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Kitan Club

March 1955

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Cover of Kitan Club, March 1955

Issue Details

Volume
9
Issue
3
PDF pages
309

Summary

Kitan Club’s March 1955 special expanded issue is a large, densely illustrated publication combining pictorial fetish culture, theoretical discussion of sexual abnormality, serialized and prize fiction, autobiographical confession, historical inquiry, and an extensive reader-community section. Its opening is strongly visual, with Japanese drawings and staged photographs of bondage, dominance, masochistic themes, wrestling, medicalized imagery, and imported erotic material. Work associated with Rudolf Hegemann and material from foreign magazines such as BIZARRE, Pigalle, and LAFF place Japanese postwar erotic culture in dialogue with international visual sources.

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The main editorial body includes Naruse Ryō’s On New Developments in Perversion Research, addressing inversion, fetishism, same-sex desire, psychology, and the period’s distinctions between normal and abnormal sexuality. Naruyama Nōhei’s Drawing Bondage Pictures examines the artistic and erotic process of creating bondage imagery, while Mine Kōji’s Masochistic Boyhood traces the development of masochistic desire. Other confessional and experiential contributions examine bodily sensation, medical fantasy, sadistic desire, fetishism, and restraint.

Fiction occupies a major portion of the issue. The serialized Night Light Island appears alongside The Shadow Flower, The Tide Wave, Ten Months in Confinement, Bondage Without Rope, the substantial prize story Venus’s Heavy Stone, and An Old Tale of O-Tengumatsu: The Origin of the Tengu Nose. Historical and transnational interests also appear in the Ōtsu Incident essay, Cruel Women, Itō Seiu’s The Blood-Stained Hair Rope, Oda Nobunaga, Hero of Perversion, and Morimoto Aizō’s commentary on Hegemann’s imagery.

The later portion increasingly emphasizes documentation and community. Tsujimura Takashi discusses bondage models and photography, Numa Shōzō contributes a long installment of From a Masochist’s Notebook, and Yamada Masami reflects on decades devoted to abnormal and erotic subjects. The closing pages organize correspondence into general and specialized interest sections, followed by agency notices, media commentary, a next-issue preview, manuscript solicitations, and publication information.

