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Kitan Club · Kitan Club, January 1953 New Year Issue

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Itō Seiu gives a compact autobiographical account of how his lifelong interest in depicting women under restraint began during adolescence. He recalls tracing newspaper illustrations, adding ropes to female figures, sketching his newlywed wife while bound, and later using theatrical dressing rooms, onnagata performers, photography, and direct observation to study bodily posture. He rejects elaborate theoretical explanations for his work, comparing his pursuit to an angler following an absorbing hobby and likening his artistic state of mind to Utamaro's creation of shunga. He argues that both arts transform what is conventionally considered ugly into beauty. The second half turns to Kitan Club and Kita Reiko. Seiu praises the commercial acuity behind the magazine, criticizes publishers for prematurely exploiting an inexperienced woman artist, and insists that mastery requires long cultivation, anatomical knowledge, compositional freedom, and years of practice. Historically, the article is notable as Seiu's own account of his working methods, his use of live models and theatrical performers, his understanding of seme imagery as an aesthetic practice, and his early assessment of Kita Reiko.

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