Kitan Club

April 1956

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The April 1956 issue of Kitan Club is a large, densely varied publication combining staged bondage photography, illustrated historical fantasy, serialized fiction, personal confession, medical and sexological essays, prison memoir, film criticism, reader communications, historical research, book advertising, and editorial notices. Its editorial identity is built on movement between spectacle and inquiry. Images of suspension, gagging, restrictive clothing, captivity, punishment, and female authority are placed beside articles about historical newspapers, fetish development, bodily practices, sadism, masochism, criminality, literature, performance, and visual culture. Unconventional desire is consequently presented as entertainment, testimony, research material, artistic subject, and the basis of an active reader community.

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The issue begins with advertisements, publication catalogs, and a formal illustrated table of contents. The opening editorial portfolio presents Shima Takashi’s inverted suspension image Painful Dream, Miyazaki Shōhei’s public-restraint tableau The Second Exposure Banquet, and a group of studio bondage photographs featuring women restrained in a nylon raincoat, posed kneeling in rope, and gagged with their arms secured behind them. The visual prologue then shifts into illustrated historical and exoticized scenes of abduction, warfare, captivity, forced display, and sexualized punishment. These pages establish a recurring visual language of rope, forced posture, clothing as confinement, public exposure, and the conversion of historical or foreign settings into erotic tableaux.

The principal prose section opens with another installment of Azuma Shin’s Notes on Meiji-Period Newspapers. It assembles reports concerning marriage, prostitution, punishment, crime, bodily abnormality, sexual behavior, and domestic scandal, treating the press as an archive of practices and desires often omitted from conventional histories. Reader communications follow early in the numbered section, placing correspondence and editorial response alongside the magazine’s formal essays rather than reserving participation solely for the closing pages.

A first-person narrative of sexual wandering develops through memory, prostitution, erotic encounters, and reflections on social convention. Black Slave Training adapts an exoticized captivity premise into a story of forced labor, bodily control, and coercive discipline. A Certain Seppuku Maniac’s Essay examines ritual cutting through historical references, private fantasy, pain, blood, and the aesthetic construction of self-destruction. A short film column then discusses women tied or punished in popular New Year films, demonstrating how scenes from mainstream cinema could be isolated and reinterpreted through fetishistic spectatorship.

Haruta Ichirō’s Ten Months in Captivity continues the recurring prison memoir with interrogation, detention, surveillance, institutional routine, punishment, illness, and relationships among prisoners and officials. Its documentary tone contrasts with the surrounding fantasies while preserving the issue’s central concern with bodies subjected to authority. A separate article introduces the Yamaguchi bodybuilding method, presenting exercise, physical development, health, and masculine discipline through testimonial writing. The transition from imprisonment to voluntary training broadens the magazine’s interest in systems that reshape the body through repetition and control.

The Beauty of the Kilt considers clothing, exposed legs, gendered presentation, and the visual effect of Scottish dress. The Taste of the Demon then develops an extended narrative of appetite, illness, medicine, fantasy, and bodily sensation. Its clinical setting and dreamlike tone blur physical disorder and erotic imagination. Nonaka Aizō’s study of Dr. Erskine uses literary and historical examples to discuss cruelty, domination, and sadistic desire.

Thoughts on Female Horse Riding is a lengthy cultural and personal survey of women riding horses. It ranges across Japanese and Western examples, military and aristocratic history, posture, clothing, public spectacle, and erotic observation. The essay demonstrates Kitan Club’s characteristic ability to expand a specialized visual fascination into a broad cultural history. Takarazuka Fumio’s How I Punish Him then returns to explicit female dominance through commands, correction, humiliation, emotional control, and male submission.

Aoyama Yoshiki’s article on the seppuku of female swordswomen combines warrior history, abdominal cutting, anatomy, and an evaluation of literary representations. A reader letter follows, making visible the direct relationship between contributors and the magazine’s audience. The juvenile-reformatory memoir Miserable describes arrest, incarceration, institutional hierarchy, forced routine, fear, and punishment. I Accuse: The Problem of Abu presents a confessional and polemical response to sexual identity, coercive environments, social stigma, and personal grievance. Complete Submission continues Sakata Shinji’s narrative of dependency, humiliation, domination, and progressive surrender.

