Kitan Club
August 1962
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 8
- PDF pages
- 189
Summary
This August–September 1962 combined issue of Kitan Club is a large, visually dense specialist erotic magazine organized around bondage photography, fetish illustration, personal confession, serialized fiction, reader correspondence, and mail-order publishing. Its opening pages establish the issue’s visual identity through staged photographs of bound women, outdoor tree restraint, gagging, chains, and a long run of dramatic illustrated captivity scenes. The recurring shackle-and-chain imagery, credited chiefly to Fujio Kurokawa, moves between erotic tableaux, historical melodrama, criminal captivity, ritual suicide, and violent fantasy.
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Table of Contents 29 items
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First Gravure: Attractive Poses
Summary
A photographic portfolio of staged domestic bondage poses using cloth, rope, garments, mirrors, and varied seated, kneeling, and reclining arrangements.
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Second Gravure
Summary
A sequence of visual gravure sections moves from outdoor tree bondage and prisoner imagery to prayer-like captivity and poses involving mouth restraint.
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Frontispiece: Severed Head, Buttocks, and Alice (Part 1)
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A full-page erotic illustration functioning as a frontispiece plate, associated with Taki Reiko and the issue’s recurring themes of staged bodies and restraint.
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Female-Body Seppuku (Part 2)Shibari Close-Up Selection
Summary
A concentrated sequence of bondage and captivity imagery, including chains, stocks, cages, historical costumes, female prisoners, and melodramatic scenes of punishment and violence.
Valuable Responses to Bondage (Changes in Facial Expression)Summary
A photographic feature documenting facial expression, gagging or masking, chains, cuffs, and the bodily effects of staged restraint.
Coat BondageSummary
A visual portfolio of clothing-based and rope bondage, presenting controlled posture, flexibility, staged interaction, and restrained female bodies.
Masochist Photos (Toyoki: Chest, Skin, and Performance)Summary
A concluding gravure sequence emphasizing the body, performance, staged restraint, and photographic presentation of fetish scenes, followed by promotional magazine material.
A Satirical Review of Japanese Customs: HarakiriSummary
An extensively illustrated historical-cultural essay on seppuku, covering ritual procedure, implements, attendants, samurai ideology, class and gender, literary and theatrical representations, modern suicide, and the tension between heroic symbolism and bodily suffering.
A Record of Feet (From Novels and Newspaper Articles)Summary
A wide-ranging study of feet as aesthetic, erotic, social, literary, and documentary objects, incorporating fiction, newspaper material, photographs, footwear, hygiene, class, fashion, and painter Itō Shinsui’s views.
Correspondence: To Takagi KikueSummary
An illustrated essay on buttock contours, bodily impressions, erotic aesthetics, photographic display, posture, and the cultural meanings attached to bodily marks.
Masochist Senryu with Author’s Notes: Yokoguri MazoriSummary
An illustrated, personalized erotic presentation addressed to Kikue Takagi, describing successive poses, restraint, riding, bodily control, and staged encounters in a gift-like fantasy format.
A Long SM Novel: Somewhere in the UniverseSummary
A serialized SM novel involving prison, interrogation, criminal organizations, trafficking, police pursuit, handcuffs, ropes, gagging, sexual coercion, and institutional violence; the visible installment remains unresolved.
A Connoisseur’s Record: That Which Is Infinitely SweetSummary
A first-person confession about bondage, exhibitionism, fetishistic attention to bodies, self-restraint, Buddhist hell imagery, and identification with readers who share unusual fantasies.
Correspondence: An Appeal to Pregnancy FetishistsSummary
An appeal discussing fascination with pregnancy photographs, enlarged bellies, maternity imagery, prior magazine material, and requests for further reader contributions.
A New Face Appears: Rika Yukiko’s GiftSummary
A photographic profile introducing new models through interviews, captions, dialogue, and extensive images of bondage participation, embarrassment, fantasy, and staged display.
Illustrated Text: Memories of Women’s SumoSummary
An illustrated reminiscence of women’s sumo that emphasizes female strength, grappling, sweat, bodily exposure, spectatorship, and reversal of conventional gender roles.
Confession of Days Gone By: Playing at Being a BabySummary
A long first-person account of adult-baby role-play involving maternal authority, baby clothing, diapers, feeding, carrying, discipline, toilet training, dependency, and psychological regression.
