Kitan Club
March 1963
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 3
- PDF pages
- 191
Summary
The March 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually large opening visual program with confessional writing, fiction, fetish commentary, cultural reportage, illustrated essays, and a long reader-correspondence section. The first photographic portfolio concentrates on tightly folded rope positions, torso binding, cloth gags, neck rope, kneeling restraint, and women photographed both nude and in sheer or conventional clothing. The following illustrated gallery shifts into overt fantasy, presenting women treated as commodities, constrained in display boxes, subjected to enema-related scenarios, threatened with abdominal cutting, and surrounded by tormentors. A second photographic sequence includes gagged seated bondage, a kimono-clad woman posed with swords and ritual implements, assisted hogties, and compact kneeling and floor restraint.
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Table of Contents 33 items
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Opening Rope-Bondage Gravure
Summary
A photographic rope-bondage portfolio presents women secured in varied seated, kneeling, reclining, and contorted positions, emphasizing elaborate rope placement and bodily restriction.
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Products Displayed Before the Customer
Summary
Claude Koga’s illustrations portray bound women as commodities displayed for inspection, subjected to a mistress’s whip when they resist, and finally packed and shipped to purchasers in a dark mail-order captivity fantasy.
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Enema Cover
Summary
Shima Takashi’s cover illustration depicts a woman restrained and gagged while suffering the effects of an administered enema and being made to move about wearing a diaper cover.
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Constriction Garment
Summary
An erotic illustration depicts a woman wearing a constricting leather garment that tightens as it absorbs water and clings closely to the body, with a man assisting or observing her.
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A Woman’s Disembowelment
Summary
An erotic illustration presents a Japanese woman in a domestic interior alongside imagery of ritual disembowelment or seppuku, linking female vulnerability with violent punishment fantasy.
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Fantasy of Disembowelment Play
Summary
Titled “Fantasy of Disembowelment Play,” this erotic illustration shows a kneeling nude woman gripping a blade at her abdomen amid blood imagery, staging seppuku as an imagined erotic punishment scene.
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Nasal Teasing
Summary
A staged erotic photograph shows a woman surrounded by two men engaging in nasal teasing, presenting the nose as the focus of playful fetishistic attention.
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Second Gravure: Gagged Seated Bondage
Summary
A photographic sequence depicts a gagged woman seated and restrained with rope in several bondage positions.
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Second Gravure: Kimono Woman with Ritual Implements
Summary
A multi-image erotic photographic portfolio presents a woman in a stylized kimono and samurai setting, gagged with cloth and posed with swords and other ritualized props while partially disrobed.
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Second Gravure: Assisted Hogtie
Summary
A photographic sequence documents an assisted hogtie, showing a model being secured in a prone, tightly folded position with rope and the help of a second participant.
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Second Gravure: Kneeling and Floor Rope Studies
Summary
A photographic study presents kneeling and floor-based rope restraints, including compact body positions, torso bindings, and sensory-restricting masks or gags.
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From the Town of Wind
Summary
Mayumi Yamabe’s serialized erotic fiction follows a married woman whose relationship develops from conventional intimacy into coercive bondage, sexual experimentation, revenge, and forbidden relationships, culminating in a husband’s fatal accident and her unsettled search for a new life.
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White Socks
Summary
A first-person confession recounts a lifelong masochistic fixation on women, centered on the white socks and feet of a physically assertive woman named Setsuko and culminating in humiliating wrestling and punishment encounters.
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Comic Talk on the Waist
Summary
A humorous illustrated essay traces Japanese women’s waistcloths and loincloths from traditional red garments to modern underwear, combining historical anecdotes with commentary on their erotic and cultural meanings.
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Peeping into the Toilet
Summary
An erotic comic narrative follows two male friends whose curiosity about a women’s toilet develops into voyeuristic attempts to observe a female employee and the ensuing farcical complications.
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Somewhere in the Universe
Summary
A serialized SM fiction narrative follows a construction-company worker who is subjected to exhausting forced labor, shackling, beatings, and systematic humiliation as a slave among other abused workers.
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Recent Shocking Bondage Films
Summary
A critical survey of recent shocking bondage films discusses cinematic depictions of women and men being tied, gagged, restrained, and subjected to staged scenes of cruelty and sexualized captivity.
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Piāno’s Torment
Summary
This serialized fiction centers on a piano teacher who becomes entangled in an increasingly coercive relationship and is repeatedly bound, exposed, disciplined, and tormented around a piano, with later developments involving marriage, jealousy, and domestic control.
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A Chair
Summary
A practical discussion of suppositories explains their medical uses, rectal absorption, methods of insertion, and the differences between local and systemic effects, presented with playful sexualized dialogue.
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Toward the Distant Mountains and Rivers
Summary
This serialized wartime erotic fiction follows a military unit whose commander and female trainees undergo severe discipline, emotional manipulation, and ritualized fantasies of abdominal cutting and self-sacrifice.
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Sardinia Travel Notes
Summary
Framed as travel notes from Sardinia, this illustrated fantasy depicts female captives subjected to chains, stocks, forced labor, punitive supervision, and grotesque medical experiments by a visiting doctor.
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A Curious Confession
Summary
An autobiographical confession by a young nurse describes her growing obsession with diapers and her use of nursing routines, patients, urine, and enforced diapering to enact and intensify her fetishistic fantasies.
