Kitan Club
January 1955
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- PDF pages
- 156
Summary
This expanded January 1955 New Year issue of Kitan Club is organized as a large illustrated miscellany that moves from visual spectacle into psychological essays, confessional narratives, historical and ethnographic material, translated writing, and extended fiction. The opening third of the issue is dominated by drawings and photographs. These include historical punishment imagery, bondage and suspension scenes, women in restrictive garments, foreign erotic illustrations, staged domination photographs, fetish-oriented images of feet and clothing, and humorous or sensational pictorial features. The visual material repeatedly treats restraint, humiliation, costume, bodily display, inversion, trampling, and the theatrical staging of power as objects of curiosity as well as erotic interest.
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Table of Contents 40 items
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Ten Scenes of Yoshiwara in Senryū (川柳吉原風景十態)
Summary
A ten-panel illustrated senryū feature depicts erotic and comic scenes associated with Yoshiwara pleasure quarters, including flirtation, sexual teasing, voyeurism, and playful restraint.
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Ink Blackening (墨ぬり)
Summary
An erotic illustration by Kudaka Kazuhisa portrays a kimono-clad woman engaged in an ink-brushing or ink-blackening scene, emphasizing stylized Japanese beauty, costume, and fetishized visual presentation.
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The Bloodstained Reins (血染の手綱)
Summary
Itō Seiu’s illustrated erotic narrative presents a historical-period tale of sexual coercion, voyeuristic spectacle, punishment, and women subjected to elaborate restraint, including rope and snake imagery.
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Women's Underwear Seen in Foreign Magazines (外国誌にみた女性の肌着)
Summary
A photographic feature drawn from foreign magazines presents women in revealing outfits and staged views of lingerie, emphasizing the visual appeal of stockings, garter belts, slips, and underwear glimpsed beneath fashionable clothing.
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Masterpiece Collection: Aerial Flight and Reverse Suspension (傑作集 空中飛行・逆さ吊り)
Summary
This illustrated masterpiece collection depicts women subjected to elaborate suspension and inverted-hanging arrangements, with wrists, ankles, ropes, bars, and rings used to create dramatic aerial and reverse-suspension poses.
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Picture Collection of Cruel Women: Paul Kamm Special (残虐なる女性達画集 パウル・カム特集)
Summary
Morimoto Aizō introduces a Paul Kamm picture collection portraying cruel and dominant women in staged scenes of whipping, riding, restraint, and other coercive erotic tableaux, captioned with German titles.
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A Man Sat Upon by a Woman (女の尻に敷かれる男)
Summary
A staged photograph shows a woman folding a restrained man over her lap and sitting on him while he supports himself with his head under her control.
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A Man Trampled by a Woman (女に踏みつけられる男)
Summary
A staged photograph depicts a woman standing over and trampling a prone male model, emphasizing his humiliation and her control, including through high-heeled footwear.
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Restraint Devices Disguised as Clothing (衣装化した拘束具)
Summary
Two foreign photographs present elaborate restraint devices disguised as women’s clothing, including a dramatic full-body costume and a corset-and-skirt ensemble.
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The Million-Dollar Bottom (百万ドルのお臀)
Summary
A staged erotic photograph foregrounds a woman’s prominently displayed buttocks, with corsetry, long gloves, half-boots, and visible underwear contributing to the fetishized presentation.
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Three Poses of a Beauty (美態三態)
Summary
A photographic feature presents three posed views of a woman in a bathing suit at the Sayama boat-racing venue, combining outdoor scenery, spectatorship, and exhibitionist display.
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Ice Skating (アイス・スケート)
Summary
An illustrated feature depicts women in stylized ice-skating scenes, including athletic poses, falls, stretching, and playful mishaps in revealing skating costumes.
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Wrapped in Thin Gauze (薄羅をまといて)
Summary
A photographic portfolio presents women posed nude or lightly draped in gauze, emphasizing veiled bodies, backs, buttocks, and intimate rear-view compositions; accompanying text comments on the difficulty of reproducing the veil’s detail and promises improved printing in a later issue.
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Transformation Diagram (変相図)
Summary
An erotic illustration portrays a nude woman amid smaller nude figures, a threatening supernatural environment, and imagery suggestive of torment in a mythic or Buddhist-style hellscape.
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Hell (地獄)
Summary
A detailed erotic illustration depicts a hellish punishment scene with nude figures, an armed tormentor, and women gathered around a bound or afflicted male figure.
