The Streets of the Flesh

Kita Reiko

A photographic and illustrated survey of Japan’s urban pleasure districts, following streets lined with cafés, bars, lodging houses, bathhouses, and other establishments associated with commercial nightlife and sexual entertainment. Maps, storefront photographs, captions, and…

A Collection of Japanese Erotic Tales

Sen'yūin Shunkō

A sequential-art collection of erotic anecdotes depicting sexual encounters, illicit affairs, geisha and domestic settings, and negotiations between men and women. The episodes combine sensual imagery with comic dialogue and references to contraception, pregnancy…

Strange Talks and Curious News

A wide-ranging miscellany of curious anecdotes, humorous correspondence, advice exchanges, relationship and sexual questions, dream interpretation, odd news, and illustrated comic scenes. The section also includes recreational features such as shogi problems, riddles, puzzles,…

The Fallen Diseased Leaf

Suzuki Michi

An illustrated melodramatic narrative follows Yasuko, a young woman whose relationships, marriage, economic hardship, and encounters with predatory or unreliable men lead her through emotional and sexual exploitation. The story presents her shifting attempts…

God of Lust

Tsukiya Shizushi

An illustrated erotic fiction serial centers on Abudora, Imam, and their associates as jealousy, marital suspicion, deception, and sexual rivalry intensify through clandestine encounters. The narrative uses comic dialogue and sensational scenes to explore…

Mermaid Manufacturing Den

Satomi Teruharu

A sensational pulp mystery set in Kobe follows a narrator who encounters a series of uncanny locations and criminal enterprises, including a green-lit house, a factory producing grotesque animals, and a secret workshop associated…

Erotic Hell

Kyōmachi Shinya

A sensational crime narrative centered on abduction, sexual violence, captivity, and escape, presented in the lurid style of mid-century erotic true-crime fiction. The page also includes a boxed anecdote about a woman’s chastity belt,…

The Truth About Temple Commerce: Osaka's Back Streets Swirling with Money and Sex

Tsuda Mikio

An investigative report on Osaka’s temple-district back streets, describing the entanglement of sexual commerce, installment schemes, dubious lending, fake real-estate and marriage introductions, and other forms of financial exploitation. Through reported cases and dialogues,…

Three Tales of Dramatic Medicine

Suyama Tōru

A feature on three dangerous or sensational drugs associated with postwar pleasure culture: illicit Hiropon (methamphetamine), Adorm sleeping pills and overdose or suicide attempts, and purported aphrodisiac products. The article combines reported incidents with…

The Slothful Robber Appears

Arai Yata

An illustrated comic sketch depicts a would-be robber confronting a woman in the street, with the encounter unfolding through exaggerated dialogue and slapstick reversals. The piece treats attempted robbery as humorous social satire rather…

A Discussion of Male and Female Pickpockets

Murano Shōji

A nonfiction-style discussion examines male and female pickpockets in postwar Osaka, including estimates of criminal activity, gang organization, common targets, stealing techniques, and the changing economic conditions of the trade. It also uses reported…

The Prostitute in the Cave

Hinata Michio

A wartime fiction set amid the fighting in Okinawa, where a Japanese soldier encounters a woman sheltering in a cave. Their tense, intimate exchange unfolds against bombardment, hunger, displacement, and the brutal collapse of…

The Strange Tale of the Man Who Drinks a Lady's Urine

Kida River Haruo

A grotesque short story about a man whose illness and unconventional treatment become entangled with his fixation on drinking a woman’s urine. The narrative presents urine drinking through a mixture of erotic fetishism, medical…

A Collection of Japanese Erotic Tales

An anthology of short Japanese erotic tales combining marital and adulterous encounters with folklore, supernatural transformations, religious transgression, and tragic or violent consequences. The stories are framed as sensational historical and popular narratives rather…

The Noblewoman Who Toys with a Virgin

Kitagawa Haruo

An erotic fiction narrative centered on a socially superior woman who seduces and exercises power over an inexperienced young man. The illustrated story emphasizes sexual initiation, class hierarchy, manipulation, and the atmosphere of nighttime…

Nighttime Street Slashing

Asaka Kōsaku

A dramatic period tale about a nighttime sword attack at a bridge, followed by pursuit and combat between samurai figures. The narrative emphasizes suspense, ambush, and martial confrontation in a historical setting.

