Kitan Club

October 1963

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Summary

The October 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines bondage photography, erotic and grotesque illustration, confessional writing, fantasy fiction, cultural commentary, serialized curiosities, and an extensive reader-oriented back section. The formal contents spread introduces an issue whose editorial identity rests on the close proximity of staged visual material and purportedly autobiographical testimony. The opening pages move from advertisements and the contents into photographic sequences featuring rope restraint, gagging, coerced posing, simulated torment, foot domination, and partial suspension. These are interleaved with full-page illustrations by Shima Takashi, Taki Reiko, and other contributors, depicting high-pressure enemas, drowning fantasies, confinement aboard a boat, ritual disembowelment, female wrestling, medicalized humiliation, and restrictive leather garments.

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The prose section begins with the editorial miscellany Your-Choice Scrapbook, which discusses reader correspondence, privacy, photographic submissions, and the boundaries governing erotic material. Ōnaka Tadashi’s Cruel Games follows with a sadistic domestic narrative involving bondage and punishment. Kusunoki Sawako’s Marimo Tale shifts into an exotic first-person adventure centered on travel, an Indigenous community, captivity, violence, and doomed attachment. Manda Fuji’s Transformation Record presents a confessional account of submissive desire, while Koike Ichirō’s Fantasy of the Fig develops another psychologically oriented erotic narrative.

The middle of the issue alternates fiction, memoir, and fetish studies. It includes an account set in a police interrogation room, Ōtsuka Keiko’s Plaza of the Underworld, a barbershop fantasy, Hanabusa Takako’s tale of nasal torment, Kirihara Shimon’s reflections on female disembowelment, and Okita Kogorō’s bathhouse conversation. Later stories address male body hair, murder fantasy, historical customs, corsetry, acrobatic and white-tabi fetishism, bondage photography, and private experiences associated with clothing, performance, and bodily display. A photographic feature presents a model in staged SM poses, followed by technical and experiential commentary.

The issue closes with Tsujimura Takashi’s Twenty-Eighth Night in the Thirty-Nine Strange Nights series. The remaining pages contain reader correspondence, editorial columns, advertisements for photographs and publications, personal notices, club information, and classified contact listings. This back matter demonstrates Kitan Club’s role as both a commercial magazine and a participatory subcultural network, linking fiction and imagery to readers’ confessions, collecting practices, correspondence, and attempts to find like-minded partners.

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Table of Contents 39 items
  1. Opening Rope-Bondage Model Study
    6–8
  2. Masked Tormentor and Bound Woman
    9–10
  3. Rope Restraint and Foot Domination
    11–13
  4. High-Pressure Enema Pump by Shima Takashi
    14
  5. Fantasy of a Drowned Body by Taki Reiko
    15
  6. The Victim in the Boat by Taki Reiko
    16
  7. Female Disembowelment: The Delinquent Girl's Code by Taki Reiko
    17
  8. Voluptuous Beauties in Bodily Combat
    18
  9. Female Enema: The Young Wife Who Was Given an Enema by Shima Takashi
    19
  10. Beauty and River Laborer by Taki Reiko
    20
  11. Leather Diaper Cover by Shima Takashi
    21
  12. Bound Model Under Foot
    22–24
  13. Bound Woman and Cigarette
    25–26
  14. Studies in Breast and Arm Restraint
    27
  15. Inverted Rope Suspension
    28
  16. Additional Floor-Bondage Studies
    29
  17. Your-Choice Scrapbook by Editorial Collective
    34–39
  18. Cruel Games by Ōnaka Tadashi
    40–45
  19. Marimo Tale: A Woman's Memoir by Kusunoki Sawako
    46–55
  20. Transformation Record: A Confession of Submissive Love by Manda Fuji
    56–69
  21. Fantasy of the Fig by Koike Ichirō
    70–71
  22. In the Special Higher Police Interrogation Room by Eda Yoshio
    72–73
  23. Plaza of the Underworld by Ōtsuka Keiko
    74–77
  24. A Certain Barbershop by Saitō Shichirō
    78–79
  25. The Ordeal of a Beautiful Nose by Hanabusa Takako
    80–85
  26. A Conception of Female Disembowelment by Kirihara Shimon
    86–87
  27. A Conversation After the Bath by Okita Kogorō
    88–92
  28. Male Actors with Chest Hair by Kajimagari Son'ichi
    93–95
  29. Murder by Flame by Nomoto Taizō
    96–112
  30. Memoirs of Customs: Strange Residues of the Taishō Era by Horihara Hideyoshi
    113–125
  31. SM Play Girl by Tsujimura Takashi
    126–133
  32. Model and Photography Ideas by Masaoka Ritomu
    134–135
  33. Somewhere in the Universe by Saji Mazō
    136–143
  34. The History of the Corset by Narita Ichirō
    144–147
  35. Bondage Research Roundtable with Tsunakawa Fumiyo and Masochism by Makino Jun'ichi
    148–149
  36. My Special Fetish: Acrobatics and White Tabi by Mura Yoshito
    150–151
  37. Ruri: Memory of a Certain Bestial Act by Ikari Senriko
    152–155
  38. Abnormal Essays: Notes on Passing Thoughts by Minamikata Yoshio
    156–161
  39. Thirty-Nine Strange Nights, Twenty-Eighth Night by Tsujimura Takashi
    162–174

Highlights

  • The opening photographic section presents several distinct bondage scenarios, including gagging, chest and arm restraint, foot domination, smoking during restraint, and inverted suspension. (PDF pp. 6–13, 22–29).
  • A concentrated illustrated gallery depicts high-pressure enemas, drowning, boat confinement, ritual disembowelment, medicalized humiliation, female wrestling, and restrictive leather garments. (PDF pp. 14–21).
  • Your-Choice Scrapbook discusses reader letters, privacy, erotic photography, submission standards, and the editorial limits placed on explicit or criminal imagery. (PDF pp. 31–36).
  • Cruel Games is a sadistic domestic story built around bondage, whipping, humiliation, and the manipulation of a young woman by a household authority figure. (PDF pp. 37–42).
  • Marimo Tale combines travel memoir, captivity, Indigenous representation, interracial romance, warfare, and tragic separation in an extended exotic adventure. (PDF pp. 43–52).
  • Transformation Record presents a lengthy first-person confession of submissive desire and the gradual recognition of a masochistic identity. (PDF pp. 53–66).
  • The issue includes separate studies of female disembowelment fantasy, male body hair, nasal torment, bathhouse conversation, and fetishized clothing. (PDF pp. 77–92).
  • The SM Play Girl feature combines staged model photographs with commentary on performance, restraint, and photographic presentation. (PDF pp. 123–132).
  • A late cluster examines corsetry, bondage research, acrobatics, white tabi, and other specialized fetishes through historical, technical, and autobiographical approaches. (PDF pp. 141–158).
  • The closing correspondence and classified section records readers' interests, publication orders, private notices, club activity, and attempts to establish personal contact. (PDF pp. 170–189).
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