Kitan Club

A photographic and illustrated survey of Japan’s urban pleasure districts, following streets lined with cafés, bars, lodging houses, bathhouses, and other establishments associated with commercial nightlife and sexual entertainment. Maps, storefront photographs, captions, and a recurring female guide create a documentary-style tour of these “flesh streets.”

A sequential-art collection of erotic anecdotes depicting sexual encounters, illicit affairs, geisha and domestic settings, and negotiations between men and women. The episodes combine sensual imagery with comic dialogue and references to contraception, pregnancy anxiety, illness, and social propriety.

A wide-ranging miscellany of curious anecdotes, humorous correspondence, advice exchanges, relationship and sexual questions, dream interpretation, odd news, and illustrated comic scenes. The section also includes recreational features such as shogi problems, riddles, puzzles, and reader-participation questions.

An illustrated melodramatic narrative follows Yasuko, a young woman whose relationships, marriage, economic hardship, and encounters with predatory or unreliable men lead her through emotional and sexual exploitation. The story presents her shifting attempts to secure affection, independence, and a livable future amid postwar urban and domestic life.

An illustrated erotic fiction serial centers on Abudora, Imam, and their associates as jealousy, marital suspicion, deception, and sexual rivalry intensify through clandestine encounters. The narrative uses comic dialogue and sensational scenes to explore lust, possessiveness, and the instability of intimate relationships.

A sensational pulp mystery set in Kobe follows a narrator who encounters a series of uncanny locations and criminal enterprises, including a green-lit house, a factory producing grotesque animals, and a secret workshop associated with mermaid-making. The serialized narrative combines urban night wandering, investigation, pursuit, and horror imagery.

A sensational crime narrative centered on abduction, sexual violence, captivity, and escape, presented in the lurid style of mid-century erotic true-crime fiction. The page also includes a boxed anecdote about a woman’s chastity belt, extending the article’s interest in sexual control and bizarre criminal episodes.

An investigative report on Osaka’s temple-district back streets, describing the entanglement of sexual commerce, installment schemes, dubious lending, fake real-estate and marriage introductions, and other forms of financial exploitation. Through reported cases and dialogues, it portrays how advertising, debt, and personal desperation sustain an urban underground economy.

A feature on three dangerous or sensational drugs associated with postwar pleasure culture: illicit Hiropon (methamphetamine), Adorm sleeping pills and overdose or suicide attempts, and purported aphrodisiac products. The article combines reported incidents with warnings about drug abuse, fraudulent claims, and the social harms surrounding these substances.

An illustrated comic sketch depicts a would-be robber confronting a woman in the street, with the encounter unfolding through exaggerated dialogue and slapstick reversals. The piece treats attempted robbery as humorous social satire rather than as a factual report.

A nonfiction-style discussion examines male and female pickpockets in postwar Osaka, including estimates of criminal activity, gang organization, common targets, stealing techniques, and the changing economic conditions of the trade. It also uses reported or dramatized cases to contrast the methods and circumstances of men and women pickpockets and concludes with warnings about vigilance and prevention.

A wartime fiction set amid the fighting in Okinawa, where a Japanese soldier encounters a woman sheltering in a cave. Their tense, intimate exchange unfolds against bombardment, hunger, displacement, and the brutal collapse of the battlefield world.

A grotesque short story about a man whose illness and unconventional treatment become entangled with his fixation on drinking a woman’s urine. The narrative presents urine drinking through a mixture of erotic fetishism, medical rationalization, secrecy, and psychological disturbance.

An anthology of short Japanese erotic tales combining marital and adulterous encounters with folklore, supernatural transformations, religious transgression, and tragic or violent consequences. The stories are framed as sensational historical and popular narratives rather than factual accounts.

An erotic fiction narrative centered on a socially superior woman who seduces and exercises power over an inexperienced young man. The illustrated story emphasizes sexual initiation, class hierarchy, manipulation, and the atmosphere of nighttime urban pleasure districts.

A dramatic period tale about a nighttime sword attack at a bridge, followed by pursuit and combat between samurai figures. The narrative emphasizes suspense, ambush, and martial confrontation in a historical setting.

A case-style narrative about a family formed through prohibited close-kin relationships and the tragic consequences for several children. It discusses hereditary abnormality, including albinism, alongside sexualized illustrated scenes and moral reflections on incest and family suffering.

An erotic office-romance narrative about flirtation, jealousy, and sexual tension among coworkers, including an attempted reconciliation and a forgotten handbag that helps drive the encounter. The story presents workplace intimacy as a setting for secret relationships and emotional manipulation.

An erotic short story depicting a chance nighttime encounter that develops into a fleeting sexual relationship, followed by emotional uncertainty and separation. The narrative emphasizes transient desire, seduction, and the melancholy aftermath of an affair.

A social-realist account of a female beggar living around Gōri Shinchi, tracing how a woman associated with beauty and respectable origins came to poverty and street begging. The article reflects on her family circumstances, appearance, and treatment within the pleasure district.

A colloquial first-person-style account of street shoe shiners, describing their work, customers, tools, earnings, and precarious everyday lives. The piece gives voice to working-class youth and emphasizes the hardships and social marginality of informal street labor.

A practical, sometimes humorous guide to winning the attention of unfamiliar women and developing romantic intimacy. It discusses grooming and appearance, conversation, social behavior, timing, psychological tactics, and general rules for courtship.

An erotic first-person narrative about clandestine affairs and sexual encounters, presenting secret meetings, seduction, and escalating sexual experimentation through sensational prose and accompanying illustrations. The feature combines confessional storytelling with motifs of secrecy, erotic pursuit, and sexual transgression.

A sensational Love Spy mystery follows an investigation into a dangerous sulfuric-acid-related affair, involving concealed violence, threatened women, deception, and pursuit. The narrative uses melodramatic dialogue and lurid illustrations to develop its crime-and-romance intrigue.

A serialized pulp narrative about the “strange women of Umeda” follows encounters among urban women, male patrons, nightlife venues, rented rooms, and domestic spaces. Episodes portray seduction, sexual bargaining, jealousy, coercion, physical confrontation, and shifting power between men and women.