Fūzoku Kitan 風俗奇譚

Tokyo magazine launched in 1960 that mixed SM fiction and articles with early regular pages for gay readers and cross-dressers; it ran under this title until 1974.

Fūzoku Kitan was a monthly magazine first issued in January 1960 by Bunken Shiryō Kankōkai, a company later renamed Remonsha; the National Diet Library holds issues under both publisher names.

Japanese Wikipedia describes its core as SM material written for heterosexual men, alongside coverage of gay men, lesbians, cross-dressing, leather and rubber. It credits the magazine with the first regular page for gay men in a Japanese commercial magazine and with a regular cross-dressing column from January 1961. Several writers and artists who debuted there later moved to the commercial gay magazines of the 1970s.

The historian Kawahara Azumi records that Iida Toyoichi, later known as Nureki Chimuo, began contributing fiction to it in September 1960 while he was still writing for Uramado and Kitan Club, and finds that around 1960 it paid writers less than Uramado but more than Kitan Club.

The title ran until the October 1974 issue, continued briefly as SM Fantasia, and was revived for five issues in the early 1980s. The Fūzoku Shiryōkan library in Tokyo holds a run of the magazine.

Sources

  1. 風俗奇譚 — National Diet Library Search (Bunken Shiryō Kankōkai)
  2. 風俗奇譚 — National Diet Library Search (Remonsha)
  3. 風俗奇譚 — Wikipedia (Japanese)
  4. 飯田豊一(濡木痴夢男)氏の軌跡とその仕事 — Kawahara Azumi, Ritsumeikan Bungaku no. 674 (2021)