Kitan Club
October 1963
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 10
- PDF pages
- 189
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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Table of Contents 39 items
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Opening Rope-Bondage Model Study
Summary
A photographic study presents a female model in a series of rope-bound positions, documenting varied seated, kneeling, reclining, and contorted restraints against a brick backdrop.
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Masked Tormentor and Bound Woman
Summary
A staged photographic sequence depicts a masked male tormentor standing over and restraining a bound woman, emphasizing theatrical menace, vulnerability, and control.
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Rope Restraint and Foot Domination
Summary
Photographs combine elaborate rope restraint with acts of foot domination, including bound poses and close views of a woman’s face and body under controlling physical contact.
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High-Pressure Enema Pump
Summary
An illustrated depiction of a bound person connected to a high-pressure enema pump, foregrounding the apparatus and medicalized bodily-play scenario.
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Fantasy of a Drowned Body
Summary
An erotic illustration titled “Fantasy of a Drowned Body” presents a woman’s imagined drowned or submerged body amid aquatic imagery and a darkly morbid atmosphere.
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The Victim in the Boat
Summary
An erotic illustration portrays a bound female victim lying inside a boat, framing restraint and helplessness through a staged maritime sacrifice scene.
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Female Disembowelment: The Delinquent Girl's Code
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An erotic illustration presents a delinquent girl subjected to a fantastical abdominal disembowelment scene, with annotations emphasizing bodily injury and spectacle.
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Voluptuous Beauties in Bodily Combat
Summary
A visual feature depicts two voluptuous women engaged in a staged, close-contact wrestling bout, emphasizing bodily struggle and spectatorship.
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Female Enema: The Young Wife Who Was Given an Enema
Summary
An erotic illustration shows a young wife receiving an enema from a masked medical attendant in a domestic bedroom setting.
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Beauty and River Laborer
Summary
An erotic illustration depicts a nude woman restrained with rope in a dramatic labor-themed setting involving a river worker.
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Leather Diaper Cover
Summary
A photographic feature presents a model wearing and displaying a leather diaper-cover garment as fetish apparel.
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Bound Model Under Foot
Summary
A photographic sequence shows a woman subjected to elaborate rope bondage in seated, kneeling, and floor-bound positions, including scenes of foot domination and immobilization.
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Bound Woman and Cigarette
Summary
A photographic feature depicts a woman seated and immobilized with rope restraints around her torso and limbs while smoking a cigarette, emphasizing staged bound posture and sensory control.
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Studies in Breast and Arm Restraint
Summary
A sequence of instructional-style photographs demonstrates rope arrangements that restrain the breasts, arms, and upper body in several positions.
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Inverted Rope Suspension
Summary
Photographs demonstrate an inverted rope suspension in which the model is held upside down by ankle and body bindings attached to overhead lines.
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Additional Floor-Bondage Studies
Summary
A photographic feature presents additional floor-bondage scenes, showing women restrained in kneeling and seated positions on the floor.
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Your-Choice Scrapbook
Summary
An editorial scrapbook gathers reader letters, personal accounts, questionnaire responses, illustrations, photographs, and editorial commentary on women’s sexuality, erotic media, and the magazine’s submission and publishing practices.
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Cruel Games
Summary
This serialized sadomasochistic fiction follows Yuki and Kiyoko through escalating scenes of rope bondage, enforced exposure, beating, and humiliating “cruel games” staged in domestic and outdoor settings.
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Marimo Tale: A Woman's Memoir
Summary
A woman’s first-person journey from Tokyo to Lake Akan leads into a fictionalized Ainu-set tale of marimo folklore, forbidden love, tribal conflict, captivity, and coercive sexual domination. The narrative combines travel-memoir framing with historical romance and illustrated erotic episodes.
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Transformation Record: A Confession of Submissive Love
Summary
A confessional erotic narrative follows a man’s degradation and submission under dominant women, depicting corporal punishment, bondage, forced nudity, humiliation, discipline, and dog-role or transformation fantasies. The text is accompanied by staged erotic illustrations emphasizing abusive power relations and fetishized bodily sensations.
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Fantasy of the Fig
Summary
A surreal erotic narrative follows a mysterious fig-derived drug that induces hallucinations and escalating medicalized bodily sensations, including repeated enema imagery involving a servant figure.
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In the Special Higher Police Interrogation Room
Summary
This fictional interrogation-room scenario depicts a male prisoner being surrounded, stripped, mocked, and physically dominated by female guards in an atmosphere of coercion and humiliation.
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Plaza of the Underworld
Summary
An underworld fantasy presents a first-person journey through demonic judgment, torture, and punishment, accompanied by photographic portraits and posed images of model Keiko Otsuka.