Nose Prelude presents a personal catalogue of sensations and fantasies associated with the nose, smell, pressure, piercing, and bodily symbolism. Film Bondage Fragments surveys cinematic scenes of tying, suspension, gagging, abduction, and punishment, considering how performance and framing turn coercion into spectacle. Further correspondence allows readers to comment on specialized subjects and exchange examples.

Sakanoe Nobuhiko’s Mania Is Born traces fetishistic identity through childhood impressions, medical incidents, shame, curiosity, and later erotic experience. Suma Ritsuo’s Research on the Navel isolates another body part for sustained consideration, combining anatomy, symbolism, hygiene, observation, and sexual fascination. The translation of Johannes R. Birlinger’s Das Grausame Weib, presented as Cruel Women by Morimoto Aizō, adds European historical examples of female cruelty, domination, and punishment.

A short essay on seppuku desire connects ritual suicide with masochistic fantasy. Afterward, the Bound Actresses provides career and publication notes about women associated with bondage performance and photography, turning the magazine’s models into identifiable participants in a developing visual culture. Sad Love: Kuritaguchi examines jealousy, violence, punishment, and historical melodrama in film.

Komura Jirō’s That Pleasure is one of the issue’s longest psychological narratives. It centers on obsessive memory, illness, hospital treatment, bodily transformation, sexual identity, and the narrator’s relationship with a younger man. The story uses domestic and medical settings to explore desire that cannot be reconciled easily with social expectations. A practical article on authentic scene construction follows, using a detailed suspension diagram to discuss rigging, bodily positioning, and the relation between physical apparatus and the resulting image.

Karii Rei’s Complete Enema Miscellany combines historical anecdotes, clinical procedure, embarrassment, bodily response, and fetishistic interest. Bondage Scenes in Western Painting surveys depictions of captivity, punishment, abduction, and restraint in European art, treating paintings as aesthetic objects and sources of erotic imagery. Kaji Shin’ichi’s The Guest Wife is a long narrative involving marriage, jealousy, deception, coercion, sexual bargaining, and shifting emotional alliances.

A first-person response to the forty-five-centimeter wasp waist discusses corsetry, bodily measurement, discomfort, fashion, discipline, and reshaping the torso. Kasagi Toshirō’s historical series on Oda Nobunaga continues with a chapter interpreting the warlord through military history, religious conflict, cruelty, rumor, sexual inversion, and personal relationships. The short comic feature X’s Butt narrows attention to a particular anatomical fascination, while Women’s Belly Argument examines abdominal binding, belts, corsets, clothing, posture, and the visual treatment of women’s waists. Collar of Speech discusses a restraint or punishment device through anecdotal and historical material.

The editorially compiled Corncob Story Collection gathers sexual, medical, and comic anecdotes involving an ordinary object. Its miscellany format illustrates the magazine’s continuing effort to catalogue unusual practices and reader-supplied curiosities. The second installment of Red Flowers Are Crying then expands far beyond its opening pages. Matsui Matoko’s serial, illustrated by Kitahara Junko, develops domestic secrecy, illness, restraint, coercive encounters, and threatened violence through an extended melodramatic sequence.

The final original narrative, Confession of Lost Love, is a first-person account of frustrated romance, humiliation, memory, loneliness, and the persistence of erotic longing after rejection. Its confessional mode shifts the issue away from spectacular bodily punishment toward emotional injury and social isolation. The closing reader communications include comments on earlier material, requests for illustrations and photographs, reactions to the magazine’s models and themes, and proposals for new reader groups and special issues. These pages reveal an audience actively shaping the publication through criticism, submissions, requests, and collaborative schemes.

The remaining back matter contains catalogs for Kitan Club books, related erotic and sexological publications, special editions, art collections, correspondence projects, subscription information, forthcoming-issue notices, and editorial announcements. A notice solicits advance subscriptions for a planned seppuku-picture collection, while the final pages promote upcoming publications and preserve the magazine’s role as a hub connecting readers, writers, artists, models, collectors, and specialist publishers.

