Kitan Club, February 1955 Special Enlarged Issue

This February 1955 special enlarged issue of Kitan Club is a 309-page miscellany combining bondage illustration, staged photography, sexual and psychological essays, reader testimony, serialized fiction, translated European writing, historical material, prison memoir, autobiographical confession, and advice-oriented features. The issue opens with more than thirty pages of pictorial material. These pages include humorous senryū drawings, historical scenes of punishment and execution, women bound in kimono or restrictive harnesses, photographs of rope bondage and gagging, foreign images of unusual restraint devices, staged female domination, ski and sports fantasies, illustrations of captivity in wartime, and visual studies of punishment, humiliation, trampling, clothing, feet, and bodily display. The front section is not a random collection of advertisements: it corresponds to the formal contents and functions as a deliberately curated visual portfolio. The numbered literary section begins on PDF page 39 with Naruse Ryō's essay asking whether inverted sexual interests are necessarily immoral. The article challenges simple moral condemnation and surveys medical, social, and ethical explanations for nonstandard desire. It is followed by Furuta Kichirō's account of an experiment involving nipple fixation and restraint, then by the fiction series The Bride Has Arrived, whose comic and melodramatic episodes turn domestic and marital expectations into scenes of concealment, coercion, embarrassment, and physical control. Yamaguchi Kōichi next examines tendencies visible in readers' correspondence, treating the magazine's letters as evidence of patterns among rope and bondage enthusiasts. This piece is especially important because it shows Kitan Club presenting its readership as a recognizable community whose desires could be classified, compared, and discussed. Several subsequent articles focus on childhood and adolescence. The Boys of Mount Hachiyama is framed as a summer-vacation diary and depicts a group of boys whose games, curiosity, bullying, and bodily experimentation become increasingly charged. Miscellaneous Notes on Moxibustion considers punishment and therapeutic burning through anecdotal and historical examples. Ten Months in Prison is a long illustrated account of penal life, discipline, humiliation, institutional routines, and relations among prisoners. The section concludes with The Death of a Woman Who Trampled Her Husband, a comic and sensational piece about marital domination, and the second installment of The Bloodstained Reins, Itō Seiu's historical narrative of violence, punishment, and social disorder. The middle of the issue is dominated by extended confessional and quasi-documentary narratives. Morimoto Aizō's translated continuation of Cruel Women introduces European anecdotes about female sadism and domination. Hōzuka Mitsuo's How I Was Tormented follows a first-person narrator through humiliating treatment, erotic coercion, and bodily control. Mori Taichi's Confession from My Boyhood: The Smell of Boys revisits school and dormitory life through memories of male bodies, shame, fascination, and sexual awakening. My Observations of Three Deformed Women and the continuation of A Girl from the Red-Light District further develop the magazine's interest in bodily difference, marginality, exploitation, and the unstable boundary between documentation and voyeurism. Trampled, a prize-winning confession, recounts a man's attraction to submission beneath women and frames his experiences as both personal testimony and a case for interpretation. A Wife Abused in the Abdomen begins on PDF page 151 and continues the issue's series of prize-winning testimonies. It is followed by Breasts and the Menstrual Belt, Confession of an Extraordinary Masochist, and a group of short illustrated narratives concerning erotic danger and deviant behavior. Jealous Boys continues the juvenile-victim series, after which Hemorrhoids: A Woman's Nighttime Letter offers an intimate medical and erotic account. The issue then returns to Itō Seiu's Sexual Fluids, includes the essay From the Notebook of a Certain Masochist, a prize-winning confession about a burglary, a discussion between lesbianism and sodomy, and a second major essay on the secret of the A-sensation. Later contributions broaden the geographic and historical range. A Taiwanese colonial-history feature recounts the Beipu Incident through scenes of armed conflict, state violence, and civilian suffering. Other pieces discuss women who respond to sadism, a stranger's memoir, photographic observations of breasts, a woman's account of being abused by a mistress, methods of self-binding, translated or adapted erotic anecdotes, and a sustained sequence of articles derived from reader letters and personal experience. The final pages contain columns, short correspondence features, editorial notes, and classified or club material rather than another major story. The true final page is PDF page 309, which contains publication and club notices. Across its complete length, the issue presents Kitan Club as both an illustrated entertainment magazine and an informal research forum. It repeatedly converts fantasy, testimony, history, foreign literature, visual documentation, and reader correspondence into evidence for a shared inquiry into bondage, pain, fetishism, submission, humiliation, bodily difference, and unconventional desire.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Kawayanagi Amateki: Ten Scenes	Yamaguchi Kōichi	—	5
