Kitan Club
February 1955
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 2
- PDF pages
- 309
Themes
- Bondage and restraint
- Sadism and masochism
- Reader correspondence and community formation
- Confession and personal testimony
- Sexual psychology
- Childhood and adolescent sexuality
- Marriage and role inversion
- Historical punishment
- Prison and institutional discipline
- Foreign erotic literature
- Fetishism
- Bodily difference and deformity
- Female domination
- Humiliation and trampling
- Medicalized sexuality
- Colonial history and violence
- Erotic photography and illustration
Summary
This February 1955 special enlarged issue of Kitan Club is a 309-page miscellany combining bondage illustration, staged photography, sexual and psychological essays, reader testimony, serialized fiction, translated European writing, historical material, prison memoir, autobiographical confession, and advice-oriented features. The issue opens with more than thirty pages of pictorial material. These pages include humorous senryū drawings, historical scenes of punishment and execution, women bound in kimono or restrictive harnesses, photographs of rope bondage and gagging, foreign images of unusual restraint devices, staged female domination, ski and sports fantasies, illustrations of captivity in wartime, and visual studies of punishment, humiliation, trampling, clothing, feet, and bodily display. The front section is not a random collection of advertisements: it corresponds to the formal contents and functions as a deliberately curated visual portfolio.
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Table of Contents 56 items
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Kawayanagi Amateki: Ten Scenes
Summary
A ten-scene erotic illustration feature depicting women in varied fetishized situations, including rope restraint, bodily display, discipline, and attention to the feet and legs.
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The Bound Bride
Summary
A staged erotic image presents a bride bound to a wooden frame in a traditional Japanese interior, emphasizing ceremonial costume, immobilization, and visual spectacle.
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A Woman with Strange Feet in an Illustrated Curiosity Book
Summary
Itō Seiu discusses and illustrates a sideshow curiosity involving a beautiful woman without hands who performs everyday crafts with her feet, placing the spectacle within older traditions of bodily marvels and public display.
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The Woman with the Waist Wrap
Summary
Illustrated kinbaku scenes show women restrained with ropes in a traditional Japanese room, including a floor-bound pose and a suspended position.
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Masterpiece Collection: The Black Cat
Summary
An illustrated sadistic fantasy depicts a woman secured to a chair in elaborate leather restraints beside a black cat, with accompanying text emphasizing the mixture of Japanese atmosphere and foreign mechanical devices and invoking the Marquis de Sade.
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The Room of Itō Seiu
Summary
This illustrated “room” feature presents a woman immobilized in an elaborate leather-and-metal restraint system, with chains and other equipment described as part of a purpose-built sadistic apparatus.
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Introductions from Foreign Publications
Summary
A feature introducing images from foreign fetish publications, especially BIZARRE, comments on unfamiliar restraint devices and contrasts them with Japanese bondage customs and aesthetics.
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Selected Bondage Photographs of Itō Sakae
Summary
A photographic portfolio presents women posed in elaborate rope, chain, belt, and apparatus restraints, including full-body bondage, immobilized postures, and scenes of sensory or physical restriction.
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Nude Skiing
Summary
Illustrated snow-country vignettes and accompanying erotic drawings depict nude women skiing and engaging in playful winter scenes, combining comic storytelling with exhibitionistic fantasy.
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The Bloodstained Reins: Illustrated Preview
Summary
An illustrated preview by Itō Seiu of a historical erotic narrative depicting female servants and captives subjected to elaborate restraint, punishment, and coercive treatment in a feudal setting.
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Service in the Slave's Room and Bathroom
Summary
A photographic feature portraying a dominant woman directing and receiving service from a male slave in domestic and bathroom settings, emphasizing ritualized obedience and staged female authority.
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Rope Binding
Summary
A photographic presentation of the ebi-zeme or “shrimp” restraint position, showing rope binding and associated whipping poses on a male subject.
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A Japanese Woman Being Punished
Summary
An illustrated wartime feature depicts a Japanese woman subjected to sexualized punishment and execution, framing her suffering within accounts of military brutality, the Manchurian defeat, and the mistreatment of Japanese civilians.
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Two-Woman Combat Photographs
Summary
A photographic feature presents staged scenes of two women fighting, restraining, and overpowering one another outdoors, including sequences involving abandonment in the rain and physical domination.
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Strange Submission: An Idea Selection
Summary
An illustrated “idea selection” proposes bizarre domestic restraint scenarios, including tying a woman to a drying stand and forcing her into a washing scene, with captions presenting the situations as imaginative bondage concepts.
