Kitan Club

September 1964

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Issue Details

Volume
18
Issue
10
PDF pages
221

Summary

The September 1964 issue of Kitan Club presents a particularly dense combination of bondage photography, illustrated punishment fantasies, confessional writing, erotic fiction, reader testimony, and serialized sadomasochistic literature. The issue opens with an unusually long visual sequence: staged rope photographs occupy much of the early section, alternating clothed and nude models, close studies of knots and limb restraint, gagging, floor bondage, and tightly compressed poses. These are followed by a suite of punishment and bondage illustrations by Yotsuma Takashi, including scenes of chair restraint, outdoor binding, shaving, blade imagery, suspension, and other theatricalized forms of coercion. The visual emphasis establishes the issue’s central concern with bodily posture, restraint, humiliation, and the transformation of the bound body into an aesthetic object.

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The prose section begins with confessional and documentary-style pieces, including Wife’s Confession by Mizuno Kayo and Shingū Akio’s Autopsy of the Fully Nude Body. Short essays and columns then move between sadomasochistic fantasy, photographic commentary, female submission, bodily technique, film, fetishistic imagery, and readers’ observations. Several features treat SM as a personal identity or social world rather than merely a literary theme. These include My Image: The Woman Prisoner Being Kept, a first-person fantasy of captivity; Shameful Record, presented as a prize-winning confession or personal experience; Pathos Banquet; the serial Sadism novel A Painful History of the Heart; Confession; SM Hostess; and My Rubber Play. The issue’s editorial voice repeatedly blends documentary language with fantasy, encouraging readers to understand SM through testimony, staged experiment, fiction, and visual demonstration.

The later half is dominated by longer fiction and recurring series. Eseh Pari Nikki continues its satirical or erotic travel-diary mode, while Lakeside Moon-Shadow Notes begins a longer literary narrative. Sweet Submission explicitly foregrounds willing obedience and erotic surrender. The feature on a seven-month-pregnant stripper adds a sensational documentary register, followed by the continuation of Thirteen Women Sentenced to Death, which combines criminological fascination with punishment and female criminality. Yoshino Mayumi’s Wet Through and Through continues a recurring erotic series, and Melon Venus develops another sustained fetish narrative. An experimental record concerning Donan returns to the magazine’s quasi-documentary mode.

The issue culminates in the final installment of Dan Oniroku’s Flower and Snake, one of Kitan Club’s most important serialized works. Its extended closing section carries the issue through repeated scenes of captivity, erotic domination, and psychological submission before yielding to reader correspondence, indexes, recent-issue contents, notices, and the colophon. As a whole, the issue exemplifies Kitan Club’s mid-1960s editorial identity: a hybrid publication in which rope photography, illustrated fantasy, confession, serial fiction, reader culture, SM terminology, and quasi-investigative writing are tightly interwoven.

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Table of Contents 26 items
  1. First Gravure: Bondage and Restrained Women
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presents women subjected to elaborate rope bondage in seated, reclining, kneeling, and other constrained positions, including blindfolding and gagging, with both indoor and outdoor staged scenes.

  2. Frontispiece Illustrations by Yotsuma Takashi
    Summary

    A series of erotic illustrations depicts women and men in theatrical bondage, captivity, and restraint scenarios, including rope tying, immobilization, and stylized scenes of punishment or ordeal.

  3. Second Gravure: Bondage Studies
    Summary

    A photographic bondage portfolio documents a woman’s rope restraints in varied seated, standing, lying, and outdoor positions, emphasizing elaborate tying and controlled posture. The feature also includes film-strip imagery presenting bondage scenes as staged visual studies.

  4. Wife's Confession by Mizuno Kayo
    50
    Summary

    Mizuno Kayo’s first-person confession describes a woman’s marriage to a husband interested in SM, including domestic episodes of erotic binding, stripping, sensory restriction, and submission. The account presents bondage as an intimate but psychologically ambivalent marital practice.