The Bound Bride	Uncredited	—	6
A Woman with Strange Feet in an Illustrated Curiosity Book	Itō Seiu	—	7
The Woman with the Waist Wrap	Uncredited	—	8
Masterpiece Collection: The Black Cat	Uncredited	—	9
The Room of Itō Seiu	Uncredited	—	10
Introductions from Foreign Publications	Uncredited	—	11 –12
Selected Bondage Photographs of Itō Sakae	Uncredited	—	13 –16
Nude Skiing	Uncredited	—	17 –18
The Bloodstained Reins: Illustrated Preview	Itō Seiu	—	19 –20
Service in the Slave's Room and Bathroom	Uncredited	—	21 –22
Rope Binding	Uncredited	—	23 –24
A Japanese Woman Being Punished	Uncredited	—	25 –26
Two-Woman Combat Photographs	Uncredited	—	27 –28
Strange Submission: An Idea Selection	Uncredited	—	29
New Artists' Picture Collection	Uncredited	—	30
Fetishism Seen in Foreign Magazines	Uncredited	—	31 –32
Women's Restraint and Leg Irons	Uncredited	—	33 –34
Illustrated Story: Jealous Woman	Uncredited	—	35 –37
Is Inverted Sexual Taste Ultimately Immoral?	Naruse Ryō	46–52	39 –45
An Experiment Concerning Nipple Fixation	Furuta Kichirō	53–55	46 –48
The Bride Has Arrived	Shirogane Kōji	56–63	49 –56
Tendencies of Fundoshi Enthusiasts Revealed in Readers' Letters	Yamaguchi Kōichi	64–69	57 –62
The Boys of Mount Hachiyama: Summer Vacation Diary	Miki Yoshio	70–81	63 –74
Miscellaneous Notes on Moxibustion	Hasegawa Kiyoshi	82–83	75 –76
Ten Months in Prison	Kasuga Ichirō	84–92	77 –85
The Death of a Woman Who Trampled Her Husband	Kawagō Itoko	93–95	86 –88
The Bloodstained Reins, Part Two	Itō Seiu	96–104	89 –97
Cruel Women	Morimoto Aizō	105–111	98 –104
How I Was Tormented	Hōzuka Mitsuo	112–121	105 –114
Confession from My Boyhood: The Smell of Boys	Mori Taichi	122–125	115 –118
My Observations of Three Deformed Women	Tōmei Hiroshi	126–127	119 –120
Continued Confession of a Girl from the Red-Light District	Shibasaki Reiko	128–131	121 –124
Trampled	Kotake Norio	132–153	125 –146
The Beipu Incident: A Secret History of Colonial Taiwan	Kawano Kyōsuke	154–157	147 –150
Confession of a Wife Abused in the Abdomen	Ōsawa Itsuko	158–163	151 –156
Breasts and the Menstrual Belt	Hanamura Megumi	164–165	157 –158
Confession of an Extraordinary Masochist	Nagaoka Shun'ichirō	166–175	159 –168
Illustrated Accounts of Dangerous Adventures	Uncredited	176–179	169 –172
Jealous Boys	Mine Kōji	180–189	173 –182
A Woman's Nighttime Letter About Hemorrhoids	Hanamura Megumi	190–191	183 –184
The Inverted Hero Oda Nobunaga	Kasaya Toshikō	192–203	185 –196
The Naked Beauty	Yamamoto Osamu	204–209	197 –202
Sexual Fluids	Itō Seiu	210–213	203 –206
From the Notebook of a Certain Masochist	Numata Shōzō	214–229	207 –222
Confession: The Time a Burglar Entered	Nakano Taeko	230–237	223 –230
Lesbianism and a Discussion of Sodomy	Hamura Kyōko	238–239	231 –232
The Secret of the A-Sensation	Hamura Kyōko	240–253	233 –246
The Ōtsu Incident and Its Aftermath	Suda Ritsuo	254–256	247 –249
A Woman Who Responds to Sadism	Shiraki Nobuko	257–259	250 –252
The Crawling Insect	Tsujimura Nobutane	260–269	253 –262
How to Bind Your Own Hands Behind Your Back	Shiraki Nobuko	270–273	263 –266
Photographic Notes on Breasts	Uncredited	274–275	267 –268
Confession to Hanamura-sensei	Uncredited	276–279	269 –272
From Film and Magazine Communications	Uncredited	280–283	273 –276
The Story of Rope	Sugimura Ken	284–291	277 –284

The true PDF page count was independently verified as 309 viewer pages. Every page from the front cover through PDF page 309 was inspected, including all 159 pages beyond the 150-page file-search rendering boundary. The formal printed table of contents is on PDF page 4. The numbered literary section begins on PDF page 39 with printed page 46, establishing a consistent seven-page offset through most of the issue. Major article beginnings and endings were checked against the actual pages, including contributions beginning after PDF page 150. The final portion of the issue, approximately PDF pages 285–309, consists largely of short columns, reader communications, editorial matter, advice features, club notices, and publication information; these were not expanded into separate toc_entries when the formal contents did not clearly present them as substantive standalone articles. Advertisements on PDF pages 2–3, captions, embedded contest notices, and isolated correspondence fragments were not treated as table-of-contents entries. Some personal-name readings and several short pictorial titles remain uncertain because the scan provides difficult kanji without furigana.

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