Kitan Club to Sono Shūhen 「奇譚クラブ」とその周辺
Nureki Chimuo's 2006 memoir of the postwar SM magazine world around Kitan Club and Uramado, a key but contested insider account.
Kitan Club to Sono Shūhen (“Kitan Club and Its Surroundings”) is a book by Nureki Chimuo (Iida Toyoichi). The National Diet Library records the first edition as a 306-page paperback in the Kawade i-Bunko series, published in June 2006; Kawade Shobō Shinsha reissued it in a new edition in its Kawade Bunko line in January 2026.
The publisher presents it as a hidden history of postwar SM written by an insider who published widely in Kitan Club and later edited its successor magazine Uramado, and as a portrait of the enthusiast world that grew up around those magazines. Japanese Wikipedia’s article on Uramado cites it for that magazine’s turn toward SM content.
The historian Kawahara Azumi credits this book and its companion, Kitan Club no Eshitachi, with opening up the study of postwar enthusiast magazines: they describe how Kitan Club, Fūzoku Zōshi and Uramado were edited and who wrote for them, information that is otherwise hard to recover. Kawahara also cautions that Iida was a novelist who often blurred fact and invention, that he was only a contributor to Kitan Club rather than one of its staff, and that his account, which Kawahara calls the “Iida view of history”, should not be read as verified testimony.