The Sorrow of Consanguineous Marriage

A case-style narrative about a family formed through prohibited close-kin relationships and the tragic consequences for several children. It discusses hereditary abnormality, including albinism, alongside sexualized illustrated scenes and moral reflections on incest and…

Office Romance

An erotic office-romance narrative about flirtation, jealousy, and sexual tension among coworkers, including an attempted reconciliation and a forgotten handbag that helps drive the encounter. The story presents workplace intimacy as a setting for…

Rendezvous Kitan

An erotic short story depicting a chance nighttime encounter that develops into a fleeting sexual relationship, followed by emotional uncertainty and separation. The narrative emphasizes transient desire, seduction, and the melancholy aftermath of an…

Behind the Flower-and-Willow World: The Female Beggar of Gōri Shinchi

Oka Yasuko

A social-realist account of a female beggar living around Gōri Shinchi, tracing how a woman associated with beauty and respectable origins came to poverty and street begging. The article reflects on her family circumstances,…

We Are Shoe Shiners

Ayabe Yukio

A colloquial first-person-style account of street shoe shiners, describing their work, customers, tools, earnings, and precarious everyday lives. The piece gives voice to working-class youth and emphasizes the hardships and social marginality of informal…

Courtship Techniques

Tsugimura Shinzō

A practical, sometimes humorous guide to winning the attention of unfamiliar women and developing romantic intimacy. It discusses grooming and appearance, conversation, social behavior, timing, psychological tactics, and general rules for courtship.

Secrets of an Affair

An erotic first-person narrative about clandestine affairs and sexual encounters, presenting secret meetings, seduction, and escalating sexual experimentation through sensational prose and accompanying illustrations. The feature combines confessional storytelling with motifs of secrecy, erotic…

Love Spy: The Secret of the Sulfuric-Acid Affair

Hara Kōtarō

A sensational Love Spy mystery follows an investigation into a dangerous sulfuric-acid-related affair, involving concealed violence, threatened women, deception, and pursuit. The narrative uses melodramatic dialogue and lurid illustrations to develop its crime-and-romance intrigue.

The Strange Women of Umeda

Kuroe Ushio

A serialized pulp narrative about the “strange women of Umeda” follows encounters among urban women, male patrons, nightlife venues, rented rooms, and domestic spaces. Episodes portray seduction, sexual bargaining, jealousy, coercion, physical confrontation, and…

The Female Students' Private Punishment: Female Students Who Toy with the Body

Kataya Kaoru

An erotic narrative about a female university student whose sexual experimentation unfolds among classmates, dormitory acquaintances, and men in urban leisure spaces. The story emphasizes voyeurism, same-sex encounters, coercive sexual play, humiliation, and the…

The Vagabond's Love: From Eight at Night to Nine in the Morning in the City's Entertainment District

Akano Yumihiko

An erotic urban adventure following the drifter Kame through Osaka’s entertainment districts, lodging houses, and marginal work settings from evening into the following morning. His encounters with women, including O-Kinu and other entertainers, combine…

Five Women on an Autumn Evening

Miyanishi Hisao

An erotic episodic fiction follows a male narrator through Osaka on an autumn night as he encounters several women in cafés, entertainment districts, and temporary lodgings. Its successive episodes portray seduction, sexual negotiation, commercial…

The Captured Illegal Entrant

Kaidō Sanjirō

This narrative recounts the clandestine voyage of Korean man Li Hyeon-yang and fellow travelers who attempt to enter postwar Japan by boat, evade detection, and find shelter among sympathizers. Their eventual capture and interrogation…

Guide to Amorous Affairs, Part Three

Tsukiya Shizushi

The third installment of a comic erotic serial follows Dora, Ari, Musukita, and their associates through jealous confrontations, disguises, stolen jewelry, and attempted escapes. Its episodic dialogue and illustrations mix sexual intrigue with farcical…

The Value of Five Hundred Yen

Hoshi Yumeji

An erotic comic story examines the meaning of a five-hundred-yen payment within a troubled marriage and its surrounding romantic entanglements. Money, jewelry, household finances, and sexual relationships become intertwined as the characters negotiate desire,…