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Gloves (手袋)
Summary
A photographic feature highlighting black leather gloves against a woman's pale skin, including scenes of a woman posed with chained ankles and gloved contact that emphasize tactile restraint and fetishized accessories.
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Footstool and Seat (跛台・腰掛)
Summary
Staged photographs depict a female-dominant “queen” using a submissive servant as a footstool and seat, with accompanying text describing the servant’s obedient, physically uncomfortable support during her activities.
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Service in the Toilet and Bathroom (トイレと浴室での奉仕)
Summary
Photographs and captions present a servant attending to a dominant woman in toilet and bathing-room settings, including washing her feet and being made to smell them.
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Acrobat and One-Inch Boy (アクロバット・一寸法師)
Summary
A two-part illustrated feature depicts an acrobat being trained backstage and a “One-Inch Boy” using a rope to manipulate a suspended female performer. The scenes present theatrical discipline, bodily control, and staged bondage imagery.
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Western Captivity Pictures (西洋捕縛画集)
Summary
A collection of Western-themed captivity illustrations portrays women subjected to harsh restraint, including leather punishment tied to a tree and a bound sheriff’s female assistant exposed to vigilante violence. The captions frame these scenes as sensational historical captivity fantasies.
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The Fetishist's Page (フェチシストのページ)
Summary
The “Fetishist’s Page” presents humorous and sensational photographs involving nose teasing, a voyeuristic view of a model’s feet, a blindfolded and bound model, and an enema scene, with captions inviting readers to inspect or guess details of the staged images.
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Two-Woman Combination Photographs (二嬢名コンビ写真)
Summary
A staged photographic feature presents two women posed together amid autumn grasses at a historic battlefield and lakeside setting.
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The Cultural Reasons for Destructive Instinct (破壊本能の文化的理由)
Summary
Hayashi Yumio examines destructive and self-destructive impulses through Freud-influenced sexual psychology, questioning simplistic explanations of sadism, masochism, delinquency, and postwar social disorder. The essay argues that these behaviors must be understood through cultural conditions, family life, education, media, and changing social norms.
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The History of Rope and Feet (縄と足の遍歴)
Summary
This prize-winning confession and experiential essay traces the writer’s fascination with women’s feet alongside rope restraint, combining personal memories, bondage scenarios, foot-focused imagery, and references to films and popular culture.
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The Altar of Sodomy, Part Six (ソドミーの祭壇 第六部)
Summary
The sixth installment of a serialized narrative recounts young male factory workers subjected to harsh institutional discipline, hazing, beatings, restraint, and sexualized humiliation in a coercive workplace environment.
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Sadistic Pleasure Centered on the Abdomen (腹部に依る悦虐)
Summary
An erotic essay examines sadistic pleasure focused on the abdomen, describing and illustrating various methods of striking, binding, sensory discomfort, and bodily punishment.
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A Wife's Game of Mutual Inversion: On Cross-Dressing (夫婦の倒錯遊戯―格調ごっこについて)
Summary
Presented as a prize-winning confession and experience report, this article describes a married couple’s role-reversal games in which the wife dominates, disciplines, and feminizes her husband through cross-dressing, restraint, and staged erotic scenarios, accompanied by illustrations.
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Sexual Fluids (性液)
Summary
An erotic narrative follows encounters among urban men, entertainers, and women, combining sexual rivalry, voyeuristic observation, and frank discussion of bodily desire. The story emphasizes shifting power, performance, and psychological tension in intimate relationships.
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The Page of Erotic Folly (色惚けのページ)
Summary
A miscellany of erotic illustrations and short experiential accounts presents sexual fantasy and unconventional desire in an informal magazine-feature format, accompanied by an invitation for readers to submit their own experiences and writings.
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Secret: The Secret of the A-Sensation (秘虐・A感覚の秘密)
Summary
Hamura Kyōko’s confessional account examines the discovery and pursuit of “A-sensation,” describing anal eroticism, enemas, bodily stimulation, and sadomasochistic power dynamics through autobiographical narrative and anatomical illustrations.
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Attachment to Deformity (畸型への愛着)
Summary
A first-person essay examines the author’s enduring attraction to women with bodily deformities, contrasting this fixation with conventional marriage and describing its psychological, romantic, and sexual significance through personal memories and case-like reflections.
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Record of a Bondage-Picture Maniac (縛り絵マニアの記録)
Summary
An autobiographical account traces the author’s fascination with Japanese bondage pictures, illustrated scenes, films, and related visual traditions, describing collecting, aesthetic response, fantasy, and the emotional intensity attached to kinbaku imagery.