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New Artists' Picture Collection
Summary
A picture feature presents illustrated captivity fantasies, including a woman tied to railway tracks while pursuers approach and another woman bound in a precarious suspended position.
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Fetishism Seen in Foreign Magazines
Summary
This visual feature surveys fetish imagery from foreign magazines, emphasizing foot and footwear fetishism alongside staged photographic scenes of women being undressed and displayed.
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Women's Restraint and Leg Irons
Summary
A photographic feature depicts women subjected to elaborate cloth and rope bindings, leg irons, and other positional restraints, including a sequence focusing on the restrained subject’s expressions.
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Illustrated Story: Jealous Woman
Summary
An illustrated melodrama follows a jealous husband who discovers his wife’s forbidden affair and responds with captivity, gagging, rope bondage, and punitive revenge.
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Is Inverted Sexual Taste Ultimately Immoral?
Summary
Naruse Ryō examines whether so-called inverted sexual tastes are genuinely immoral, challenging fixed moral judgments by relating sexual nonconformity to psychology, social norms, historical change, and literary and artistic representation.
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An Experiment Concerning Nipple Fixation
Summary
Furuta Kichirō presents an illustrated practical experiment in nose punishment, describing nose rings, clamps, ropes, weights, suspension, and other methods intended to intensify pain and sensory effects.
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The Bride Has Arrived
Summary
A fictional captivity narrative follows a bride who is abducted, restrained, gagged, humiliated, and treated as a commodity by male captors in a vividly staged East Asian setting.
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Tendencies of Fundoshi Enthusiasts Revealed in Readers' Letters
Summary
This reader-letter analysis examines the preferences and psychological tendencies of fundoshi enthusiasts, discussing loincloth styles, bodily display, related clothing practices, and the visual contexts that intensify fetish interest.
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The Boys of Mount Hachiyama: Summer Vacation Diary
Summary
A serialized erotic adventure follows boys during a summer vacation at Mount Hachiyama, depicting rivalry, coercive encounters, physical domination, humiliation, and fantasies of submission amid rural excursions and domestic scenes.
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Miscellaneous Notes on Moxibustion
Summary
An illustrated practical and anecdotal account of moxibustion discusses treatment methods, bodily sensations, therapeutic settings, and the relationship between medical practice and eroticized punishment imagery.
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Ten Months in Prison
Summary
A first-person prison memoir recounts ten months of confinement, describing inmate life, discipline, surveillance, labor, medical inspection, social hierarchy, and the psychological effects of incarceration.
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The Death of a Woman Who Trampled Her Husband
Summary
A sensational account reconstructs the violent relationship and death of O-Fumi, a woman whose abuse and trampling of her husband culminate in grotesque self-destruction and death.
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The Bloodstained Reins, Part Two
Summary
The second installment of Itō Seiu’s historical erotic narrative follows theatrical and urban figures through schemes involving women, rope restraint, punishment, and staged displays of bondage, accompanied by numerous illustrations.
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Cruel Women
Summary
A translated and heavily discussed account of “cruel women” surveys female violence and corporal punishment, focusing especially on women teachers disciplining children and domestic authority exercised through beating and humiliation.
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How I Was Tormented
Summary
A first-person erotic report recounts a prolonged encounter involving coercive sexual play, verbal commands, and varied forms of binding and positional restraint, accompanied by staged illustrations.
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Confession from My Boyhood: The Smell of Boys
Summary
This autobiographical confession recalls the author’s adolescent fascination with boys’ bodies, perspiration, swimwear, athletic uniforms, and the excitement of watching and imagining their physical development.
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My Observations of Three Deformed Women
Summary
The author reflects on three remembered encounters with women wearing traditional waist wraps, focusing on their clothing, bodily presentation, movement, and the lingering erotic force of these observations.
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Continued Confession of a Girl from the Red-Light District
Summary
In this first-person confession, a young woman describes her growing desire to expose her body, her secret conversations with I-san, and a seaside episode in which the possibility of being seen intensifies her excitement. She then recounts I-san’s forceful, sexually dominant visit to her room, presenting exhibitionistic longing, secrecy, and submission as intertwined experiences.
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Trampled
Summary
A first-person erotic narrative follows a financially desperate young man who becomes a servant at a chicken shop and is subjected to escalating labor, humiliation, corporal abuse, and sexual coercion by domineering women. His enforced submission develops into a recurring pattern of degradation, fetishized service, and conflicted fascination within a vividly rendered postwar urban setting.