Temptation in a Hundred Forms: Men Who Prey on Young Women's Bodies

Tsumura Shinzō

A journalistic account of men who lure and exploit young women through employment offers, promises of secretarial or acting careers, and financial assistance. The cases portray sexual coercion, economic vulnerability, and the women’s descent…

These Things Happen Too: A Woman Who Wagered Her Body

A brief cautionary vignette about a gambling-house game in which money is wagered and, when funds run out, a woman’s body becomes the stake. It presents gambling as a setting for humiliation, sexual commodification,…

What Exposes the Reality of Popular Writers

Masked Writer

A critical essay examines the gap between the public reputations of popular writers and their private conduct, working habits, ambitions, financial arrangements, and dependence on publishers and literary fame. It satirically contrasts celebrated literary…

False Policemen on the Rampage

Nagami Ryūji

A social-satirical story portrays impostors posing as police or detectives, stopping students, couples, travelers, and villagers while exploiting their supposed authority for money, food, and personal advantage. Through comic dialogue and illustrations, it exposes…

Regional Strange Tale: Wedding Ceremony and the Stone Jizō

Hanamoto Shirō

A regional strange tale follows a troubled married couple whose childlessness, infidelity, and hopes for a child become entangled with a stone Jizō and other uncanny events. The story blends domestic sexual anxiety with…

Erotic Department Store: Dangerous Pictures and Shunga

An illustrated miscellany on erotic culture discusses provocative sexual situations and imagery, including department-store encounters, erotic curiosities, and modern sexual behavior. It then turns to shunga and related erotic pictures, considering their artistic conventions,…

Modern Tales of Erotic Monsters: Opening a Badger Game

Kasagi Yoshio

A comic-erotic supernatural tale follows the hapless 留吉 and his encounters with 菊三, women, and fox- or badger-like apparitions. Across episodes involving grotesque bodily transformations, illicit desire, deception, and a climactic “fox dance,” the…

The Fruit of an Illicit Love: Confession of an Attempted Lovers' Suicide

Mibe Mamoru

A first-person confession recounts an illicit romantic relationship that develops amid domestic and family tensions, culminating in an attempted lovers’ suicide and its emotional consequences. The piece is framed as melodramatic testimony about forbidden…

Honmoku: A Woman's Guide to the Ways of Love

Fujiwara Mitsuo

A sensational first-person account of a troubled love affair unfolds through clandestine meetings, jealousy, separation, and escalating violence involving a woman and a firearm. The piece presents romantic desire and betrayal in a dramatic,…

Strange True Story: The Woman Who Cooked at a Laborers' Camp

Itō Akimitsu

A sensational “true story” recounts the arrival of a woman hired to cook at a remote laborers’ construction camp, where the male workers’ attention turns into coercive sexual pursuit and violence. The narrative depicts…

Statement of a Suspicious Man at the Police Station on an Autumn Night

Konohana Daisuke

A suspense fiction piece framed as the statement of a suspicious man questioned at a police station. His account of a night involving jealousy, confrontations, violence, and a mysterious death gradually reveals the disturbing…

The Naked Dancer Arabesque

Tomino Hajime

An illustrated feature describing the stage performance and physical presentation of the nude dancer Arabesque. It focuses on striptease-style spectacle, the dancer’s movements and costume exposure, and the reactions of viewers to her erotic…

The Pillow Book: The Morning After Sleeping with a Woman

Sei Shōnagon

A literary vignette from Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book reflects on the dawn and morning-after encounter following a night spent with a woman. The passage dwells on clothing, appearance, atmosphere, and the emotional uncertainty surrounding…

The Bathhouse Girl Peeks into the Men's Bath

Nishihara Tsuyako

A humorous erotic tale set in a modest bathhouse follows the bathhouse attendant’s daughter as she secretly peeks into the men’s bathing area and becomes entangled in the resulting flirtation and sexual intrigue. Its…

Female Knight-Errant on the Road

Ryokumō Hiko

An erotic adventure narrative follows a female wanderer moving through a succession of encounters with men, including deception, coercion, sexual bargaining, and episodes of captivity or rescue. The story combines chivalric-travel conventions with sensational…

