The Song of the Painted Signboard

Itō Seiu

An illustrated essay surveys painted signboards used to advertise kabuki, popular theater, and cinema in Meiji- and early Shōwa-era Japan. It contrasts Tokyo and Osaka traditions, discusses signboard painters and their techniques, and laments…

The Quagmire of Pleasurable Abuse

Kita Reiko

This illustrated first-person erotic narrative portrays a woman drawn into a destructive cycle of sexual domination, infidelity, financial dependence, and emotional manipulation involving several partners. Its scenes and dialogue emphasize restraint, humiliation, coercive sexuality,…

My Confession: The Severed Chapter, Part Four

Sudō Tsuneo

An autobiographical confession about bodily anxiety, self-administered treatments, erotic obsessions, and the pursuit of unusual forms of sexual pleasure. The later pages develop a sadistic and masochistic fantasy of sexual control, pain, and staged…

Interrogation in the Criminal Investigation Room

Mitani Yōsuke

A fictionalized criminal-investigation narrative depicts police interrogations in which suspects and witnesses are pressured, threatened, and physically abused while officers pursue murder and robbery cases. The article critiques coercive policing, unreliable confessions, and the…

The Self-Portrait of Punishment

Himenomiya Shirō

A memoir of Japanese women in wartime Shanghai, describing terrorism, insecurity, military and police surveillance, and the vulnerability of expatriate civilians. It recounts separate cases involving a Japanese waitress and a married woman, emphasizing…

Secret Manual of Shudō

Chiaki Katsumi

A historical and literary examination of shudō reconstructs male-male erotic customs through classical and Edo-period writings, discussing terminology, courtship, sexual practices, relationships, and social conventions. The essay also considers how male same-sex culture was…

Women’s Ordeal

Koshino Yoshio

A detailed account of Japanese women subjected to abduction, confinement, intimidation, and sexual violence in Shanghai. Presented through survivor testimony, the article follows several women’s encounters with groups of men, their attempts to resist…

The Woman I Tied

Masutomi Jihei

A fictional first-person crime narrative follows a repeat burglar who abducts and binds women during break-ins, reflecting on his motives, encounters with victims, and escalating violence. The story presents his eventual apprehension, imprisonment, release,…

Amphibious Animal, Part One: A Tale of Male Love

Okada Mashirō; illustrations by Kiuchi Kōji

The first part of a literary tale follows Mukoyama, a married company employee whose concealed attraction to men leads him into relationships marked by secrecy, longing, jealousy, and social risk. Set amid urban parks,…

Male-Colored Apartment

Shima Yukio

An illustrated erotic fiction serial set in a Ginza apartment inhabited by men whose relationships, dress, mannerisms, and sexual identities challenge conventional gender roles. The newcomer Jiro is drawn into the apartment’s theatrical, sexually…

Why Do I Draw Punishment Pictures?

Minamikawa Kazuko

In this autobiographical essay, Minamikawa Kazuko recounts wartime experiences in North Borneo, including military occupation, imprisonment, invasive examinations, and sexualized violence, and connects these memories to her practice of drawing punishment and torture scenes.…

From a Masochist’s Notebook, Part Four

Numa Shōzō

An essayistic installment examining masochism through female authority, erotic punishment, bondage, whipping, and related fantasies. It combines personal and literary examples with discussion of Japanese and foreign terminology, the history of corporal punishment, and…

The Distorted Bedroom

Takeno Tōsuke

A psychologically charged erotic fiction piece about a painter whose troubled marriage is complicated by jealousy, infidelity, sexual dissatisfaction, and his wife’s relationships with other men. The narrative uses confession, confrontation, and shifting emotional…

Reiko’s Twelve Months

Kita Reiko

The opening installment of Reiko’s twelve-month erotic series, centered on a moon-themed encounter in which Reiko is placed in a vulnerable, restrained setting and subjected to sexualized attention. The illustrated feature combines seasonal imagery,…

Tsuruya Nanboku

Masaoka Iruru

A biographical and critical account of the Edo-period kabuki playwright Tsuruya Nanboku IV, focusing on his career, theatrical works, and reputation for grotesque, uncanny, and sensational dramatic effects. Anecdotes and illustrations contextualize Nanboku’s distinctive…

