Kitan Club
May 1962
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 5
- PDF pages
- 136
Summary
The May 1962 extra-large issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually long opening sequence of erotic and sadomasochistic imagery with fiction, confessional prose, psychological speculation, autobiographical writing, reader-oriented columns, and cultural commentary. Its editorial identity rests on the juxtaposition of staged kinbaku photography, illustrations of punishment and domination, and narratives in which desire is explored through captivity, humiliation, performance, disguise, voyeurism, and unequal power.
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Table of Contents 33 items
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The Goddess of Salvation
Summary
An erotic illustration presents a goddess-like woman standing triumphantly while several bound men cling to or lie at her feet, framing salvation through female power and male submission.
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Elegant Iroha Playing Cards
Summary
This illustrated playing-card feature presents a sequence of stylized Japanese scenes involving women and men subjected to bondage, restraint, humiliation, and captivity.
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Beautiful Figure in Takate-Kote Ushirode Binding
Summary
A photographic feature depicts a woman seated in an elaborate takate-kote ushirode rope binding, with her arms restrained behind her back and her kimono arranged as part of the composition.
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Bonfire
Summary
An erotic illustration depicts a man binding and gagging a woman beside a bonfire in a dark outdoor setting.
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The Display in the Yard
Summary
An erotic illustration shows a woman tied spread-eagled to a raised frame in a yard while a man observes from a nearby building.
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The Boss Woman and Three Slaves
Summary
An erotic illustration portrays a dominant woman seated over and controlling three bound male slaves, emphasizing an orchestrated scene of female authority and male submission.
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Mounted on a Startled Horse
Summary
An erotic illustration depicts a woman straddling and dominating a restrained male figure while wielding a riding crop, under the caption “Mounted on a Startled Horse.”
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Yakuza Lynch
Summary
A staged erotic illustration titled “Yakuza Lynch” portrays a group of men restraining and abusing a bound woman in a dark gangster-themed scene.
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Tatami-Ring Geisha Sumo
Summary
An erotic illustration presents a geisha-themed wrestling scene on a tatami ring, combining nudity, grappling, and physical domination before onlooking men.
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Seppuku in Ski-Wear Style
Summary
An erotic illustration depicts a woman in ski wear staging a stylized seppuku scene, combining modern winter clothing with imagery of ritual self-disembowelment.
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Expressions of Ecstatic Torment and Close-Ups of Rope
Summary
A photographic feature presents close views of a restrained woman’s ecstatic or distressed expressions alongside detailed views of the rope used in the scene.
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My Pleasure
Summary
A staged photographic portfolio titled “My Pleasure” depicts women bound with rope in varied bed-based poses, including gagged and partially undressed presentations.
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The Expressive Beauty of the Gag
Summary
A photographic feature presents a woman gagged and tightly rope-bound in a series of posed close-ups, emphasizing the visual expressiveness of restrained speech and facial sensation.
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Fantasy of Torn Underwear
Summary
A staged photographic sequence depicts a woman in torn or disordered lingerie subjected to elaborate rope bondage in indoor and outdoor settings, combining damaged clothing with scenes of erotic restraint.
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Prelude to Submission: Complete Submission
Summary
A photographic feature titled “Prelude to Submission: Complete Submission” shows a woman moving through collapsed, contorted, and fully submissive poses, with images of physical helplessness and completed submission.
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The Trained Pet Dog
Summary
A photographic feature presents a woman treating a nude male submissive as a trained pet, including feeding and foot-oriented scenes of obedience and service.
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Slave Beneath Her Feet
Summary
A photographic bondage feature depicts a nude woman immobilized in elaborate rope restraints and posed as a slave beneath another person’s feet.
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Female Seppuku Pantomime and Close-Ups
Summary
A staged photographic sequence portrays a woman performing a stylized female seppuku or self-disembowelment pantomime with a sword, followed by close-up images of her body and expressions.
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The Feel of a Diaper Cover and Rubber
Summary
A photographic feature depicts a woman wearing diaper-cover garments and rubber while bound in several rope configurations, emphasizing the tactile and fetishistic appeal of the materials.
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A Moment of Ebi Binding
Summary
A single photographic scene presents a woman tightly rope-bound in the ebi-shibori, or shrimp-binding, position.
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Akemi Writhing
Summary
An illustrated serialized narrative follows the actress Sayuri through a theatrical world of staged bondage, harsh discipline, humiliation, exploitation, and personal conflict as she struggles to survive and establish herself on the stage.
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Chronicle of a Woman: The Woman from Aizu
Summary
A first-person erotic chronicle recounts an encounter with an enigmatic woman from Aizu whose identity and fantasies are intertwined with the memory of the Byakkotai, wartime sacrifice, and ritualized self-injury. The accompanying illustration reinforces the article’s dramatic and fetishistic staging of historical violence.
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The Tongue Knew
Summary
This episodic erotic narrative follows the narrator’s increasingly intimate and manipulative encounters with Yuri, a married woman whose seductive performances involve jealousy, forbidden desire, bodily display, and fantasies of knife play modeled on samurai self-sacrifice. Illustrated scenes present the encounters as staged erotic tableaux.
