November 1962 Issue

The November 1962 issue of Kitan Club presents a broad mixture of staged bondage photography, fetish illustration, experiential narratives, serialized fiction, costume and equipment commentary, historical fantasy, reader testimony, and community-oriented closing departments. Its visual identity is established immediately through several gravure sequences. The first photographs move from restrained women in kimono or dark clothing to cloth-gagged models, exposed torso harnesses, bed scenes, and tightly composed close-ups. A central illustrated gallery expands the issue’s imaginary geography through scenes of political interrogation, wartime suicide, ritual abdominal cutting, chair and platform restraint, foot worship, and branding. A second photographic sequence shifts between domestic interiors, outdoor kimono bondage, cloth gags, and compact kneeling or folded positions. The numbered prose section opens with Shibari Toshikichi’s experiential fiction “The Inn of Pleasure and Cruelty,” a multi-episode account organized around encounters with women, drinking, coercion, and staged restraint. Yoshino Mayumi’s “Notes of a Gun and Bondage Maniac: Conversations at My Bar” uses reported conversations and anecdotes to document fetish collecting, illicit imagery, and subcultural talk. Tsujimura Takashi’s feature on the appearance of model Mizumoto Shigemi combines photography, editorial observation, and a detailed account of a bondage session, including changes of costume, rope placement, posing, and the model’s reactions. The autobiographical “Temptation of the White Nape” follows with reflections on attraction, factory life, marriage, and a young female worker. The middle portion alternates among film commentary, the serialized “Woman and Snake,” a biographical or confessional chronology of blind love, equipment experiments, descriptions of women’s underwear usable in sadistic play, and speculative travel writing. Longer fiction occupies a substantial share of the issue, especially “Somewhere in the Universe,” which supplies an extended fantastic narrative, and “The Woman on the Auction Block,” framed as a white-slavery fantasy. Shorter confessions and case histories examine corrective corsets, innocence transformed into cruelty, marital identification, ritual suicide, and historical women facing violence or death. The final major literary sequence includes the nineteenth installment of “Thirty-Nine Nights,” a short invitation to shared play, confessional reflections, and an illustrated survey of punishments around the world. The back matter contains correspondence, reader submissions, questionnaires, book and magazine notices, classified exchanges, editorial commentary, publication data, and advertisements. Together these departments reinforce Kitan Club’s identity not merely as a collection of fiction and images, but as a participatory subculture in which readers exchanged techniques, fantasies, personal experiences, criticism, and contact information.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
First Gravure Portfolio: The Composition of a Certain Moment	Uncredited	—	6 –13
Illustration Portfolio: Interrogation, Seppuku, Restraint, Foot Worship, and Branding	Uncredited	—	14 –21
Second Gravure Portfolio: Sketches of Bondage Scenes	Uncredited	—	22 –29
The Inn of Pleasure and Cruelty	Shibari Toshikichi	34–39	31 –36
Notes of a Gun and Bondage Maniac: Conversations at My Bar	Yoshino Mayumi	40–49	37 –46
Temptation of the White Nape	Kakinuma Kōjirō	50–57	47 –54
Film Report: The Bondage Acting of an Actress	Minamikata Yoshio	58–59	55 –56
Woman and Snake, Part 2	Hanamaki Sōtarō	60–69	57 –66
Chronology of Blind Love	Edosei Sakio	70–77	67 –74
A Bondage Confession Between Brothers	Sekine Teruo	78–79	75 –76
Experimental-Room Report: A Diaper-Cover Maniac’s Prototype	Sanjō Takushi	80–82	77 –79
New Women’s Underwear Usable in S-Play	Arutame Mataji	83–85	80 –82
Exploring a Slave Nation: A Visit to Sardinia	Arutame Mataji	86–93	83 –90
A Certain Crystal Fantasist’s Reverie	Saji Mazō	94–95	91 –92
Somewhere in the Universe	Izumi Tatsunosuke	96–116	93 –113
The Woman on the Auction Block	Izumi Tatsunosuke	117–123	114 –120
The Punishment Corset	Kobayashi Norio	124–131	121 –128
The Innocent Devil	Odake Norio	132–143	129 –140
I Want to Become a Wife: An Eternal Wish	Uncredited	144–145	141 –142
Conceptions of Female Seppuku: Wives of the Loyalists	Tsujimura Takashi	146–147	143 –144
Thirty-Nine Nights: Nineteenth Night	Tsujimura Takashi	148–163	145 –160
Play with You	Nakada Akira	164–165	161 –162
Confessional Thoughts	Uncredited	166–167	163 –164
Various Forms of Punishment Around the World	Aramori Jūsuke	168–177	165 –174

The formal printed table of contents appears on PDF page 4. The issue-identification page on PDF page 30 states Volume 16, Number 10, cumulative issue 170. Printed page 34 corresponds to PDF page 31, producing a consistent three-page offset through the principal numbered section. Several names and short titles on the densely printed contents page are difficult to resolve, especially the authors of “Chronology of Blind Love,” the brother-bondage confession, the underwear feature, the auction-block story, “The Innocent Devil,” and the short confessional item on printed pages 166–167. The gravure and illustration portfolios precede ordinary printed pagination. Pages 175–189 contain reader and editorial departments, notices, classified material, publication information, and advertisements rather than additional principal articles listed in the formal contents.