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The Beipu Incident: A Secret History of Colonial Taiwan
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A sensational historical account of the 1907 Beipu Incident in Japanese-ruled Taiwan, describing colonial administration, taxation, anti-colonial mobilization, armed clashes, and reprisals against local residents.
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Confession of a Wife Abused in the Abdomen
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A first-person confession by a married woman describing repeated abdominal abuse and coercive sexual encounters with her husband, framed through shame, suffering, secrecy, and eventual medical attention.
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Breasts and the Menstrual Belt
Summary
An erotic essay examines the use and sensations of breast bars and menstrual belts, combining body-part fetishism with personal experimentation and discussion of specialized sexual implements.
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Confession of an Extraordinary Masochist
Summary
A first-person confession describes an extraordinary masochist’s pursuit of extreme physical and psychological sensations, including dangerous work environments, self-bondage, immersion in mud, and fantasies of punishment and helplessness.
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Illustrated Accounts of Dangerous Adventures
Summary
This illustrated serialized adventure follows Yuriko through abduction, pursuit, confinement, and threatening sexual encounters involving several men in remote island, cave, and outdoor settings.
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Jealous Boys
Summary
A narrative of institutional and dormitory life portrays jealous male youths whose same-sex attraction to a desirable companion generates rivalry, possessiveness, coercion, and violent disciplinary encounters.
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A Woman's Nighttime Letter About Hemorrhoids
Summary
A woman’s autobiographical letter recounts lifelong hemorrhoid problems, repeated enemas, medical examinations, and the gradual transformation of treatment-related sensations into anal erotic experimentation and sexual self-reflection.
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The Inverted Hero Oda Nobunaga
Summary
A historical erotic narrative portrays Oda Nobunaga as a violently contradictory hero amid Sengoku-era warfare, political betrayal, captivity, humiliation, executions, and sadistic reversals of power.
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The Naked Beauty
Summary
An erotic reportage feature follows a Japanese female interpreter at an international sports-massage event, where cross-cultural massage, nudity, hypnosis, and staged bodily demonstrations turn professional performance into spectacle and sexualized submission.
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Sexual Fluids
Summary
A serialized erotic crime narrative follows Toyokichi, Murata, and their associates through encounters at Osaka railway stations, lodging houses, debts, theft, police suspicion, disguises, and sexual intrigue. The story combines sensational plot developments with scenes of eroticized vulnerability and social manipulation.
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From the Notebook of a Certain Masochist
Summary
This illustrated, serialized notebook takes the form of a satirical dialogue between a masochist and a skeptical interlocutor, ranging across masochism, slavery, domination, evolutionary fantasies, extraterrestrial societies, insects, bodily functions, and human-animal relations. Its speculative arguments and accompanying erotic illustrations use science fiction, pseudo-science, and cultural commentary to explore sexual psychology and fantasies of hierarchy and control.
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Confession: The Time a Burglar Entered
Summary
A first-person confession recounts a nighttime burglary in which a family is confronted at gunpoint, bound, gagged, and restrained while the intruders search the house, emphasizing the narrator’s fear, helplessness, and vivid memory of the assault.
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Lesbianism and a Discussion of Sodomy
Summary
An illustrated essay discusses lesbian relationships and male same-sex practices, combining arguments about homosexuality, marriage, social acceptance, and sexual behavior with speculative psychological and cultural commentary.
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The Secret of the A-Sensation
Summary
A pseudo-sexological feature explores the so-called A-sensation through extended discussions of female anatomy, sexuality, pregnancy, childbirth, bodily openings, and anal pleasure, supplemented by anatomical diagrams and fantastical erotic illustrations.
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The Ōtsu Incident and Its Aftermath
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A historical account of the 1891 Ōtsu Incident, in which Tsuda Sanzo attacked Crown Prince Nicholas, tracing the immediate investigation, trial, public reaction, and later interpretations of the event.
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A Woman Who Responds to Sadism
Summary
A woman’s correspondence describes her sadistic feelings toward weaker people and recounts coercive, humiliating, and physically abusive treatment in intimate relationships, while reflecting on the psychology and social meaning of her impulses.
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The Crawling Insect
Summary
An erotic narrative follows a man and Tomiko as their intimate experimentation centers on enemas, anal stimulation, bodily control, and the imagined cultivation and expulsion of intestinal worms, accompanied by erotic illustrations and pseudo-medical detail.
