Obsessed with Eye Bandages

Sugano Sakurō

A first-person fetish autobiography about the author’s longstanding fascination with women wearing eye bandages and related forms of visual concealment. He traces the interest from childhood impressions through magazine images, encounters with women in…

Endless Defeat: A Tombstone for a Dead Dog

Sasagawa Yūko

A dark erotic narrative framed as a memorial for a dead dog, in which the narrator revisits a psychologically charged relationship with Misao and another woman. The story develops themes of female cruelty, emotional…

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

Morimoto Aizō translates and explains passages from the 1901 German illustrated book Das Grausame Weib, presenting anecdotes of women exercising violent authority over male servants, prisoners, and dependents. The article emphasizes whipping, riding crops,…

Kyōko’s Floating Bag

Hamura Kyōko

A first-person erotic narrative follows Kyōko’s experiments with introducing air into her body to produce an increasingly swollen, “floating” abdomen. The account combines bodily transformation, pressure, discomfort, and fetishistic attention to intestinal and anal…

Awards, Retrospective Indexes, Editorial Material, and Advertisements

A mixed editorial and community section announces prize-winning works, reproduces or discusses reader submissions and correspondence, and provides publication, subscription, and advertising information. It documents the magazine’s contests, editorial operations, and relationship with its…

The Madness of the Ise Pilgrimage

Itō Seiu

An illustrated account of the Oyama/Afuri Shrine area describes Ryōben Falls, reputed in the Edo period to cure madness. It recounts the legend of a madwoman being bound, taken beneath the freezing waterfall, and…

Fear of Being Whipped

A photographic scene portrays a woman confronted with the frightening prospect of having a bit-like gag placed in her mouth, emphasizing apprehension, restraint, and controlled submission.

Western Binding and Pony Training

A photographic feature presenting Western-style binding, gagging, and pony-themed fetish imagery, with women shown in staged restraint scenes and costume.

On Restraint: Seven Positions

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

An illustrated instructional feature presenting seven rope-restraint positions using swings, ladders, bars, wooden structures, and other apparatus, accompanied by commentary on the importance of rope technique.

A Slave Beneath Her Lady’s Feet

composition by Tsujimura Takashi

A staged photographic scene depicts a submissive male prostrate beneath a dominant woman’s feet, accompanied by a second image of the woman compelling him to rise. The feature centers on female authority, male submission,…

Male Beauty, Women’s Clothing, and Tight Foot Binding

A photographic feature presents an athletic nude male portrait alongside images of a woman in a patterned skirt and a woman bound at the feet and lower body. The visual sequence combines ideals of…

Two Female-Wrestling Scenes

A two-image photographic feature depicting women engaged in staged wrestling scenes, emphasizing physical struggle and posed domination.

Stockings: A Helpless Pose

model Itō Mieko

A photographic feature showing model Itō Mieko in stockings and a restrained, helpless seated pose, with rope binding across her torso and arms.

American-Style Torment, Part Three

composition by Sugiura Kōji

The third installment of “American-Style Torment” presents highly theatrical bondage scenes, combining illustrated tableaux with photographic imagery of multiple people tied in elaborate, uncomfortable positions and apparatus. The feature emphasizes spectacle, restraint, and staged…

The Woman in White

composition by Tsujimura Takashi; model Chiba Chizuko

“The Woman in White” is a photographic feature featuring model Chiba Chizuko in white clothing, bound with rope in a series of staged reclining and suspended poses. The images foreground costume, immobilization, and the…

Photographic Studies of Chest and Arm Binding

A photographic study documenting multiple rope-binding configurations around the chest, arms, and torso, shown from front, back, and side views. The sequential images emphasize the appearance and positioning of the restraints as a practical…

Storehouse

Takiko

An illustrated erotic narrative scene set in a storehouse, in which a woman is confronted and restrained after being discovered with a younger man. The accompanying text uses threats, betrayal, and criminal authority to…

Basement

Takiko

An illustrated captivity scene depicts Tamiko bound with her hands behind her back and gagged in a dark, windowless basement or storage room. The accompanying text presents the image as a scene from Sakiko…

Pole Binding

Takiko

An erotic illustration feature depicts three women restrained with ropes to wooden poles in different kneeling, crouching, and seated positions. The images focus on pole-based immobilization and the visual display of bound bodies.

