Kitan Club, September 1956

The September 1956 issue of Kitan Club combines confessional writing, erotic fiction, cultural criticism, literary history, film commentary, collecting, reader testimony, and specialist publishing information. Its opening contents spread, decorated with mermaid illustrations, presents a densely organized issue whose primary articles begin with accounts of psychological compulsion and bodily control. Tamao Sumiko’s “Parasites” uses a disturbing laboratory and domestic narrative to explore dependency, manipulation, illness, and eroticized degradation. It is followed by Tsukioka Eiko’s intimate account of enemas and diapers and Matsui Raiko’s illustrated “The Shell of Love,” a long story of frustrated attachment, jealousy, bondage, performance, and violence. The issue then broadens into labor, social, and literary subjects. Futaki Yoshio’s “Raid on the Labor Camp” depicts exploitation and violent conflict in a coal-mining settlement, while Numa Shōzō’s essay welcomes the appearance of fiction about human domestication and places such writing within the development of masochistic literature. Aoyama Miekichi’s “The White Mouse” presents theatrical life and obsessive attachment, and Aoba Shin’ichi’s “Red Lotus” follows a sickly military-school student through discipline, humiliation, brutality, and wartime catastrophe. The second installment of Kondō Kikuya’s “Through the Light” continues an autobiographical record of despair and attempted suicide. The middle section becomes increasingly analytical. Fujimi Kaoru surveys homosexuality in literary history, while shorter pieces include editorial commentary, personal reminiscence, a report on reader and model culture, and continued testimony about masochistic experience. Ikeda Fumiko’s schoolgirl memoir and Kadota Nako’s reflections on love foreground female narrators, while Numa Shōzō’s notebook combines literary criticism, correspondence, and reflections on sadomasochistic representation. Essays on photographing women, torture scenes in cinema, modern masochist art, detective fiction, theater, and contemporary film demonstrate the magazine’s sustained interest in how cruelty and deviance are represented across media. The later portion includes Sugawara Haruo’s theoretical consideration of etsugyaku, a collector’s bibliographic column, Ōtani Ayako’s long fiction “The Slug,” editorial miscellany, bondage-film commentary, visual reference material concerning female seppuku, and notices about foreign publications. The closing pages contain catalogues, indexes, publication advertisements, reader communications, editorial exchanges, and community notices. Together these materials establish Kitan Club as both a literary magazine and a participatory subcultural forum, linking fantasy, historical inquiry, visual culture, personal confession, and reader exchange.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Parasites	Tamao Sumiko	18–27	7 –16
Incontinence: Enemas and Diapers	Tsukioka Eiko	28–29	17 –18
The Shell of Love	Matsui Raiko	30–39	19 –28
Raid on the Labor Camp	Futaki Yoshio	40–43	29 –32
Welcoming the Appearance of Domestication Fiction	Numa Shōzō	44–45	33 –34
The White Mouse	Aoyama Miekichi	46–53	35 –42
Red Lotus	Aoba Shin'ichi	54–61	43 –50
Through the Light, Part Two: Record of My Suicide Attempt	Kondō Kikuya	62–69	51 –58
Homosexuality as It Appears in Literature	Fujimi Kaoru	70–74	59 –63
Editorial Afterdrops	Editorial Department	75	64
My Fundoshi	Matsubara Michiyo	76–77	65 –66
Report	Shima Naoki	78–79	67 –68
Joys and Sorrows of Masochism: Afterward	Makane Kyōjirō	80–87	69 –76
Memoir of a Schoolgirl Nude Enthusiast	Ikeda Fumiko	88–89	77 –78
On Nako's Love	Kadota Nako	90–97	79 –86
Numa Shōzō's Notebook	Numa Shōzō	98–105	87 –94
Miscellaneous Notes on Photographing Women	Matsubara Hajime	106–107	95 –96
Torture Scenes Appearing in Films	Sazamaki Hiroshi	108–115	97 –104
Modern Masochism Art Review, Part Two	Hara Tadamasa	116–119	105 –108
New Studies in Detective Fiction, Part Two	Azuma Ichirō	120–125	109 –114
Behind the Theater: Red Dish, Missing Dish	Kida Magarō	126–128	115 –117
From Recent Films	Shiraishi Hiromu	129	118
A Consideration of Etsugyaku	Sugawara Haruo	130–135	119 –124
From My Collection	Kadoma Sōkichi	136–141	125 –130
The Slug	Ōtani Ayako	142–149	131 –138
Gyokusei Gleanings	Editorial Department	150–153	139 –142
From Recent Bondage Films	Saga Miyako	154–155	143 –144
Illustrated Reference on Compositions of Female Seppuku	Uncredited	156–157	145 –146
Introduction to New Foreign-Language Publications	Editorial Department	158	147
Tenseisha Publication Catalogue	Editorial Department	160–161	149 –150
Kitan Club Cumulative Contents Index	Editorial Department	162–163	151 –152
Reader Communications and Editorial Correspondence	Editorial Department	166–176	155 –165

The issue identifies itself as the September 1956 number, Volume 10, Number 6, and overall serial number 88. A formal illustrated table of contents appears on PDF viewer page 4. The principal numbered body follows an eleven-page offset: printed page 18 corresponds to PDF viewer page 7. Printed pagination reaches page 176 on the final PDF page. Several uncommon pen names, small headings, and specialized compounds permit more than one romanization; these are identified in the relevant notes. The formal contents page includes some very short columns and back-matter notices alongside full-length articles, and several author readings should receive human verification.