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Thirty-Nine Nights of Strange Tales
Summary
A serialized cycle of bizarre erotic tales presents episodes of abduction, captivity, bondage, assault, sadistic violence, and sexual humiliation, accompanied by dramatic illustrations and framed as sensational fantasy.
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Women's Subconscious Desires
Summary
This surreal erotic fiction explores women’s hidden desires through dreamlike scenes of marital conflict, coercion, restraint, humiliation, and female submission, blending psychological speculation with violent fantasy.
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Fujio Tamotsu's Life and Opinions
Summary
An interview-style life-and-opinions piece discusses the author’s views on women, European and American social customs, domestic servants, horse riding, whipping, and other forms of eroticized discipline, accompanied by illustrated scenes.
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The Stairway to My Wife's Depths
Summary
A domestic SM melodrama follows a troubled marriage and household hierarchy in which illness, servants, in-laws, coercive discipline, beatings, and enemas reshape relationships and the protagonists’ positions within the family.
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My Life in Women's Clothing
Summary
In this autobiographical account, a male narrator describes his lifelong attraction to women’s clothing, gradual adoption of makeup and feminine presentation, and experiences appearing publicly and traveling as a woman.
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Somewhere in the Universe
Summary
A serialized SM fiction narrative set in a brutal prison depicts male and female inmates subjected to elaborate iron restraints, nose-ring and gag devices, forced positions, corporal punishment, and domination by guards, alongside escape attempts and institutional control.
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Kitan Salon
Summary
The Kitan Salon is a reader-oriented miscellany combining an editorial review of the previous issue with correspondence, personal submissions, bondage and fetish discussions, reader requests, illustrations, product notices, and other contributions to the magazine’s participatory culture.
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Decisive Battle
Summary
This illustrated feature presents a montage of nude men and women in staged, combat-like erotic embraces and grappling poses under the title “Decisive Battle.”
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Another Me
Summary
A first-person confessional narrative follows a man’s developing fascination with feminine identity, cross-dressing, and elaborate self-binding, including memories of his sister, marriage, and private bondage fantasies. The account links these practices to loneliness, secrecy, self-observation, and the construction of an “other self.”
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Cruel Scenes in Recent Films140–
Summary
A film commentary surveys cruel and sensational scenes in recent Japanese movies, emphasizing women subjected to ropes, restraint, torture, pursuit, and execution-like peril, with attention to staging, costumes, camera views, and the visual impact of these sequences.
Highlights
- The formal illustrated table of contents establishes the issue's mixture of pictorial portfolios, fiction, confessions, psychology, autobiography, serialized writing, and community columns. (PDF p. 4).
- The opening illustrated portfolio presents rescue fantasies, outdoor bondage, public exposure, female domination, criminal punishment, and staged violence by several credited artists. (PDF pp. 3–13).
- A sixteen-page photographic sequence studies rope patterns, gags, facial expression, domination, staged self-injury, constrictive clothing, rubber materials, and ebi-style binding through individually titled portfolios. (PDF pp. 14–29).
- Akemi Writhing uses the world of popular theater to depict coercion, exploitation, punishment, and the transformation of suffering into public performance. (PDF pp. 31–40).
- Chronicle of a Woman: The Woman from Aizu combines confessional narration, an urban nocturnal encounter, personal history, and fantasies of danger and bodily violation. (PDF pp. 41–44).
- The Tongue Knew develops a long narrative about infidelity, erotic role-playing, manipulation, and the uneasy circulation of desire within marriage and family relationships. (PDF pp. 45–52).
- The paired contributions Women's Subconscious Desires and Fujio Tamotsu's Life and Opinions show the magazine alternating between quasi-psychological analysis and first-person intellectual autobiography. (PDF pp. 67–82).
- My Life in Women's Clothing provides a rare first-person account centered on cross-dressing, feminine presentation, social encounters, and the construction of an alternate gendered identity. (PDF pp. 92–94).
- The serialized SM novel Somewhere in the Universe occupies the largest continuous prose block and combines science-fiction framing with bondage, captivity, punishment, and hierarchical control. (PDF pp. 95–109).
- The final pages introduce a survey of cruel scenes in contemporary cinema, connecting the magazine's erotic concerns with film criticism and popular visual culture. (PDF pp. 135–136).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Fujio Tamotsu
- Harukawa Namio
- Hayakawa Susumu
- Higashimachi Saburo
- Higashiyama Eishi
- Kinukawa Fumiyo
- Kondo Hajime
- Kurokawa Fujio
- Mishima Yayoi
- Otsuka Keiko
- Rika Yukiko
- Saji Ozo
- Sawai Kazuo
- Shiba Takashi
- Sudo Ritsuo
- Takeno Hiroko
- Takireiko
- Thirty-Nine Nights Group
- Tsujimura Takashi
- Utsumi Shoji
- Yukizaki Kyojin


