Kitan Club
June 1963
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 6
- PDF pages
- 189
Summary
The June 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines extensive bondage photography, full-page punishment illustration, historical and sociological writing, reader testimony, fetish essays, serialized fiction, and a substantial correspondence section. Its opening visual material establishes the issue’s dominant vocabulary through seated, kneeling, recumbent, and compressed rope positions, several forms of gagging, close attention to posture and bodily exposure, and scenes in which women alternately occupy submissive and dominant roles. A sequence of illustrations by Shima Takashi, Taki Reiko, Kurokawa Fujio, and other artists ranges from bathing and bodily punishment to disembowelment, cigarette torture, historical female cruelty, and same-sex intimacy, linking modern fetish culture to imagined historical and theatrical settings.
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Table of Contents 21 items
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Opening Gravure Portfolio
Summary
An opening photographic portfolio presents staged rope-bondage scenes in which women are restrained in seated, kneeling, reclining, and outdoor positions, with several images featuring gagging, blindfolding, and attention to the mouth and sensory restriction.
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Frontispiece Illustration Portfolio
Summary
A frontispiece illustration portfolio assembles Japanese erotic drawings and staged imagery involving ritualized washing, oral candle punishment, disembowelment and sacrifice motifs, tobacco play, and hierarchical service scenes. The images emphasize female submission, coercion, and stylized punishment fantasy.
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Second Gravure Portfolio
Summary
A second gravure portfolio depicts staged rope-bondage tableaux in domestic, outdoor, and bathing settings, showing women immobilized in varied postures and sometimes gagged or blindfolded.
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One Hundred Forms of Prostitution
Summary
A historical survey of prostitution from the Edo period through early Meiji Tokyo, describing brothels, geisha and sex workers, police regulation, urban entertainment districts, and changing commercial and social practices.
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When a Woman Turns into an Animal
Summary
A cultural and psychological essay, partly prompted by a contemporary novel, about women’s supposedly “animal” instincts as expressed through sexuality, pregnancy, motherhood, and the tension between bodily impulses and modern social restraint.
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The Hot Whip
Summary
A first-person reader account of an erotic encounter involving restraint, whipping, humiliation, and escalating control between partners in a hotel setting, presented as an “abnormal experience” narrative.
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Notes on Masochism
Summary
An essay on masochism tracing its historical development, psychological motivations, and manifestations in contemporary sexual culture, including the relationship between fantasy, confession, and behavior.
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Motomi’s Resistance
Summary
A serialized erotic fiction narrative in which Motomi and other young women are captured, stripped, bound, disciplined, and subjected to escalating sadistic punishments, with repeated attempts at resistance and escape.
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Sadism and Transformation
Summary
An essay examining sadism through transformation fantasies, focusing on the desire to alter or degrade an idealized beautiful body and interpreting such scenarios as expressions of psychological conflict and self-image.
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Tales of Contemporary Female Heroism
Summary
A serialized erotic narrative depicts women using judo skill, physical dominance, and public humiliation to overpower men in confrontational encounters. Dialogue-heavy episodes portray female authority and male submission through staged wrestling and restraint scenarios.
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Razor and Beauty
Summary
An erotic narrative centered on a beautiful woman and a razor explores fascination with body hair, shaving, and intimate grooming through imagined encounters and illustrated scenes. The accompanying imagery emphasizes theatrical erotic spectacle and the razor as a fetish object.
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Rose Insect
Summary
A serialized first-person crime and SM thriller follows a gangster narrator through encounters with women and rival underworld figures, featuring coercive bondage, sexual violence, interrogation, betrayal, and murder amid shifting schemes and identities.
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Toward the Distant Mountains and Rivers, Final Part
Summary
The concluding installment of a serialized historical erotic narrative follows Yukiko and Ichirō through wartime captivity, coercive bondage, sexualized violence, torture, execution, and the emotional aftermath of death and remembrance.
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Concerning a Married Couple’s SM Photographs
Summary
An author’s account of a married couple’s long-running SM photography project describes their domestic S/M roles, staged bondage and punishment scenes, and the preservation of these intimate practices in a photographic record.
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Tales of the Thirty-Ninth Night: Thirty-Fifth Night
Summary
A serialized erotic SM tale follows women subjected to elaborate rope bondage, gagging, suspension, humiliation, and staged photographic display, with escalating sadistic abuse presented as fiction.
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Notes on Women’s Wrestling
Summary
An essay surveys women’s sumo as a spectacle and subculture, discussing historical and contemporary female wrestling troupes, performers’ bodies and techniques, public reception, and the role of photographs and specialist publishing in preserving and promoting the form.
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Notes of a Fetish-Art Maniac
Summary
A playful fetish-art notebook presents illustrated scenarios and mock conversations centered on fetishistic body display, women’s feet, hair and appearance, bondage-like posing, and voyeuristic or staged domestic encounters.
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Kinuyo and I: A Confession of Masochistic Love
Summary
A first-person confession recounting the narrator’s intense, masochistic attachment to Kinuyo, a compelling and often dominant woman, through memories of fascination, humiliation, discipline, and erotic dependence.
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The Sad Wish of a Dreaming Maiden
Summary
A confessional erotic narrative about a dreaming young woman whose seaside fantasies, exposure to spectatorship, bodily vulnerability, and later medical distress become intertwined with longing, shame, and masochistic desire.
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Tower of Sand: An Account of My Wife Natsuko
Summary
A grim first-person erotic fantasy in which a husband recounts the abduction and prolonged captivity of his wife Natsuko, who is subjected to escalating bondage, suspension, gagging, punishment, humiliation, and sadistic torture before a fatal conclusion.
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Reader Communications
Summary
A reader-mail section presents correspondence about erotic photography, bondage and punishment imagery, fetish interests, personal experiences, and requests for advice or publication, alongside editorial replies, reader submissions, and mail-order notices for specialist materials.
Highlights
- The opening photographic portfolios present a broad repertoire of rope positions, gags, kneeling and recumbent restraint, bodily compression, and close studies of the bound body. (PDF pp. 6–13, 22–29).
- A full-page illustrated portfolio depicts bathing punishment, cigarette torture, disembowelment, historical female cruelty, and same-sex erotic scenes by several recurring Kitan Club artists. (PDF pp. 14–21).
- Higuchi Itsuma’s “One Hundred Forms of Prostitution” surveys historical prostitution, pleasure districts, policing, terminology, and urban sexual commerce. (PDF pp. 31–36).
- Hamura Kyōko’s “When a Woman Turns into an Animal” reflects on pregnancy, bodily instinct, femininity, and cultural comparisons between women and animals. (PDF pp. 37–38).
- The reader experience “The Hot Whip” describes an overseas encounter structured around domination, restraint, whipping, and theatrical erotic performance. (PDF pp. 39–44).
- Ōkura Yasuo’s “Notes on Masochism” places individual confession within a broader account of masochistic desire, public expression, and modern fetish culture. (PDF pp. 45–46).
- “Motomi’s Resistance” depicts coercion and punishment within a female group initiation, combining institutional ritual with illustrated erotic fiction. (PDF pp. 47–59).
- The issue’s central essays and stories move through sadism, bodily alteration, women’s heroism, razor imagery, and fantastical bodily torment. (PDF pp. 60–96).
- The concluding installment of “Toward the Distant Mountains and Rivers” develops a historical narrative centered on women, seppuku, endurance, and memory. (PDF pp. 97–116).
- The closing sections combine reader SM photography, serialized fiction, women’s wrestling, confession, long-form fiction, correspondence, classified exchanges, and editorial notices. (PDF pp. 117–189).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