  5. Autopsy of the Fully Nude Body by Shingū Akio
    51
    Summary

    Shingū Akio’s sensational erotic narrative depicts a woman subjected to complete nudity, binding, punishment, and an execution-themed ritual, accompanied by stark illustrations of restraint and bodily exposure. The piece combines coercive fantasy with imagery of torture and death.

  6. My Image: The Woman Prisoner Being Kept by Kondō Hajime
    Summary

    A first-person captivity narrative describes a young woman being abducted, confined, stripped, questioned, and repeatedly subjected to rope bondage, gagging, forced positions, and other humiliating punishments by a wealthy household.

  7. Shameful Record by Yoshimura Yoshiko
    Summary

    Presented as a prize-selected confession and personal record, this account follows a woman’s escalating bondage ordeal involving nudity, restraint, forced postures, enemas, bodily inspection, and punitive treatment by her captors.

  8. Pathos Banquet by Utsuki Yōichi
    Summary

    An autobiographical publishing-world narrative recounts the creation, promotion, circulation, and commercial rivalry of specialist erotic magazines, while reflecting on editorial responsibility, sensational content, and the readers and contributors who sustain the market.

  9. Counterfeit: Tormenting Sadism by Yoshino Mayumi
    Summary

    An erotic sadistic narrative depicts the escalating torment, restraint, humiliation, and bodily punishment of a woman by domineering figures, accompanied by illustrations of bondage and abusive staging.

  10. A Painful History of the Heart by Saijō Misao
    Summary

    This serialized erotic narrative follows a woman through coercive relationships, police pursuit, arrest, interrogation, imprisonment, and repeated episodes of handcuffing, caging, punishment, and sexualized humiliation.

  11. Confession by Inaba Nobuo
    Summary

    A first-person confession recounts the narrator’s developing interest in sadistic and bondage scenes, including the restraint, gagging, humiliation, and punishment of women, and later encounters with SM magazines and related fantasies.

  12. SM Hostess by Murasaki Shima Reiko
    Summary

    Presented as the memoir of an SM hostess, this narrative describes serving male clients through bondage, corporal punishment, humiliation, and demanding physical scenarios, while reflecting on the woman’s background and professional role in the postwar SM milieu.

  13. My Rubber Play by Umekawa Sachiko
    Summary

    A reader’s account of “rubber play” describes collecting and wearing rubber garments, hoods, masks, and bodysuits for rain play, restraint, exhibition, and erotic role-play, accompanied by illustrations of the outfits and activities.

  14. The Master's Doll
    Summary

    A dark erotic story follows a younger brother’s obsessive relationship with his beautiful widowed older sister, whose return to the family home leads to taboo desire, coercive encounters, and repeated rope restraint staged as the creation of a “doll.”

  15. Eseh Pari Nikki by Manda Fujin
    Summary

    Presented as a pseudo-Paris diary, this surreal erotic narrative blends dream, travel imagery, and encounters with foreign women into fantasies of bodily display, fetishized appearance, sexual experimentation, and domination.

  16. Lakeside Moon-Shadow Notes, Part One by Segawa Yasuko
    Summary

    The opening installment of a historical erotic serial follows political intrigue, pursuit, captivity, torture, and sexualized restraint involving Shink之丞, Snow River, and other figures in a feudal Japanese setting, accompanied by bondage illustrations.

  17. Sweet Submission by Iho Yasushi
    Summary

    This first-person erotic narrative explores a man’s fetishistic attraction to extremely obese women and his conflicted pleasure in facilitating his wife’s involvement with another man, framing marital desire through submission, jealousy, and unconventional sexual psychology.

  18. A Seven-Month-Pregnant Stripper by Segawa Shirō
    Summary

    An erotic reportage piece recounts the author’s encounter with a woman who continues stripping while seven months pregnant, emphasizing her changing body, stage work, and the spectators’ fascination.