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How to Bind Your Own Hands Behind Your Back
Summary
A practical illustrated guide explains how a person can tie their own hands and body in various positions, using ropes, furniture, knots, and staged self-release techniques. It emphasizes repeated practice and precautions for escaping the restraints.
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Photographic Notes on Breasts
Summary
A photographic feature presents nude studies centered on the breasts, nipples, abdomen, and navel, with notes on models, lighting, poses, and photographic composition.
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Confession to Hanamura-sensei
Summary
A first-person erotic dedication to Hanamura-sensei combines admiration of her writing with an elaborate fantasy of female beauty, bathing, bodily display, and fetishistic scenarios; the surrounding pages also include an open reader letter requesting further treatment of underwear fetishism and related imagery.
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From Film and Magazine Communications
Summary
A film-and-magazine communications column reviews recent Japanese films and related erotic publications, emphasizing staged scenes of female captivity, cutting, bondage, sadistic violence, and sensationalized erotic spectacle. It also comments on magazine illustrations and the circulation of such imagery through specialist media.
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The Story of Rope
Summary
An illustrated dialogue and narrative feature explores rope bondage, erotic restraint, gendered desire, secrecy, and marital power, combining discussion of bondage imagery with serialized fiction involving island isolation, sexual control, punishment, and intimate conflict. The accompanying illustrations present staged scenes of women bound with rope and other forms of restraint.
Highlights
- The formal contents spread identifies a large visual portfolio followed by essays, prize-winning confessions, fiction, translated writing, historical material, and reader-oriented studies. (PDF p. 4).
- The opening pictorial section combines Japanese historical punishment scenes, rope bondage, foreign restraint devices, staged domination photographs, fetish imagery, and illustrated fantasies. (PDF pp. 5–38).
- Naruse Ryō's opening essay argues against treating all inverted sexual interests as simple moral corruption and examines psychological, medical, and social explanations. (PDF pp. 39–45).
- The article on tendencies among bondage enthusiasts uses readers' letters as evidence for recurring interests, practices, and social patterns within the magazine's audience. (PDF pp. 57–62).
- The Boys of Mount Hachiyama presents a long summer diary of adolescent games, curiosity, bullying, exposure, and developing sexual awareness. (PDF pp. 63–74).
- Ten Months in Prison is an extended illustrated account of punishment, institutional routine, humiliation, and the social world of incarcerated men. (PDF pp. 77–85).
- The Bloodstained Reins continues Itō Seiu's historical narrative of violence and punishment through detailed references to places, incidents, and older records. (PDF pp. 89–97).
- Cruel Women continues Morimoto Aizō's translation of European writing on female cruelty, domination, and punishment. (PDF pp. 98–104).
- How I Was Tormented is a lengthy first-person narrative centered on humiliation, coercion, physical control, and erotic submission. (PDF pp. 105–114).
- Confession from My Boyhood: The Smell of Boys revisits school life and male adolescence through bodily memory, shame, attraction, and social pressure. (PDF pp. 115–118).
- Trampled, a prize-winning confession, follows a narrator whose attraction to being stepped on and physically subordinated develops into repeated encounters. (PDF pp. 125–146).
- The issue continues far beyond PDF page 150 with additional confessions, essays, serialized fiction, historical writing, reader studies, and advice material through PDF page 309. (PDF pp. 151–309).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Furuta Kichirō
- Hamura Kyōko
- Hanamura Megumi
- Hasegawa Kiyoshi
- Hōzuka Mitsuo
- Itō Seiu
- Kasaya Toshikō
- Kasuga Ichirō
- Kawagō Itoko
- Kawano Kyōsuke
- Kotake Norio
- Miki Yoshio
- Mine Kōji
- Mori Taichi
- Morimoto Aizō
- Nagaoka Shun'ichirō
- Nakano Taeko
- Naruse Ryō
- Numata Shōzō
- Ōsawa Itsuko
- Shibasaki Reiko
- Shiraki Nobuko
- Shirogane Kōji
- Suda Ritsuo
- Sugimura Ken
- Tōmei Hiroshi
- Tsujimura Nobutane
- Yamaguchi Kōichi
- Yamamoto Osamu
English Translations from This Issue
- How I Was Tormented — Hōzuka Mitsuo
- The Bride Has Arrived — Shirogane Kōji


