December 1960 Issue

The December 1960 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive opening sequence of bondage illustration and photography with historical fantasy, contemporary erotic fiction, essays, reader contributions, serial narratives, and editorial correspondence. Its editorial identity rests on the movement between visual demonstrations of restraint and literary examinations of domination, humiliation, fantasy, punishment, and secrecy. The front matter begins with illustrated studies of suspension and constrained posing. The “Hanging-Play Instruction Room” presents a series of imagined suspension arrangements, including shrimp suspension, inverted suspension, wrist suspension, torso suspension, one-leg suspension, ladder suspension, and combined hand-and-foot suspension. These are followed by the large “Ecstatic Female Body Highlights” portfolio, a succession of photographic scenes featuring multiple models in rope bondage, gags, mirrored interiors, traditional rooms, beds, and outdoor settings. The sequence emphasizes posture, expression, costume, contrast between black and white rope, and the visual transformation of ordinary domestic spaces into theatrical sites of confinement. The literary section opens with Hayashi Tadashi’s historical fantasy “The Tale of Princess Yuki,” in which capture, restraint, threatened punishment, and feudal authority structure the narrative. Later stories move between contemporary and period settings. “A White Flower Under Abuse,” “One Thief, Two Maids, Three Concubines,” and “Somewhere in the Universe” explore captivity, criminal power, sexual coercion, and speculative danger. Essays and documentary-style contributions examine staged female wrestling, visual erotics, bondage equipment, and the psychology of spectatorship. Chigusa Tadao’s “The Path of a Heretic” provides a longer reflective narrative, while Matsui Reiko’s “Unrequited Love” develops erotic suffering through a serialized fictional framework. The later half broadens into personal testimony, male-male fiction, speculative fiction, historical sadism, and accounts of unusual punishment. “Thoughts on the Akebono Society Incident” adopts the form of a reader contribution, while “The Land of Shadows,” “My Fantasy Inspired by Chrysanthemums,” and “The Strange Hell Hut” shift between uncanny, confessional, and period modes. Numa Shōzō’s “From the Notebook of a Dreamer” and “Acrobatic Cruelty Record” continue the magazine’s interest in elaborate imagined ordeals. The closing fiction, including “Hot-Spring Hell” and “The Underground City of Female Slaves,” returns to hidden spaces, organized captivity, and fantastic systems of domination. Reader correspondence, editorial notes, publication information, and notices conclude an issue that presents bondage as visual art, narrative machinery, private fantasy, and shared subcultural discourse.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Hanging-Play Instruction Room	Shima Takashi	—	5 –14
Ecstatic Female Body Highlights	Fujimi Shirō	—	15 –47
The Tale of Princess Yuki	Hayashi Tadashi	62–70	49 –57
A Woman for Display	Tsujimura Takashi	71–75	58 –62
Yamamoto Fujiko as Shirakoya Komako	Higashiyama Eishi	76–77	63 –64
A White Flower Under Abuse	Akagawa Michirō	78–87	65 –74
One Thief, Two Maids, Three Concubines	Nishida Jin	88–95	75 –82
A Delicious Thing on the Ground	Toyama Kasuhiko	96–97	83 –84
Somewhere in the Universe	Saji Shinzo	98–113	85 –100
Female Beauty Revealed in Women’s Wrestling	Yukizaki Kyōto	114–121	101 –108
Burning Star	Fujiyama Hideo	122–133	109 –120
The Path of a Heretic	Chigusa Tadao	134–143	121 –130
Thoughts on Foreign Magazines	Kurahito Naruhito	144–147	131 –134
How About This Enema Device?	Nakai Teruo	148–149	135 –136
Unrequited Love	Matsui Reiko	150–161	137 –148
Thoughts on the Akebono Society Incident	Furuta Sumio	162–167	149 –154
Zhu Jin Zhao	Kan Ryōta	168–173	155 –160
The Land of Shadows	Taki Reiko	174–184	161 –171
The Life and Opinions of Mr. Asō Tamotsu	Asō Tamotsu	185–187	172 –174
My Fantasy Inspired by Chrysanthemums	Kitagawa Haruo	188–191	175 –178
The Strange Hell Hut	Yagiri Jūhachi	192–193	179 –180
From the Notebook of a Dreamer	Numa Shōzō	194–207	181 –194
Acrobatic Cruelty Record	Mizuta Makiko	208–217	195 –204
Hot-Spring Hell	Ochiba Jūrō	218–225	205 –212
The Underground City of Female Slaves	Shōyō Jūrō	226–242	213 –229
Editorial Notes and Afterword	Uncredited	243	230
Readers’ Correspondence	Uncredited	244–252	231 –239

The issue identifies itself as Kitan Club, Volume 14, Number 16, cumulative number 148. The formal contents spread is on PDF viewer page 4. The principal literary pagination begins with printed page 62 on PDF viewer page 49, producing a consistent offset of thirteen pages through the remainder of the issue. The opening illustration and photography sections use unnumbered or separately structured front matter. Several pen names and uncommon titles are difficult to romanize with certainty; provisional readings are identified in the relevant notes. The scan has intermittent edge wear, stains, punched or damaged margin areas, faint printing, and occasional cropped characters. The final PDF page contains publication information and notices alongside the conclusion of the correspondence section.