April 1963 Issue

The April 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines photographic bondage portfolios, fetish illustration, psychological essays, first-person testimony, erotic fiction, travel writing, correspondence, and an unusually extensive community section. Its opening visual program occupies a substantial portion of the issue. The first gravure sequence presents inverted posing, overhead wrist restraint, tightly compressed floor bondage, outdoor gagging, and rope arrangements emphasizing posture and physical strain. A full-page illustration gallery follows, with Shima Takashi, Claude Koga, and Taki Reiko depicting a woman dancing in a cangue, wire torture, an avant-garde artist contemplating bondage imagery, bee torment, a restraint apparatus for whipping, the final moments of a female castle ruler, imagined female seppuku, and cigarette torture. A second photographic group turns to compact rope bondage, chains and padlocks, staged abdominal cutting, female physical domination, and gagged kneeling restraint. The principal prose section begins with Hayashi Yumio’s essay “Religious Hallucination and Masochism,” which treats visions, faith, persecution, sacrifice, and suffering as intertwined psychological and cultural phenomena. Gotanda Chūtarō’s “The Humiliation of Machiko” shifts into fiction centered on coercion, voyeurism, and forced exposure, while Mutsu Ryō’s autobiographical “The Dark Generation” recalls wartime suspicion, police interrogation, imprisonment, and physical abuse. Takagi Nobuo’s “In the Prison of Beautiful Tastes” adopts the form of an abnormal or investigative story, moving through urban nightlife and encounters with fetish communities. The middle of the issue alternates between confession, serial fiction, and specialized case material. Ichijiku’s account of enemas presents medical experience as the origin of a persistent fixation. Yukitoshi Haruka’s “Brothers, Apostles of the Sadistic Story” follows two men through an exoticized adventure involving bondage and captivity. Shorter pieces discuss childbirth enemas and intoxicated female behavior before the issue returns to longer works concerning masochistic devotion, female seppuku, troubled marriage, domination, and punishment. The continuing novel “The Wife of the Cross” and the feature on conversations addressed to God reinforce the issue’s repeated association of pain with confession, ritual, guilt, and transcendence. The later pages widen the magazine’s geographical and social range through a Sardinian travel account, a prisoner’s bondage recollection, speculative fiction, the continuation of “Yellow Sex,” an essay devoted to feet, an interview concerning women’s sumo, and a reader’s account of acquiring pregnancy photographs. The final section is dominated by letters, personal notices, exchange requests, club information, editorial replies, and advertisements for photographs, books, prints, and specialized materials. This back matter makes the issue a record of an active readership as well as an anthology, revealing how private fantasies, personal testimony, collecting, and correspondence were woven into Kitan Club’s editorial culture.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Opening Gravure: Inverted Rope Pose	Uncredited	—	6
Opening Gravure: Overhead Wrist Restraint	Uncredited	—	7 –8
Opening Gravure: Compact Floor Bondage	Uncredited	—	9 –10
Opening Gravure: Long-Haired Model in Rope Restraint	Uncredited	—	11 –12
Opening Gravure: Outdoor Gagged Bondage	Uncredited	—	13
Dancing in a Cangue	Shima Takashi	—	14
Wire Torture	Claude Koga	—	15
Avant-Garde Artist	Claude Koga	—	16
Bee Torture	Claude Koga	—	17
Restraint Device for Whipping	Claude Koga	—	18
The Final Moments of the Lady of the Castle	Shima Takashi	—	19
Fantasy Image of a Woman Cutting Her Belly	Taki Reiko	—	20
Cigarette Torture	Shima Takashi	—	21
Second Gravure: Compact Rope Restraint	Uncredited	—	22
Second Gravure: Woman in Chains	Uncredited	—	23 –24
Second Gravure: Staged Abdominal Cutting	Uncredited	—	25 –26
Second Gravure: Folded Floor Bondage	Uncredited	—	27
Second Gravure: Female Physical Domination	Uncredited	—	28
Second Gravure: Gagged Kneeling Restraint	Uncredited	—	29
Religious Hallucination and Masochism	Hayashi Yumio	34–39	31 –36
The Humiliation of Machiko	Gotanda Chūtarō	40–45	37 –42
The Dark Generation	Mutsu Ryō	46–49	43 –46
In the Prison of Beautiful Tastes	Takagi Nobuo	50–59	47 –56
Confession Concerning Enemas	Ichijiku	60–69	57 –66
Brothers, Apostles of the Sadistic Story	Yukitoshi Haruka	70–81	67 –78
The Childbirth Enema	Suga Chiyo	82–83	79 –80
The Intoxicated Woman	Hōda Fujihito	84–91	81 –88
A Masochist’s Love	Nakayasu Hiromichi	92–98	89 –95
A History of Girls’ Seppuku	Taketani Jūzō	99–105	96 –102
The Wife of the Cross	Shibasaki Shigeko	106–117	103 –114
Murmurs to God	Aruta Matado	118–121	115 –118
A Visit to Sardinia	Sudō Ritsuo	122–125	119 –122
A Prisoner’s Bondage Story	Hanada Ichirō	126–143	123 –140
Somewhere in the Universe	Saji Asazō	144–151	141 –148
Yellow Sex, Continued	Yoshino Mayumi	152–165	149 –162
Feet	Hinomiya Tōru	166–169	163 –166
Interview with a Female Sumo Wrestler	Okahira Yoshio	170–173	167 –170
Acquiring Photographs of Pregnancy	Senuma Shirō	174–177	171 –174
Reader Communications	Uncredited	178–192	175 –189

The formal contents page is on PDF page 4. PDF pages 2, 3, and 5 contain advertisements and promotional material rather than editorial contents. PDF pages 6–13 and 22–29 are substantive gravure portfolios, while PDF pages 14–21 contain individually titled illustrations. PDF page 30 is the internal issue title page identifying Volume 17, Number 4, cumulative issue 175. Printed page 34 corresponds to PDF page 31, producing a consistent three-page offset throughout the numbered editorial section. Several personal names use uncommon characters or permit multiple readings; the entries for “The Intoxicated Woman,” “A Masochist’s Love,” “Murmurs to God,” “Somewhere in the Universe,” and “Feet” should receive human review.