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K-ko
Summary
This experiential narrative recounts M’s voyeuristic fascination with K-ko, a young teacher, and the increasingly coercive relationship that develops through surveillance, control, humiliation, and physical discipline.
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Notes of a Gun-Making Maniac
Summary
A two-part feature presents conversational vignettes about buying and selling worn panties, coats, shoes, and other fetishized clothing, followed by a nightmarish historical narrative set amid Japanese military operations around Nanjing’s Zhonghua Gate.
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An Evil Dream
Summary
A dark erotic narrative depicts a woman’s encounter with an American serviceman and the escalating use of coercion, nudity, restraint, and sexualized violence against a backdrop of wartime occupation and military life.
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Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twenty-Third Night
Summary
This extended installment of the serialized “Thirty-Ninth Night Tales” moves between grotesque village legends and modern scenes of pursuit, surveillance, abduction, and staged sexual domination, including elaborate rope bondage and captivity episodes.
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Yellow Sex
Summary
An essay on sexual psychology and S/M orientation examines the contrast between dominant and submissive tendencies, their effects on marriage and domestic life, and the ways readers describe or negotiate such desires through letters and personal anecdotes.
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The Navel and Disembowelment
Summary
A cultural and erotic essay links the navel with disembowelment and seppuku, discussing bodily symbolism, historical execution imagery, cross-cultural accounts of surgery and childbirth, and the visual fascination of exposed abdominal anatomy.
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Flame and Mud
Summary
A serialized SM fiction narrative depicts a coercive encounter in which a woman is bound, humiliated, beaten, and subjected to escalating domination by a male narrator, with recurring motifs of restraint, fear, sexualized cruelty, and conflicted desire.
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Female Laborer
Summary
A reader-experience SM novel follows a female student mobilized to work in a wartime aircraft factory, where coercion, rivalry, and workplace control lead to elaborate captivity, binding, enemas, and humiliating punishment. The narrative frames her suffering and conflicted responses through a first-person masochistic perspective.
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Thoughts on Masochistic Art
Summary
This essay considers the aesthetics of masochistic art through representations of gendered costume, cross-dressing, role reversal, and combat in films, fiction, photography, and popular imagery. It discusses female riders, pirates, swordswomen, and male figures in feminized or submissive roles as culturally charged visual types.
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The Practice of Bondage Photography
Summary
Tsukamoto Tetsuzō describes the planning and execution of bondage photography, recounting shoots involving models, outdoor and temple settings, posing, restraint arrangements, lighting, camera work, and correspondence with readers seeking guidance. The article combines practical production advice with reflections on creating dramatic, emotionally charged images of women in bondage.
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Reader Communications
Summary
A reader-correspondence section presenting letters about personal SM and fetish experiences, responses to the magazine’s articles and photographs, requests for advice or contact, and announcements for reader-submitted material, clubs, products, and forthcoming issues.
Highlights
- The opening gravure portfolio presents tightly folded rope positions, torso bondage, cloth gags, neck rope, kneeling restraint, and close studies of strain and posture. (PDF pp. 6–13).
- The illustrated gallery treats women as displayed commodities and depicts confinement, inspection, enema fantasy, abdominal cutting, nasal torment, and group coercion. (PDF pp. 14–21).
- The second photographic sequence combines gagged seated bondage, ritualized kimono posing with swords and implements, assisted hogties, and compact floor restraint. (PDF pp. 22–29).
- Yamabe Mayumi’s “From the Town of Wind” is a lengthy first-person confession about marriage, infidelity, submission, humiliation, and the search for a sympathetic subculture. (PDF pp. 31–38).
- Manda Fuji’s “White Socks” connects school memories, maternal discipline, shame, bodily punishment, clothing, and emerging erotic identity. (PDF pp. 39–48).
- The middle section moves between comic cultural commentary, short speculative fiction, sensational film discussion, and the science-fictional SM narrative “Somewhere in the Universe.” (PDF pp. 49–78).
- “Toward the Distant Mountains and Rivers” develops historical female suffering and abdominal cutting through a long documentary-fictional treatment. (PDF pp. 79–94).
- The later issue includes a Sardinia travelogue, a case-style personal account titled “K-ko,” a gun-enthusiast notebook, and the twenty-third installment of “Thirty-Ninth Night.” (PDF pp. 95–130).
- Late essays examine racialized erotic fantasy, the navel and abdominal cutting, artistic confession, women’s labor, and masochistic aesthetics. (PDF pp. 131–166).
- The closing technical and community sections cover bondage photography, model direction, reader correspondence, classified exchanges, publication offers, and editorial replies. (PDF pp. 167–191).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Aruta Matado
- Claude Koga
- Higashiyama Eishi
- Iimori Kiyoshi
- Kirihara Shimon
- Kurise Chō
- Kuwata Ken’ichi
- Maki Takashi
- Manda Fuji
- Mori Yonesaburō
- Nonoyama Shinjiro
- Saji Mazō
- Shima Takashi
- Suda Ken夫
- Tajima Naoshi
- Taki Reiko
- Tama Ichirō
- Tani Misako
- Tsujimura Takashi
- Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
- Yamabe Mayumi
- Yoshino Mayumi
- Yukitoshi Haruka