Collection of Sexual Perversions

Akashi Sanpei

A collection of humorous and sensational erotic anecdotes presents unconventional sexual behavior through short narrative episodes, editorial dialogue, and accompanying cartoon illustrations. The feature ranges across fetishistic interests, voyeuristic situations, sexual experimentation, and anxieties…

Aozora Haruko's Exploit: The Angel's Crime

Sugiyama Kiyoshi

A sensational serialized crime narrative about nurse Aozora Haruko, whose relationships and movements become entangled in a murder investigation involving a hospital, conflicting testimony, and forensic clues. The story unfolds through interrogation-style dialogue, police…

Secret History of Japan's Opening: Consul Harris and Okichi

Umikawa Eiji

A historical-romantic account of Townsend Harris’s role in the opening of Japan and his relationship with Okichi, presented as a dramatic secret history. The narrative emphasizes diplomatic tensions, cultural encounter, sexual politics, and the…

The Lover of Mrs. Chakkari

Akashi Sanpei

A humorous seven-panel comic in which an eager male admirer performs increasingly servile tasks for Mrs. Chakkari in hopes of winning her favor, only to be manipulated and dismissed. The feature uses romantic pursuit…

The Company President Who Became the Seed of a Novel

Yamamoto Sakae

A confessional-style narrative about a married working woman whose company president makes unwanted advances and attempts to draw her into an affair through gifts, money, special treatment, and workplace pressure. She ultimately resists the…

Pillow Talk in a Haunted House

Hyogo Ippei

A newlywed couple exchange intimate pillow talk while recounting unsettling experiences connected with a haunted house. Their conversation blends domestic sexuality, marital teasing, and a progressively eerie supernatural tale involving strange sounds, apparitions, and…

The Tooth of Desire

Sasaki Kurumanao

An erotic melodrama unfolds through conversations involving Madame, Arita, and the sisters Yayoi and Akiyo. Past relationships, deception, jealousy, and unresolved desire surface as the characters confront romantic betrayal and the damaging rivalry between…

The Poor Rich Man

Tsujimura Enezaburo

A comic picaresque narrative about a man caught between poverty and sudden access to money. His earnings are spent on conspicuous clothing, food, drinking, gambling, women, and questionable schemes, creating a satirical portrait of…

North Korea and Siberia Prisoner Wanderings: Exhibitionism at the Latrine

Anabuki Takeshi

A grotesque, comic account combining wartime prisoner wandering in North Korea and Siberia with an episode of compulsive public exposure in a latrine. The piece uses captivity, bodily degradation, scatological humor, and exhibitionism as…

Boogie-Woogie in the Amusement Quarter

Kado Kotaro

A comic, episodic narrative set in the amusement quarters, where opportunistic characters turn found objects, fortune-telling, bogus photographs and paintings, and other street entertainments into scams. The illustrated sketches present nightlife hustling through caricature,…

Song of Bodily Sorrow

Aiyama Hisashi

A sensational, first-person-style illustrated confession about a pro baseball celebrity and a movie star whose relationship becomes entangled with marriage, jealousy, sexual desire, illness, and emotional collapse. The narrative treats celebrity romance as a…

Young Swallow Tactics: I Was Juggling Four at Once

Teramoto Akira

A first-person account of an unemployed man who develops a calculated method for courting and financially relying on several women simultaneously. The narrative presents overlapping romantic relationships, gifts, money, and social maneuvering as an…

Strategy for Capturing an Idle Madam: How I Won a Beautiful Widow

Saotome Akira

A first-person story about Ryota, a young man who uses a classified advertisement and his supposed judo or boxing abilities to enter the household of an affluent widow. Through charm, persistence, and calculated attentiveness,…

Awakening of the Female Body: An Old Maid Falls

Arisawa Aro

An erotic narrative follows an unmarried older woman whose dormant sexuality is awakened through the calculated attentions of an experienced man. The story explores her vulnerability, desire, and eventual surrender to seduction.

A Guide to the Art of Love: An Episode of Bedroom Play

Hanaki Minoru

An erotic relationship narrative framed around marital boredom and misunderstanding depicts a husband and wife discussing sexual dissatisfaction and rediscovering intimacy through experimentation and attentive lovemaking. The text combines bedroom advice with explicit fictional…

The Woman in the Movie Theater

Tomita Shinji

A first-person comic tale about a man who encounters an alluring woman at a Kyoto movie theater and becomes entangled in her calculated flirtation. As he follows her through the station and city, his…

Pure-Hearted Tactics: What's Inside the Handbag?

