September 1964

The September 1964 issue of Kitan Club presents a particularly dense combination of bondage photography, illustrated punishment fantasies, confessional writing, erotic fiction, reader testimony, and serialized sadomasochistic literature. The issue opens with an unusually long visual sequence: staged rope photographs occupy much of the early section, alternating clothed and nude models, close studies of knots and limb restraint, gagging, floor bondage, and tightly compressed poses. These are followed by a suite of punishment and bondage illustrations by Yotsuma Takashi, including scenes of chair restraint, outdoor binding, shaving, blade imagery, suspension, and other theatricalized forms of coercion. The visual emphasis establishes the issue's central concern with bodily posture, restraint, humiliation, and the transformation of the bound body into an aesthetic object. The prose section begins with confessional and documentary-style pieces, including Wife's Confession by Mizuno Kayo and Shingū Akio's Autopsy of the Fully Nude Body. Short essays and columns then move between sadomasochistic fantasy, photographic commentary, female submission, bodily technique, film, fetishistic imagery, and readers' observations. Several features treat SM as a personal identity or social world rather than merely a literary theme. These include My Image: The Woman Prisoner Being Kept, a first-person fantasy of captivity; Shameful Record, presented as a prize-winning confession or personal experience; Pathos Banquet; the serial Sadism novel A Painful History of the Heart; Confession; SM Hostess; and My Rubber Play. The issue's editorial voice repeatedly blends documentary language with fantasy, encouraging readers to understand SM through testimony, staged experiment, fiction, and visual demonstration. The later half is dominated by longer fiction and recurring series. Eseh Pari Nikki continues its satirical or erotic travel-diary mode, while Lakeside Moon-Shadow Notes begins a longer literary narrative. Sweet Submission explicitly foregrounds willing obedience and erotic surrender. The feature on a seven-month-pregnant stripper adds a sensational documentary register, followed by the continuation of Thirteen Women Sentenced to Death, which combines criminological fascination with punishment and female criminality. Yoshino Mayumi's Wet Through and Through continues a recurring erotic series, and Melon Venus develops another sustained fetish narrative. An experimental record concerning Donan returns to the magazine's quasi-documentary mode. The issue culminates in the final installment of Dan Oniroku's Flower and Snake, one of Kitan Club's most important serialized works. Its extended closing section carries the issue through repeated scenes of captivity, erotic domination, and psychological submission before yielding to reader correspondence, indexes, recent-issue contents, notices, and the colophon. As a whole, the issue exemplifies Kitan Club's mid-1960s editorial identity: a hybrid publication in which rope photography, illustrated fantasy, confession, serial fiction, reader culture, SM terminology, and quasi-investigative writing are tightly interwoven.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
First Gravure: Bondage and Restrained Women	Uncredited	—	6 –21
Frontispiece Illustrations	Yotsuma Takashi	—	22 –29
Second Gravure: Bondage Studies	Uncredited	—	30 –45
Wife's Confession	Mizuno Kayo	50	47
Autopsy of the Fully Nude Body	Shingū Akio	51	48
My Image: The Woman Prisoner Being Kept	Kondō Hajime	65–71	62 –68
Shameful Record	Yoshimura Yoshiko	72–75	69 –72
Pathos Banquet	Utsuki Yōichi	76–81	73 –78
Counterfeit: Tormenting Sadism	Yoshino Mayumi	82–89	79 –86
A Painful History of the Heart	Saijō Misao	90–105	87 –102
Confession	Inaba Nobuo	106–110	103 –107
SM Hostess	Murasaki Shima Reiko	111–116	108 –113
My Rubber Play	Umekawa Sachiko	117–119	114 –116
The Master's Doll	Uncredited	120–131	117 –128
Eseh Pari Nikki	Manda Fujin	132–139	129 –136
Lakeside Moon-Shadow Notes, Part One	Segawa Yasuko	140–153	137 –150
Sweet Submission	Iho Yasushi	154–163	151 –160
A Seven-Month-Pregnant Stripper	Segawa Shirō	164–165	161 –162
Thirteen Women Sentenced to Death, Continued	Sade Sudō	166–177	163 –174
Wet Through and Through, Continued	Yoshino Mayumi	178–185	175 –182
Melon Venus	Senuma Shirō	186–189	183 –186
On Donan	Kurise Chō	190–193	187 –190
Flower and Snake, Final Installment	Dan Oniroku	194–212	191 –209
Recent-Issue General Index	Uncredited	213–214	210 –211
Reader Correspondence	Uncredited	215–223	212 –220
Editorial Notices and Colophon	Uncredited	224	221

The attached issue itself is dated September 1964, notwithstanding the supplied provisional KRP month of 1974-09. The cover prints 1964·9, and the colophon identifies the September issue as Volume 18, Number 10. Main-body printed pagination runs three pages ahead of PDF viewer numbering from printed page 49 onward. The formal contents appears on PDF page 4 and mixes individually titled gravure items with major prose entries; several very short visual captions have therefore been represented as grouped gravure sections where their boundaries function as a continuous portfolio. A handful of contributor-name readings, particularly Murasaki Shima Reiko, Iho Yasushi, Sade Sudō, and Kurise Chō, should be checked against KRP authority records before being treated as definitive romanizations.