Kitan Club
July 1952
← Back to magazine archive
Issue Details
- PDF pages
- 201
Summary
The July 1952 issue of Kitan Club is a densely illustrated popular sexological and sensational magazine organized around the special feature 女天下時代, or The Age of Female Domination. Its editorial world repeatedly reverses conventional gender hierarchies: women discipline, bind, deceive, employ, sell, or sexually command men, while male characters appear as subjects of humiliation, fetishism, fear, curiosity, or masochistic pleasure. The issue combines erotic fiction, confessional memoir, pseudo-medical essays, historical anecdotes, crime reportage, folklore, reader correspondence, travel writing, and visual art.
Read full summary Close full summary
Table of Contents 41 items
-
Strange Picture Collection
Summary
An opening portfolio of erotic drawings and staged photographs depicting nude bodies, bondage, restraint, and power reversal.
-
Ten Talents of the Nude Woman
Summary
A full-page illustrated study of multiple nude female figures in varied poses, emphasizing eroticized bodily display.
-
Portraits of Female Slaves and Masochistsapproximately 12–31
Summary
The issue’s central feature presents female domination, male submission, fetishism, flagellation, masochism, and mythological arguments for female authority. Internal headings and case narratives remain part of this single article-level container.
-
The Reality of Sexually Promiscuous Women
Summary
An illustrated sensational narrative follows sexual pursuit, coercion, humiliation, violence, and shifting power relations between its principal characters.
-
A Tale of Desire: The Female Parlor Striptease
Summary
A comic and violent narrative set in the ozashiki entertainment world, where performance, sexual commerce, money, and bodily display produce repeated reversals of power.
-
Reader Communications
Summary
A reader letter and editorial response discuss excessive sexual desire, sexual education, and the magazine’s role as an advice forum.
-
Aoi Was a Precocious Sheltered Girl
Summary
A first-person confessional narrative describes a sheltered girl’s early sexual curiosity, clandestine initiation, emotional attachment, and later reflections on desire and respectability.
-
The Diseased Chicken
Summary
A grotesque domestic narrative uses a diseased chicken, family scarcity, illness, secrecy, and sibling conflict to create a comic-horrific account of bodily disorder and household trauma.
-
A Sexual History of Slavery throughout the World
Summary
A historical survey of Roman and medieval slavery discusses ownership, sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, punishment, prostitution, and class hierarchy.
-
Erotic Fragments from the Front: Anecdotes Concerning the Nikolayevsk Incident
Summary
Wartime and military anecdotes concerning the Nikolayevsk Incident combine purported testimony with sexualized violence, captivity, punishment, foreignness, and racialized sensationalism.
-
The Erotic Riddle of the Artificial Phallus
Summary
An illustrated sexological account of the harigata discusses its materials, historical use, manufacture, and relation to marital and female sexual pleasure.
-
International Correspondence: Erotic Judgments
Summary
International letters and replies discuss photographs, body hair, masturbation, sexual preferences, relationships, and cross-border erotic communication.
-
The Death of a Certain Perverted Couple
Summary
A purported true-crime narrative reconstructs a couple’s sexual pathology, domestic life, deaths, forensic clues, and the subsequent investigation.
-
A Guide to Ishigami and Stone Gods
Summary
An illustrated folklore and travel guide surveys Japanese phallic stones, fertility deities, shrine traditions, reproductive beliefs, and folk medicine.
-
Shanghai’s Huang Xiaofu: The Savage Tribe
Summary
A social-reportage feature describes Shanghai prostitution, nightlife districts, street solicitation, foreign commerce, clothing, performance, poverty, and sexual labor.
-
World Tour, Part 2: Sexual Techniques of Freedom and Love—Monaco
Summary
A travel essay presents Monaco and Monte Carlo through casinos, tourism, luxury, gambling, seaside spectacle, class, and the international fantasy of freedom.
-
The Legend of the Mandarin Ducks
Summary
A short eroticized legend uses birds, secrecy, dreams, captivity, and uncanny transformation to frame inherited sexual folklore.
-
Sexual Acts Without Intercourse
Summary
A sexological essay examines abstinence, cruelty, unconscious masturbation, displaced desire, fetishism, sadism, masochism, and ritualized bodily imagery outside conventional intercourse.
-
The Mystery of the Horigata
Summary
An illustrated cultural history of 張形 treats the phallic substitute as a sexual implement, ritual object, manufactured commodity, and subject of clandestine folklore.
-
A History of Foreign Mistresses
Summary
A historical-social essay examines foreign women, treaty ports, sailors, merchants, entertainment houses, mixed-race children, clothing, and intercultural intimacy in Japan.
-
At the Crossroads of Moral Fall
Summary
A serialized urban erotic fiction follows seduction, jealousy, voyeurism, financial dependence, deception, illness, and sexual relationships among characters in hotels, restaurants, and lodging houses.
-
Secrets of the Female Body: Pubic and Armpit Hair
Summary
A period sexological essay discusses pubic and axillary hair, sexual maturation, grooming, bodily variation, racialized comparison, and erotic visual preference.
-
Letters from Male Homosexuals
Summary
A letter and editorial response address male same-sex desire, loneliness, social pressure, work, marriage, health, and self-control.
-
Tracking Down a Counterfeiter of One-Thousand-Yen Notes
Summary
A counterfeit-money investigation combines rural reportage, domestic suspicion, adultery, jealousy, interrogation, concealment, and murder.
