Kitan Club
April 1962
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 4
- PDF pages
- 150
Summary
Kitan Club, April 1962 is a densely illustrated Japanese specialist magazine combining erotic photography, fetish-oriented fiction, personal confession, reader correspondence, essays, visual criticism, and commercial notices. Its editorial identity is announced by the cover designation as a research journal of contemporary customs and sexual culture, while the contents and advertisements place the issue within an organized postwar publishing and mail-order network devoted to SADO, bondage, model photography, illustrated narratives, and related publications.
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Table of Contents 39 items
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Cover: Fūryū Iroha Karuta
Summary
The cover presents Kitan Club’s April 1962 identity alongside staged erotic imagery and the magazine’s bilingual title treatment.
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Sugiba Ibushi
Summary
A theatrical monochrome illustration centers a partially nude, strongly dominant female figure set against subordinate male figures and elaborate costume.
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The Scarred Man
Summary
A captioned illustration depicts a threatening, disfigured man controlling a doll-like or bound figure, using bodily abnormality and captivity as sensational motifs.
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The Beautiful Abnormality
Summary
A staged illustration places a woman between two men in a scene of betrayal, punishment, and visual control.
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The Eerie Locked Room
Summary
A bound woman and a nearby male figure occupy an enclosed room, emphasizing confinement, menace, and immobilization.
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The Precious Jewel in the Hand
Summary
A man carries or possesses a partly nude woman in a staged tableau that treats the female body as an object of control and possession.
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By Day a President, by Night a Slave
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A captioned illustration reverses social and gender status by showing a formally dressed woman dominating a man, explicitly contrasting public authority with private enslavement.
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Heavy Falling Object
Summary
A bound figure and an implied falling weight create a staged scenario of physical danger, immobilization, and coercive spectacle.
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The Maidservant’s Self-Disembowelment
Summary
A traditionally dressed woman with a blade introduces feudal service, obedience, and self-sacrifice into the opening illustration sequence.
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The Ecstatic Realm of Ropes and Cords
Summary
A large photographic program documents rope binding, foot restraint, hands-behind suspension, domestic bondage poses, seppuku staging, dominant and submissive roles, and outdoor suspension.
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Women’s Blood-red Seppuku
Summary
A staged photographic sequence presents a woman performing seppuku play with a mirror, prop blade, theatrical blood, and ritualized self-harm imagery.
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Female Dominant and Slave: The Realm of Masochism
Summary
A domestic photographic portfolio shows a dominant woman and male submissive in kneeling, foot-focused, costume, and restraint scenarios.
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The Actual Practice of Bondage Photography: Neck Rope and Hands-Tied-Behind111 visible on opening page; complete pagination uncertain
Summary
An illustrated practical essay explains how to produce bondage photographs, including equipment, lighting, framing, rope configurations, poses, expressions, and the photographer’s direction of the model.
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Mami and Shinobu
Summary
This first-person confessional fiction follows an intimate relationship structured by bondage, pain, endurance, domination, submission, and shifting master-slave roles. The installment concludes on printed page 53.
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Nose, Rope, and Me
Summary
A first-person fetish narrative centers on fascination with the female nose and develops through ropes, gags, handcuffs, humiliation, coercive fantasy, and reflections on authorship.
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Somewhere in the Universe
Summary
A long serialized SM novel moves from harsh school discipline into prison, escape, recapture, medical examination, dissection, electrical stimulation, and institutional bodily control.
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Human Ego
Summary
An essay questions human claims to superiority by juxtaposing animal slaughter with executions, experimentation, and other forms of human cruelty.
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The Grave of Fallen Leaves
Summary
An episodic narrative of Masako and Teizō combines coercive sexuality, humiliation, restraint, memory, and sadomasochistic fantasy with integrated illustrations.
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From the Notes of a Certain Enema Maniac
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A fetish-cultural essay discusses enema practices, collecting, magazine imagery, and changing prewar and postwar attitudes toward domestic medical and sexual practices.
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From My Abdominal-Seppuku Experience Record
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A first-person account describes a ritualized abdominal-cutting fantasy involving preparation, a blade, blood, pain, and theatrical observation of the body.
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Fantasia Masochistica
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A dreamlike dialogue presents a male submissive dominated by women through commands, riding imagery, restraint, punishment, and humiliation.
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A Woman’s Record: The Heike Settlement
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A continuing first-person narrative links a bound woman and a rural community to inherited discrimination, poverty, forced labor, wartime flight, policing, family conflict, and survival.
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On Cross-dressing Play
Summary
A confessional contribution discusses makeup, wigs, clothing, cross-dressing, erotic role-play, restraint, dependency, and humiliation.
