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Fuzoku Kitan

November 1961

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Cover of Fuzoku Kitan, November 1961

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Summary

The November 1961 special issue of Fuzoku Kitan is explicitly organized around the theme The Allure of Whip and Rope, bringing together bondage photography, illustrated sadomasochistic fiction, translated European libertine literature, erotic stories, recurring columns, and reader-oriented material. Its editorial identity is unusually visual from the outset. Following the cover and formal contents, nearly thirty pages are devoted to a large photographic portfolio of women restrained with rope in domestic interiors and outdoor settings. Individual tableaux emphasize facial expressions, bodily posture, constriction, exposure, helplessness, and the visual patterns formed by rope, while captions give the photographs miniature narrative contexts involving capture, punishment, shame, and erotic sensation.

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The prose section opens with the Marquis de Sade’s Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue, translated by Doi Keiko and accompanied by numerous period-style illustrations of captivity and punishment. This is followed by Shishimura Yutaka’s Honeymoon of the Whip and Rope, a contemporary illustrated story in which bondage, surveillance, shame, and punishment structure the narrative. Kurihashi Shingo’s Women I Want to Whip, Women I Want to Tie continues the issue’s central theme in a more discursive form, while Kita Jun’s Hip Fireworks and Masaki Shinichi’s A Woman Like a Demon develop erotic fiction around corporal punishment, domination, and sexual fixation. Mano Rei’s When the Whip of Fire Goes Mad extends this pattern through another long illustrated narrative.

The middle of the issue alternates fiction with recurring magazine departments. The S.M. Rotary pages use shorter topical pieces and correspondence-like material, after which Nemoto Gin’s Numbed by Flesh Day and Night presents a heavily illustrated account centered on domestic sexuality and sadomasochistic relations. The translated or adapted Duchess of the Bastille sequence shifts to a Western historical-fantasy setting and reproduces comic-style illustrations of imprisonment, bondage, and institutional punishment. Kusada Naki’s Black Night then returns to contemporary erotic fiction.

The later surviving section includes Takazawa Eiji’s The Charm of Two White Hemispheres, an extended discussion of breasts and erotic fascination illustrated with drawings, followed by Aoyama Mieko’s A Night Drenched in Victimization, illustrated by Tanoue Keiko, which combines melodrama, coercion, and sadomasochistic imagery. The closing pages move into classified notices, advertisements, the Reader Salon, editorial notices, and publication information. Taken as a whole, the issue demonstrates Fuzoku Kitan’s characteristic fusion of fetish photography, erotic fiction, translated libertine material, reader participation, and quasi-documentary sexual discourse, with rope restraint and whipping functioning as the dominant visual and thematic vocabulary.

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Table of Contents 14 items
  1. The Allure of Whip and Rope
    unnumbered photographic section
  2. Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de Sade
    39–46
  3. Honeymoon of the Whip and Rope by Shishimura Yutaka
    49–58
  4. Women I Want to Whip, Women I Want to Tie by Kurihashi Shingo
    59–61
  5. Hip Fireworks by Kita Jun
    62–71
  6. A Woman Like a Demon by Masaki Shinichi
    72–80
  7. When the Whip of Fire Goes Mad by Mano Rei
    87–95
  8. S.M. Rotary
    96–97
  9. Numbed by Flesh Day and Night by Nemoto Gin
    111–119
  10. Duchess of the Bastille, Continued by Stanton
    120–126
  11. Black Night by Kusada Naki
    133–140
  12. The Charm of Two White Hemispheres by Takazawa Eiji
    162–170
  13. A Night Drenched in Victimization by Aoyama Mieko
    171–182
  14. Reader Salon
    185–190

Highlights

  • The opening special feature The Allure of Whip and Rope is an extensive photographic portfolio depicting multiple models in varied rope restraints, including chair bondage, floor bondage, column and tree ties, outdoor capture scenarios, and close studies of rope patterns and bodily posture. (PDF pp. 5–32).
  • The Marquis de Sade's Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue appears in Japanese translation by Doi Keiko with large illustrations emphasizing imprisonment, restraint, punishment, and the heroine's repeated victimization. (PDF pp. 33–40).
  • Shishimura Yutaka's Honeymoon of the Whip and Rope is a major illustrated contribution to the issue's central theme, using bondage, confinement, voyeurism, shame, and punishment as the structure of an erotic narrative. (PDF pp. 43–52).
  • Kurihashi Shingo's Women I Want to Whip, Women I Want to Tie directly articulates the issue's interest in whipping and bondage as distinct but interconnected erotic desires. (PDF pp. 53–55).
  • Kita Jun's Hip Fireworks is a long illustrated story centered on eroticized corporal punishment, bodily exposure, and sadomasochistic fantasy. (PDF pp. 56–65).
  • Mano Rei's When the Whip of Fire Goes Mad uses extensive illustrations and prose to develop a prolonged scenario of whipping, coercion, and erotic punishment. (PDF pp. 75–84).
  • Numbed by Flesh Day and Night by Nemoto Gin combines photographs, illustrations, and prose in a substantial treatment of sexual relationships, domestic intimacy, and sadomasochistic desire. (PDF pp. 87–95).
  • The Duchess of the Bastille sequence adopts a Western historical-fantasy setting and comic-strip imagery of female imprisonment, bondage, disciplinary devices, and institutional punishment. (PDF pp. 96–102).
  • Takazawa Eiji's The Charm of Two White Hemispheres is an extended erotic discussion of breasts and the visual fascination of the female body, accompanied by numerous illustrations. (PDF pp. 111–119).
  • The final substantial narrative, A Night Drenched in Victimization, combines melodramatic fiction with illustrations of restraint and coercion before the issue moves into classifieds, reader correspondence, editorial notices, and publication information. (PDF pp. 120–139).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue:

Kinbaku Today is an independent online journal dedicated to the study, practice, and cultural history of Japanese rope bondage. Blending essays, translations, interviews, and archival research, it explores kinbaku not simply as technique, but as a living dialogue between history, performance, and human connection.
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