A Woman’s Experience in an Orphanage

Nonomura Yukio

A first-person autobiographical account tracing the author’s masochistic imagination to childhood experiences of poverty, parental violence, humiliation, and bodily restraint. Recollections of beatings, binding, forced exposure, and later eroticized memories are accompanied by visual…

Kyōko’s Life and Opinions

Hamura Kyōko

An autobiographical essay in which Kyōko reflects on her marriage, sexuality, bodily experiences, pregnancy, and changing self-image. She discusses unconventional sexual practices, bodily control and experimentation, artistic and literary representations of women, and the…

Corpses at Execution Sites

Hagiwara Hideo

An illustrated forensic study of corpses found at execution or violent-crime scenes, combining case descriptions, photographs, and discussion of wounds, body position, blood, clothing, and other physical evidence. It also explains postmortem phenomena such…

Foul-Smelling Hell

Kitahara Midori

A first-person erotic narrative portrays a woman’s degrading encounters in a household or workplace where foul odors, dirty clothing, bodily fluids, and forced bathing-room chores become instruments of sexual humiliation. The accompanying illustrations reinforce…

Readers’ Exchange and Notices

A reader-facing notices and listings section combining agency information with announcements of photographic collections, special selections, and recent or forthcoming magazine contents. It functions as a circulation and community guide for readers interested in…

Bondage Photograph Collection

A four-part photographic collage titled “A Parade of the Beauty of Bondage,” presenting numerous staged images of people restrained with ropes, garments, and furniture in varied indoor poses. The feature emphasizes visual variety and…

Lesbos Correspondence

Sonomura Keiko

A Lesbos correspondence feature presents a woman’s account of developing same-sex desires amid a troubled family background and socially constrained romantic life. The exchange treats female homosexuality as a private but communicative community concern,…

Reader Correspondence

A reader-facing index of recent Kitan Club issues, listing article and photographic-feature titles alongside contributors and translators. It functions primarily as magazine navigation and an overview of the publication’s serialized and recurring content.

White-Powder Hell

Nakagawa Hideo

A first-person erotic narrative about an isolated young man whose encounters with Eiko develop into coercive bondage, beatings, and other forms of sadomasochistic abuse. The story combines adolescent sexual awakening with escalating domination and…

Grabbing Torture and Buttock Beating

Ōtsuki Kuraji

An illustrated sexological discussion of “grabbing” and beating the buttocks as erotic practices. It describes purported physiological and psychological effects, variations in technique, and anecdotal examples involving couples, with photographic and illustrative demonstrations.

The Confession of Happy Servitude

Yoshino Mayumi

A first-person erotic confession recounting a woman’s experiences of willing submission, bondage, humiliation, and physical domination in relationships with men. The narrative presents servitude and pain as intertwined with desire, emotional dependence, shame, and…

Cryptogamic Plants

Aiso Hideo

A narrative case-style account of two women whose relationship involves gendered clothing, disguise, intimate contact, and developing same-sex desire. The article frames such concealed relationships as “cryptogamic plants,” emphasizing secrecy, social concealment, and the…

Love and Hatred

Horikoshi Fujiko

This installment of the erotic serial follows Sayuri and the people around Murayama, Matsue, Kifune, and Yusaku as jealousy, deception, money, and pearl jewelry drive shifting alliances. The narrative culminates in scenes of captivity…

Sorrowful Masochism

Koba Yoshiko

An illustrated memoir and case-style account of a young woman’s masochistic sexual fantasies, including recurrent desires for restraint, humiliation, and imagined violent encounters with men. The article combines narrative testimony with staged photographs and…

The Great Kantō Earthquake

Yokosawa Suke

A richly illustrated, dramatic account of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake follows the moment of the shock, the spread of fires across Tokyo and Yokohama, collapsing buildings, and the experiences of survivors. It combines…

Fire, Part Nine

Matsui Kōko

The ninth installment of a Japanese erotic-romantic serial follows Yūsaku and Kunihiko as they question one another about a mysterious woman, a business card, and suspected intimate connections. The dialogue emphasizes jealousy, concealed relationships,…