Across the issue, bodily control is approached through rope, clothing, corsets, imprisonment, reform institutions, surgery, exercise, horseback riding, enemas, historical punishment, and staged photography. The magazine repeatedly turns isolated body parts or objects into specialized fields of investigation, including the nose, navel, waist, buttocks, kilts, collars, and corn cobs. Female authority appears through punishment narratives, cruel-woman histories, warrior suicide, and visual tableaux, while male vulnerability is explored through prison memoir, submission, bodily obsession, same-sex desire, and emotional rejection. The issue’s distinctive editorial achievement lies in fusing historical documentation, personal confession, visual fantasy, practical technique, criticism, serial fiction, and reader correspondence into a shared archive of unconventional sexuality.

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Table of Contents 52 items
  1. Painful Dream by Shima Takashi
    6
    Summary

    An illustrated dream sequence portrays a woman bound with rope and suspended upside down, awakening in an atmosphere of painful suffocation and distress.

  2. The Second Exposure Banquet by Miyazaki Shōhei
    7
    Summary

    This illustrated erotic scene depicts a strange banquet in which a bound participant is displayed before an amused gathering, following an episode of coercive drinking and exposure.

  3. Nylon Raincoat
    8
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a model bound while wearing a nylon raincoat, emphasizing the garment’s tactile and fetishistic appeal.

  4. What Kind of Pose Shall I Take?
    9
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents model Sagawa Michiko posed seated and bound with a rope, accompanied by a caption describing her first experience of being tied for the camera.

  5. My Wrists Hurt, Untie Me Quickly
    10
    Summary

    A photographic feature shows model Kaga Rieko in several tightly bound poses, with the accompanying text dramatizing discomfort as the rope tightens around her wrists and circulation is affected.

  6. Night Thief by Shima Takashi
    11
    Summary

    This illustrated historical erotic tale follows a warlord’s daughter who is captured by opportunistic thieves amid the chaos of the Warring States period and subjected to sexualized captivity.

  7. Warring States by Shima Takashi
    Summary

    A richly illustrated historical erotic fiction presents Hime’s capture by armed men during Japan’s Warring States period, followed by repeated scenes of gagging, binding, pursuit, rescue, and renewed captivity.

  8. Notes on Meiji-Period Newspapers by Azuma Shin
    Summary

    This historical newspaper survey assembles Meiji-era reports and advertisements concerning marriage, women’s schooling and compulsory nude physical examinations, domestic abuse, sensational murders, and the administration of corporal punishment in Korea.

  9. Reader Communications
    23
    Summary

    A reader-correspondence page presents letters and editorial replies about the magazine’s reception, readership, requested subjects, and submitted material, while inviting continued contributions and support.

  10. Wandering in Swaddling Clothes by Hanno Tōma
    Summary

    A first-person fetish narrative recounts the writer’s fascination with diapers and diaper-like garments, describing encounters, fantasies, remembered incidents, and the influence of Japanese and imported erotic imagery.

  11. Black Slave Training by Kuroiwa Iwao
    Summary

    An erotic fantasy recounts a white youth’s capture and enslavement of a Black girl on a South Seas island, including domestic labor, chaining, corporal discipline, and sexualized domination.

  12. A Certain Seppuku Maniac's Essay by Kasahara Magonosuke
    Summary

    Framed as a passionate letter, this dark erotic fantasy describes a lover’s fixation on seppuku, blood, blades, bodily injury, and sadomasochistic surrender.

  13. Women Bound in Enjoyable New Year Films by Minega Miya
    33
    Summary

    This film-oriented feature surveys Japanese New Year movie scenes in which actresses are captured, tied, suspended, or otherwise restrained, discussing the staging and appeal of bondage imagery.

  14. Ten Months in Captivity by Haruta Ichirō
    Summary

    A first-person memoir of ten months in prison, describing confinement, penal labor, meals, medical routines, relations among inmates and staff, and the humiliations and tensions of institutional life.

  15. Introduction to the Yamaguchi Bodybuilding Method by Yamaguchi Kōichi
    Summary

    An instructional presentation of the Yamaguchi bodybuilding method, explaining exercises, equipment, body-strengthening routines, and practical training experiences intended to improve physical development.

  16. The Beauty of the Kilt by Kashimura Takehiko
    43
    Summary

    An essay on the erotic and aesthetic appeal of the kilt as a revealing garment, considering bodily exposure, tight clothing, spectatorship, and the psychological responses produced by dress and partial nudity.