Kojima Shinichi

A fictional romantic episode in which a seemingly innocent woman and a nervous salaryman negotiate attraction, money, and trust through a series of encounters. The handbag becomes a recurring object of suspicion and concealment…

Secret Method for Breaking Through the Period of Marital Boredom: The Surprise Tactic That Worked

Tsubaki Akihiko

A marital-advice narrative about a husband who becomes alarmed by his wife’s changed behavior during their period of boredom and hires a private detective to investigate. The inquiry, misunderstandings, and emotional confrontation ultimately serve…

The Distance of the Body

Naoki Ryunosuke

A fictional domestic drama portraying the growing emotional and physical distance between husband and wife, Akiko and her husband. Suspicion, sexual frustration, wounded pride, and escalating quarrels expose the fragility of their marriage and…

The Adolescent Girl

Hirai Kyosuke

A psychologically charged fiction about an adolescent girl whose fascination with romantic film scenes awakens confused desires and fantasies. The narrative moves between ordinary domestic life, cinematic imagery, and dreamlike experiences as she struggles…

The Adulterous Husband Was Alive

Kasagi Yoshio

A suspenseful family melodrama in which suspicion of an adulterous relationship spreads through a household and provokes jealousy, deception, and confrontation. The story escalates from secretive domestic encounters to physical violence, bloodshed, and a…

The Man Who Crawled Out from Beneath the Stage

A comic erotic tale about a man who hides beneath a bed while evading discovery in a volatile household, then attempts to escape when the danger seems to have passed. The story relies on…

One Hundred Curious Tales of Urban Licentiousness

Shinji Kanro

A serialized collection of brief, humorous erotic anecdotes presented as “curious tales” of urban licentiousness. Through comic dialogue and exaggerated situations, the stories depict infidelity, sexual misadventure, marital conflict, flirtation, and other forms of…

Pink Apartment Kaleidoscope

Yakusa Kyosuke

A comic-erotic series of vignettes set among the residents of a postwar apartment building. Interwoven episodes depict flirtation, adultery, sexual misunderstandings, domestic quarrels, and the eccentric behavior of men and women living in close…

The Story of an Ape That Fathered a Human Child

Natsuhara Tsuneo

A first-person mountain adventure and curious tale about an encounter with a powerful ape in an isolated rural setting. The account develops into the sensational claim that the ape had sexual relations with a…

Favorite Variety, Part 1: The Bear's Paw

Isshotei Shujin

The first installment of a comic erotic serial follows the sexually dissatisfied and adventurous Hisako, her husband Nobuo, and a series of rural male acquaintances, including the figure known as Bear Grandpa. Illustrated episodes…

Favorite Variety, Part 2: Madame Skunk

Isshotei Shujin

The second installment introduces the character Madame Skunk in a voyeuristic, grotesquely comic erotic episode. The narrative and accompanying illustration focus on sexualized bodily display, clandestine observation, and the character’s provocative behavior.

House of the Lustful Bhikkhuni

Midori Sumariyuki

An Edo-period erotic adventure follows the resourceful 金平 as he pursues encounters with women connected to pleasure quarters, households, and theatrical or elite circles. The serialized narrative combines disguise, pursuit, jealousy, violence, and sexual…

Night-Blooming Flowers: Erotic Story Collection

A collection of erotic stories depicting dancers, entertainers, mistresses, and other women whose intimate lives are shaped by money, contracts, patrons, infidelity, and exploitation. The episodes emphasize backstage and domestic encounters, sexual performance, emotional…

The Completely Naked Charred Corpse

A mystery investigation centers on the completely naked, charred body of a young woman discovered after a lodging-house fire. Through witness questioning, scene reconstruction, and autopsy clues, investigators challenge the apparent suicide explanation and…

The Bride's Sexual Modesty

Yoshinobu Takashi

This comparative essay examines sexual modesty among brides, focusing on embarrassment, resistance, and expectations surrounding marriage and the wedding night. It surveys differing customs and attitudes toward female sexuality across communities, including examples from…