December 1963 Issue

The December 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines photographic bondage studies, erotic illustration, personal confession, historical and pseudo-documentary inquiry, serialized fiction, reader communications, and miscellaneous research notes. Its formal contents page presents the publication as a deliberately varied anthology rather than a single-theme special issue. The opening section is unusually substantial: after advertisements and publication preliminaries, the issue presents sequential photographic portfolios of rope restraint, gagging, ankle chains, restrictive posing, kimono disarray, simulated medical or cutting scenarios, and staged domestic torment. These photographs are interleaved with a gallery of illustrations by Kurihara Shin, Shima Takashi, and other contributors depicting tattooed bondage, confinement in a shipping crate, sculptural restraint, female wrestling, workplace domination, disembowelment fantasy, and coerced dental examination. The principal prose section opens with Itojima Hiroshi's prize-winning confession, The Man's Sadism and the Woman's Love, a first-person account of marriage, infidelity, jealousy, and consensual domestic bondage illustrated with private photographs. Sade Suto's second installment of Thirteen Condemned Women turns to hanging and surveys imagined executions across several countries and historical settings. Kurushima Seiro's masochistic story The Process of Submission follows a husband's economic decline and progressive domination within marriage, while Tsujimura Takashi's Thirtieth Night continues the magazine's recurring collection of strange and erotic tales. The middle portion broadens the issue's register. It includes an experiential narrative involving intestinal parasites, another installment of the White Lily erotic-illustration series, a study of women's sumo, and an installment of Dan Oniroku's Flower and Snake. The Kiki Salon miscellany gathers short reports and curiosities concerning model photography, unusual sexual practices, film scenes, femininity, and representations of the body. Later essays and confessions examine a dancer subjected to punishment, ideas for distributing private photographs, kimono fetishism, fascination with ritual disembowelment, enemas and intestinal cleansing, sadistic storytelling, lesbian fantasy, and attraction to large-bodied women. The final major contribution profiles contemporary female courage through the case of Mikoshiba Mari. It is followed by extensive correspondence, confessional fragments, editorial notices, club information, classified advertisements, and personal-contact material. These closing sections reinforce Kitan Club's dual identity as a commercial magazine and a participatory community in which readers exchanged experiences, fantasies, photographs, requests, and practical information. Across the issue, staged realism and imaginative extremity repeatedly overlap, producing an editorial world in which personal testimony, fictional cruelty, historical curiosity, and visual performance are treated as neighboring forms of erotic research.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Opening Rope-Bondage Gravure	Uncredited	—	6 –8
Women in Ankle Chains	Uncredited	—	9 –10
Kimono Bondage and Staged Torment	Uncredited	—	11 –13
Beauty and Tattooing	Kurihara Shin	—	14
The Woman in the Shipping Crate	Shima Takashi	—	15
Production of a Nude Sculpture	Shima Takashi	—	16
Untitled Illustration	Uncredited	—	17
Female Sumo in the Tatami Room	Uncredited	—	18
The President's Office Mistress	Shima Takashi	—	19
Disembowelment of a Female Ninja	Shima Takashi	—	20
Dental Examination	Shima Takashi	—	21
Cord-Bondage Model Study	Uncredited	—	22 –24
Staged Domestic Torment Sequence	Uncredited	—	25 –28
Additional Rope-Restraint Studies	Uncredited	—	29
The Man's Sadism and the Woman's Love	Itojima Hiroshi	34–39	31 –36
Thirteen Condemned Women, Part Two: Hanging	Sade Suto	40–50	37 –47
The Process of Submission	Kurushima Seiro	51–55	48 –52
Tales of the Thirtieth Night	Tsujimura Takashi	56–72	53 –69
Intestinal-Worm Account	Kurise Cho	73–75	70 –72
White Lily Selection: Erotic-Cruelty Illustrated Lantern, Part Two	Manda Fujin	76–82	73 –79
A Study of the History of Women's Sumo, Part Seven	Okahira Yoshio	83–87	80 –84
Flower and Snake, Part Five	Dan Oniroku	88–96	85 –93
Kiki Salon	Uncredited	97–112	94 –109
Memoirs of Customs: Tormenting a Beautiful Dancer	Koshihara Hideyoshi	113–121	110 –118
Ideas for Distributing Photographs	Nagato Hiroshi	122	119
Kimono, Kimono Stories	Maki Takashi	123–131	120 –128
Disembowelment Experience: Longing for Seppuku	Tsuda Akiko	132–135	129 –132
Enema Mania: Daydream	Tojiro	136–140	133 –137
Sadistic Story Series: Hatsuko and the Man	Onaka Tadashi	141–145	138 –142
Mania Correspondence: To Miss Yuriko, Whose Wish Came True	Nakada Akira	146–154	143 –151
Continued: From the Town of Wind — Mayumi Yamabe's Confession	Yamabe Mayumi	155–161	152 –158
Confession: Longing for a Plump Woman	Toi Ryuji	162–163	159 –160
Once Again on a Journey of Erotic Cruelty: The Land of Fire	Hosen Satoko	164–171	161 –168
Contemporary Heroines: The Case of Mikoshiba Mari	Morooka Tateo	172–183	169 –180

The formal contents appears on PDF page 4. PDF pages 1–5 consist of the covers, advertisements, promotional material, and the formal contents page. PDF page 30 is the internal title page identifying the issue as Kitan Club, December 1963, Volume 17, Number 13, cumulative number 184. The principal printed pagination runs three pages ahead of the PDF viewer numbering, with printed page 34 corresponding to PDF page 31. The opening gravure and illustration portfolios do not consistently display printed page numbers and are presented on the contents page through compact captions and grouped visual listings. Several personal names and small-print subtitles are faint or stylized, so uncertain romanizations are noted individually. The final twenty-five pages consist primarily of correspondence, notices, classified material, club information, advertisements, and publication data rather than a single continuous article.