Using a Chair

Takiko

An illustrated feature presents several women tied to chairs in varied positions, emphasizing the chair as a means of restraint and display. The imagery focuses on rope binding and immobilized posture rather than accompanying…

Beheading

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

An erotic illustration titled “Beheading” depicts a kneeling nude woman threatened by an armed soldier, accompanied by Japanese text describing a girl stripped of family, property, clothing, chastity, and ultimately life. The scene combines…

Execution by Firing Squad

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

An illustrated execution scene depicts a beautiful female spy calmly awaiting death by firing squad while a female officer photographs or observes her final moments. The presentation combines execution imagery with an explicitly staged,…

Burning at the Stake

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

This illustrated historical punishment feature portrays a woman bound to a stake and burned, with accompanying text referring to Joan of Arc, Japanese fire executions, and the treatment of condemned women. The imagery emphasizes…

Post-Mounted Restraint

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

An illustrated feature depicts a nude woman bound against a wooden post while a kimono-clad swordswoman stands nearby. The accompanying text presents binding as a historical form of disgrace or punishment associated with samurai…

The Construction of Tight Binding and Ideas for Torment

Tsujimura Takashi

A practical and aesthetic guide to constructing bondage photographs and developing ideas for torment scenes. It discusses rope arrangements, poses, props, models, body presentation, hair and clothing, indoor and outdoor settings, and the balance…

The Room of Evil, Final Installment

Futamata Shizuko

The concluding installment of Futamata Shizuko’s serialized erotic crime narrative follows a web of coercion, betrayal, and retaliation involving abducted and restrained women, violent men, and a dangerous household. Through shifting encounters in rooms,…

Tsuritobi: A Juvenile Reformatory Experience

Orihara Osamu, romanization uncertain

A first-person account of life in a juvenile reformatory, focusing on the systematic abuse inflicted by a guard through beatings, forced nudity, inspections, rope binding, and other humiliating punishments. Photographs and illustrations reinforce the…

ANUS Bullying

Numata Fusaji, romanization uncertain

An erotic narrative centered on “ANUS bullying,” in which a male subject is dominated and tormented by women through forced positions, spanking, foot pressure, restraint, and anal-focused humiliation. The accompanying illustrations depict the staged…

Diary of My Selfish Heart: A Masochistic Woman’s Journal

Furukawa Yūko

Furukawa Yūko presents a first-person diary of her masochistic desires, marital bondage, fantasies of restraint and punishment, and the tensions between private erotic life and respectable postwar society. The extended confession also reflects on…

The Beautiful Tyrant

Mazoku Tamotsu

An erotic first-person narrative about a man’s escalating fascination with Yuriko, a beautiful and imperious woman who subjects him to increasingly demanding acts of service, humiliation, and bodily submission. The story centers on her…

Overseas Sadism Notes: Uses of Clothing

Azuma Shin

Azuma Shin surveys the erotic and sadistic uses of women’s clothing, discussing hobble skirts, corsets, high heels, long boots, and other garments as means of emphasizing the body, restricting movement, or symbolizing discipline. The…

Infatuation

Oniyama Yakusaku, romanization uncertain

A serialized erotic fiction narrative in which the narrator leads the forty-year-old Miki into an obsessive labyrinth of jealousy, voyeurism, and sexual manipulation involving Kiyomi and her domestic relationship. The successive episodes depict escalating…

Sexual Fluids, Part Five

Itō Seiu

The fifth installment of Itō Seiu’s “Sexual Fluids” presents an erotic nonfiction-style account of travel, theatrical entertainment, lodging, meals, and encounters involving performers and patrons. The narrative emphasizes backstage and pleasure-district culture, sexualized performance,…

My Record of Perversity: Beheading and Strangulation in Strange Punishments

Uemura Etsuhisa, romanization uncertain

This autobiographical record of the author’s fascination with unusual punishments examines staged or magical representations of crucifixion, beheading, and strangulation. Illustrated scenes of women bound to crosses and subjected to execution-like restraint frame the…

My Honeymoon

Tominaga Kazuo

In this autobiographical account, a newly married man describes seeking a wife who could accommodate his sadistic and bondage-oriented desires. He recounts meeting and observing a young nurse, developing their relationship, introducing rope restraint…

The Man I Sought, Part Six

Matsui Raikō

The sixth installment of Matsui Raikō’s serialized SM narrative follows an emotionally volatile encounter involving Inoue and Ogata. The characters bind, restrain, and manipulate one another through rope, furniture, and bodily control, while jealousy,…

The Juvenile Reformatory’s Folding Bars

Nonomura Yukio

A first-person account set in a juvenile orphanage describes staff discipline and elaborate punishments, including tying children to beds or boards, striking them, and forcing uncomfortable positions. The illustrated feature presents these institutional correction…

