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Kitan Club

October 1974

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Cover of Kitan Club, October 1974

Issue Details

Volume
28
Issue
10
PDF pages
171

Summary

The October 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive opening bondage portfolio with documentary reportage, serialized fiction, confessional writing, reader-oriented SM essays, and discussions of technique and fantasy. The front section is dominated by photographs of women in rope bondage, ranging from simple first-binding poses to gags, suspension, breast bondage, floor restraint, paired models, and more elaborate positional compositions. Several models are identified individually, and photographer Tsukamoto Tetsuzō receives prominent credit. The portfolio moves from monochrome studies into color plates, establishing rope, posture, embarrassment, and the photographed body as the issue’s central visual vocabulary.

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The principal opening article, Tsukamoto Tetsuzō’s Scenes from a Long-Distance Expedition to Echizen, is an extended camera-and-pen SM reportage feature. It follows a trip involving photographer, model, and fellow enthusiasts, blending travel narrative, conversations about SM collecting and photography, and a sustained photographic session with model Hori Kiyoko. Its self-conscious discussion of posing, embarrassment, photographic documentation, and the relationship between amateur participants and an organized SM milieu makes it one of the issue’s strongest documents of contemporary subcultural practice.

The middle of the issue shifts into fiction and first-person sexual narratives. Suwa Ōji Ken’s Again: Black Breasts revisits an M-woman theme, while Saji Mazō’s Female Prisoner continues the M Group’s collaborative fiction. Becoming Lady Sayoko’s Toilet presents a confessional humiliation fantasy. Chiba Seiki’s Great Eruption continues a long-running serialized novel, followed by Memories of My Wife and Enemas and Oniyama Kensaku’s serialized Muddy Sea of Folly. The Gate of Purple Orchids by Fūryū Gokudōken extends the magazine’s period-SM fiction, while From Flower and Snake explicitly engages with a major title in Japanese SM culture.

Later contributions move between club testimony, personal admiration, bodily experience, and specialist rope culture. Conversation on a Rainy Night records attendance at an SM Research Society gathering. A Wonderful Person to Me and Two Scarlet Peonies offer further experiential or narrative material. Female Pregnancy and Shame Torment combines pregnancy with humiliation fantasy, while Palm-Fiber Rope Story treats rope itself as an object of interest. Waiting by the West Window and Genealogy of Torture Illustrations close the surviving editorial sequence, the latter approaching images of female torment through historical and visual-cultural commentary.

Across the issue, Kitan Club presents SM not simply as fiction but as a network of photography, collecting, amateur participation, clubs, correspondence, personal confession, historical imagery, and specialized erotic practice. The formal contents also advertises later reader and salon material beyond the surviving pagination, showing the broader communal structure in which the issue was originally organized.

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Table of Contents 18 items
  1. Image Gallery
    3–26
  2. The Flavor of Masochism Seeping Out by Arita Yoshitada
    29
  3. Scenes from a Long-Distance Expedition to Echizen by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
    30–63
  4. Again: Black Breasts by Suwa Ōji Ken
    64–67
  5. Female Prisoner by Saji Mazō
    68–79
  6. Becoming Lady Sayoko's Toilet by Hajō Yūji
    80–83
  7. Great Eruption by Chiba Seiki
    84–91
  8. Memories of My Wife and Enemas by Fujioka Enema
    92–93
  9. Muddy Sea of Folly by Oniyama Kensaku
    94–109
  10. The Gate of Purple Orchids by Fūryū Gokudōken
    110–122
  11. From Flower and Snake by Ozawa Jun'ichi
    123–128
  12. Conversation on a Rainy Night by Nakagawa Keiko
    129–139
  13. A Wonderful Person to Me by Takahashi Mutsuo
    140–143
  14. Two Scarlet Peonies by Hitomi Yōtarō
    144–151
  15. Female Pregnancy and Shame Torment by Ogura Yūki
    152–155
  16. Palm-Fiber Rope Story by Shiba Yoshio
    156–161
  17. Waiting by the West Window by Arao Keiko
    162–165
  18. Genealogy of Torture Illustrations by Minami Hikonari
    166–173

Highlights

  • The extensive front image gallery presents multiple models in first-binding poses, gags, suspension, breast bondage, floor ties, paired bondage, and color rope studies, creating a visual catalogue of contemporary kinbaku practice. (PDF pp. 3–26).
  • Scenes from a Long-Distance Expedition to Echizen by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō combines travel narrative, SM-subculture reportage, collecting, participant conversation, and an extended bondage photography session with Hori Kiyoko. (PDF pp. 28–61).
  • Again: Black Breasts explicitly returns to the magazine's recurring interest in M-women and combines personal recollection with masochistic fantasy. (PDF pp. 62–65).
  • Female Prisoner, installment 8 of the M Group's collaborative work, develops a female-dominant captivity scenario and represents the issue's organized group-produced fiction. (PDF pp. 66–77).
  • Becoming Lady Sayoko's Toilet is a first-person humiliation confession centered on servitude and bodily-function fetishism. (PDF pp. 78–81).
  • Great Eruption reaches its seventy-second installment, illustrating the extraordinary longevity of Kitan Club's serialized erotic fiction. (PDF pp. 82–89).
  • Conversation on a Rainy Night documents attendance at an SM Research Society meeting and contributes direct evidence of organized enthusiast culture. (PDF pp. 127–137).
  • Female Pregnancy and Shame Torment combines pregnancy imagery with themes of exposure, embarrassment, bondage, and bodily vulnerability. (PDF pp. 150–153).
  • Palm-Fiber Rope Story treats rope material itself as a specialist subject, reflecting the magazine's technical and fetishistic attention to binding implements. (PDF pp. 154–159).
  • Genealogy of Torture Illustrations closes the surviving main text with a historical and visual-cultural discussion of representations of women being tormented. (PDF pp. 164–171).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in 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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