July 1962 Issue

The July 1962 issue of Kitan Club is a densely varied publication combining staged bondage photography, fetish illustration, serialized fiction, personal testimony, cultural commentary, psychological reflection, and extensive reader-oriented departments. Its opening pages establish the issue’s visual vocabulary through dramatic illustrations of confinement, abduction, punishment, foot worship, military defeat, and threatened violence. These are followed by several photographic portfolios: an outdoor kimono sequence built around tree restraint and cloth binding; a studio series combining rope bondage with a large artificial serpent; compact kneeling poses using rubber coverings and adhesive material; a ritualized female self-disembowelment fantasy; a female-dominance sequence in which a woman restrains and tramples a man; and a tableau using a heavy wooden game board as a burden. The prose section opens with Abe Storie’s “Honor Student of the Slave Academy,” a long satirical fantasy about a secret school where women are trained through humiliation, discipline, forced labor, and elaborate punishments before being sold into servitude. The sixteenth installment of “Thirty-Nine Strange Nights” follows, presenting historical and comparative reflections on impalement, torture, execution, and artificial gestation. Subsequent essays move between public-policy commentary and intensely personal fetish writing, including discussion of child-welfare censorship, a confession centered on riding and equestrian imagery, and a long science-fiction narrative, “Somewhere in the Universe,” that relocates coercion, captivity, and hierarchical sexuality to an imagined world. The middle of the issue mixes memoir, fiction, and specialized fetish studies. Subjects include bath-related nostalgia, leaving an oppressive domestic environment, female acrobatics, circus discipline, punishment memoirs, women’s wrestling, biographies of forceful women, washing and laundry fantasies, pack-horse role play, corporate authority, and the erotic meaning of uniforms and bodily restraint. Several pieces adopt the form of first-person confession, allowing contributors to frame unusual desires through memories of childhood, workplaces, hospitals, theater, family life, or encounters with performers. Later sections include reflections on newspaper imagery, a report on photographing a bound model, correspondence, reader rankings, questionnaires, club information, advertisements, editorial notices, and publication data. The issue’s identity emerges from the dialogue between visual spectacle and reader testimony: bondage is treated not merely as an isolated fantasy, but as a field linking literature, photography, social commentary, historical punishment, gendered authority, and a participatory community of correspondents.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Neck-Turning Doll	Shima Takashi	—	6
Fragrance Amid the Stench	Shima Takashi	—	7
Revolving Pain	Shima Takashi	—	8
Greetings	Kurihara Shin	—	9
The Defeated Homeland: The Final Moments of a Female Volunteer Corps Member	Taki Reiko	—	10
Smoke Torture	Shima Takashi	—	11
Now, What Shall I Do with You?	Shima Takashi	—	12
A Jewel in the Hand	Shima Takashi	—	13
Fantasy of Beauty and Pantomime	Tsukamoto Tetsuzō	—	14 –20
White Skin Gasping	Uncredited	—	21 –22
Rubber Covering and Adhesive Touch	Uncredited	—	23 –24
Fantasy of Female Seppuku	Uncredited	—	25 –26
Happy Subordination	Uncredited	—	27 –28
The Weight of the Go Board	Uncredited	—	29
Honor Student of the Slave Academy	Abe Storie	36–45	31 –40
Thirty-Nine Strange Nights: Sixteenth Night	Tsujimura Takashi	46–59	41 –54
My Opinion on the Recommendation of the Kanagawa Prefectural Child Welfare Council	Mōri Ritsuo	60–64	55 –59
My Hobby: The Silver Wheel	Urakawa Kōzaburō	65–69	60 –64
A Woman’s Record	Sudō Ritsuo	70–71	65 –66
Somewhere in the Universe	Saji Mazō	72–87	67 –82
Someday, Back Then	Mizuki Seiichi	88–89	83 –84
To Leave the Familiar Hell Behind	Umeda Hisafumi	90–98	85 –93
A Letter to a Slave Writer	Akashi Masuo	99	94
The Abused Spring	Yoshino Mayumi	100–101	95 –96
The Abused Chair	Nishida Hitoshi	102–109	97 –104
The Circus Troupe’s Daughter	Ueda Takako	110–113	105 –108
The Barrier	Hakusan Shigeru	114–115	109 –110
A Short Account of Women’s Sumo	Uncredited	116	111
Record of Women’s Sumo	Uncredited	117	112
Biographies of Courageous Contemporary Women	Sagami Shō	118–124	113 –119
The Springtime of My Youth	Iizuka Hide美	126–133	121 –128
The Washerman’s Fantasy	Akiba Etsuo	134–135	129 –130
Pack-Horse Number	Kawabata Takako	136–139	131 –134
Invitation to Suspension	Nakada Akira	140	135
The Company President and the Female Secretary	Nakano Saburō	141	136
Hōya Shirō on Law	Nakajima Kōdō	142–147	137 –142
My Nursing Diary	Kirishima Jirō	148–157	143 –152
The Image of Newspaper Articles	Inano Fumijirō	158–163	153 –158
The Woman in the Third Special Interrogation Room Underground	Takami Ryōichi	164–167	159 –162
Practical Bondage Photography	Tsukamoto Tetsuzō	168–173	163 –168
Reader Correspondence and Club Communications	Uncredited	174–177	169 –172
Reader Communications	Uncredited	178–194	173 –189

The formal table of contents is printed on PDF page 4 and is integrated into a two-page illustrated spread. The publication page on PDF page 30 identifies the issue as Volume 16, Number 7, cumulative issue 167. Beginning with printed page 36, printed pagination is five pages higher than the corresponding PDF viewer page. Several small author names and short titles on the contents spread are affected by low contrast, physical holes, abrasion, and the central gutter; the entries beginning on printed pages 70, 99, 114, 116, 117, 118, 126, 136, 142, 148, and 158 merit human confirmation. The final section blends substantive correspondence and editorial matter with rankings, questionnaires, advertisements, and publication notices.