The Princess’s Nenbutsu Sermon

Hiki Kyōichirō

A fictional period tale follows a princess and her attendants traveling through the rain-soaked Kiso mountains, where they encounter a roadside teahouse, villagers, and a gang of mountain bandits. The ensuing confrontation emphasizes coercion,…

The Sweet Surrender of Alice, Part Two

translated by Samukawa Midori

The second installment of a translated erotic serial depicting Alice’s escalating submission to a dominant partner through coercive commands, restraint, and ritualized humiliation. The narrative emphasizes psychological surrender and the eroticization of bondage and…

A Perverse Chronicle of Customs

Nakano Eizō

This historical customs essay surveys practices surrounding infanticide, abortion, child abandonment, and attempts to prevent or terminate pregnancy, drawing on older Japanese examples and changing social attitudes. It discusses methods involving exposure, drowning, drugs,…

Morning Glory of the Eastern Land: The Ōtō Rebellion and the Shinpūren

Nasu Fujio; illustrations by Mori Yorio

A historical fiction serial centered on the Ōtō Rebellion and the Shinpūren, combining samurai-era conflict with scenes of domestic tension, travel, and village life. The installment uses dramatic dialogue and illustrated episodes to evoke…

A Roundtable of Women Who Were Bound

chaired by Kawabata Tanako

A women-only roundtable, chaired by Kawabata Tanako, in which several participants discuss their experiences of being bound, including rope techniques, bodily sensations, pain, posture, endurance, and emotional responses. The conversation also considers bondage modeling,…

Love Slave, Part Nine

Kitō Kōichirō

The ninth installment of a melodramatic erotic serial centered on Harumi and several men entangled in affairs, deception, financial schemes, confinement, and violent confrontations. The narrative unfolds through extended dialogue and shifting revelations about…

Publication Notices and Advertisements

A cluster of publication and reader-service notices, including subscription and back-issue information, reader recruitment, editorial policies, manuscript-submission instructions, and publisher details. The notices also promote reader participation and explain changes to the magazine’s distribution…

Mansfield Picture Gallery

A picture-gallery feature presenting a series of Mansfield illustrations and photographs depicting sadomasochistic tableaux, including whipping, bondage, female domination, male submission, outdoor scenes, and theatricalized punishment. Captions frame the images as examples of erotic…

A Woman Pierced by Needles

Minamikawa Kazuko

A page of erotic illustrations depicts nude women subjected to elaborate rope bindings and needle piercing in varied poses. The accompanying Japanese title identifies the feature as “A Woman Pierced by Needles,” by Minamikawa…

Historical Punishment Scene

A historical-style erotic punishment illustration shows a nude figure bound and suspended upside down inside a rustic interior, alongside an older man and another prone figure near a brazier. Its period visual style and…

Erotic Female-Body Hell Illustrations

Itō Seiu; commentary by Murata Seiichi

An illustrated feature on Itō Seiu’s prewar “female-body hell” imagery, with commentary by Murata Seiichi. The drawings present women in eroticized scenes of rope restraint, bodily exposure, disheveled hair, and anguish, while discussing Seiu’s…

Wounded Man

Kitahara Rin

Kitahara Rin’s illustrated feature “Wounded Man” depicts eroticized scenes of a restrained and distressed man, including overhead binding and a dominant female partner. The imagery emphasizes male vulnerability, physical restraint, and staged sadomasochistic drama.

The Dying White Swan

Tsuzuki Mineko

An illustrated erotic narrative in which a ballet student’s relationship with her teacher develops into escalating coercion, rope bondage, painful positioning, and suspension. Told in the first person, the story emphasizes fear, helplessness, bodily…

Insect Fantasy: A Collection of Yōkai Illustrations

Nakagawa Ayako

A collection of Ayako Nakagawa’s erotic illustrations depicts women bound, threatened, or overwhelmed by fantastical insects and yōkai-like creatures. The accompanying commentary emphasizes the imaginative compositions and the tension between realistic female bodies and…

Tormented Skin

A photographic feature presents staged scenes of women subjected to rope bondage and physical torment, including restraint with rough rope, insect imagery, and other sadistic tableaux. The accompanying text frames these photographs as stylized,…

