Kitan Club
October 1962
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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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Table of Contents 40 items
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Dream Bondage Special Selection
Summary
A photographic portfolio presents women in elaborate rope bondage in forest and indoor settings, including tree bondage, tied limbs, blindfolding, gagging, and varied restrained positions.
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The Smell of Leather
Summary
An erotic illustration centers on a restrained woman and leather-associated imagery, emphasizing the sensory and fetishistic appeal of leather within a staged bondage scene.
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The Willow Room
Summary
An illustrated installment in the Kurokawa Fujio series depicts a woman bound and gagged in a confined room, combining captivity imagery with erotic restraint.
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The Circus Girl
Summary
An erotic illustration titled “The Circus Girl,” credited to Kurokawa Fujio, depicts a circus performer in an intimate and physically constrained encounter with a male figure.
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At the End of the Lady Attendant’s Bloody Struggle
Summary
An erotic period-drama illustration shows a partially undressed woman seated with a sword across her lap, evoking a violent struggle involving a lady attendant.
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Mourning After the Lord
Summary
An erotic historical illustration depicts a bare-breasted woman on a rooftop or balcony holding a sword, suggesting pursuit and devotion to a feudal lord.
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The Husband Under Her Heel
Summary
An erotic illustration portrays a woman physically dominating a prone husband, who lies beneath her in a posture of submission.
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Training the Human Horse
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An illustrated scene depicts the training of a human “horse,” with a woman seated astride and controlling a man on all fours while another woman participates with a brush.
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Women’s Combat Picture Scroll
Summary
This illustrated picture-scroll feature presents women engaged in stylized erotic combat and wrestling, including scenes of one woman pinning or straddling another.
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Beautiful Restraint
Summary
A photographic portfolio depicts a woman in elaborate rope restraints, emphasizing varied bound poses, bodily display, and the visual aesthetics of kinbaku.
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The Germination of Inversion
Summary
Katsuura Misao’s autobiographical narrative traces the development of a gender-nonconforming and sexually “inverted” identity from childhood through family experience, theatrical performance, fetish interests, and adult relationships.
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Desire to Become a Slave
Summary
A masochistic erotic fiction follows a man who volunteers to become a woman’s slave and undergoes ritualized service, restraint, commands, and corporal punishment within a mistress-centered fantasy.
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The Hidden Side of Human Nature
Summary
An essay examines the concealed impulses of human nature through readers’ erotic advertisements, confessions, fantasies, and accounts of bondage, punishment, fetishism, and voyeuristic curiosity.
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Somewhere in the Universe
Summary
A long-form erotic narrative follows a group of women and men through elaborate scenes of captivity, restraint, punishment, humiliation, and shifting dominance in a stylized underworld setting.
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Fantasy: On My Recent Work
Summary
The artist reflects on his recent erotic drawings, explaining his recurring fantasies of powerful women, horse-riding imagery, bodily display, restraint, violence, and dramatic encounters between male and female figures.
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The Captured Girl
Summary
A poetic fantasy depicts a girl being captured, tightly bound, immobilized, and subjected to coercive treatment, with sustained attention to her restrained body and helplessness.
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A Fantasy of Diapers
Summary
This first-person fantasy recounts an adult fascination with diapers, including imagined shopping, wearing floral diaper covers, bodily accidents, exposure, and the humiliation associated with wetness and dependence.
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Hymn to Beloved Skin
Summary
A confessional narrative centers on an intense admiration for a brother’s male body and fundoshi loincloth, portraying intimate dressing, bathing, exercise, bodily discipline, and submissive fascination within a domestic relationship.
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Three-Way Mirror
Summary
An illustrated essay celebrates women’s abdomens and midsections, discussing the appeal of soft, rounded stomachs and presenting close-up erotic photographs in a documentary-style visual feature.
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High-School Girls’ Sumo Championship
Summary
A personal erotic narrative describes fascination with women’s bodies and the use of a three-way mirror during intimate observation, alongside discussion of enemas and abdominal imagery.
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A Woman Weeping at the Shackles of Fate and the Championship
Summary
A detailed report on a high-school girls’ sumo championship records the competitors, bouts, techniques, rules, spectators, and dramatic match outcomes, framing female athletic combat as spectacle.
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A Woman’s Encounter with the Fate of the Pillory
Summary
A first-person account follows a woman born to a poor unmarried mother, adopted into a harsh household, and subjected to exploitation, humiliation, and punitive abuse that shape her later life.
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A Woman’s Tears at the Entrance to the Rubber Club
Summary
A woman describes being introduced to a rubber-fetish club, where initiation, club rules, rubber garments and masks, staged demonstrations, and degrading bodily practices define the group’s erotic culture.
