February 1963 Issue

The February 1963 issue of Kitan Club presents a broad mixture of bondage photography, fetish illustration, theoretical discussion, fiction, personal testimony, cultural reportage, and reader-oriented community material. Its opening pages establish the issue’s visual identity through two substantial photographic portfolios. These emphasize torso binding, cloth gags, floor restraint, partial suspension, compact kneeling positions, kimono bondage, and the process of arranging a model for the camera. A sequence of individually titled illustrations follows, moving from forced ingestion and women displayed as commodities to prison imagery, outlaw heroines, staged disembowelment, and animal-threat fantasy. The prose section begins with Shirakawa Yukio’s sustained essay “A Trial Discussion of M and S,” which considers sadism and masochism as psychological, ethical, aesthetic, and social phenomena rather than treating them merely as isolated sexual practices. Tsujimura Takashi’s twenty-second installment of “Thirty-Ninth Night Tales” then supplies a long narrative involving coercion, bondage, punishment, domestic secrecy, and medicalized torment. Shorter features expand the issue’s range through film commentary on spectacular punishment scenes and an observational account of a newly organized women’s sumo association. The middle of the issue alternates specialized essays with fiction and confession. Articles examine rubber fetishism, gallstones and bodily discomfort, voyeurism, forced enemas, abdominal cutting, and the relation between physical procedures and erotic imagination. Saji Mazō’s “Somewhere in the Universe” introduces speculative fiction, while the Sardinia travel account uses foreign geography and custom as a setting for erotic and ethnographic curiosity. Later pieces include confessional encounters, grotesque short fiction, proposals for unusual restraint devices, dialogue about pregnancy, recurring fictional characters, and stories centered on women’s subjection, bodily marking, and ritualized suffering. The closing literary section includes “The Devil’s Lips,” accounts of roadside or temple legends associated with abdominal cutting, a discussion of one-piece clothing fetishism, “The Insect in the Hair,” and personal narratives about schoolgirls, servitude, and relations between men and women. The final major article, “The Practice of Bondage Photography,” combines descriptive text with photographs demonstrating posing, rope placement, gagging, and the visual construction of tension. Extensive correspondence, classified exchanges, publication notices, reader reports, and editorial material occupy the back matter, showing Kitan Club functioning not only as a magazine but also as a network for readers seeking information, images, books, and like-minded correspondents.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
First Gravure: Bondage and Suspension Studies	Uncredited	—	6 –13
Forced to Drink Salt Water	Shima Takashi	—	14
Commodities Displayed Before a Customer	Claude Koga	—	15 –16
The Prison Bride	Shima Takashi	—	17
Prison at the Bottom of the Earth	Shima Takashi	—	18
The Woman Outlaw’s Suicide on the Rooftop	Shima Takashi	—	19
The Troupe Leader’s Real-Blade Disembowelment on Stage	Taki Reiko	—	20
The Terror of Wild Dogs Closing In	Shima Takashi	—	21
Second Gravure: Rope, Gag, Foot, and Ritual Studies	Uncredited	—	22 –28
A Trial Discussion of M and S	Shirakawa Yukio	34–37	30 –33
Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twenty-Second Night	Tsujimura Takashi	38–52	34 –48
Film Correspondence: The Burning and Crucifixion of Wakao in The First Emperor	Higashiyama Tarō	53	49
Birth of the Women’s Sumo Association	Okamoto Yoshio	54–59	50 –55
Confessions of a Rubber Maniac: Rubber-Chair Play	Tsuzawa Akiko	60–61	56 –57
Gallstone Reflections	Sudō Ritsuo	62–65	58 –61
A Voyeur’s Almanac	Nagata Toshio	66–73	62 –69
Observations on Female Torture: High-Pressure Air Enema and Abdominal Cutting	Ōgita Toshio	74–75	70 –71
Somewhere in the Universe	Saji Mazō	76–93	72 –89
Sardinia Travel Notes	Arutame Mataji	94–101	90 –97
Enchanted by Neru’s Discipline	Koshino Nobutoshi	102–105	98 –101
The Mystery of the Privy Fly	Masayume Hirōmasa	106–111	102 –107
Ideas for Revolutionary Restraint Devices	Yuki Shun’itsu	112–115	108 –111
Two Pregnant Women	Senuma Shirō	116–117	112 –113
The Tale of Mrs. Sekiya	Hanada Ichirō	118–119	114 –115
Bound with Her Hands Behind Her Back on Television	Tamura Kiyohiko	120–121	116 –117
The Devil’s Lips	Tanuma Toshio	122–131	118 –127
Travels in Search of Torment Materials: The Legend of the Small Disembowelment Jizō	Izumi Tatsunosuke	132–137	128 –133
Female Disembowelment Secret Tales: The Origin of the Disembowelment Jizō	Ishii Yasuzō	138–145	134 –141
One-Piece Dress Fetishism	Yumehara Kōichi	146–147	142 –143
The Insect in the Hair	Ninchōji Yoshiko	148–155	144 –151
The Sadistic Schoolgirl and Her Slave	Takashima Midori	156–159	152 –155
Men’s Hearts and Women’s Hearts	Azusa Kayoko	160–165	156 –161
The Practice of Bondage Photography	Tsukamoto Tetsuzō	166–179	162 –175
Reader Communications and Mrs. Sekiya’s Bondage Diary V	Uncredited	180–192	176 –188

The formal printed table of contents appears on PDF page 4. PDF pages 2, 3, and 5 are advertising and promotional pages. PDF page 29 identifies the issue as Kitan Club, February 1963, Volume 17, Number 2, cumulative issue 173. Printed page 34 corresponds to PDF page 30, creating a consistent four-page offset through the principal numbered editorial section. Several contributor names use uncommon characters or small type and require confirmation of romanization, particularly the authors of the female-torture article, the Sardinia travelogue, the disembowelment-Jizō feature, and “The Insect in the Hair.” The final printed pagination extends beyond the PDF page count because the scan’s viewer numbering includes the cover and front matter differently from the magazine’s printed sequence.