October 1963 Issue

The October 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines bondage photography, erotic and grotesque illustration, confessional writing, fantasy fiction, cultural commentary, serialized curiosities, and an extensive reader-oriented back section. The formal contents spread introduces an issue whose editorial identity rests on the close proximity of staged visual material and purportedly autobiographical testimony. The opening pages move from advertisements and the contents into photographic sequences featuring rope restraint, gagging, coerced posing, simulated torment, foot domination, and partial suspension. These are interleaved with full-page illustrations by Shima Takashi, Taki Reiko, and other contributors, depicting high-pressure enemas, drowning fantasies, confinement aboard a boat, ritual disembowelment, female wrestling, medicalized humiliation, and restrictive leather garments. The prose section begins with the editorial miscellany Your-Choice Scrapbook, which discusses reader correspondence, privacy, photographic submissions, and the boundaries governing erotic material. Ōnaka Tadashi's Cruel Games follows with a sadistic domestic narrative involving bondage and punishment. Kusunoki Sawako's Marimo Tale shifts into an exotic first-person adventure centered on travel, an Indigenous community, captivity, violence, and doomed attachment. Manda Fuji's Transformation Record presents a confessional account of submissive desire, while Koike Ichirō's Fantasy of the Fig develops another psychologically oriented erotic narrative. The middle of the issue alternates fiction, memoir, and fetish studies. It includes an account set in a police interrogation room, Ōtsuka Keiko's Plaza of the Underworld, a barbershop fantasy, Hanabusa Takako's tale of nasal torment, Kirihara Shimon's reflections on female disembowelment, and Okita Kogorō's bathhouse conversation. Later stories address male body hair, murder fantasy, historical customs, corsetry, acrobatic and white-tabi fetishism, bondage photography, and private experiences associated with clothing, performance, and bodily display. A photographic feature presents a model in staged SM poses, followed by technical and experiential commentary. The issue closes with Tsujimura Takashi's Twenty-Eighth Night in the Thirty-Nine Strange Nights series. The remaining pages contain reader correspondence, editorial columns, advertisements for photographs and publications, personal notices, club information, and classified contact listings. This back matter demonstrates Kitan Club's role as both a commercial magazine and a participatory subcultural network, linking fiction and imagery to readers' confessions, collecting practices, correspondence, and attempts to find like-minded partners.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Opening Rope-Bondage Model Study	Uncredited	—	6 –8
Masked Tormentor and Bound Woman	Uncredited	—	9 –10
Rope Restraint and Foot Domination	Uncredited	—	11 –13
High-Pressure Enema Pump	Shima Takashi	—	14
Fantasy of a Drowned Body	Taki Reiko	—	15
The Victim in the Boat	Taki Reiko	—	16
Female Disembowelment: The Delinquent Girl's Code	Taki Reiko	—	17
Voluptuous Beauties in Bodily Combat	Uncredited	—	18
Female Enema: The Young Wife Who Was Given an Enema	Shima Takashi	—	19
Beauty and River Laborer	Taki Reiko	—	20
Leather Diaper Cover	Shima Takashi	—	21
Bound Model Under Foot	Uncredited	—	22 –24
Bound Woman and Cigarette	Uncredited	—	25 –26
Studies in Breast and Arm Restraint	Uncredited	—	27
Inverted Rope Suspension	Uncredited	—	28
Additional Floor-Bondage Studies	Uncredited	—	29
Your-Choice Scrapbook	Editorial Collective	34–39	31 –36
Cruel Games	Ōnaka Tadashi	40–45	37 –42
Marimo Tale: A Woman's Memoir	Kusunoki Sawako	46–55	43 –52
Transformation Record: A Confession of Submissive Love	Manda Fuji	56–69	53 –66
Fantasy of the Fig	Koike Ichirō	70–71	67 –68
In the Special Higher Police Interrogation Room	Eda Yoshio	72–73	69 –70
Plaza of the Underworld	Ōtsuka Keiko	74–77	71 –74
A Certain Barbershop	Saitō Shichirō	78–79	75 –76
The Ordeal of a Beautiful Nose	Hanabusa Takako	80–85	77 –82
A Conception of Female Disembowelment	Kirihara Shimon	86–87	83 –84
A Conversation After the Bath	Okita Kogorō	88–92	85 –89
Male Actors with Chest Hair	Kajimagari Son'ichi	93–95	90 –92
Murder by Flame	Nomoto Taizō	96–112	93 –109
Memoirs of Customs: Strange Residues of the Taishō Era	Horihara Hideyoshi	113–125	110 –122
SM Play Girl	Tsujimura Takashi	126–133	123 –130
Model and Photography Ideas	Masaoka Ritomu	134–135	131 –132
Somewhere in the Universe	Saji Mazō	136–143	133 –140
The History of the Corset	Narita Ichirō	144–147	141 –144
Bondage Research Roundtable with Tsunakawa Fumiyo and Masochism	Makino Jun'ichi	148–149	145 –146
My Special Fetish: Acrobatics and White Tabi	Mura Yoshito	150–151	147 –148
Ruri: Memory of a Certain Bestial Act	Ikari Senriko	152–155	149 –152
Abnormal Essays: Notes on Passing Thoughts	Minamikata Yoshio	156–161	153 –158
Thirty-Nine Strange Nights, Twenty-Eighth Night	Tsujimura Takashi	162–174	159 –171

The formal printed contents occupies PDF page 4. PDF pages 2, 3, and 5 are advertisements and promotional material rather than additional contents pages. PDF page 30 identifies the issue as Kitan Club, October 1963, Volume 17, Number 10, cumulative number 181. Printed page 34 corresponds to PDF page 31, producing a consistent three-page offset through the principal editorial section. The opening gravure titles are printed in small, stylized captions and several are grouped rather than individually paginated. A few contributor names and subtitles on the contents spread are faint; uncertain romanizations and approximate title readings are identified in individual notes. The formal contents ends with printed page 174, corresponding to PDF page 171. PDF pages 172–189 consist chiefly of correspondence, editorial columns, advertisements, personal notices, publication offers, and classified contact listings.