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Kitan Club

October 1962

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Cover of Kitan Club, October 1962

Issue Details

Volume
16
Issue
9
PDF pages
192

Summary

The October 1962 issue of Kitan Club combines extensive bondage photography, fetish illustration, autobiographical confession, speculative and historical fiction, essays on sexual psychology, equipment and clothing fetishes, reader testimony, and community-oriented back matter. The issue opens with a large visual section whose photographs move between outdoor suspension, tree restraint, domestic floor poses, cloth gags, torso harnesses, compact kneeling ties, bathroom confinement, and close studies of rope patterns. These are followed by an illustrated portfolio ranging from leather fetishism and confinement devices to circus discipline, samurai-era violence, female domination, human-animal role play, and wrestling. A second photographic sequence, “Beautiful Restraint,” emphasizes intimate bedroom staging, mirrors, patterned rope, exposed torsos, and expressive changes in posture.

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The prose section begins with “The Germination of Inversion,” a prize-winning autobiographical confession tracing childhood displacement, theatrical training, gender identification, family conflict, and the gradual formation of a divided sexual identity. “Desire to Become a Slave” adopts the voice of a male servant describing ritualized submission to a wealthy mistress, while “The Hidden Side of Human Nature” reflects on confessional writing, foot fetishism, domination, and the psychological contradictions revealed by readers’ testimonies.

The central literary feature is the long SM novel “Somewhere in the Universe,” which relocates slavery and coercion to an imagined extraterrestrial society. Around it, the issue offers fantasies based on riding breeches, captured girls, diapers, mirrors, female wrestling, rubber clothing, dormitory initiation, suspension, and historical or foreign settings. “Female Slave Story” is another substantial narrative, presented as a woman’s account of captivity in a speculative world. Shorter pieces move between documentary-style testimony and fiction, including the serialized “Thirty-Nine Nights,” an invitation to submit to a tyrant, a cutting fantasy, an account of Sardinia, an examination of obesity as a fetish, comments on bondage in recent films, and memories attached to flannel undergarments and toilets.

Later sections broaden the issue’s treatment of gender and power through biographies of forceful women, theatrical reminiscence, and the romantic story “A Splendid Punishment.” The closing pages contain reader letters, club correspondence, questionnaires, rankings and tabulations, publication notices, classified exchanges, advertisements, and editorial material. These departments make the magazine a participatory forum in which readers circulate fantasies, personal histories, techniques, criticism, and requests for contact, reinforcing Kitan Club’s identity as both a literary-visual publication and a networked fetish community.

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Table of Contents 40 items
  1. Dream Bondage Special Selection
    9–16
  2. The Smell of Leather by Shima Takashi
    17
  3. The Willow Room by Kurokawa Fujio
    18
  4. The Circus Girl by Kurokawa Fujio
    19
  5. At the End of the Lady Attendant’s Bloody Struggle
    20
  6. Mourning After the Lord
    21
  7. The Husband Under Her Heel
    22
  8. Training the Human Horse
    23
  9. Women’s Combat Picture Scroll
    24
  10. Beautiful Restraint
    25–32
  11. The Germination of Inversion by Katsuura Misao
    34–41
  12. Desire to Become a Slave by Shishitsubo Akira
    42–46
  13. The Hidden Side of Human Nature by Tanimura Tetsugen
    47–49
  14. Somewhere in the Universe by Saji Mazō
    50–61
  15. Fantasy: On My Recent Work by Fujiyama Hide緒
    62–66
  16. The Captured Girl by Sugaya Harumi
    67
  17. A Fantasy of Diapers by Tsuchimaru Mie
    68–69
  18. Hymn to Beloved Skin by Edogawa Maruo
    70–71
  19. Three-Way Mirror by Shōji Mitsuhiko
    72–73
  20. High-School Girls’ Sumo Championship by Yamagishi Misao
    74–75
  21. A Woman Weeping at the Shackles of Fate and the Championship by Omatsu Hiyoshi
    76–79
  22. A Woman’s Encounter with the Fate of the Pillory by Fukuda Hideo
    80–81
  23. A Woman’s Tears at the Entrance to the Rubber Club by Baba Mamoru
    82–83
  24. The Rubber Maniac’s Play by Umekawa Sachiko
    84–85
  25. Female Slave Story by Saji Mazō
    86–109
  26. The Girls’ Dormitory’s Secret Initiation Game by Takagi Kie
    110–113
  27. Another Invitation to Suspension by Nakada Akira
    114–115
  28. The Mire of the Mad Banquet by Katsura Makujirō
    116–121
  29. Thirty-Nine Nights: Eighteenth Night by Tsujimura Takashi
    122–133
  30. Become My Tyrant by Izumi Keiko
    134–137
  31. Cutting the Abdomen by Kawaguchi Tomiyoshi
    138–139
  32. Journey to Sardinia by Aruma Mataji
    140–146
  33. Obese-Body Ecstasy by Kawaba Zōnosuke
    147–152
  34. Recent Bondage Films by Higashiyama Fuminosuke
    153
  35. The Feel of a Flannel Waistcloth by Fukuda Chitoki
    154–155
  36. From S to M by Yamada Natsuko
    156–157
  37. Nostalgia for the Toilet by Kimura Sadakichi
    158–161
  38. Biographies of Courageous Contemporary Women by Morooka Katao
    162–167
  39. Drama Classroom by Okamoto Masaharu
    168–169
  40. A Splendid Punishment by Ōnaka Masatada
    170–176

Highlights

  • The opening photographic feature presents outdoor suspension, tree restraint, torso harnesses, compact floor bondage, cloth gags, and bathroom confinement in a varied sequence of staged settings. (PDF pp. 9–16).
  • An illustrated portfolio explores leather fetishism, confinement devices, circus discipline, ritual violence, female domination, human-horse play, and women’s wrestling. (PDF pp. 17–24).
  • “Beautiful Restraint” uses mirrors, patterned rope, bedroom posing, and close views of knots and body compression to create a more intimate second gravure sequence. (PDF pp. 25–32).
  • “The Germination of Inversion” is an extended autobiographical account connecting childhood trauma, theatrical training, family relationships, gender presentation, and sexual identity. (PDF pp. 34–41).
  • “Desire to Become a Slave” presents a detailed servant fantasy organized around uniforms, commands, punishment, bathing, domestic labor, and ritual obedience to a mistress. (PDF pp. 42–46).
  • The long novel “Somewhere in the Universe” develops a speculative society structured by enslavement, coercion, captivity, and theatricalized domination. (PDF pp. 50–61).
  • The issue devotes several short features to specialized fetishes, including riding breeches, diapers, rubber, mirrors, women’s wrestling, flannel undergarments, and toilets. (PDF pp. 62–85, 147–161).
  • “Female Slave Story” is a major serialized-style narrative framed as a woman’s account of captivity and servitude in an imagined world. (PDF pp. 86–109).
  • The eighteenth night of “Thirty-Nine Nights” continues the magazine’s recurring mixture of historical fantasy, confession, punishment, and illustrated narrative. (PDF pp. 122–133).
  • Reader correspondence, rankings, questionnaires, notices, classified exchanges, editorial pages, and advertisements form a substantial community-oriented closing section. (PDF pp. 177–192).

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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