Confessions, Experiences, and Memoirs Special Issue

The November 1963 issue of Kitan Club is presented as a special number devoted to confessions, personal experiences, and memoirs. Its editorial structure combines staged photographic portfolios, erotic illustration, autobiographical testimony, psychological reflection, serialized fiction, historical and international curiosities, reader correspondence, and classified community material. The front matter announces Volume 17, Number 11, serial number 182, while the formal contents page establishes a broad sequence extending from visual studies through essays and narratives to an unusually dense concluding section of reader contributions. The issue opens with several substantial visual portfolios. Black-and-white photographs document rope restraint, partial suspension, gagging, restrictive posing, and related studio scenarios. These are followed by a long illustrated gallery credited primarily to Shiba Takashi, whose drawings move between historical punishment imagery, domestic dominance, equestrian fantasy, medicalized scenes, and theatrical reversals of gendered authority. Together, these opening sections establish the issue's characteristic mixture of documentary appearance, staged performance, and imaginative fantasy. The prose section begins with Kurihara Chō's reflective essay on the psychological function of an oblate, followed by Ōnaka Tadashi's translated sadistic story, Sweet Nightmare. A first-person account describes a man's fascination with receiving slaps and injections from attractive women, while another confession recounts a married couple's first consciously arranged erotic role-play. Satō Suden's grotesque account of thirteen condemned women broadens the issue into execution fantasy, and Tsujimura Takashi's Twenty-Ninth Night continues a recurring narrative series. Later features include a survey of women and horsemanship, memories of provocative scenes in cinema, kimono and travel essays, fetish confession, handmade clothing, and an installment of Dan Oniroku's serialized novel Flower and Snake. The latter half mixes fictional episodes, reader memoirs, brief research notes, and correspondence. Topics include rubber play, fabric fixation, pregnancy photography, underwear, women's feet, bondage, staged cutting imagery, and the aesthetics of female suffering. Several confession pieces are explicitly written by women or presented through female pseudonyms, reinforcing the special issue's emphasis on testimony and subjective experience. The closing pages contain extensive reader letters, notices, advertisements, club information, and personal-contact listings, showing Kitan Club functioning not only as a magazine of fiction and imagery but also as a participatory subcultural forum.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Four Figures Struggling Beneath Rough Rope	Uncredited	—	6 –10
Prelude of the Suspended Body	Uncredited	—	9 –10
Breasts of a Woman Constricted by Rope	Uncredited	—	11 –13
Adorable Mare	Shiba Takashi	—	14
A Greeting of 'Good Night'	Shiba Takashi	—	15
Licking a Foot Covered by a Long Boot	Shiba Takashi	—	16
Female Bandit Arrest Record	Shiba Takashi	—	17
Enema and Diaper	Shiba Takashi	—	18
The Intoxicating Flavor of Young-Lady Sumo	Uncredited	—	19 –20
What Will Attack Next?	Shiba Takashi	—	21
Female Body Restraint Series, Part Two	Uncredited	—	22 –26
New Model Studies	Uncredited	—	27 –29
The Effect of an Oblate	Kurihara Chō	34–35	31 –32
Sweet Nightmare	Ōnaka Tadashi	36–41	33 –38
The Man Who Desires Slaps and Injections from Beautiful Women	Manasu Otoko	42–45	39 –42
Women Who Ride	Kura Ryōjin	46–49	43 –46
Our First Play	Watanabe Mitsuru	50–51	47 –48
Thirteen Female Condemned Prisoners, Part One: Beheading	Satō Suden	52–57	49 –54
Tales of the Twenty-Ninth Night	Tsujimura Takashi	58–71	55 –68
Recent Female Fighting Scenes in Film	Yamada Takao	72–73	69 –70
Kimono, Kimono, Kimono Stories	Makibe Takashi	74–78	71 –75
The Pleasures of Travel	Watanabe Kane	79–81	76 –78
Diary of an Inverted Fetish	Kubo Ichirō	82–87	79 –84
A Handmade Loincloth and Red Swimsuit	R. Ichirō	88–89	85 –86
Shigeko's Strange Habit	Onna Gakumai	90–95	87 –92
Flower and Snake, Part Six	Dan Oniroku	96–106	93 –103
Notes of a Gag-Making Enthusiast	Yutani Teruo	107–109	104 –106
Please Torment My Nose	Yoshino Kio	110–112	107 –109
War and the Mood of Cruelty	Uncredited	113–115	110 –112
New Harima Dish Mansion	Manda Fujin	136–145	133 –142
Fabric of Mad Love	Nonaka Nobutoshi	146–151	143 –148
Concerning Pregnancy Photographs	Kageura Sakae	152–159	149 –156
The Sweet Life of Rubber Play	Tsuda Akiko	160–161	157 –158
Underwear Made of Paper	Okayama Fujin	162–171	159 –168
Women's Feet and Underwear	Himeuma Fujin	172–177	169 –174
When a Woman Is Bound	Nakayashiki Makoto	178–179	175 –176
When a Woman Is Cut	Okamoto Fujin	180–181	177 –178
My Image: A Parade of Ecstatic-Cruelty Beauties	Kondō Kichio	182–183	179 –180
Reader Letters, Notices, Club Information, and Classified Listings	Uncredited	184–208	181 –205

The formal contents appears on PDF page 4. Printed pagination is consistently three pages ahead of the PDF viewer numbering throughout the principal text, with printed page 34 corresponding to PDF page 31 and printed page 208 corresponding to PDF page 205. Several names in the contents are faint, stylized, or printed at small scale; uncertain romanizations are identified in individual notes. The opening gravure and illustration portfolios are listed without consistently legible printed page numbers, so their PDF ranges are based on their actual placement. Minor tears and punched or abraded areas affect portions of the cover, contents spread, and several margins but do not remove complete major articles.