  17. The Taste of the Demon by Takagi Nobuo
    Summary

    Takagi Nobuo combines observations of animal excretion and mating behavior with autobiographical accounts of fetishistic encounters, exploring the erotic significance of feces, enemas, and other taboo bodily pleasures.

  18. The Sadism of Dr. Erskine by Nonaka Aizō
    Summary

    Nonaka Aizō presents a literary-psychological study of Dostoevsky’s sadistic imagination, connecting episodes from the author’s life, family background, writings, and reception to recurring themes of cruelty, domination, and sexualized violence.

  19. Thoughts on Female Horse Riding by Baba Takatsugu
    Summary

    Baba Takatsugu reflects on the erotic meanings of women riding horses, combining personal recollections, magazine and film references, riding attire, bodily movement, and fantasies of female physical power and display.

  20. How I Punish Him by Takarazuka Fumio
    Summary

    An erotic narrative depicts a male subject being disciplined by dominant women through elaborate bondage, blindfolding, gagging, positional restraint, and sensory control, interwoven with dialogue and staged scenes.

  21. On the Seppuku of Female Swordswomen by Aoyama Yoshiki
    Summary

    This essay examines the eroticized image and symbolism of female swordswomen performing seppuku, discussing traditional clothing, ritual staging, bodily detail, blood, and the appeal of the scene in historical and visual culture.

  22. Letter to Kasuga Rune by Moriguchi Ayako
    66
    Summary

    A reader letter to Kasuga Rumi expresses a male devotee’s desire to serve a female dominant, recounting submissive fantasies and requesting continued interaction and guidance.

  23. Miserable
    Summary

    A first-person account of life in a juvenile correctional institution describes solitary confinement, forced nudity, beatings, humiliating punishments, and the arbitrary brutality of institutional discipline.

  24. I Accuse: The Problem of Abu by Mizukami Ryūtarō
    Summary

    Mizukami Ryūtarō presents a provocative first-person “accusation” of Abu while reflecting on sadism, masochism, gendered desire, violence, and the psychological boundary between erotic fascination and cruelty.

  25. Complete Submission by Sakata Shinji
    Summary

    Sakata Shinji recounts formative experiences of harsh paternal and educational discipline, including beatings, fear, shame, and eventual submission to overwhelming authority.

  26. Nose Prelude by Kitaya Eiji
    Summary

    An essay on the erotic and imaginative significance of the nose, illustrated with botanical and fetish imagery, that also discusses piercing, hooks, restraints, and the construction and use of a leg-spreading bondage device.

  27. Film Bondage Fragments by Midori Takehiko
    Summary

    A critical essay examines bondage and suspension scenes in Japanese and foreign films, recalling specific productions and evaluating the realism, staging, visual impact, and physical mechanics of their restraint sequences.

  28. Reader Communications
    85
    Summary

    A reader-correspondence page presents letters and editorial replies about the magazine’s reception, readership, requested subjects, and submitted material, while inviting continued contributions and support.

  29. Mania Is Born by Sakanoe Nobuhiko
    Summary

    A first-person autobiographical narrative traces the author’s path from youthful aviation ambitions through wartime and postwar experiences, culminating in an encounter that awakens his fascination with fetishistic bodily practices, restraint, and enema imagery.

  30. Research on the Navel by Suma Ritsuo
    Summary

    This pseudo-scientific and sexological essay surveys navel shapes, positions, bodily development, and aesthetic judgments, combining comparative observations, anecdotal evidence, and erotic interpretations of the navel as a fetishized body part.

  31. Cruel Women by Johannes R. Birlinger
    Summary

    A translated chapter examines women’s desires for control and examples of female cruelty, domination, and violence in intimate, social, and historical settings.

  32. Seppuku Desire by Sawato Kiyokatsu
    Summary

    An essay explores fantasies of seppuku and the psychological meanings of knives, bodily penetration, self-harm imagery, and imagined death, linking these motifs to erotic and masochistic desire.

  33. Afterward, the Bound Actresses by Masuoka Kinkichi
    Summary

    A survey of actresses in stage and screen productions describes memorable scenes in which women are captured, tied, gagged, restrained, or otherwise subjected to bondage and punishment, with attention to their performances and visual appeal.

  34. Sad Love: Kuritaguchi by Jūji Kōsuke
    Summary

    This historical erotic tragedy follows lovers in the Edo period whose forbidden relationship leads to pursuit, betrayal, captivity, torture, execution, and a fatal reunion amid a deeply mournful romance.