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The Rubber Maniac’s Play
Summary
An illustrated fetish narrative celebrates rubber clothing and equipment through scenes of a woman wearing a complete waterproof outfit, mask, gloves, and belt while moving through heavy rain and savoring the sensations of enclosure and exposure.
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Female Slave Story
Summary
A serialized SM narrative follows a woman’s arrest and imprisonment as she is interrogated, restrained, transported, subjected to corporal punishment and forced labor, and repeatedly humiliated by guards and fellow prisoners.
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The Girls’ Dormitory’s Secret Initiation Game
Summary
A fictional girls’ dormitory initiation game develops into a series of wrestling matches in which the defeated participants are forced into humiliating “surrender” play, accompanied by illustrations of female restraint and physical domination.
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Another Invitation to Suspension
Summary
An essay invites renewed interest in suspension bondage, discussing the visual and emotional appeal of hanging restraint and presenting suspension as a dramatic form of SM performance and erotic imagery.
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The Mire of the Mad Banquet
Summary
A serialized crime-and-captivity fantasy follows a narrator drawn into a night of theft, abduction, and sadistic bondage involving a deceased man’s household and a young woman, blending grotesque suspense with erotic coercion.
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Thirty-Nine Nights: Eighteenth Night
Summary
A serialized SM fiction narrative depicts women being held in an underground setting and subjected to bondage, invasive medical procedures, drugs, and bodily punishment, presented through sensational dialogue and illustrations.
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Become My Tyrant
Summary
A fictional account follows a woman who asks an older man to become her tyrant, leading to scenes of domestic restraint, discipline, and willing submission illustrated as an erotic power exchange.
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Cutting the Abdomen
Summary
A sensational fictionalized narrative centers on a Japanese military officer’s seppuku or harakiri, detailing ritual preparation, abdominal cutting, bloodshed, and the observers’ reactions.
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Journey to Sardinia
Summary
A travelogue describing the author’s journey through Sardinia, where encounters with an affluent household and bathhouse culture lead to elaborate scenes of female servitude, restraint, punishment, and captivity.
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Obese-Body Ecstasy
Summary
A first-person essay exploring an intense erotic fascination with obese bodies through personal memories, imagined encounters, dreams, and scenes of sensual submission and bodily admiration.
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Recent Bondage Films
Summary
A short review of recent Japanese films featuring bondage, abduction, punishment, and tied female characters, with commentary on their staging and sensational appeal.
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The Feel of a Flannel Waistcloth
Summary
Fukuda Chitoki recalls developing an erotic fascination with the texture, color, smell, and intimate associations of women’s flannel waistcloths, tracing the fetish from childhood memories through later attempts to acquire and wear them.
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From S to M
Summary
Yamada Natsuko presents a confessional account of moving from an earlier sadistic orientation toward masochistic self-conception, describing desires for restraint, humiliation, male control, and eventual submission.
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Nostalgia for the Toilet
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Kimura Sadakichi’s confession explores an erotic fixation on diarrhea, defecation, toilets, and the loss of bodily control, recounting laxative use, enemas, accidents, shame, and the tension between private gratification and ordinary social life.
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Biographies of Courageous Contemporary Women
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A biographical feature on physically formidable contemporary women, especially female martial-arts practitioners, presenting their training, competitive achievements, and ability to challenge conventional assumptions about women’s strength.
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Drama Classroom
Summary
An account of a school drama classroom in which a teacher guides children through rehearsals, role-playing, costumes, and performances while reflecting on student creativity and changing educational culture.
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A Splendid Punishment
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An erotic narrative about women subjected to elaborate rope-tying and punitive training, with extended scenes of restraint, physical vulnerability, humiliation, and endurance illustrated through staged drawings.
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:
- Aruma Mataji
- Baba Mamoru
- Edogawa Maruo
- Fujiyama Hide緒
- Fukuda Chitoki
- Fukuda Hideo
- Higashiyama Fuminosuke
- Izumi Keiko
- Katsura Makujirō
- Katsuura Misao
- Kawaba Zōnosuke
- Kawaguchi Tomiyoshi
- Kimura Sadakichi
- Kurokawa Fujio
- Morooka Katao
- Nakada Akira
- Okamoto Masaharu
- Omatsu Hiyoshi
- Ōnaka Masatada
- Saji Mazō
- Shima Takashi
- Shishitsubo Akira
- Shōji Mitsuhiko
- Sugaya Harumi
- Takagi Kie
- Tanimura Tetsugen
- Tsuchimaru Mie
- Tsujimura Takashi
- Umekawa Sachiko
- Yamada Natsuko
- Yamagishi Misao


