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Kitan Club

August 1974

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Cover of Kitan Club, August 1974

Issue Details

Volume
28
Issue
8
PDF pages
179

Summary

The August 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive photographic opening with first-person reports, confessions, serialized fiction, essays, and illustrated erotic narratives. Its front matter establishes the issue’s visual emphasis through a large rope-photography section credited to Tsukamoto Tetsuzo and featuring multiple models and short thematic captions. The principal opening feature, Tsukamoto’s report on the relationship between Fujisaka Hiroshi and Tamaki Akiko, develops across more than forty printed pages and mixes documentary-style narration with a sustained sequence of bondage photographs. The combination of personal testimony, staged photography, and commentary gives the opening third of the issue the character of an extended experiential record rather than a conventional short photo portfolio.

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The middle of the issue broadens into several characteristic Kitan Club genres. Shinagawa Sugao contributes a confession concerning voyeurism and enemas, followed by the seventeenth installment of Chiba’s serial novel Great Eruption. Kasai Nahoko’s My Recent Report: I Dream of Becoming a Slave Wife is a first-person account accompanied by rope photographs, while Oniyama Kensaku’s Men and Women Who Squeeze Each Other continues the M-Sawa Friendship Record series. Minami Hikozo’s Modern Yakuza Temperament shifts toward cultural and behavioral commentary, and Hayasaka Ikuko’s confession describes discovering the pleasures of enema torment. Saji Mazo’s Woman Prisoner, presented as the sixth installment of a work associated with the M Group, returns the issue to extended narrative fiction.

The later portion contains several substantial recurring or serialized features. Mizusawa Noboru’s Mizusawa Underground combines essayistic discussion with drawings and commentary on erotic practice and representation. The thirty-sixth installment of the period SM novel The Gate of Purple Orchids occupies a long section, followed by Nakamura Emiko’s confession SM Awakening and Yoshino Mayumi’s Night Stranger. A first-person report titled Remarried Brides: Play Wives examines a remarried couple’s erotic play, with an illustration by Wakae Masashi. The surviving closing pages begin Hirahara Seiichi’s My Queen Image, an essay about the author’s conception of the ideal dominant woman.

Across these sections, the issue repeatedly treats SM as something narrated through personal discovery, experimentation, fantasy, and correspondence between readers and the magazine. Rope bondage remains the dominant visual language, but the editorial range extends to voyeurism, enemas, marital and extramarital play, domination, organized SM communities, yakuza imagery, and historical-style erotic fiction. The juxtaposition of documentary photographs, confessional prose, serialized stories, cartoons, and reader-oriented writing exemplifies Kitan Club’s hybrid identity as both an erotic magazine and a forum in which participants articulated and compared their private practices and fantasies.

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Table of Contents 15 items
  1. Photo: Beauty Drowned in the Vagina by Furuya Yumio
    29
  2. Camera-and-Pen Reportage: Savoring the Taste of Theft on an Early-Summer Evening: The Relationship Between Fujisaka Hiroshi and Tamaki Akiko by Tsukamoto Tetsuzo
    30–71
  3. Confession: Voyeurism and Enemas by Shinagawa Sugao
    72–75
  4. Great Eruption by Chiba Seiki
    76–83
  5. My Recent Report: I Dream of Becoming a Slave Wife by Kasai Nahoko
    84–89
  6. Men and Women Who Squeeze Each Other by Oniyama Kensaku
    90–103
  7. Modern Yakuza Temperament by Minami Hikozo
    104–113
  8. Confession: I Learned the Taste of Enema Torment by Hayasaka Ikuko
    114–117
  9. Woman Prisoner by Saji Mazo
    118–135
  10. Mizusawa Underground by Mizusawa Noboru
    136–143
  11. The Gate of Purple Orchids by Furyu Gokudoken
    144–159
  12. Confession: SM Awakening by Nakamura Emiko
    160–165
  13. Night Stranger by Yoshino Mayumi
    166–173
  14. Experiential Confession: Remarried Brides: Play Wives by Hitomi Yotaro
    174–178
  15. My Queen Image by Hirahara Seiichi
    179–

Highlights

  • The opening photographic feature, photographed by Tsukamoto Tetsuzo, presents an extended documentary-style account of Fujisaka Hiroshi and Tamaki Akiko, combining sustained first-person narration with numerous rope-bondage images. (PDF pp. 28–69).
  • Shinagawa Sugao's confession Voyeurism and Enemas moves from visual observation into a personal account of enema-related erotic experience, exemplifying the magazine's confessional mode. (PDF pp. 70–73).
  • The seventeenth installment of Great Eruption continues one of the issue's serialized fictional narratives and incorporates erotic illustration into its episodic storytelling. (PDF pp. 74–81).
  • Kasai Nahoko's My Recent Report: I Dream of Becoming a Slave Wife combines autobiographical narration with photographs of rope bondage, explicitly framing submission through the fantasy of becoming a slave wife. (PDF pp. 82–87).
  • Men and Women Who Squeeze Each Other, installment 53 of the M-Sawa Friendship Record, provides an extended narrative treatment of relationships, coercive fantasy, erotic bargaining, and interpersonal SM. (PDF pp. 88–101).
  • Minami Hikozo's Modern Yakuza Temperament treats contemporary yakuza character and sexuality through essayistic prose and illustrations, providing a notable shift from personal confession to cultural observation. (PDF pp. 102–111).
  • Saji Mazo's Woman Prisoner, the sixth installment of an M Group work, occupies a substantial portion of the issue and develops an extended captivity and domination narrative. (PDF pp. 116–133).
  • Mizusawa Noboru's Mizusawa Underground combines prose discussion, cartoons, and erotic illustrations in a sustained examination of underground sexual practices and fantasies. (PDF pp. 134–141).
  • The thirty-sixth installment of the period SM novel The Gate of Purple Orchids is one of the issue's longest later fictional sections, blending historical-style storytelling with erotic domination. (PDF pp. 142–157).
  • The closing sequence moves through Nakamura Emiko's SM Awakening, Yoshino Mayumi's Night Stranger, a report on remarried play wives, and the beginning of Hirahara Seiichi's My Queen Image, emphasizing personal initiation, couple dynamics, and conceptions of female dominance. (PDF pp. 158–179).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue:

Kinbaku Today
Kinbaku Today is an independent online journal dedicated to the study, practice, and cultural history of Japanese rope bondage. Blending essays, translations, interviews, and archival research, it explores kinbaku not simply as technique, but as a living dialogue between history, performance, and human connection.
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