At an Outdoor Punishment Ground

composition by Tsujimura Takashi; photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A photographic outdoor bondage feature documents model Murata Namiko being tied and posed in a forest setting for a staged punishment scenario. The accompanying production account describes location scouting, weather, equipment, repeated takes, and…

Fantasy of Abuse

Ōya Reiko

A stylized erotic illustration visualizes an imagined scene of abuse: a woman is shown in a contorted, restrained pose amid looming shadowy hands and figures. The composition emphasizes helplessness, threat, and the fantasy of…

Men Who Attack and Women Who Are Attacked

An illustrated visual essay surveys Western artworks depicting men attacking or sexually violating women, including works attributed to Rubens and Adriaen van der Werff. It presents coercive sexual imagery as a recurring subject in…

Gymnasium Warehouse

Kawamura Tetsuo; illustrations by Taki Reiko

A film scenario set in a school gymnasium warehouse, where a group of male students abduct, restrain, strip, and humiliate the student Eiko while staging photographic and theatrical scenes of coercion. The illustrated sequence…

Slave Festival

D. B. Anrera; translated by Miyake Ichirō

A translated erotic story in which Ascott and Chippers turn gambling and wagers into a contest of sexual domination, involving the coercive undressing, binding, humiliation, and abuse of women. The narrative escalates through rivalries,…

Modern Sadism

Kuruki Sakae

An extended essay examining modern sadism through personal recollection, sexual psychology, social conditioning, wartime and postwar experience, and the relationship between abnormal sexuality and contemporary society. It also discusses historical torture and execution methods…

Research into Hatsuhana Village

Murata Seiichi

A historical and practical study of the “Hatsuhana Branch,” a bamboo bondage apparatus described in older erotic and miscellany sources. The article discusses its purported construction, dimensions, tying method, and use in restraining the…

New Styles of Torture

Kita Reiko

Kita Reiko’s illustrated feature surveys imagined “new styles” of erotic torture, combining commentary on changing tastes with scenes of women subjected to rope binding, positional restraint, electrical devices, medical procedures, and disciplinary stripping. The…

My Memories

Okada Sakiko; illustrations by Hidawaki Kaoru

A first-person erotic reminiscence set around a girls’ school swimming-club camp, where the narrator is pursued, captured, stripped, tied, and subjected to prolonged teasing and punishment by a female-led group. Illustrated scenes accompany the…

The Lady Who Sees Horses

Hinatsu Yukio

A serialized erotic narrative about a married couple whose visit to a ranch exposes the wife’s intense fascination with horses. The husband’s curiosity, jealousy, and attempts to understand or direct her desires unfold through…

The Temptation of Sacred Paintings

Chikami Reiko

An illustrated erotic fiction follows 麻夜子 and 恵一郎 through encounters shaped by cinema, voyeuristic fantasy, seduction, coercion, and escalating physical restraint. Religious and “sacred painting” imagery frames the story’s atmosphere of forbidden desire, domination,…

My Clothes, Bound Clothes

A first-person confession describes designing and wearing clothing intended to bind the body, then experimenting with ropes, restrictive garments, and bodily exposure with the narrator’s husband. The piece presents clothing as a fetish object…

Buttock Fetishism

Yui Keiji

Yui Keiji’s essay examines an intense erotic fixation on women’s buttocks through personal recollections, observations of clothing and movement, beach encounters, cinema, and imagined scenes. It combines anecdotal testimony with reflections on the psychology,…

Love Slave, Part Ten

Kitō Kōichirō

The tenth installment of a serialized erotic narrative follows a man entangled with Harumi and her husband or rival, as past romantic rivalries, money disputes, betrayal, and revenge develop into coercive sexual domination. The…

San’yūtei Enchō

Masaoka Iruru

A literary discussion of rakugo master San’yūtei Enchō and his grotesque, supernatural narratives, including tales of murder, vengeful spirits, illicit desire, and tragic domestic relationships. The article surveys characteristic plots and figures from Enchō’s…