A Connoisseur’s Record: ConfessionSummary
A comic first-person account of hospitality, food, alcohol, bathing, bodily odor, cleanliness, and social embarrassment during an evening gathering.
Experiential Confession Memoir: A Radiantly Sweet ThingSummary
A personal narrative of bathing and swimming encounters with a muscular man, exploring nudity, physique, admiration, embarrassment, visual comparison, and eroticized bodily observation.
Confession and Correspondence: To Higashiura Hikaru and Takeno HirokoSummary
A provocative reader contribution imagining bodily cooking, pregnancy, abdominal cutting, anatomy, enemas, digestion, and transformation through letter-like prose and graphic illustration.
Film: Love and Love—Do Not LoveSummary
A sensational film-related feature discussing erotic spectacle, pregnancy, artificial insemination, abortion, fetal development, and the popular presentation of women’s bodies.
Masochism HeavenSummary
An illustrated masochism department combining anecdotes and fantasies of humiliation, domination, punishment, pursuit, fetishized clothing and bodies, and shifting gendered power.
An Invitation to Suspension TortureSummary
A direct correspondence item discussing suspension, bondage, endurance, limits of participation, and the negotiation of erotic power between correspondents.
Thirty-Nine Nights of Strange TalesSummary
A serialized grotesque erotic narrative involving wealthy women, servants, money, coercion, bondage, humiliation, bodily violence, disguise, revenge, and criminal exploitation across successive strange-tale episodes.
Fantasy Story: Women Who Cast Away Their TearsSummary
An illustrated series of staged accounts in which women are bound, supervised, punished, gagged, humiliated, and made to endure restraint through named scenarios and model-based photographs.
Fiction: Flower and SnakeSummary
A creative captivity narrative centered on abduction, criminal power, rope binding, gagging, interrogation, punishment, confinement, and attempted rescue, with wealthy captives and pursuers moving through numbered episodes.
Confession: The Experience of Being a Human HorseSummary
A testimonial account of human-horse role-play involving riding, reins, commands, bodily control, endurance, objectification, and an immersive private-room encounter.
Brief Film Review: The Mature PersonHighlights
- The opening visual sequence combines domestic bondage poses, outdoor tree restraint, prisoner imagery, gagging, chains, and dramatic illustrated captivity scenes. (PDF pp. 3–30).
- Einosuke Fukukawa’s long illustrated study of harakiri examines ritual, anatomy, samurai ideology, gender, class, media representation, and the physical realities of suicide. (PDF pp. 31–46).
- Kiyoshi Kimura’s Record of Feet joins photographs, literary excerpts, newspaper anecdotes, fashion advice, hygiene, class, and changing ideals of bodily beauty. (PDF pp. 47–52).
- Somewhere in the Universe is a long SM novel involving imprisonment, interrogation, criminal organizations, trafficking, police pursuit, and repeated scenes of restraint. (PDF pp. 59–72).
- New Faces combines interviews and dialogue with a substantial photographic presentation of women participating in bondage imagery. (PDF pp. 83–88).
- Baby Play presents an extended adult-baby role-play account involving infantilization, feeding, diapers, discipline, maternal authority, and regression. (PDF pp. 91–96).
- Flower and Snake is a serialized captivity narrative by Kyotaro Hanamaki, centered on abduction, criminal power, rope binding, gagging, punishment, and attempted rescue. (PDF pp. 156–165).
- The closing Reader Correspondence, self-restraint rules, editorial afterword, catalogues, and manuscript solicitations document the magazine’s participatory and commercial infrastructure. (PDF pp. 169–189).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Edonuma Shiro
- Einosuke Fukukawa
- Higashitsuyama Murai Eishu
- Kiyoshi Kimura
- Kondo Fuzuko
- Kunii Yoshiro
- Kyoko Hamura
- Kyotaro Hanamaki
- Nishida Jin
- Ritsuo Sudo
- Saji Masazo
- Saji Osamu?
- Senuma Shiro
- Sugihara Moto; Rika Yukiko; Sakurai Yoko; Takeno Hiroko
- Takako Tsumura
- Taki Reiko
- Tatsuya Masaharu
- Toyama Katsuhiko
- Toyoshima Riichi
- Tsujimura Takashi
- Watanabe Kaneko
- Watsutani Kazuharu
English Translations from This Issue
- Fiction: Flower and Snake — Kyotaro Hanamaki