  19. Thirteen Women Sentenced to Death, Continued by Sade Sudō
    Summary

    A serialized narrative follows thirteen female death-row prisoners through interrogation, confinement, execution preparations, and graphic scenes of shooting, hanging, electrocution, gassing, and other punitive deaths, accompanied by sensational illustrations.

  20. Wet Through and Through, Continued by Yoshino Mayumi
    Summary

    A sequence of erotic vignettes and illustrated scenarios explores women displayed, dressed, undressed, restrained, and fetishized through raincoats, mourning clothes, lingerie exchanges, body hair, and other clothing-centered situations.

  21. Melon Venus by Senuma Shirō
    Summary

    An erotic photographic essay discusses the staged bondage images of a pregnant model, Tanaka Misako, and her husband, focusing on the visual appeal of her full-term body, the documentation of pregnancy, and tensions between private photographs and publication.

  22. On Donan by Kurise Chō
    Summary

    A detailed account of the enema preparation Donan explains its ingredients, dosage, administration, timing, and effects, presenting rectal treatment as both a medical procedure and an eroticized bodily practice.

  23. Flower and Snake, Final Installment by Dan Oniroku
    Summary

    The final installment of Dan Oniroku’s serialized novel follows a coercive erotic plot involving abduction, sadistic control, prolonged rope bondage, humiliation, and staged sexual punishment, accompanied by explicit illustrations.

  24. Recent-Issue General Index
    Summary

    A general index lists the contents and contributors of recent Kitan Club issues, including fiction, articles, illustrations, photographs, reader material, and practical features.

  25. Reader Correspondence
    Summary

    A substantial reader-mail section presents personal accounts of SM interests and experiences, responses to photographs and fiction, relationship and sexual concerns, requests for advice, and efforts to connect readers with one another through the magazine.

  26. Editorial Notices and Colophon
    224
    Summary

    Editorial notices provide submission guidelines for fiction, essays, photographs, and illustrations, announce manuscript prizes and publication plans, and include subscription, back-issue, mail-order, and publisher information.

Highlights

  • The opening photographic sequence is an extensive study of female rope restraint, moving from clothed and gagged poses to nude bondage, close studies of limb ties, and tightly compressed floor positions. (PDF pp. 6–21,30–45).
  • A substantial illustrated portfolio by Yotsuma Takashi presents theatrical scenes of restraint, punishment, shaving, blade imagery, suspension, and historical-style torment. (PDF pp. 22–29).
  • Wife's Confession uses the first-person confession format that became central to Kitan Club's presentation of SM as lived experience as well as fantasy. (PDF p. 47).
  • My Image: The Woman Prisoner Being Kept develops captivity as a personal erotic fantasy and exemplifies the magazine's recurrent first-person imaginative essays. (PDF pp. 62–68).
  • Shameful Record is presented within Kitan Club's prize confession, memoir, and experience framework, emphasizing reader testimony and embarrassment as erotic material. (PDF pp. 69–72).
  • A Painful History of the Heart inaugurates a serialized sadism novel and occupies a long central block of the issue. (PDF pp. 87–102).
  • SM Hostess treats sadomasochism as a social and occupational milieu, reflecting the magazine's interest in SM identities and communities beyond purely fictional scenarios. (PDF pp. 108–113).
  • Thirteen Women Sentenced to Death continues a recurring series centered on women, crime, punishment, and execution, combining sensationalism with documentary framing. (PDF pp. 163–174).
  • The final installment of Dan Oniroku's Flower and Snake forms the issue's major concluding literary sequence and reinforces themes of captivity, domination, and psychological submission. (PDF pp. 191–209).
  • The closing pages contain reader correspondence, recent-issue indexes, editorial notices, prize information, and publication data, emphasizing Kitan Club's active reader community and serialized publishing structure. (PDF pp. 210–221).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue: