December 1962 Issue

The December 1962 issue of Kitan Club combines rope-bondage photography, fetish illustration, historical and psychological essays, confessional writing, serialized fiction, film commentary, reader contributions, and extensive community-oriented back matter. The issue opens with advertisements and a formal contents page, followed by a long sequence of gravure photographs. These portfolios emphasize cloth gags, upper-body bindings, kneeling and seated postures, compact floor ties, and the visual contrast between rope, skin, patterned fabric, and domestic interiors. Interspersed illustrations broaden the repertoire into imagined punishment scenes involving restraints, chains, forced procedures, female ritual suicide, corporal discipline, and fetishized objects. The principal prose section begins with Arai Tamotsu’s illustrated discussion of the conception and visual design of cigarette torture. The article treats smoking as both an instrument of domination and a compositional element in fetish art. Tsukiji Ichirō’s research feature on the deaths and severed heads of female warriors then examines historical and legendary accounts of women facing execution, decapitation, ritualized defeat, and the aesthetic treatment of the severed head. Tsukamoto Tetsuzō’s account of an actual bondage-photo session shifts from historical speculation to documentary narration, describing correspondence with a married female reader, preparations, travel, posing, rope application, photography, and the participant’s reactions. The middle of the issue moves through confession, psychology, fiction, travel fantasy, medicalized fetishism, and theatrical role-play. A first-person essay on fascination with cross-dressing considers clothing, gender presentation, secrecy, and marital life. Other contributions discuss narcissism, married-couple SM play, sadistic female behavior, enemas and nursing scenarios, and imagined encounters in foreign or speculative settings. The recurring serial “Woman and Snake” and the long SM novel “Somewhere in the Universe” provide extended fictional anchors, while shorter dialogue pieces and experiential essays create frequent changes in tone and format. The later section contains tattoo-centered confession, commentary on the film Harakiri, essays imagining female abdominal cutting, a discussion of women’s intimate garments, a mountain-villa narrative, and an examination of abnormality in film. A bondage calendar feature presents the motif of “a woman for each month,” and the final substantial fiction, “The Man Possessed by Glass,” carries the literary material into the closing pages. Reader letters, response columns, questionnaires, classified exchanges, editorial notices, tables, and publication information conclude the issue, demonstrating the magazine’s role as a network through which readers shared fantasies, experiences, criticism, requests, and personal contacts.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
First Gravure: Rope-Bondage Studies	Uncredited	—	6 –13
The Kokeshi Cage	Shima Takashi	—	14
Human-Ginseng Gag	Shima Takashi	—	15
Suspension Punishment	Shima Takashi	—	16
The Female Bandit’s Seppuku	Taki Reiko	—	17
Punishment of the Soles	Taki Reiko	—	18
Enema and Diaper	Shima Takashi	—	19
Water from a Rubber Boot	Shima Takashi	—	20
Baby Car	Shima Takashi	—	21
Second Gravure: Kneeling and Floor-Bondage Studies	Uncredited	—	22 –29
The Conception and Ideas of Cigarette Torture	Arai Tamotsu	34–37	31 –34
The Deaths and Severed Heads of Female Warriors	Tsukiji Ichirō	38–47	35 –44
The Reality of Bondage Photography: Using a Young Wife as a Model	Tsukamoto Tetsuzō	48–53	45 –50
Confession: Enchanted by Women’s Clothing	Kuchiki Hiroshi	54–59	51 –56
Unfinished Confession: A Preface to My Narcissism	Hata Kōichi	60–63	57 –60
Correspondence: A Married Couple’s SM Play	Shingū Akio	64–65	61 –62
Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twentieth Night	Tsujimura Takashi	66–79	63 –76
Caterina Sart: An Incident of Cruelty	Katsura Keiichi	80–81	77 –78
A Reader’s Account: Record of a Sadistic Woman	Hari'i Mika	82–87	79 –84
Exploring the Land of Slaves: A Visit to Sardinia	Arutame Mataji	88–95	85 –92
Behind-the-Scenes Stories about Enemas: A Conversation with a Nurse	Yamagishi Misao	96–99	93 –96
Woman and Snake, Part 3	Hanamaki Sōtarō	100–110	97 –107
SM Dialogue: Theatrical Rehearsal	Nakano Jirō	111–113	108 –110
Somewhere in the Universe	Saji Mazō	114–131	111 –128
Photo Essay: The Scent of M	Ōtsuka Keiko	132–135	129 –132
Prize Confession: Longing for Tattoos	Miyajima Kane	136–141	133 –138
Film Commentary: On Harakiri	Watanabe Kaname	142–143	139 –140
Conceptions of Female Seppuku: An Insurance Solicitor’s Abdominal Cutting	Sudō Ritsuo	144–145	141 –142
Thoughts on Manga Art: Observations on Women’s Intimate Garments	Tajima Naoshi	146–147	143 –144
At a Deep Mountain Villa	Saitō Isao	148–153	145 –150
The World of Abnormality as Seen in Film	Nakahara Isao	154–157	151 –154
Bondage Calendar: A Woman for Each Month	Nakanishi Kin	158–171	155 –168
The Man Possessed by Glass	Futaki Yoshio	172–176	169 –173
Reader Correspondence and Closing Departments	Uncredited	177–192	174 –189

The formal contents page is PDF page 4. The issue-identification page on PDF page 30 states Volume 16, Number 11, cumulative issue 171. Printed page 34 corresponds to PDF page 31, giving a consistent three-page offset throughout the principal numbered section. Several contributor names and a few short titles on the densely printed contents page have uncertain readings, especially the cross-dressing confession, narcissism essay, reader account, Sardinia feature, tattoo confession, mountain-villa article, film column, and bondage-calendar contribution. The front gravure and illustration portfolios are listed or framed as major contents but do not carry ordinary printed pagination. The final reader section contains several separately formatted columns and notices rather than one continuous article.