Kitan Club

A folkloric study of genital worship and the sexual spirit, examining phallic and female sexual symbols in folk toys, shrine objects, village rituals, and fertility customs. The article compares regional and historical examples, linking these objects and practices to beliefs about reproduction, spiritual power, and male–female relations.

A collection of erotic curiosities gathered from different Japanese provinces, describing unusual sexual customs, shrine-related objects, folk practices, and anecdotes. The piece emphasizes regional variation in erotic culture and includes discussion of changing social attitudes and censorship of sexual materials.

An observational essay on the Frappé dance, describing its alluring choreography, suggestive bodily movements, costumes, and the intense fascination it produces among spectators. The author considers how the performance balances playful elegance, erotic display, and theatrical spectacle.

A discussion of fetishistic attraction to rubber raincoats, focusing on the garment’s distinctive appearance, texture, smell, and the unusual fantasies or compulsive behavior it can evoke. The article presents the subject as a form of sexual and psychological deviation involving clothing and sensory stimulation.

An obstetrician-gynecologist discusses contemporary sexual attitudes and behavior through three illustrative cases identified as A, B, and C. The article approaches these matters from a reproductive-medical and social perspective, with accompanying explanatory illustrations.

A medical discussion of kissing that examines the oral cavity, oral cleanliness, and the bodily and psychological conditions involved in kissing. The article combines physiological explanation with practical observations about oral hygiene and intimate contact.

An editorial discussion of erotic pictures examines their circulation, the authorities’ attempts to suppress them, and the uneasy boundary between obscenity, artistic expression, and public morality. It also reflects on the continuing demand for such material despite official prohibition.

An exposé recounts the activities of a bogus circumcision specialist who presents himself as medically skilled while deceiving clients. The piece treats the episode as an example of medical quackery and fraud surrounding intimate bodily treatment.

A humorous series of imagined 1948 vignettes portrays everyday life in a rapidly accelerating “speed age,” using dialogues set in urban spaces such as department stores, cinemas, streetcars, and busy streets. The feature satirizes how new technologies and modern habits might reshape ordinary social interactions.

A lightly comic collection of male-female exchanges sketches the flirtation, dating behavior, and sexualized etiquette associated with “pink” social conditions. Its conversational format emphasizes changing gender relations and the social performance of courtship.

A sensational miscellany of sexual and medical curiosities, including reports of an attempted assault, sexual scandal, and a young girl brought to hospital with gonorrhea. The page combines brief worldly anecdotes with an accompanying caricatural illustration.

A gossip column presenting short, suggestive anecdotes about nightlife, entertainers, romantic entanglements, and sexual behavior. Its conversational reports and personal episodes emphasize rumor, scandal, and the circulation of intimate stories.

A short fictional conte centered on a narrator’s observations and an encounter in an urban back-street setting, where a small but significant difference becomes the story’s central contrast.

A reportage-style account of Shanghai’s “den of vice,” describing its nightlife districts, bars, dance venues, brothels, prostitution, and the varied people drawn into the city’s postwar entertainment world. The feature combines social observation with sensational descriptions and illustrative scenes of nightlife and sexual commerce.

A social report on Osaka’s postwar pleasure districts, describing the women working in and around entertainment quarters, street solicitation, changing nightlife, and the economic pressures shaping these spaces. It surveys areas including Dōtonbori, Abeno, and Tennoji while portraying the district as a landscape of commercialized sexuality and moral ambiguity.

A first-person night report along the Kanazuka Highway in Osaka, recounting encounters with street women, male customers, entertainers, and other figures moving between lodging houses, restaurants, and theaters. The illustrated feature presents the nighttime street as a fluid social world of prostitution, pursuit, and improvised amusement.

An essay examines the social and emotional difficulties faced by women who remain unmarried beyond thirty, discussing marriage prospects, sexual and domestic expectations, and the pressures placed on single women. It contrasts women’s situations with those of men and reflects on changing postwar attitudes toward marriage and family life.

A folklore essay surveys Japanese beliefs about fox spirits and fox possession, combining traditional supernatural lore with anecdotes of apparent possession and exorcistic or ritual responses. It presents the fox as both a shape-shifting yōkai and an explanation for strange behavior or misfortune in village life.

A bawdy rakugo tale presented through comic dialogue and anecdotal storytelling, centering on sexual and marital misunderstandings in a historical Japanese setting. The piece uses the conventions of oral performance to turn erotic situations into humor.

An essay investigates the historical meaning of “objects for personal use,” tracing the term through literary references and advertisements for intimate articles. It discusses artificial sexual implements, their shapes and materials, and their use among women in domestic and entertainment settings.

A brief humorous dialogue presents a child’s puzzlement about family relationships and household arrangements, ending with a teasing parental response.

A pseudo-scientific and ethnographic essay speculates about the flavor and tenderness of human flesh, comparing it with animal meats and referring to reports of cannibalism and travelers’ accounts.

A series of anecdotal sketches set in the city’s hidden quarters, depicting encounters involving drinking, women, deception, and the precarious social world around illicit entertainment. The piece presents the urban back alleys as a space of sexual commerce, unstable relationships, and social hypocrisy.

A discussion-format feature from the magazine’s “Y-section,” combining an anecdote about nightlife and sexual behavior with broader reflections and opinion prompts concerning intimate conduct, social attitudes, and sexual knowledge. Its participatory, conversational format treats erotic culture as a subject for public debate.

A sensational erotic-crime episode recounts a woman’s encounter with a threatening man, culminating in an attempted act of resistance with an improvised weapon. The narrative combines sexual menace, suspense, and physical struggle.

Gotō Fumio examines changing attitudes toward female sexuality by comparing modern girls with representations of women in erotic books from earlier periods. The essay discusses precocious sexual awareness, the weakening of traditional restraints, and the effects of postwar social and moral change.