Kitan Club
November 1962
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 10
- PDF pages
- 189
Summary
The November 1962 issue of Kitan Club presents a broad mixture of staged bondage photography, fetish illustration, experiential narratives, serialized fiction, costume and equipment commentary, historical fantasy, reader testimony, and community-oriented closing departments. Its visual identity is established immediately through several gravure sequences. The first photographs move from restrained women in kimono or dark clothing to cloth-gagged models, exposed torso harnesses, bed scenes, and tightly composed close-ups. A central illustrated gallery expands the issue’s imaginary geography through scenes of political interrogation, wartime suicide, ritual abdominal cutting, chair and platform restraint, foot worship, and branding. A second photographic sequence shifts between domestic interiors, outdoor kimono bondage, cloth gags, and compact kneeling or folded positions.
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Table of Contents 24 items
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First Gravure Portfolio: The Composition of a Certain Moment
Summary
A photographic gravure portfolio presenting staged bondage tableaux in which women are tied, gagged, posed, and subjected to varied forms of positional restraint.
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Illustration Portfolio: Interrogation, Seppuku, Restraint, Foot Worship, and Branding
Summary
An illustration portfolio depicting eroticized interrogation and punishment scenes, including restrained women, seppuku imagery, foot-focused submission, and branding motifs.
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Second Gravure Portfolio: Sketches of Bondage Scenes
Summary
A second photographic portfolio showing staged bondage sketches in domestic, outdoor, and seated settings, with rope restraint, gagging, and immobilized poses as recurring motifs.
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The Inn of Pleasure and Cruelty
Summary
A fictional narrative set around an inn follows a couple whose encounters with female staff and guests develop into elaborate scenes of rope bondage, coercion, humiliation, and sexual domination.
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Notes of a Gun and Bondage Maniac: Conversations at My Bar
Summary
A hybrid feature combines barroom conversations and personal notes about bondage interests with an account of photographer and model Mizumoto Shigemi, including staged restraint scenes and reflections on bondage aesthetics and technique.
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Temptation of the White Nape
Summary
This erotic narrative and visual feature centers on the binding and sexualized humiliation of a woman, presenting both imagined domestic scenes and photographic or illustrative representations of rope restraint.
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Film Report: The Bondage Acting of an Actress
Summary
A film report examines how actresses perform bondage roles, discussing the physical and emotional demands of restraint scenes, cinematic realism, direction, and the distinctive acting styles of several Japanese actresses.
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Woman and Snake, Part 2
Summary
The second installment of this serialized erotic captivity narrative follows a married couple subjected to abduction, rope restraint, financial coercion, voyeuristic humiliation, and escalating sadistic abuse by a criminal group.
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Chronology of Blind Love
Summary
This erotic life chronicle follows the troubled development of a blind man whose wartime loss, poverty, resentment, dependency, and encounters with women lead to coercive and destructive intimate relationships.
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A Bondage Confession Between Brothers
Summary
A confessional erotic narrative follows two brothers whose shared domestic life develops into intimate bondage and fetish play, including ritualized clothing, restraint, and submission.
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Experimental-Room Report: A Diaper-Cover Maniac’s Prototype
Summary
This experimental-room report gives illustrated, practical instructions for making and wearing a rubber diaper cover, discussing materials, measurements, sewing, elastic fittings, comfort, and its fetish appeal.
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New Women’s Underwear Usable in S-Play
Summary
An illustrated design feature presents unconventional women’s underwear and S-play devices made from items such as rubber, bottle caps, shells, cans, and belts, with directions for construction, fastening, and use.
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Exploring a Slave Nation: A Visit to Sardinia
Summary
A fictionalized visit to Sardinia depicts a male observer encountering women subjected to elaborate bondage, discipline, punishment, and service under female authority, including cages, chains, gags, riding restraints, and other specialized apparatus.
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A Certain Crystal Fantasist’s Reverie
Summary
A first-person reverie describes an intense fetishistic fantasy centered on observing women’s legs, stockings, skirts, shoes, and bodily movement, blending voyeuristic attention with imagined erotic pursuit.
