Kitan Club 奇譚クラブ
Osaka monthly magazine (1947–1975) whose sadomasochistic articles, drawings and photographs helped popularize Japanese bondage in the 1950s.
Kitan Club — literally “Strange Story Club” — was a monthly pulp magazine based in Osaka and published from 1947 to 1975.
Beginning in 1952 it carried articles, illustrations and photography on sadomasochistic themes, and its bondage imagery was one of the factors that made Japanese bondage more widely known during the 1950s. The fetish artist Namio Harukawa saw some of his earliest work published there, and the magazine also printed the art of the American artist John Willie. The artist Minomura Kou (also known as Kita Reiko), one of its editors, helped recast it as a fetish publication.