  35. That Pleasure by Komura Jirō
    Summary

    A first-person erotic narrative follows a man’s growing fascination with feminine performance and transformation, culminating in his being dressed, restrained, and subjected to punishment as he discovers masochistic ecstasy.

  36. Authentic Scene Punishment by Mizui Shōjirō
    Summary

    A practical, diagram-supported account explains how to construct and use a sheet-based restraint apparatus for staged punishment, including the positioning and binding of the subject’s limbs.

  37. Complete Enema Miscellany by Karii Rei
    Summary

    This essay surveys enema practices as erotic and medicalized activities, relating bodily sensation and female pleasure to historical imagery, changing sexual culture, and modern fetish interests.

  38. Bondage Scenes in Western Painting by Samaki Seisaku
    Summary

    An essay examines bondage scenes in Western paintings and related films, comparing how tied, restrained, and imperiled bodies are staged through composition, props, lighting, and dramatic action. It treats these images as part of a broader history of erotic visual representation.

  39. The Guest Wife by Kaji Shin'ichi
    Summary

    This erotic fiction follows Tanida’s increasingly controlling encounter with Tsubomi, a woman he meets while traveling, as flirtation develops into prolonged bondage, humiliation, and coerced sexual play in domestic and public settings. The narrative emphasizes escalating restraint, voyeuristic staging, and the unstable boundary between desire and domination.

  40. In Response to the Forty-Five-Centimeter Wasp Waist by Ebima Yōko
    Summary

    In a personal response about achieving a forty-five-centimeter “wasp waist,” the writer describes corset wearing, tightlacing routines, bodily discomfort, and the emotional appeal of reshaping the torso through sustained discipline. The account presents waist training as both an intimate bodily practice and a clothing-centered fetish.

  41. Hero of Inversion: Oda Nobunaga, Chapter Six by Kasagi Toshirō
    Summary

    A historical essay on Oda Nobunaga examines his authoritarian samurai ethos, reputation for cruelty, executions, military campaigns, and ambition to conquer China, presenting his violence and downfall through a psychologically and sexually charged portrait.

  42. X's Butt by Kawase Kazumi
    Summary

    An illustrated erotic narrative centers on a woman’s exposed buttocks, voyeuristic observation, bodily humiliation, and the violent cutting of an X-shaped mark, blending sensational storytelling with fetish imagery.

  43. Women's Belly Argument by Odai Fumi
    Summary

    A humorous illustrated essay debates women’s abdominal shape, fatness, pregnancy, clothing, and bodily exposure while discussing changing beauty standards and presenting stylized visual examples of female bodies.

  44. Collar of Speech by Tsujimura Takashi
    Summary

    An essayistic miscellany considers “abnormal” sexuality in modern fiction, film, and theatrical culture through literary commentary, anecdotes, and observations about erotic behavior and artistic representation.

  45. Corncob Story Collection by Editorial Department
    Summary

    The editorial department reviews and contextualizes unpublished reader manuscripts, then presents an erotic narrative about sisters subjected to coercion, captivity, humiliation, and sexualized control.

  46. Red Flowers Are Crying, Part Two by Matsui Matoko
    Summary

    The second installment follows Misako through preparations for marriage and a highly charged domestic and wedding setting in which family power, sexual vulnerability, and coercive erotic tension increasingly shape her experience.

  47. Confession of Lost Love by Jō Hideto
  48. Reader Communications
    Summary

    A reader-correspondence page presents letters and editorial replies about the magazine’s reception, readership, requested subjects, and submitted material, while inviting continued contributions and support.

  49. Latest Kitan Club Books and Special Publications
  50. Reader Communications and Next-Issue Notice
    174
  51. Latest Books and Publication Catalog
    175
  52. Editorial and Publication Information
    176

