Kitan Club, August–September 1962

This August–September 1962 combined issue of Kitan Club is a large, visually dense specialist erotic magazine organized around bondage photography, fetish illustration, personal confession, serialized fiction, reader correspondence, and mail-order publishing. Its opening pages establish the issue’s visual identity through staged photographs of bound women, outdoor tree restraint, gagging, chains, and a long run of dramatic illustrated captivity scenes. The recurring shackle-and-chain imagery, credited chiefly to Fujio Kurokawa, moves between erotic tableaux, historical melodrama, criminal captivity, ritual suicide, and violent fantasy. The issue then shifts into substantial prose. Einosuke Fukukawa’s illustrated cultural essay on harakiri examines the history, ritual mechanics, bodily suffering, literary and theatrical representations, and modern social meanings of seppuku. Kiyoshi Kimura’s Record of Feet combines literary excerpts, newspaper anecdotes, photographs, fashion commentary, class observation, hygiene, and the aesthetics of Japanese and foreign women’s feet. Other early features address buttock imagery, personalized erotic fantasy, and the long SM novel Somewhere in the Universe, whose criminal plot combines interrogation, imprisonment, trafficking, police pursuit, and sexualized restraint. The middle of the issue foregrounds reader participation and fetish subcultures. Confessional contributions discuss bondage, exhibitionism, pregnancy fetishism, women’s sumo, adult-baby role-play, male physique, and fantasies of bodily transformation. The New Faces feature combines interviews with extensive bondage photography, while correspondence and illustrated appeals address named readers and models. Masochism Heaven, the serialized Strange Tales of Thirty-Nine Nights, and Flower and Snake extend the issue’s concerns into sensational narrative, grotesque violence, class power, captivity, and revenge. Dedicated essays consider diapers, feminization through underwear, human-horse role-play, and enemas. The closing section makes the magazine’s publishing community especially visible. Recent-issue catalogues, photographic product advertisements, reader letters, self-restraint rules, editorial notices, an afterword, subscription information, and manuscript solicitations reveal a commercial network sustained by readers, models, contributors, and mail-order circulation. Across genres, the issue repeatedly treats the body as an object of display, discipline, transformation, and spectatorship, while also documenting the editorial negotiation of censorship, public morality, and specialized erotic culture.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
First Gravure: Attractive Poses	Sugihara Moto; Rika Yukiko; Sakurai Yoko; Takeno Hiroko	—	6 –10
Second Gravure	Uncredited	—	11 –15
Frontispiece: Severed Head, Buttocks, and Alice (Part 1)	Taki Reiko	—	3
Female-Body Seppuku (Part 2)	Taki Reiko	—	—
Shibari Close-Up Selection	Uncredited	—	16 –22
Valuable Responses to Bondage (Changes in Facial Expression)	Uncredited	—	23 –24
Coat Bondage	Uncredited	—	25 –27
Masochist Photos (Toyoki: Chest, Skin, and Performance)	Uncredited	—	28 –30
A Satirical Review of Japanese Customs: Harakiri	Einosuke Fukukawa	34–49	31 –46
A Record of Feet (From Novels and Newspaper Articles)	Kiyoshi Kimura	50–55	47 –52
Correspondence: To Takagi Kikue	Ritsuo Sudo	56–57	53 –54
Masochist Senryu with Author’s Notes: Yokoguri Mazori	Nishida Jin	58–61	55 –58
A Long SM Novel: Somewhere in the Universe	Saji Osamu?	62–75	59 –72
A Connoisseur’s Record: That Which Is Infinitely Sweet	Toyama Katsuhiko	76–83	73 –80
Correspondence: An Appeal to Pregnancy Fetishists	Senuma Shiro	84–85	81 –82
A New Face Appears: Rika Yukiko’s Gift	Tsujimura Takashi	86–91	83 –88
Illustrated Text: Memories of Women’s Sumo	Tatsuya Masaharu	92–93	89 –90
Confession of Days Gone By: Playing at Being a Baby	Watanabe Kaneko	94–99	91 –96
A Connoisseur’s Record: Confession	Saji Masazo	100–101	97 –98
Experiential Confession Memoir: A Radiantly Sweet Thing	Edonuma Shiro	102–103	99 –100
Confession and Correspondence: To Higashiura Hikaru and Takeno Hiroko	Kyoko Hamura	104–107	101 –104
Film: Love and Love—Do Not Love	Watsutani Kazuharu	108–109	105 –106
Masochism Heaven	Kunii Yoshiro	110–114	107 –111
An Invitation to Suspension Torture	Toyoshima Riichi	115	112
Thirty-Nine Nights of Strange Tales	Tsujimura Takashi	116–145	113 –125
Fantasy Story: Women Who Cast Away Their Tears	Kondo Fuzuko	146–155	143 –155
Fiction: Flower and Snake	Kyotaro Hanamaki	156–165	156 –165
Confession: The Experience of Being a Human Horse	Takako Tsumura	164–168	166 –168
Brief Film Review: The Mature Person	Higashitsuyama Murai Eishu	166	—

The formal contents page is anchored at original viewer page 4 in the formal report, while page-grounded evidence identifies the visible contents spread at page 5; this reflects a one-page structural discrepancy in the supplied pagination evidence. A dominant printed-to-viewer offset of approximately three pages is secure for the major prose starts from printed pages 34 through 116, but later visual and back-matter sections show inserted pages and shifting offsets. The first gravure and frontispiece groupings are therefore assigned cautiously, with one formal frontispiece item left without a reliable body range. Internal headings within Record of Feet, Masochism Heaven, the Strange Tales series, and Women Who Cast Away Their Tears were retained inside their formal containers rather than promoted to separate entries. The final formal film-review item could not be matched to a distinct surviving body section and is recorded with null body fields.