-
Sexual Feelings Appearing in Cities and Countryside
Summary
An essay reads popular verse as evidence of longing, jealousy, separation, marriage, sexual desire, and changing social feeling.
-
A Woman’s Sexual Memoir: From Office Girl to an Executive’s Mistress
Summary
A first-person memoir links office work, economic dependence, adultery, hotels, consumer culture, secrecy, and the narrator’s changing understanding of desire.
-
Letters from a Sexual Deviant
Summary
A confessional letter describes compulsive fetishistic and coercive practices, shame, bodily detail, medical authority, punishment, and the possibility of treatment.
-
The Soles of Women’s Feet: Enchantment
Summary
A historical and psychological essay treats feet, shoes, stockings, exposure, beauty, and foot fetishism across Japanese and foreign examples.
-
The Queen of the Female Sword-Drama Is Still Going Strong
Summary
An illustrated theatrical feature eroticizes a female sword-play performer through backstage scenes, costume, spectatorship, youthful fascination, jealousy, and physical combat.
-
Does Love Exist among Animals?
Summary
A popular natural-history essay compares animal mating, attachment, jealousy, breeding, and sexual competition with human love and desire.
-
Summer and Sexual Crime
Summary
A seasonal essay connects heat, clothing, bathing, public exposure, voyeurism, harassment, and sexual crime through moralizing pseudo-medical commentary.
-
The Mole on the Inner Thigh
Summary
Comic dialogue and erotic anecdotes address bodily marks, marriage, pregnancy, sexual expectations, reputation, and domestic relationships.
-
Sex and Cruelty: Cruelty, Pain, and Desire
Summary
A wide-ranging sexological essay links erotic desire to pain, violence, domination, gender hierarchy, historical examples, and supposedly anthropological accounts of cruelty.
-
Comparing the Erotic Exploits of Restoration Heroes
Summary
Popular history recasts Bakumatsu and early Meiji figures through courtesans, lovers, sexual rivalry, disguise, violence, and erotic scandal.
-
The Female Student Who Wet Her Skin
Summary
A confessional student narrative explores illness, education, teacher-student intimacy, bathing, emotional dependence, summer travel, and anxiety about social judgment.
-
Perverse Love Letters
Summary
An illustrated exchange of erotic letters discusses nude modeling, bondage, exhibitionism, voyeurism, erotic art, private experience, and the relationship between readers and magazine production.
-
A Young Man: An Erotic Strange Tale
Summary
An illustrated narrative follows an adolescent boy’s curiosity about adult women, bathing, observation, domestic sexuality, and eventual erotic initiation.
-
Notes on Religious Art
Summary
An art-history essay surveys religious imagery, nudity, erotic symbolism, torture, martyrdom, execution, and the changing treatment of sexual and violent motifs in Western and Japanese art.
-
Mountain Village Nightscape
Summary
An erotic rural-night narrative uses a farmhouse, bride, bathing, voyeurism, dancing, restraint, and shifting sexual roles as its principal motifs.
-
The Dream-Sexual Beautiful Boy
Summary
A heavily illustrated first-person confession traces adolescent sexual development, voyeurism, bathing, homoerotic and heterosexual desire, shame, bodily self-consciousness, and postwar social experience.
-
Manuscript Solicitation and Subscription Notices
Summary
The closing page solicits unusual experiences, confessions, crime stories, fiction, erotic photographs, and illustrations, and provides subscription, ordering, pricing, and office information.
Highlights
- The opening 奇譚画集 combines erotic illustration with staged nude and bondage imagery. (PDF pp. 2–3).
- 女天下時代 presents an extended argument and series of case narratives about female authority, male submission, flagellation, and masochism. (PDF pp. 6–26).
- 世界奴隷艶情史 surveys slavery, sexual ownership, prostitution, punishment, and class hierarchy from Rome through the medieval period. (PDF pp. 54–59).
- 張形の謎 offers a detailed illustrated history of the Japanese phallic substitute, combining folklore, sexual practice, and material culture. (PDF pp. 91–103).
- International and domestic correspondence columns address homosexuality, fetishism, masturbation, sexual anxiety, and erotic relationships. (PDF pp. 64–68,121–122,133–135,171–178).
- The essay 女の足の蠱惑 treats women’s feet, footwear, stockings, and foot fetishism through historical and psychological examples. (PDF pp. 136–138).
- 性愛と残酷 links erotic desire to pain, violence, domination, and culturally framed cruelty. (PDF pp. 154–158).
- The closing confession 夢性の美少年 discusses adolescent sexuality, voyeurism, homoerotic desire, heterosexual experimentation, and shame. (PDF pp. 193–200).
- The final page solicits unusual experiences, confessions, crime stories, erotic photographs, and illustrations, documenting the magazine’s participatory publishing system. (PDF p. 201).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Abe Ukō
- Akada Tanaka
- Akasaka Gō
- Akiyama Rumiko
- Fujisaki Yō
- Fujiyama Yoshi
- Fukumori Kōji
- Hiromi Fujisaki
- Izawa Ranko
- Kanbe Shin
- Kinushima Tanfū
- Kitan Club editorial office
- Kiyama Kinu
- Matsutani Shigeru
- Mimura Ikuo
- Miura Yoshiko
- Miyagawa Rikizō
- Nobuchi Sō
- Nonaka Aizō
- Ōmiya Kiyoko
- Ōshō Sumiko
- Reiko (reading uncertain)
- Sasada Yutaka
- Shimoide Takuichi
- Takatō Tatsumō
- Tō Hihito
- Tsuji Mamako
- Yamamoto Kajō