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A Certain Barbershop
Summary
A fictional barbershop narrative develops rubber-fetish fantasies involving female customers, restraint, specialized washing equipment, and humiliating salon scenarios.
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The Ordeal of a Beautiful Nose
Summary
This experience-fiction narrative centers on a man’s escalating obsession with a beautiful woman’s nose, subjecting it to painful enlargement, piercing, insertion, cleaning, and other apparatus-based procedures across repeated encounters.
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A Conception of Female Disembowelment
Summary
A literary conception of female disembowelment presents imagined historical and modern episodes in which women undergo abdominal cutting, framed through dramatic scenes of sacrifice, punishment, violence, and eroticized suffering.
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A Conversation After the Bath
Summary
A post-bath conversation between a married couple develops into an erotic domestic fantasy involving sexual negotiation, coercive role-play, and the wife’s submission within marriage.
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Male Actors with Chest Hair
Summary
An illustrated media feature surveys Japanese and foreign male actors celebrated for conspicuous chest hair, discussing how body hair, physique, film roles, and star imagery construct masculine erotic appeal.
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Murder by Flame
Summary
A serialized SM crime story follows Dr. Munakata’s investigation of a mysterious death at a sanatorium, involving erotic obsession, captivity, poison, arson, and conflicting accounts from the people connected to the victim. Illustrated scenes depict bound and helpless women, reinforcing the narrative’s themes of coercion and restraint.
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Memoirs of Customs: Strange Residues of the Taishō Era
Summary
A purported memoir of unusual sexual customs surviving from the Taishō era, recounting coercive and fetishistic encounters involving ropes, bodily restraint, punishment, and voyeuristic observation. The piece blends historical recollection with sensational erotic storytelling.
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SM Play Girl
Summary
An interactive SM feature combining reader-style confessions, editorial commentary, erotic scenarios, and photographic examples centered on bondage, restraint, humiliation, and gendered dominance. The material presents readers’ fantasies and requests alongside staged visual demonstrations.
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Model and Photography Ideas
Summary
A portfolio of proposed drawing and photography setups depicting women and men in elaborate rope restraints, including post bondage, paired restraint, suspension-like poses, and other staged SM tableaux. Captions specify compositions and pose arrangements for prospective erotic images.
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Somewhere in the Universe
Summary
A serialized fictional narrative follows Ichirō and others through political intrigue, captivity, coercion, interrogation, and bondage, combining crime-sensational action with scenes of punishment and submission.
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The History of the Corset
Summary
This illustrated historical survey traces the corset from earlier Western garments through modern fashion, explaining how changing designs shaped the torso, breasts, waist, and posture while linking corsetry to ideals of femininity, class, and bodily beauty.
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Bondage Research Roundtable with Tsunakawa Fumiyo and Masochism
Summary
Presented as a bondage research lecture, this interview-style feature discusses Kinukawa Fumiyo’s experiences and reflections on rope restraint, masochistic desire, bodily sensation, and the psychological dynamics of being bound, accompanied by bondage imagery.
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My Special Fetish: Acrobatics and White Tabi
Summary
A fetish essay describes the author’s fascination with acrobatic female poses, white tabi, and elaborate rope restraint, accompanied by photographs of a model in bound positions.
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Ruri: Memory of a Certain Bestial Act
Summary
This erotic honeymoon narrative follows a couple whose sightseeing trip becomes an extended scenario of marital bondage, gagging, discipline, and intimate power exchange.
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Abnormal Essays: Notes on Passing Thoughts
Summary
A series of reflective essays examines cruelty and sadism in Japanese and foreign films, contrasting graphic brutality with imaginative and psychological effects while also discussing censorship, actresses, fashion, and erotic visual presentation.
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Thirty-Nine Strange Nights, Twenty-Eighth Night
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This serialized erotic fantasy follows Sanjirō’s encounters with twin performers Natsuko and Fuyuko, developing through staged spectacle and shifting power relations into captivity, elaborate restraint, humiliation, and forced intestinal cleansing.
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).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Eda Yoshio
- Editorial Collective
- Hanabusa Takako
- Horihara Hideyoshi
- Ikari Senriko
- Kajimagari Son'ichi
- Kirihara Shimon
- Koike Ichirō
- Kusunoki Sawako
- Makino Jun'ichi
- Manda Fuji
- Masaoka Ritomu
- Minamikata Yoshio
- Mura Yoshito
- Narita Ichirō
- Nomoto Taizō
- Okita Kogorō
- Ōnaka Tadashi
- Ōtsuka Keiko
- Saitō Shichirō
- Saji Mazō
- Shima Takashi
- Taki Reiko
- Tsujimura Takashi