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Table of Contents 67 items
  1. Kawayanagi Idea Ten Forms
    12
  2. Fire Wheel by Itō Seiu
    13
  3. Foreign Literature Introduction: Bondage and Fetish Images
    14–15
  4. Girl Sumo
    16–17
  5. Two Bondage Subjects
    18–19
  6. Masochistic Photo
    20–21
  7. Bondage Photo Album
    22–23
  8. Outdoor Rope-Binding Sequence
    24–25
  9. Two Dominant Women: Combination Photos
    26–27
  10. A Cute Customer by Tsuzuki Mineko
    28
  11. The Fetishist's Dream by Tsuzuki Mineko
    29
  12. The Fetishist's Page
    30
  13. Picture Album of Cruel Women: Hegemann Special by Morimoto Aizō
    31–33
  14. Female Slaves Being Sold
    34–35
  15. Enema, Pinning Down, and Rooftop Photographs
    36–37
  16. Women's Wrestling
    38
  17. The Husband's Place in the American Home
    39
  18. Morning Departure / After Dinner by Sugihara Kōji
    40
  19. The Traitor by Shima Takashi
    41–44
  20. On New Developments in Perversion Research by Naruse Ryō
    46–52
  21. Drawing Bondage Pictures by Naruyama Nōhei
    53–57
  22. Night Light Island, Part 6: An Unpleasant Promise by Azuma Shin
    58–70
  23. The Ōtsu Incident and Its Aftermath, Part 2: Glory Being Eroded by Sudō Ritsuo
    71–73
  24. Masochistic Boyhood, Part 8: Stirring Toward Masochism by Mine Kōji
    74–81
  25. On Sweat by Mizushima Mamoru
    82–89
  26. SAPPHO Japanese Edition: Cutting the Girl's Belly by Kawai Itsuko
    90–93
  27. My Way of Tormenting: Punishment for Infidelity by Takarazuka Fumio
    94–103
  28. The Shadow Flower by Kataya Kaoru
    104–118
  29. Cruel Women by Morimoto Aizō
    119–121
  30. Diary of an Enema Maniac, Emiko: A Sad Monologue by Hanamura Emiko
    122–127
  31. The Tide Wave by Shirogane Kōji
    128–133
  32. My Image: The Operating Room, A Favorite Dream by Taketani Jūzō
    134–137
  33. An Old Tale of O-Tengumatsu: The Origin of the Tengu Nose by Midori Takehiko
    138–147
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  34. The Blood-Stained Hair Rope, Part 3 by Itō Seiu
    148–153
  35. Ten Months in Confinement by Haruta Ichirō
    154–161
  36. Confession: Cutting One's Own Belly by Odawara Wataru
    162–165
  37. My Experience by Nagase Akiko
    166–171
  38. Explanation of the Illustration Fire Wheel by Itō Seiu
    172
  39. Memoir: The Young Lady Who Was Catheterized by Tamura Jin'ichi
    174–175
  40. Local Report: Underwear Thief Captured
    176–178
  41. Open Letter to the Editors by Sugawara Haruo
    179–183
  42. On Hagi Chieko: Centering on the Frontispiece Photographs by Narumi Fumio
    184–187
  43. Letter to the Editor: From a Reader
    188
  44. One Night in Tokyo by R.G.S.
    189–191
  45. Venus's Heavy Stone by Masago Jūshirō
    192–222
  46. Experience in a Dormitory by Midorikawa Junko
    223–227
  47. Phallic Worship: A Confession from My Boyhood by Mori Taichi
    228–233
  48. From a Masochist's Notebook, No. 85: Confession of a Young Masochist by Numa Shōzō
    234–247
  49. Bondage Without Rope by Futamata Shizuko
    248–255
  50. Record of My Half-Life by Kitajima Kagetsu
    256–261
  51. Oda Nobunaga, Hero of Perversion by Kasagi Toshirō
    262–271
  52. Thirty Years of Pursuing the Abnormal by Yamada Masami
    272–279
  53. The True Face of Bondage Models, Part 1 by Tsujimura Takashi
    280–287
  54. Letter to M, First Letter by Futamata Shizuko
    288–291
  55. Recollections of Punishment Pictures by Yoda Seiji
    292–294
  56. Commentary on the Picture Album Cruel Women by Morimoto Aizō
    295–297
  57. Film and Magazine Correspondence by Shiraishi Minoru
    298–299
  58. Readers' Correspondence
    300–304
  59. Masochism Correspondence
    305–306
  60. Sadism Correspondence
    307–308
  61. Seppuku Correspondence
    309–310
  62. Agency Department Monthly Report
    311
  63. Sodomy Correspondence
    312
  64. Enema Correspondence
    313
  65. Next Issue Preview
    314
  66. Bondage Film Preview and Publication Notices
    315
  67. Calls for Manuscripts and Publication Information
    316

Highlights

  • The opening pictorial section combines Japanese drawings, staged photography, bondage imagery, dominance themes, wrestling, medicalized fetish material, and reproductions from foreign erotic magazines. (PDF pp. 5–33).
  • Naruse Ryō's On New Developments in Perversion Research provides a substantial theoretical discussion of fetishism, inversion, same-sex desire, psychology, and the distinction between normal and abnormal sexuality. (PDF pp. 39–45).
  • Naruyama Nōhei's Drawing Bondage Pictures examines the process of creating bondage art and connects artistic practice with erotic response and the representation of restraint. (PDF pp. 46–50).
  • An Old Tale of O-Tengumatsu: The Origin of the Tengu Nose combines Edo-period gambling culture with bondage, punishment, humiliation, tattoo imagery, and bawdy historical fantasy. (PDF pp. 131–140).
  • Itō Seiu's The Blood-Stained Hair Rope, Part 3 continues a historically oriented series connecting punishment imagery, recollection, and Seiu's distinctive visual and narrative vocabulary. (PDF pp. 141–146).
  • Numa Shōzō's From a Masochist's Notebook, No. 85: Confession of a Young Masochist is one of the issue's longest first-person explorations of masochistic identity and desire. (PDF pp. 227–240).
  • Tsujimura Takashi's The True Face of Bondage Models, Part 1 shifts attention from fantasy to the people and circumstances involved in producing bondage photography. (PDF pp. 273–280).
  • The closing correspondence pages divide the readership into general correspondence and specialized interest sections, documenting the magazine's role in organizing a network of readers with distinct erotic and research interests. (PDF pp. 293–306).

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English Translations from This Issue

Kinbaku Today is an independent online journal dedicated to the study, practice, and cultural history of Japanese rope bondage. Blending essays, translations, interviews, and archival research, it explores kinbaku not simply as technique, but as a living dialogue between history, performance, and human connection.
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