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Girls’ Sumo and Wrestling Scenes
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A confession traces a fascination with girls’ sumo and wrestling through memories, local contests, holds, throws, and increasingly elaborate scenes of female physical domination.
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Strange Tales Salon: A Solitary View of Life
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An essay reflects on loneliness, modern alienation, readership, correspondence, and the magazine as a social and intellectual network.
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Seppuku Photos: Review and Reputation
Summary
A visual-criticism column evaluates staged seppuku photography through composition, props, costume, makeup, blood effects, continuity, and the balance between theatricality and photographic realism.
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The Bars of the Mental Hospital
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An autobiographical account of psychiatric hospitalization describes ward routines, electrotherapy, restraints, surveillance, stigma, correspondence, and eventual release.
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A Love Letter
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An extended exchange of intimate letters discusses marriage, pregnancy, bodily change, photographs, unusual sexual preferences, and the tension between domestic life and exceptional desire.
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Ode to Christiel
Summary
A continuing correspondence feature combines personal testimony, reader questions, erotic experimentation, enema and irrigation practices, restraint, pregnancy, contraception, privacy, censorship, and editorial handling of intimate material.
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Memories of A, Bound to the Cherry Tree
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A formally listed contribution whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.
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Thirty-nine Nights of Strange Tales
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A formally listed strange-tales feature whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.
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Confessional Self-binding Tale: Miscellany of Moxibustion
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A formally listed self-binding confession whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.
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Beauty amid Ugliness: A Devotee’s Record
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A formally listed devotee’s record whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.
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The Fantasy of the Nappa Tape
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A formally listed fetish-fantasy item whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.
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A Molester’s Nonsense
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A formally listed short item whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.
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A Ghost’s Nonsense
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A formally listed item with uncertain title identity whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.
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Reader’s Confession: A Life with a Mirror
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A formally listed reader confession whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.
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Foot Literature and Records
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A formally listed fetish-cultural reference feature whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.
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Readers’ Correspondence
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A formally listed correspondence section whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.
Highlights
- The opening visual program combines named erotic illustrations, domestic rope-binding photography, and an outdoor suspension sequence, establishing restraint as the issue’s central visual language. (PDF pp. 3–24).
- The practical bondage-photography feature explains lighting, camera placement, rope arrangements, poses, model direction, and the aesthetic treatment of restraint. (PDF pp. 31–37).
- Mami and Shinobu is a continuing prize reader-submitted confessional fiction that treats bondage, pain, endurance, and shifting master-slave roles as psychological experience. (PDF pp. 40–48).
- Somewhere in the Universe expands into serialized prison, punishment, medical, and laboratory fantasy, with illustrations of guards, prisoners, restraints, and experimental procedures. (PDF pp. 59–72).
- The Heike settlement narrative connects eroticized violence to rural marginality, inherited discrimination, wartime flight, poverty, and social exclusion. (PDF pp. 90–100).
- The issue’s later correspondence and confession sections document cross-dressing, punishment preferences, male service, marriage, pregnancy, and unusual sexual interests as reader culture. (PDF pp. 101–105, 122–150).
- The psychiatric-hospital memoir describes institutional confinement, electrotherapy, restraints, surveillance, stigma, and return to ordinary life. (PDF pp. 134–136).
- Christiel includes purported reader data on rectal irrigation and fetish experimentation, together with discussion of privacy, contraception, censorship, and publication. (PDF pp. 145–150).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Arahara Orio, reading uncertain
- Ayama Mitsuo, romanization uncertain
- Harukawa Namio
- Kazuko Kusaki, reading uncertain
- Kazuo Kawamura, reading uncertain
- Kiguchi Haruko
- Kimura Seiichi
- Kimura, given name illegible
- Kubo Takashi
- Kurokawa Fujio
- Kyōko Hamamura, role uncertain
- Maruyama Keizō
- Minamigata Jun
- Nagai Yasuo
- Nagata Isao
- Nakamura Ryōko
- Oda Namio
- Reiko, reading uncertain
- Rihei Takiguchi
- Ryōko Fujimura
- Saji Asao, romanization uncertain
- Setsuo Yamamoto
- Shiba Takashi, romanization uncertain
- Shigeru Akai, reading uncertain
- Tobu Kazuhiko, reading uncertain
- Tsujimura Takashi
- Tsujimura Takashi and/or Kyōko Hamamura, roles uncertain
- Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
- Tsukamoto Tetsuzō, reading uncertain
- Watanabe Tadao
