July 1963 Issue

The July 1963 issue of Kitan Club presents a characteristic mixture of staged bondage photography, imaginative torture illustration, reader testimony, erotic fiction, serialized narratives, practical rope discussion, and correspondence. The front matter establishes the issue’s visual vocabulary through photographs of rope and chain restraint, gagging, seated and floor positions, close studies of bound wrists and ankles, and scenes involving metal implements. A second photographic sequence emphasizes compact body positions and self-conscious posing, while another reverses the usual gender arrangement by presenting a costumed woman directing a masked, submissive figure. The illustrated portfolio ranges from fantastic captivity and nasal torment to whipping, ritual abdominal cutting, insect attack, and the downfall of a castle woman, joining contemporary fetish imagery to historical and exoticized settings. The prose section begins with Sasaki Tsutomu’s illustrated catalogue of personal sadistic and masochistic fantasies, followed by Shibajima Reiko’s reader letter about loneliness, secrecy, and discovering a community through the magazine. Tsujimura Takashi’s thirty-sixth installment of Tales of the Thirty-Ninth Night then develops a staged photographic narrative in which a model is progressively restrained before an observing group, making the process of image production part of the story itself. Ashizawa Iho’s illustrated confession about abdominal-cutting imagery and Manda Fuji’s Rural Notebook move the issue from spectacle toward personal memory, fantasy, and autobiographical reflection. The middle of the issue combines reader experiences with essays on punishment fantasies, solitary masochistic desire, rubber fetishism, nasal fixation, and the symbolic appeal of restraint. It also continues Dan Oniroku’s Flower and Snake and includes contrasting accounts of women’s wrestling, one framed as unusual erotic behavior and another as an account of organizing such matches. Discussions of human hair, bodily materials, and specialized collecting extend the magazine’s documentary interest in highly particular fetishes. The later pages turn toward instruction and extended fiction. A rope-research feature explains binding methods and positional control, while the long novel Wandering in Space shifts confinement into a speculative setting. A reader account connected with the film I Want to Die brings cinema, identification, and masochistic fantasy together. The issue closes with reader communications, replies, exchange notices, advertisements for photographs and publications, ordering information, and editorial matter, reinforcing Kitan Club’s role as both a magazine and a social network for otherwise isolated interests.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Opening Gravure Selection	Uncredited	—	6 –13
Frontispiece Illustration Portfolio	Shima Takashi and Taki Reiko	—	14 –21
Later Gravure and Photo Studies	Uncredited	—	22 –29
My Illustrated Scroll of Cruel Delight	Sasaki Tsutomu	34–40	31 –37
A Faint Wish	Shibajima Reiko	41	38
Tales of the Thirty-Ninth Night: Thirty-Sixth Night	Tsujimura Takashi	42–52	39 –49
My Miserable Pictures	Ashizawa Iho	53	50
Rural Notebook: A Confession of Masochistic Love	Manda Fuji	54–65	51 –62
Reader Experiences and Confessions	Uncredited	66–67	63 –64
The World of Ecstatic Cruelty: Punishment of Women	Etō Masaaki	68–71	65 –68
A Solitary Longing for Masochism	Kurise Takashi	72–80	69 –77
On Differences in the Binding Process	Makishibamura Toshitaka	81–85	78 –82
Rubber-Mania Correspondence	Hirayama Fushizō	86–91	83 –88
The Garden of Pleasure	Shima Hiroshi	92–93	89 –90
Prelude to the Nose	Akutsu Katsumi	94–102	91 –99
Flower and Snake, Part Four	Dan Oniroku	103–105	100 –102
Women’s Wrestling: An Unusual Erotic Account	Ashihara Mutsuo	106–111	103 –108
How a Masochistic Women’s Wrestling Group Was Formed	Okahira Yoshio	112–115	109 –112
To the Human-Hair Maniac	Fukuda Hisafumi	116–122	113 –119
A Solitary Longing for Masochism	Tama Hiroshi	123–133	120 –130
A Curious Return Visit	Ōnaka Tadashi	123–133	120 –130
Bondage Research Course: Classroom of Binding Methods	Shibawa Yoshihiro	134–141	131 –138
Wandering in Space	Saji Asako	142–157	139 –154
Reader Experience: Concerning the Film I Want to Die	Iwasaki Sashiko	158–163	155 –160
Instructional Advice for Binding	Endō Hajime	164–165	161 –162
Reader Letters and Communications	Uncredited	166–169	163 –166
Model and Reader Correspondence	Ayasaka Tarō	170	167

The formal table of contents appears on PDF page 4. The publication statement on PDF page 30 identifies the issue as Volume 17, Number 7, cumulative number 178. Printed page 34 corresponds to PDF page 31, producing a three-page offset throughout the main numbered section. Several small-print gravure captions, pen names, uncommon characters, and subtitles are difficult to read and should be checked against the original. Two contributions appear to share printed page 123 on the contents page, so their internal boundary is uncertain. The numbered contents conclude around PDF page 167; subsequent pages contain correspondence, exchange columns, advertisements, product ordering material, editorial notices, and publication information through PDF page 189.