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Cruel Women (残虐なる女性達)
Summary
A translated, source-based narrative surveys stories of cruel women—especially teachers, guardians, and wives—who discipline or punish others, focusing on corporal punishment, gendered authority, humiliation, and the psychological meaning of punitive scenes.
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Child Mountain Festival (子供山笠)
Summary
A nostalgic, eroticized account of Hakata’s child Yamakasa festival describes local customs, boys’ festival dress, and the narrator’s attraction to a beautiful young participant amid the community celebration.
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Record of a Meeting with the Artificial Woman Matsudaira Taeko (人工女性「松平多恵子」との会見記)
Summary
This interview with Matsudaira Taeko, presented as an “artificial woman,” discusses feminine appearance, cross-gender presentation, bodily transformation, relationships, and the social reception of a gender-variant identity.
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Young Woman's Diary: The Marketplace of Evil, Part Two (遺稿―若き女性の手記(二)悪の広場)
Summary
The second installment of a young woman’s diary follows her movement from loneliness and alienation into exploitative sexual encounters marked by coercion, humiliation, voyeuristic attention, and conflicted recollection.
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Confession of an Unfaithful Wife (不貞妻の告白)
Summary
A first-person confession recounts a married woman’s affair with another man while her husband suffers serious illness, focusing on secrecy, guilt, desire, and the strain placed on domestic life.
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The Apprentice-Boy Fantasy: A Confession from My Youth (丁稚小僧幻想―私の少年時代の告白)
Summary
This autobiographical fantasy memoir traces the author’s lifelong fascination with apprentice boys, their distinctive work clothes, and the imagined pleasure of becoming or keeping such an apprentice, combining childhood memories with adult fetishistic reverie.
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Memoir of an Animal Lover (動物嗜好者の手記)
Summary
A memoir of attraction to animals describes the author’s early fascination with horses, cattle, and other animals, rural and military settings that intensified it, and later encounters with animal breeding and sexual practices.
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Two Moxibustion Anecdotes (お灸二題)
Summary
An illustrated two-part feature contrasts therapeutic moxibustion on a woman’s back with punitive moxibustion applied to her buttocks, emphasizing the eroticized visual appeal of burn marks and her cries of pain during the procedure.
Highlights
- The formal contents spread presents the issue as an enlarged New Year special and lists both the major literary contributions and an unusually extensive group of pictorial features. (PDF p. 4).
- The unnumbered front matter forms a substantial visual anthology of historical punishment, bondage, inversion, trampling, fetish clothing, staged domination, and foreign erotic illustration. (PDF pp. 5–37).
- Hayashi Yumio's opening essay interprets destructive instinct through cultural, psychological, and social explanations, establishing an analytical tone for the literary section. (PDF pp. 39–44).
- The prize-winning History of Rope and Feet is an autobiographical fetish narrative that traces the writer's developing attraction to binding, feet, footwear, and related imagery. (PDF pp. 45–50).
- The Altar of Sodomy continues an extended serialized story of institutional abuse, punishment, and coercive sexuality during the narrator's youth. (PDF pp. 51–58).
- A Wife's Game of Mutual Inversion describes a marriage in which authority, clothing, posture, and sexual roles are deliberately reversed and ritualized. (PDF pp. 61–72).
- Itō Seiu's Sexual Fluids is labeled a non-novel and blends observation, recollection, sexual physiology, and commentary rather than following a conventional fictional plot. (PDF pp. 73–76).
- Tsukui Takeshi's Attachment to Deformity examines erotic fascination with atypical bodies and uses medical, psychological, and anecdotal examples. (PDF pp. 96–104).
- Record of a Bondage-Picture Maniac documents the contributor's collecting and viewing practices and shows how rope imagery circulated as a specialized erotic interest. (PDF pp. 105–110).
- Morimoto Aizō's translation of Das Grausame Weib introduces a European text on cruel women and situates foreign examples within Kitan Club's continuing investigation of female sadism. (PDF pp. 111–116).
- Young Woman's Diary: The Marketplace of Evil is a long posthumously published narrative about a young woman's exposure to poverty, exploitation, predatory men, and unstable work. (PDF pp. 129–139).
- The issue continues beyond the initial 150-page rendering boundary: The Apprentice-Boy Fantasy concludes on page 152, Animal Lover's Memoir runs through page 155, and an illustrated comic feature appears on the true final page. (PDF pp. 145–156).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:


