March 1963 Issue

The March 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually large opening visual program with confessional writing, fiction, fetish commentary, cultural reportage, illustrated essays, and a long reader-correspondence section. The first photographic portfolio concentrates on tightly folded rope positions, torso binding, cloth gags, neck rope, kneeling restraint, and women photographed both nude and in sheer or conventional clothing. The following illustrated gallery shifts into overt fantasy, presenting women treated as commodities, constrained in display boxes, subjected to enema-related scenarios, threatened with abdominal cutting, and surrounded by tormentors. A second photographic sequence includes gagged seated bondage, a kimono-clad woman posed with swords and ritual implements, assisted hogties, and compact kneeling and floor restraint. The principal prose section opens with Yamabe Mayumi’s “From the Town of Wind,” a first-person confession about marriage, adultery, guilt, coercive submission, and the gradual transformation of private sexual experience into a search for people with similar desires. Manda Fuji’s “White Socks” continues this confessional mode through memories of school, maternal authority, shame, bodily punishment, female physicality, and the symbolic charge of clothing. The issue then shifts into Takashi Maki’s comic-cultural essay on the waist, followed by short-form speculative and sensational writing, film commentary, and Saji Mazō’s science-fictional SM story “Somewhere in the Universe.” The middle portion ranges widely across travel, historical cruelty, fetish autobiography, and serial fiction. A Sardinia travelogue combines foreign observation with erotic curiosity. “K-ko” presents a case-style personal account, while Yoshino Mayumi’s gun-enthusiast notebook and Tsujimura Takashi’s twenty-third “Thirty-Ninth Night” installment continue recurring authorial and serial voices. “Yellow Sex” develops a longer narrative of racialized and exoticized sexuality. Later articles examine the navel and abdominal cutting, artistic fantasy, female labor and exploitation, and masochistic aesthetics. The final major editorial section includes practical discussion of bondage photography, model posing, lighting, and the creation of convincing restraint images. It is followed by extensive reader letters, personal advertisements, discussions of female cutting and fetish art, exchange notices, publication offers, and editorial replies. These closing pages reveal the magazine’s role as a participatory network in which readers shared fantasies, sought correspondents, evaluated images, and circulated specialized books and photographs.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Opening Rope-Bondage Gravure	Uncredited	—	6 –13
Products Displayed Before the Customer	Claude Koga	—	14 –16
Enema Cover	Shima Takashi	—	17
Constriction Garment	Shima Takashi	—	18
A Woman’s Disembowelment	Taki Reiko	—	19
Fantasy of Disembowelment Play	Taki Reiko	—	20
Nasal Teasing	Shima Takashi	—	21
Second Gravure: Gagged Seated Bondage	Uncredited	—	22
Second Gravure: Kimono Woman with Ritual Implements	Uncredited	—	23 –24
Second Gravure: Assisted Hogtie	Uncredited	—	25 –26
Second Gravure: Kneeling and Floor Rope Studies	Uncredited	—	27 –29
From the Town of Wind	Yamabe Mayumi	34–41	31 –38
White Socks	Manda Fuji	42–51	39 –48
Comic Talk on the Waist	Maki Takashi	52–57	49 –54
Peeping into the Toilet	Mori Yonesaburō	58–59	55 –56
Somewhere in the Universe	Saji Mazō	60–68	57 –65
Recent Shocking Bondage Films	Higashiyama Eishi	69	66
Piāno’s Torment	Yukitoshi Haruka	70–79	67 –76
A Chair	Kurise Chō	80–81	77 –78
Toward the Distant Mountains and Rivers	Iimori Kiyoshi	82–96	79 –93
Sardinia Travel Notes	Aruta Matado	97–103	94 –100
A Curious Confession	Tama Ichirō	104–107	101 –104
K-ko	Nonoyama Shinjiro	108–111	105 –108
Notes of a Gun-Making Maniac	Yoshino Mayumi	112–115	109 –112
An Evil Dream	Kirihara Shimon	116–119	113 –116
Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twenty-Third Night	Tsujimura Takashi	120–133	117 –130
Yellow Sex	Yoshino Mayumi	134–141	131 –138
The Navel and Disembowelment	Suda Ken夫	142–147	139 –144
Flame and Mud	Kuwata Ken’ichi	148–155	145 –152
Female Laborer	Tani Misako	156–164	153 –161
Thoughts on Masochistic Art	Tajima Naoshi	165–169	162 –166
The Practice of Bondage Photography	Tsukamoto Tetsuzō	170–181	167 –178
Reader Communications	Uncredited	182–194	179 –191

The formal printed contents occupies PDF page 4. PDF pages 2, 3, and 5 are advertisements and promotional material. PDF pages 6–13 and 22–29 are substantive photographic portfolios, while PDF pages 14–21 contain individually titled illustrations. PDF page 30 identifies the issue as Kitan Club, March 1963, Volume 17, Number 3, cumulative number 174. Printed page 34 corresponds to PDF page 31, producing a consistent three-page offset through the numbered editorial section. Several small-print contributor names and one title in the short-fiction section are difficult to read; uncertain romanizations are noted individually. The final numbered pages are devoted primarily to correspondence, classified material, publication offers, and editorial communications.