over There
    23
    Summary

    A staged photographic sequence depicts a woman resisting being taken away while partially undressed, restrained, and overpowered in a captivity scenario.

  15. The Whipped Woman by Nashihana Yuko
    24
    Summary

    Nashihana Yuko’s photographic feature portrays a woman bound with cloth and subjected to whipping or punishment in several staged scenes.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. The Naked Corpse by Setsushun Haruka
    Summary

    Setsushun Haruka’s illustrated erotic fiction follows publishers, executives, and their associates through blackmail, sexual coercion, captivity, violence, and elaborate restraint fantasies.

  19. My Experience by Matsumoto Sachiko
    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.

  20. The Iron Finger by Nishida Jin
    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.

  21. Cruel Scenes of the Silver Screen by Yoshida Kazuo
    57
    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.

  22. Akemi, Writhing in Agony by Kondo Kageichi
    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.

  23. A Strange Tale of Mourning Love by Ito Etsuyo
    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.

  24. A Wife's Account by Maki Takashi
    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.

  25. Somewhere in the Universe by Saji Kumazo
    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.

  26. Dark Sorrow: Legs and Sadism by Minakata Yoshio
    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.

  27. Impure Sacred Object by Toyama Kazuhiko
    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.

  28. The Banquet of Pan by Kashii Takahiko
    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

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