May Extra-Large Issue

The May 1962 extra-large issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually long opening sequence of erotic and sadomasochistic imagery with fiction, confessional prose, psychological speculation, autobiographical writing, reader-oriented columns, and cultural commentary. Its editorial identity rests on the juxtaposition of staged kinbaku photography, illustrations of punishment and domination, and narratives in which desire is explored through captivity, humiliation, performance, disguise, voyeurism, and unequal power. The front matter begins with a formal illustrated table of contents and a succession of commissioned drawings. These plates depict rescue fantasies, outdoor bondage, public exposure, female dominance, criminal violence, mock sumo, and ritualized self-injury. A substantial photographic section follows, presenting close studies of rope placement, facial expression, gagging, female domination, submission beneath the feet, staged seppuku, constricting garments, and ebi-style binding. The photographs are organized as named portfolios with credited models, giving the issue a catalog-like visual rhythm before the main literary section begins. The prose section opens with Kondo Hajime's Akemi Writhing, a backstage narrative about a young actress subjected to violent theatrical discipline and exploitation. Sudo Ritsuo's confessional essay Chronicle of a Woman: The Woman from Aizu shifts toward nocturnal encounter, biography, and sexual danger. Sawai Kazuo's The Tongue Knew follows with a long account of erotic duplicity and interpersonal manipulation. Tsujimura Kaoru's Thirty-Nine Nights of Strange Tales supplies an extended supernatural or grotesque narrative, while Hayakawa Susumu's Women's Subconscious Desires frames female sexuality in psychological terms. Later contributions broaden the issue's register. Fujio Tamotsu offers an autobiographical statement of his life and opinions; Higashimachi Saburo's The Stairway to My Wife's Depths returns to domestic and marital psychology; Mishima Yayoi's My Life in Women's Clothing documents cross-dressing and gendered self-presentation; and Saji Ozo's serialized SM novel Somewhere in the Universe supplies the issue's longest sustained fiction. The Kitan Salon section mixes criticism, correspondence, short observations, book and performance commentary, and community-facing material. The closing portion begins the illustrated series Decisive Battle, Utsumi Shoji's second-self confession, and Higashiyama Eishi's survey of cruel scenes in recent films. Across these forms, the issue presents SM not as a single genre but as a network of visual practices, theatrical fantasies, literary conventions, identities, and reader communities.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
The Goddess of Salvation	Thirty-Nine Nights Group	—	3
Elegant Iroha Playing Cards	Takireiko	—	5
Beautiful Figure in Takate-Kote Ushirode Binding	Takireiko	—	6
Bonfire	Shiba Takashi	—	7
The Display in the Yard	Shiba Takashi	—	8
The Boss Woman and Three Slaves	Harukawa Namio	—	9
Mounted on a Startled Horse	Harukawa Namio	—	10
Yakuza Lynch	Kurokawa Fujio	—	11
Tatami-Ring Geisha Sumo	Yukizaki Kyojin	—	12
Seppuku in Ski-Wear Style	Takireiko	—	13
Expressions of Ecstatic Torment and Close-Ups of Rope	Kinukawa Fumiyo	—	14
My Pleasure	Takeno Hiroko	—	15 –16
The Expressive Beauty of the Gag	Rika Yukiko	—	17 –18
Fantasy of Torn Underwear	Otsuka Keiko	—	19 –20
Prelude to Submission: Complete Submission	Kinukawa Fumiyo	—	21
The Trained Pet Dog	Rika Yukiko	—	22
Slave Beneath Her Feet	Rika Yukiko	—	23 –24
Female Seppuku Pantomime and Close-Ups	Otsuka Keiko	—	25 –26
The Feel of a Diaper Cover and Rubber	Uncredited	—	27 –28
A Moment of Ebi Binding	Rika Yukiko	—	29
Akemi Writhing	Kondo Hajime	36–45	31 –40
Chronicle of a Woman: The Woman from Aizu	Sudo Ritsuo	46–49	41 –44
The Tongue Knew	Sawai Kazuo	50–57	45 –52
Thirty-Nine Nights of Strange Tales	Tsujimura Takashi	58–71	53 –66
Women's Subconscious Desires	Hayakawa Susumu	72–77	67 –72
Fujio Tamotsu's Life and Opinions	Fujio Tamotsu	78–87	73 –82
The Stairway to My Wife's Depths	Higashimachi Saburo	88–96	83 –91
My Life in Women's Clothing	Mishima Yayoi	97–99	92 –94
Somewhere in the Universe	Saji Ozo	100–114	95 –109
Kitan Salon	Uncredited	115–130	110 –125
Decisive Battle	Yukizaki Kyojin	131	126
Another Me	Utsumi Shoji	132–139	127 –134
Cruel Scenes in Recent Films	Higashiyama Eishi	140–	135 –136

The formal table of contents appears on PDF page 4. The title page identifies the publication as the May 1962 extra-large issue, volume 16, number 5, overall number 165. Printed page 36 corresponds to PDF page 31, producing a consistent offset of five pages throughout the main prose section. The table of contents lists material extending through printed page 197, but the available file ends on printed page 141 during Cruel Scenes in Recent Films. Consequently, later listed contributions beginning with the item on printed page 142 are absent, and the final included article is incomplete. Several romanizations in the pictorial credits remain provisional because the small type and stylized signatures are difficult to read.