Confession of an Effeminate Man

Shinohara Yukio

A male narrator confesses to adopting feminine dress, cosmetics, mannerisms, and domestic presentation, recounting how this gendered self-fashioning shapes his relationships and erotic encounters. The piece combines autobiographical testimony with reflections on effeminacy, sexual…

Longing for Enema

Yamada Yoshie

Yamada Yoshie presents a personal confession about her growing fascination with enemas, recalling a hospitalized friend’s medical treatment and later persuading and administering an enema to another young woman. The account emphasizes bodily vulnerability,…

Sentimental Education

Azuma Shinsaku; illustrations by Kurihara Shin

A serialized erotic narrative follows the troubled marriage of Shōzaburō and Kyōko amid poverty, debt, jealousy, and manipulation. Their relationship becomes entangled with coercive sexual encounters, bondage, humiliation, violence, and shifting control between spouses…

The Portrait of Torture

Koshino Yoshio

A confessional narrative recounting the author’s impoverished childhood, his relationship with his mother, and episodes of suffering, coercion, and punishment. The text is accompanied by a photograph of his mother and an illustration dramatizing…

An Examination of the Navel: My Bodily-Fetish Record

Sudō Ritsuo

An autobiographical examination of the author’s intense fetishistic interest in women’s navels. It classifies navel shapes and appearances, recalls personal encounters and formative influences, and discusses the fetish’s representation in photographs, films, illustrations, and…

Bound and Rebound

Numata Masami, romanization uncertain

An editorial-style response to Takahashi Tetsu revisits arguments and terminology from the April issue, especially the definition and translation of “scatology.” The author disputes several dictionary, quotation, and bibliographic claims and criticizes careless editorial…

From a Masochist’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

A serialized masochist’s notebook presents confessional fantasies of male submission to aristocratic and financially powerful women, including servitude, humiliation, animalization, and the surrender of property and domestic authority. Chapters 54–56 combine narrative letters with…

The Buttocks Person

Kimura Michiko

A first-person erotic confession about a woman’s marriage and her husband’s intense fixation on buttocks. The narrative follows marital tensions, relationships with other people, and the eventual emergence of a man whose unusual buttocks…

On the Beauty of Women’s Noses and Nasal Cavities

Masago Jūroku

An illustrated essay on the aesthetic and erotic significance of women’s noses and nostrils, discussing admired examples and standards of facial beauty. It also recounts cosmetic efforts to reshape the nose and narrow the…

Rehabilitation of Former Juvenile Soldiers

Maeda Shinji

A narrative about a former child soldier advancing through military training and serving in a remote frontier environment. It depicts harsh discipline, hierarchy, camaraderie, and the protagonist’s efforts to adapt to postwar military life.

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

Morimoto Aizō translates and explains accounts of “cruel women” drawn from a 1901 German illustrated book, presenting historical anecdotes of women abusing servants, enslaved people, and other dependents. The article combines sensational descriptions of…

From Husband to Wife

Kurume Eizō

An exchange of letters between a separated husband and wife reflects on their marriage, jealousy, emotional dependence, and shared experiences of tying during their relationship. Framing bondage as a means of understanding rather than…

My Model

Tobita Ryōji

A first-person erotic narrative follows a model trainer who recruits and develops a young woman, shaping her appearance, clothing, poses, and professional presentation for fashion and fetish imagery. The story increasingly centers on staged…

My Favorite Way of Being Bound

Kawabata Tanako

Kawabata Tanako responds to readers by describing her preferred forms of bondage and recounting intimate experiences of being tied in different positions and with varied rope arrangements. The article is accompanied by erotic photographic…

The Ceremony of the Straw Doll

Segawa Yasuko

Segawa Yasuko introduces and discusses a rare historical erotic text, The Ceremony of Marriage, which presents ritualized marital bondage, abdominal cutting, and violent sexual play through narrative passages, procedural descriptions, and graphic illustrations. The…

Reader Correspondence

multiple contributors

A multi-page reader-correspondence section presents letters responding to the magazine’s fiction, illustrations, photographs, and editorial choices, alongside requests, critiques, and discussion of reader interests. It also reflects the participatory culture surrounding Kitan Club through…

Editorial and Publication Information

An editorial and publication-information page solicits manuscripts and artwork, explains submission and editorial policies, advertises subscriptions and back issues, and announces club or membership opportunities. It documents the magazine’s administrative and participatory infrastructure as…

Black Cat and Woman

André De Dienes

A staged photographic portrait by André De Dienes showing a nude woman reclining beside a large black cat. The composition emphasizes the contrast between the woman’s body and the animal’s watchful presence.