In Reply to the Hymn to Ars

Hamura Kyōko

A first-person confession recounts an unhappy marriage, escalating sadistic and bondage episodes, escape and subsequent sexual relationships. The narrative also turns toward reflections on anal sexuality, bodily shame, and the tension between degradation and…

Sadism in the Bedchamber of Love

Kageura Ken

A serialized erotic essay examining sadism within romantic and sexual relationships through scenes of domination, coercion, bodily control, and punishment. It considers the psychological dynamics of sadistic and submissive partners while presenting dramatized bedroom…

Amphibious Animal, Part Two: A Tale of Male Love

Okada Mashirō

A correspondent responds to an earlier “hymn to Ars,” combining autobiographical sexual confession with discussion of anal pleasure, enemas, bodily experimentation, and sexual psychology. The piece also includes editorial correspondence and playful commentary on…

A Sodomite’s Wanderings

Takigawa Tetsuo

A first-person autobiographical account of a male narrator’s wandering life and same-sex relationships in postwar Japan. The narrative recalls encounters with male lovers, work and poverty, gay bars and social marginality, presenting personal desire…

A Solitary Wanderer’s Record

Komiya Kiyoshi

A sustained essay defending women’s wearing of trousers, especially slacks, against claims that the fashion represents masculinization or social decline. It examines the history and terminology of women’s trousers, changing postwar fashion, gender hierarchy,…

A Strange Confession

Mizukami Ryūtarō

A first-person confessional account tracing formative childhood experiences, bodily and sexual development, and later masochistic or abusive erotic encounters. The narrative combines autobiographical recollection with scenes of coercion, humiliation, dependency, and eroticized violence.

How a Woman Loses the Power to Resist When Bound

Itō Seiu

An illustrated essay examining how binding allegedly diminishes a woman’s physical and psychological capacity to resist. It combines sexual-psychological speculation, historical and anecdotal examples, descriptions of restraint methods, and staged bondage scenes to present…

The Binding Curse: From the Nishida Kotoe Fatal-Injury Investigation

Tsujimura Takashi

A sensational investigative account presented as excerpts from Nishida Eiji’s second police statement concerning the fatal abuse of his wife, Kotoe. The testimony describes escalating marital cruelty, rope bondage, gagging, forced nudity and positional…

Various Implements Used in Torture

Hosoya Masako

An illustrated survey of implements used in eroticized torture and “torment,” including ropes, gags, straps, and striking tools. The text describes their applications and presumed bodily or sensory effects, while the accompanying drawings depict…

Four Scenes of Abnormal Sadistic Abuse

Hitomi Kenjirō

A four-part erotic narrative depicts sadistic encounters involving coercion, restraint, humiliation, and the submission of women within domestic and interpersonal settings. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the staged scenes of bondage and abuse.

Spider and Butterflies

Tobita Ryōji

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows Rie, an aspiring actress drawn into a photography and film operation that exploits her ambitions through staged bondage, sexualized costuming, and coercive scenes. The story develops a predatory…

Sadistic Sexual Play

Naka Michirō

An essay on sadistic sexual play examines sadist and masochist identities, their psychological motivations, and forms of erotic experimentation, including tattooing and other bodily practices. Anecdotal cases and visual material frame the discussion within…

Reiko’s Twelve Months: Chrysanthemum

Kita Reiko

An illustrated erotic narrative from the “Reiko’s Twelve Months” series, depicting Reiko subjected to elaborate rope binding, humiliation, and coercive treatment by male figures. The accompanying prose presents the scene as serialized SM fiction.

A Record of Love and Bondage

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A first-person confession recounts a man’s lifelong fixation on women’s waists, beginning with childhood memories and developing into an obsessive adult pursuit involving clothing, scent, photography, and the binding or wrapping of women’s bodies.…

Private Punishment and Torture in the Yoshiwara

Fukada Tōru

A historical essay examining private punishment and torture in the Yoshiwara pleasure district, with emphasis on Edo-period practices used against prostitutes and other women. It surveys restraint, corporal punishment, abuse, and the social and…

A Curious Confession of Sadism

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A narrative confession centered on male sexual desire and encounters in postwar Tokyo, including nightlife, foreign men, and sexually charged observation. The piece presents same-sex erotic experience through a sensational, semi-fictional first-person style.