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Fuzoku Kitan

August 1960

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Cover of Fuzoku Kitan, August 1960

Issue Details

Issue
8
PDF pages
118

Summary

The August 1960 issue of Fūzoku Kitan combines two dominant editorial programs: a special feature on lesbian life and techniques of same-sex love, and a broad collection of supernatural, grotesque, sadomasochistic, and sensational narratives. The cover announces both the lesbian feature and a collection of frightening stories about ghosts and uncanny transformations. As in other issues of the magazine, purported sexology, personal testimony, historical anecdote, fiction, crime reporting, and staged erotic imagery occupy the same editorial terrain.

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The opening section is visually substantial. It begins with reproductions of Japanese erotic prints, a formal table of contents, Western erotic imagery, and an extended gravure sequence of women bound in domestic interiors. The photographs explore standing restraint, soft-rope bondage, bamboo-frame torment, kimono and bathrobe bondage, wrists raised overhead, compact doubled positions, and poses framed as pleasurable suffering. These portfolios are followed by four illustrated bondage fantasies drawn by Ejima Hidehisa, whose scenes transpose restraint into ruined huts, medical rooms, industrial spaces, and torture settings. No photographer or model credits are evident for the gravure sequence.

The principal textual feature opens with Ōtachi Kinji’s survey of lesbian practices and social types, discussing relationships between masculine and feminine partners, sexuality among married women, prostitution, prisons, schools, and different methods of physical intimacy. Kabiya Kazuhiko follows with a more narrative account of lesbian courtship and technique in Japan and abroad. Pierre Robis contributes a dialogue-based piece, while Kawashima Hayato examines cultural fantasies surrounding Lesbos and lesbian seduction. These articles mix observation, hearsay, translated material, case history, and period sexological terminology.

The later surviving sections shift decisively toward death, haunting, possession, crime, and historical curiosity. Nanbara Kiyoshi’s “Sunflower” is a macabre tale of murder, decomposition, and flowers nourished by a corpse. A Meiji-period miscellany collects sensational historical reports. Other contributions describe an acquired fascination with women’s underwear, sexuality and supernatural transformation, a young woman haunted by a dead spirit, a man summoned by the ghost of a murdered woman, regional tales of monsters and animal spirits, revenge from beyond the grave, dressing-room sexual anecdotes, pearl-diving women, and the notorious mutilation of a boy’s buttocks. The issue concludes with reader correspondence, brief editorial matter, publication notices, advertisements, and the colophon.

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Table of Contents 38 items
  1. August 1960 Cover: Special Issue on the Fantastic, Supernatural, Strange, and Cruel
    1
  2. Japanese Erotic Prints: A Secret Meeting and Woman’s True Nature
    2
  3. Formal Table of Contents
    4
  4. Western Erotic Illustration
    5
  5. Double Binding
    6
  6. The Woman’s Pleasure
    7
  7. Nude Woman at the Stand
    8–10
  8. Soft-Skin Binding
    11–12
  9. Bamboo Torment
    13–14
  10. Among Fallen Flowers
    15–16
  11. Bathrobe Bondage
    17–18
  12. Both Hands Suspended
    19–20
  13. White Skin of Pleasurable Cruelty
    21–22
  14. Overflowing Enchanted Beauty
    23
  15. The Posture of the Arms Behind the Back
    24–25
  16. Folded in Two
    26
  17. Cruelty in a Ruined Hut by Ejima Hidehisa
    27
  18. The Needle Woman’s Ordeal by Ejima Hidehisa
    28
  19. Winch Suspension by Ejima Hidehisa
    29
  20. Pulley Torment by Ejima Hidehisa
    30
  21. August Issue Title Page
    31
  22. The Reality of Lesbians by Ōtachi Kinji
    40–43
  23. Techniques of Lesbian Love in East and West by Kabiya Kazuhiko
    44–53
  24. Lesbienne by Pierre Robis
    54–55
  25. Invitation to Lesbos by Kawashima Hayato
    56–57
  26. Sunflower by Nanbara Kiyoshi
    82–85
  27. A History of Sexual Curiosities in the Meiji Period, Part 7 by Shinkai Yonetarō
    86–90
  28. How I Became Interested in Panties by Hoshiyama Aoi
    91–95
  29. Supernatural Transformations and Sex by Misaki Mitsuo
    96–98
  30. The Dead Spirit That Possessed a Young Woman by Iwamura Junkichi
    99–103
  31. The Man Summoned by the Vengeful Spirit of a Woman He Killed by Furukawa Takashi
    104–109
  32. Tales of Supernatural Transformations from Across Japan by Sengoku Sentarō
    110–115
  33. The Man and Woman Avenged by a Ghost by Shinoda Fujimi
    116–126
  34. Dressing-Room Conversations by Umyōin Itta
    127–131
  35. Strange Tales of Pearl-Diving Women by Kashihara Shōzō
    132–135
  36. The Cutting of a Boy’s Buttocks: Noguchi Otokosaburō by Shinkai Yonetarō
    136–147
  37. Readers’ Salon
    148–149
  38. Publication Notices and Colophon
    150

Highlights

  • The opening visual section combines Japanese erotic-print reproductions, a formal contents spread, Western erotic imagery, and color and monochrome bondage photography. (PDF pp. 2–7).
  • A lengthy gravure portfolio stages women in standing, seated, recumbent, bamboo-frame, bathrobe, overhead-wrist, and compact doubled bondage positions. (PDF pp. 6–26).
  • Ejima Hidehisa contributes four full-page bondage illustrations depicting cruelty in a ruined hut, punishment with a mannequin-like apparatus, winch suspension, and pulley restraint. (PDF pp. 27–30).
  • Ōtachi Kinji’s lead feature surveys forms of lesbian relationships, sexual techniques, masculine and feminine roles, married women, prostitution, schools, and institutional environments. (PDF pp. 32–35).
  • Kabiya Kazuhiko’s extended essay combines case histories, correspondence, social observation, and descriptions of lesbian courtship and physical intimacy in Japan and abroad. (PDF pp. 36–45).
  • Nanbara Kiyoshi’s “Sunflower” presents a macabre vision of a corpse becoming fertilizer for luxuriant flowers, joining eroticized violence to supernatural horror. (PDF pp. 50–53).
  • The Meiji-period sexual-curiosity series reproduces and discusses historical reports of erotic crimes, scandals, unusual deaths, and bizarre incidents. (PDF pp. 54–58).
  • The later supernatural sequence includes ghost possession, vengeful spirits, yōkai transformations, animal-spirit legends, corpse imagery, and revenge from beyond the grave. (PDF pp. 64–94).
  • The final major historical feature investigates the mutilation of a boy’s buttocks and places the case within Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa crime history. (PDF pp. 104–115).
  • Reader correspondence, editorial responses, advertisements, forthcoming-publication notices, and the colophon close the issue. (PDF pp. 116–118).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue:

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