Western Pulp Cover and Illustration Collection

A visual collection of Western pulp-fiction covers and interior-style illustrations featuring imperiled, reclining, or restrained women, masked or armed men, and sensational adventure scenes. The pages prominently identify authors and titles including Leslie Charteris,…

The Latest Electric Chair

An illustrated report on modern execution technology, focusing on the electric chair and execution-chamber procedures. The feature presents the apparatus and stages of a condemned prisoner’s electrocution alongside related execution imagery.

The Woman Anchin: Dōjōji Legend

Itō Seiu

An erotic illustration reimagines the Dōjōji legend of Anchin and the woman who becomes a serpent, emphasizing supernatural transformation, bondage, and fatal passion.

A Delightful Western Dominatrix

A Western-style erotic illustration portrays a confident dominatrix in corsetry, stockings, high heels, and holding a whip.

The Latest American Women’s Beauty Exercises

A photographic feature presenting American women performing purported beauty and body-shaping exercises, including partner-assisted poses and strenuous floor exercises. The accompanying text frames these routines as an imported form of indoor recreation and physical…

Pet Training: The Cat and the Whip

A photographic feature presents Miss Beck in fetish attire using a whip while staging a circus-like pet-training performance involving a human figure presented as a cat.

Bull Politics, Second Generation

Hida Yoshiro; illustrations by Yutani Toshiaki

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows the troubled relationships and violent entanglements of the characters Masajirō and Masakichi, combining jealousy, coercion, captivity, and domestic sexual conflict. The accompanying illustrations dramatize the story’s intimate and…

Crucifixion

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

An erotic illustration depicts a woman bound spread-eagled to an ornate cross, framing crucifixion as both a brutal historical punishment and a visually seductive spectacle.

Ox Splitting

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

An erotic historical-punishment illustration shows a woman bound to a powerful ox in a scene evoking the execution method of ox-splitting, accompanied by a condemnation of wartime brutality.

Water Punishment

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

A submerged woman is bound to an anchor and helplessly dragged underwater, presenting water punishment as a fatal scene of captivity and restraint.

Leopard

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

An erotic illustration depicts a woman amid leopards, chains, and bones, accompanied by a dramatic caption suggesting captivity and peril.

Murder in the Night Fog

An illustrated visual sequence titled “Murder in the Night Fog” depicts a nocturnal encounter that develops into violence, pursuit, and apparent murder. Its sequential panels function as a dramatized erotic-crime scene rather than documentary…

Disordered Hair

photographed by Itō Seiu

A staged monochrome photograph presents a kimono-clad woman in a distressed, inwardly folded pose, emphasizing her elaborate disordered hair and costume.

Island of Tsubushi

photographed by Itō Seiu

A monochrome photograph features a kimono-clad woman posed low to the ground while displaying the traditional flattened Shimada hairstyle known as tsubushi shimada.

Street of the Great Torrent

Ogata Itsuma; illustrations by Sano Hiroshi

A serialized crime-and-erotic suspense story follows a male narrator investigating a mysterious woman linked to gangsters, a murder, and a series of threatening encounters. The illustrated narrative features abduction, physical restraint, pursuit, rescue attempts,…

While I Count to One Hundred

model Haruhi Rumi; tormentor Itabuki Makiko

A photographic bondage scene shows model Haruhi Rumi restrained with rope while tormentor Itabuki Makiko counts to one hundred, emphasizing sustained restraint and endurance.

Until the Binding Is Complete: Photographic Explanation

demonstration by Tsujimura Takashi; model Itabuki Makiko

A step-by-step photographic explanation demonstrates how to bind a model’s wrists, arms, torso, and legs with rope, including wrapping the rope across the chest and securing the body in a completed restraint.

Do Not Hurt Me Too Much

model Itabuki Makiko; tormentor Haruhi Rumi

A staged photographic scene depicts Haruhi Rumi physically restraining Itabuki Makiko in a wrestling-like hold while the captive protests against excessive pain.

My Lady! A Rope-Free Torment Game

model Itabuki Makiko; tormentor Haruhi Rumi

A photo sequence demonstrates a rope-free torment game in which a dominant woman physically restrains and overpowers a pleading male participant through positional control.

Awaiting the Captive Model

Haruhi Rumi

A staged portrait presents model Kasuga Rumi in a characteristic pose, holding a long cane while awaiting the appearance of a captive or subjected model.

The Threatening Pose

Haruhi Rumi

A tense staged photograph shows Kasuga Rumi poised to swing a whip, emphasizing the anticipation and threat of imminent corporal punishment.