Highlights

  • The formal illustrated contents page organizes pictorial features, historical essays, fiction, confessions, recurring series, film criticism, and reader-oriented material. (PDF p. 4).
  • The opening visual portfolio includes inverted suspension, a public exposure banquet, raincoat bondage, kneeling rope poses, and gagged restraint. (PDF pp. 6–10).
  • A sequence of illustrated historical and exoticized scenes depicts abduction, warfare, captivity, forced display, and sexualized punishment. (PDF pp. 11–13).
  • Notes on Meiji-Period Newspapers assembles historical reports concerning marriage, prostitution, punishment, crime, bodily abnormality, and sexual behavior. (PDF pp. 15–19).
  • A Certain Seppuku Maniac's Essay examines ritual cutting through historical reference, private fantasy, pain, blood, and aesthetic fascination. (PDF pp. 27–29).
  • Ten Months in Captivity continues its account of interrogation, detention, institutional routine, illness, punishment, and prison authority. (PDF pp. 31–36).
  • The Yamaguchi bodybuilding article treats exercise and physical development as systems of disciplined bodily transformation. (PDF pp. 37–39).
  • The Taste of the Demon combines illness, medicine, appetite, dreamlike perception, and bodily sensation. (PDF pp. 41–45).
  • Thoughts on Female Horse Riding surveys Japanese and Western history, clothing, posture, aristocratic culture, and erotic spectatorship. (PDF pp. 49–54).
  • How I Punish Him presents female authority through commands, emotional control, humiliation, and male submission. (PDF pp. 55–60).
  • The article on female swordswomen's seppuku combines anatomy, warrior history, abdominal cutting, and evaluation of literary accounts. (PDF pp. 61–62).
  • Miserable describes juvenile-reformatory life through arrest, institutional hierarchy, forced routine, fear, and punishment. (PDF pp. 64–66).
  • Complete Submission continues a narrative of dependency, domination, humiliation, and progressive surrender. (PDF pp. 71–74).
  • Nose Prelude catalogues erotic and sensory associations involving smell, pressure, piercing, bodily symbolism, and personal memory. (PDF pp. 75–77).
  • Film Bondage Fragments surveys cinematic scenes of tying, suspension, abduction, gagging, and punishment. (PDF pp. 78–81).
  • Mania Is Born traces fetishistic identity through childhood impressions, medical incidents, shame, curiosity, and later sexual experience. (PDF pp. 83–87).
  • Research on the Navel combines anatomy, cultural symbolism, hygiene, bodily observation, and erotic fascination. (PDF pp. 88–90).
  • The translation of Das Grausame Weib presents European historical examples of female cruelty, domination, and punishment. (PDF pp. 91–92).
  • Afterward, the Bound Actresses provides career and publication notes about women associated with bondage performance and photography. (PDF pp. 95–96).
  • That Pleasure is a long narrative involving obsessive memory, illness, hospital treatment, bodily transformation, and socially difficult desire. (PDF pp. 101–108).
  • A practical feature uses a suspension diagram to discuss authentic bondage staging, bodily positioning, and rigging apparatus. (PDF pp. 109–110).
  • Complete Enema Miscellany combines historical anecdotes, clinical procedure, humiliation, and fetishistic bodily response. (PDF pp. 111–113).
  • Bondage Scenes in Western Painting surveys captivity, punishment, abduction, and restraint in European visual art. (PDF pp. 114–116).
  • The Guest Wife is a long narrative of marriage, jealousy, deception, coercion, and shifting sexual alliances. (PDF pp. 117–124).
  • The wasp-waist confession discusses corsetry, measurement, discomfort, fashion, discipline, and reshaping the torso. (PDF pp. 125–126).
  • The Oda Nobunaga study combines biography, military history, cruelty, religion, rumor, and interpretations of sexual inversion. (PDF pp. 127–134).
  • Women's Belly Argument examines abdominal binding, belts, corsetry, clothing, posture, and representations of women's waists. (PDF pp. 137–140).
  • The Corncob Story Collection compiles sexual, medical, and comic anecdotes centered on an ordinary object. (PDF pp. 143–148).
  • Red Flowers Are Crying, Part Two, develops domestic secrecy, illness, restraint, coercive encounters, and threatened violence. (PDF pp. 149–158).
  • Confession of Lost Love is a first-person account of rejection, loneliness, humiliation, memory, and lingering erotic attachment. (PDF pp. 159–162).
  • The closing communications contain reader reactions, requests for imagery, proposals for specialist groups, and editorial replies. (PDF pp. 163–164, 171).
  • Catalogs, forthcoming-issue notices, special-edition advertisements, subscription information, and editorial announcements form the closing back matter. (PDF pp. 165–173).

Contributors

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