Kitan Club kara Uramado e 『奇譚クラブ』から『裏窓』へ
Book-length 2013 interview with Iida Toyoichi (Nureki Chimuo) in Ronsōsha's publisher-interview series, often treated as his autobiography.
Kitan Club kara Uramado e (“From Kitan Club to Uramado”) is a 199-page book published by Ronsōsha in November 2013 as volume 12 of its series Shuppanjin ni Kiku (“Asking Publishing People”). The National Diet Library catalogs it under the author’s real name, Iida Toyoichi (1930–2013), better known as Nureki Chimuo.
The historian Kawahara Azumi describes it as a record of interviews compiled into a book by Oda Mitsuo, and says that it effectively serves as Iida’s autobiography. It covers his years as a contributor to Kitan Club and as an editor at Kubo Shoten, publisher of Uramado. Japanese Wikipedia’s article on Kubo Shoten relies on it for details of the company’s editorial conflicts and staff, and Kawahara cites it for the figure of more than 300 videos Iida made by 1999.
Kawahara later published a separate, previously unpublished set of interviews with Iida, conducted between 2009 and 2013 by another researcher, and notes that it overlaps with this book in many places while adding new material on Kubo Shoten’s inner workings.