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This illustrated comic-erotic story begins with a man and a café waitress, Kaoru, discussing a newspaper account of Chinese women allegedly kidnapped, confined in beer barrels, transported by ship, and sold in Canton. During a holiday visit to a Chinese restaurant, alcohol, an accommodating proprietor named Chen, a storeroom, ropes, and an empty barrel turn the reported trafficking narrative into improvised role-play. Kaoru removes her outer kimono, is bound over her scarlet nagajuban, gagged, placed in the barrel, blindfolded, tied to a pillar, and presented in a mock slave auction. The story ends with the participants returning safely to Tokyo and Kaoru admitting a conflicted fascination with being bound, inspected, and symbolically sold. Historically, the article is notable for showing how mid-1950s Kitan Club converted sensational newspaper material, orientalist images of China, kimono display, and bondage fantasy into a self-conscious theatrical scene. It also illustrates the magazine's recurring interest in the relationship between purported documentary reports and staged erotic reenactment. The comedy depends heavily on drunken banter, parody Chinese-inflected Japanese, and the unstable boundary between Kaoru's spoken objections, voluntary participation, embarrassment, and curiosity.

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Yamaguchi Kōichi organizes letters received after his earlier essays on beautiful boys and fundoshi into a provisional taxonomy of fundoshi-related desires. He discusses passive and active dressing, habitual wear, visual collecting, sumō mawashi, color and material preferences, eroticized settings, bondage, sadism, tattooing, and the role of memory and imagination. His central claim is that the most broadly shared object of interest is the image of a beautiful boy in a fundoshi, especially when the picture implies a convincing setting, prior action, and habitual use. Historically, the article is notable as an early attempt within Kitan Club to treat a fetish community's correspondence as quasi-sexological evidence, while also revealing mid-1950s assumptions about boyhood, masculinity, feudal discipline, militarism, sodomy, and erotic coercion. Its unusually detailed descriptions of garments, tying methods, visual staging, and readers' individual preferences provide valuable evidence about how fundoshi fetishism was being named and differentiated within the magazine's emerging SM discourse.

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