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Somewhere in the Universe
Summary
A long-form first-person SM fiction follows a household maid subjected to confinement, bondage, humiliating punishments, coercive service, and repeated attempts to escape or resist, including episodes involving a secret erotic show, police intervention, and renewed captivity at an inn and private residence.
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The Woman on the Auction Block
Summary
A serialized erotic captivity narrative follows a white woman who is seized, displayed on an auction block, sold to rough men, and subjected to escalating coercion, humiliation, and restraint before her resistance and fate are tested.
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The Punishment Corset
Summary
A first-person experiential account describes the design, fitting, and use of a restrictive punishment corset, illustrated with construction diagrams and scenes of prolonged bodily restraint and disciplinary control.
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The Innocent Devil
Summary
A serialized erotic fantasy follows a young man whose encounters around a river, a mysterious girl, and an uncanny older figure blur desire, voyeurism, coercion, and supernatural menace.
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I Want to Become a Wife: An Eternal Wish
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A first-person confession describes a male narrator’s enduring wish to become a wife, including cross-dressing, feminine self-fashioning, and fantasies of marriage, domesticity, and acceptance by a male partner.
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Conceptions of Female Seppuku: Wives of the Loyalists
Summary
This sensational historical-erotic piece imagines the wives of loyalist warriors undertaking female seppuku, combining samurai-era sacrifice with graphic, ritualized descriptions of abdominal cutting and death.
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Thirty-Nine Nights: Nineteenth Night
Summary
A serialized erotic fantasy follows Yoshimura’s encounters with Reihō, a Taiwanese woman whose bound feet become the focus of his fascination, leading to coercive sexual encounters involving foot fetishism, rope bondage, gagging, punishment, and captivity.
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Play with You
Summary
This reader-oriented visual commentary discusses staged bondage photographs and fantasies of restraint, including suspension and forced display, while reflecting on how such images affect their viewers and the magazine’s audience.
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Confessional Thoughts
Summary
A confessional essay explores the author’s intense fascination with women’s armpits and body contours, combining fetishistic observation, imagined scenes, and reflections on the appeal of photographing or viewing the body.
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Various Forms of Punishment Around the World
Summary
A comparative historical survey of corporal and capital punishments practiced in Japan, China, Europe, and elsewhere, describing methods such as execution, torture, mutilation, suspension, burning, drowning, and other forms of bodily and public punishment, accompanied by period illustrations.
Highlights
- The opening gravure portfolio moves through kimono restraint, cloth-gagged torso bindings, bed poses, and close views of rope applied across the chest and arms. (PDF pp. 6–13).
- A sequence of full-page illustrations depicts interrogation of a female political participant, a wartime suicide, assisted seppuku, timed confinement, a female restraint platform, foot domination, and branding. (PDF pp. 14–21).
- The second gravure group contrasts indoor kneeling bondage with outdoor kimono restraint, patterned cloth gags, compact folded poses, and close studies of rope pressure. (PDF pp. 22–29).
- “The Inn of Pleasure and Cruelty” opens the principal prose section with an episodic experiential narrative combining nightlife, sexual bargaining, intoxication, and coercive restraint. (PDF pp. 31–36).
- “The Appearance of Mizumoto Shigemi” documents a model’s introduction to the magazine through editorial narration and photographs of a staged bondage session. (PDF pp. 39–46).
- “Temptation of the White Nape” blends autobiographical desire, factory life, marriage, and fascination with a young female worker. (PDF pp. 47–54).
- The middle of the issue combines film commentary, the serialized “Woman and Snake,” equipment experiments, underwear analysis, speculative travel, and a long science-fiction-inflected SM novel. (PDF pp. 55–113).
- Later contributions explore an auction-block fantasy, corrective corsets, innocence transformed into cruelty, marital identification, and historical women confronting ritualized death. (PDF pp. 114–160).
- An illustrated survey of punishments around the world brings together historical examples, brief explanatory entries, and reproductions of punitive scenes. (PDF pp. 165–174).
- Reader letters, classified exchanges, editorial responses, questionnaires, notices, publication information, and advertisements close the issue. (PDF pp. 175–189).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:


