Overhead Wrist Restraint

Itabuki Makiko

A photographic feature depicts a woman with her wrists bound together and secured overhead, emphasizing an elevated restraint position.

Unrestrained Playfulness

Haruhi Rumi and Itabuki Makiko

A staged scene portrays a domineering woman rousing a prone male servant and threatening punishment if he refuses to perform or obey her commands.

Sitting on the Buttocks

Haruhi Rumi and Itabuki Makiko

A staged domestic scene shows a woman using a prone man as a seat while ordering him not to move and threatening further servile punishment, including attention to her feet.

The Taishō-Era Villain: Kin-kei no Kame

Mitani Shōsuke

A dramatized account of Ikeda Kamegorō, the notorious Taishō-era criminal known as “Kinkei no Kame.” The narrative follows his violent crimes, robberies, disguises and escapes, the police investigation and pursuit across western Japan, and…

Footstool

Haruhi Rumi and model A

A staged photograph shows a seated woman using a prone man as a footstool, emphasizing her control and the erotic display of feet.

Beating

Itabuki Makiko and model B

A staged photograph depicts a woman administering a beating or spanking to a kneeling man, accompanied by taunting Japanese captions.

The Silent Piper

An erotic illustration titled “The Silent Piper” depicts a gagged woman with her arms restrained to a horizontal bar, presenting bondage as a theatrical visual tableau.

Disordered Hair

photographed by Itō Seiu

A staged erotic photograph presents a woman with dramatically disordered hair in an intimate, sensual encounter, emphasizing hair as a visual fetish.

Single-Leg Suspension

composition by Tsujimura Takashi; model Mori Chieko

A photographic feature demonstrates a woman secured in a single-leg suspension using rope, highlighting the pose, suspension method, and visual composition of Japanese rope bondage.

Shackles

Sugihara Nijiko

An erotic illustration titled “Shackles” depicts a restrained, pearl-adorned woman accompanied by threatening animal imagery, combining bondage motifs with dramatic fantasy illustration.

Demonic Seduction

Futamata Shizuko

A serialized erotic narrative follows Shizuko after a chance train encounter draws her into a disturbing domestic world of seduction, coercion, captivity, and escalating bondage involving several women and a man.

Crucifixion Ship

Shimamoto Haruo; illustrations by Furumasa Eikichi

An illustrated Edo-period erotic crime tale follows a group of men who abduct and exploit women in boats, bathhouses, and pleasure-quarter settings. The narrative dwells on coercion, bodily display, tattooing, and grotesque sexual spectacle,…

The Rainbow of the Enchantress, Part Three

Ryūtōji Yū

The third installment of this erotic supernatural mystery follows Akaboshi Jirō and his wife as their troubled domestic and sexual relationship becomes entangled with a witch-like figure, occult manipulation, grotesque mannequins, and disturbing dream…

Overseas Sadism Notes: Uses of Clothing

Azuma Shin

An illustrated essay on overseas sadism examines clothing as a vehicle for fetishistic attraction, bodily restriction, discipline, humiliation, theatrical display, and eroticized visual fantasy, with examples from photographs, films, and performance imagery.

The Tsukishima Driver Murder

Hamada Shirō; illustrations by Kanzaki Isao

A dramatized true-crime account of the murder of a driver in Tsukishima, tracing the discovery of the body, police inquiries, witness testimony, clues, and the pursuit and capture of the suspects. The narrative emphasizes…

Answering Former Military Policeman Hayashida Masaki

Minamikawa Kazuko

Minamikawa responds to former military policeman Hayashida Masaki’s confession, discussing wartime and postwar sexual violence, humiliation, voyeurism, and the disturbing eroticization of personal testimony.

Private Punishment

Hishiha Kiyoko, romanization uncertain

A fictional account of an escaped mistress and her lover being recaptured and subjected to escalating bondage, humiliation, physical punishment, and sadistic sexual control.

Sodomia Correspondence

Fujii Akira

A correspondence and advice column addressing readers’ concerns about male same-sex attraction, romantic relationships, marriage, sexual anxiety, and social adjustment. Fujii Akira responds to individual case histories, discussing emotional and sexual development, partner-seeking, personal…

Seppuku Research Night Talk

Nakayasu Hiromichi

An illustrated research essay examining seppuku through samurai history, historical documents, literature, journalism, and artistic representations, tracing changing ideas of honor, execution, gender, and erotic spectacle from the Edo period into modern Japan.

A Crime Scene with Bodily Fluids

Aoyama Natsuki; illustrations by Natsume Hiroshi

An illustrated true-crime account follows a violent nighttime incident in a rural community and the police investigation that reconstructs what happened. Blood, bodily-fluid traces, wounds, footprints, testimony, and alibi checks gradually undermine the initial…

Sexual Fluids, Part Seven

Itō Seiu

The seventh installment of Itō Seiu’s serialized erotic narrative follows encounters involving a theatrical milieu, sexual violence, murder, and sensational rumor, accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrations.

The Complaint of the White Belly

Nozaki Jun

A first-person account describes escalating abdominal self-abuse and self-binding practices, including the psychological experience of seeking pain, restraint, and bodily control.

Homosexual Mania and Masturbation

Murazato Eiichi

Murazato Eiichi presents an autobiographical account of same-sex desire and the development of self-binding fantasies and practices, linking them to adolescent experience and fetishistic compulsion.

Lesbos Correspondence

Sonomura Keiko

A conversational salon narrative follows women meeting in cafés, beauty salons, and private settings while discussing fashion, cosmetics, travel, romance, and relationships with other women. Through lively dialogue and illustrated scenes, it depicts lesbian…

The Secret of the Beautiful Boy

Yamaguchi Kōichi

A fictional account of a teacher’s obsessive fascination with a handsome male student develops into an episode of pursuit, stripping, physical control, and outdoor bondage.

The Sorrow of a Foot Fetishist

Haruyama Tadakazu

Presented as a fetishist’s appeal to the magazine, this piece discusses foot and body-part fetishism, high-heel imagery, Western fetish publications, and the desire for more specialized reader-submitted material.

Abnormal Escape

Miki Takeshi; illustrations by Kanzaki Isao

An illustrated pulp-fiction narrative follows Yoshida Senichi, a Japanese serviceman detained in postwar Saigon, as he repeatedly escapes confinement and moves through a dangerous landscape of military authorities, civilians, and clandestine shelters. His encounters…

Until Spring Withers

Matsui Raikō

An erotic melodrama follows Misako through a troubled relationship and marriage in which jealousy, coercion, humiliation, and escalating rope restraint threaten her emotional and physical autonomy.

The Distorted Affair

Takenō Tōsuke

A serialized, illustrated collection of comic and unsettling case narratives about distorted romantic and marital relationships. Through dialogues involving spouses, lovers, parents, and alleged sexual deviants, it explores abnormal desire, domestic conflict, gossip, deception,…

From a Masochist’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

A first-person masochistic narrative depicts a servant’s erotic submission to a dominant woman, combining scenes of domestic service, humiliation, and fur-clad mistress imagery with reflections on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs and its…

The Devil’s Gale

Muramatsu Rokurō; illustrations by Jinnō Shigeharu

A dramatized true-crime casebook feature centered on the murder of nineteen-year-old Fumiko during a typhoon, when floodwater and chaotic conditions help conceal an assault and strangulation. The narrative follows witnesses, police investigators, documentary evidence,…

Female Sexuality

Saji Kōsuke

An essay and illustrated feature examines female armpits, body hair, sweat, and odor as objects of erotic fascination, interweaving sexual-psychological commentary with personal anecdotes and sensational examples.

Song of the Shore

Mimura Haruo

This first-person erotic reminiscence recalls a rural childhood relationship with an older sister and the narrator’s developing fixation on her armpits, body odor, bathing, and bodily exposure.

The Shiga Highlands Murder Case

Hoshi Hideo

A reconstructed murder-case investigation set in the Shiga Highlands, presented through an extended dialogue between investigators, journalists, and medical experts. The article examines witness statements, the victim’s clothing and bodily injuries, bloodstain patterns, autopsy…

Illustrated Mandala of Abdominal Cutting

Hōya Shirō

An extensively illustrated serialized erotic narrative depicts a young woman and boy enacting ritualized abdominal cutting, bloodletting, suffering, and death in a stylized historical setting.

The Dancer’s Strange Death

Sekine Jun; illustrations by Tsukida Hiroshi

An illustrated detective mystery about a dancer found dead under suspicious circumstances. Police investigate the room, physical evidence, witness statements, and conflicting alibis while readers are invited to identify the murderer from the clues.

Tokyo’s Bluebeard

Ogihara Hideo; illustrations by Ikegawa Tomo

A documentary-style true-crime account of a suspected serial wife murderer, reconstructed from police records, witness testimony, interrogations, and forensic examination of a woman’s corpse discovered in the ruins of postwar Shibuya. The narrative follows…

Observations of the Navel, Part Three: My Bodily-Fetish Record

Sudō Ritsuo

This personal and reflective essay examines fascination with the navel and abdomen through bodily aesthetics, intimate experience, fetishistic imagery, and references to psychological and sexological interpretation.

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

A translated and annotated selection from a 1901 German work surveys historical examples and cultural interpretations of cruel women, linking female violence and domination to changing sexual and social attitudes.

Midsummer Tragedy

Somekawa Tatsuyuki; illustrations by Oda Akio

A young woman travels to Kagoshima to stay with her married sister, only to become entangled in a violent family mystery after the sister’s husband is found murdered and his body concealed. Detective questioning,…

The Humiliation of Bengal: A Secret History of Colonial Cruelty

Kawano Kyōsuke

A sensational historical account of British colonial rule in Bengal and India, emphasizing famine, mass death, punitive violence, and the humiliation of the colonized population.

Interruption of Female Sexuality

Hayashi Yumio

An extended essay on the repression and reshaping of women’s sexuality under Japanese patriarchal family and marriage systems, connecting domestic subordination with wartime and postwar experiences and changing ideas of female autonomy.

Autopsy of a Rape-Murder Corpse

Mitani Shōsuke; illustrations by Tsunakawa Gōji

A forensic crime report describing the examination of a woman’s corpse after rape and murder. The narrative explains how autopsy findings, bodily evidence, witness accounts, and investigative reasoning are used to reconstruct the assault…

Blue Firefly

Kawada Susumu

A serialized erotic fiction featuring a married couple who develop increasingly elaborate nighttime bondage games, with the wife restrained, tied, and displayed in domestic settings amid fetishistic imagery and voyeuristic narration.

The Captured Wife

Onda Ichirō; illustrations by Oda Akio

An illustrated true-crime account of a married woman who is abducted and later found dead, followed by the police investigation into her movements, associates, and killer. Physical traces, witness testimony, and interrogation gradually expose…

Practice

Sunagawa Sakae

An illustrated erotic fiction narrative set within a touring theater troupe, where rehearsals, backstage rivalries, and performances become entangled with sexual manipulation and coercive relationships. The story follows the narrator’s interactions with actress Mikiko,…

The Mask of the Sadistic Woman

Yamada Masami, romanization uncertain

An essay on the “mask” of the sadistic woman explores female dominance, sadistic self-presentation, and the erotic significance of facial features—especially the nose—through discussion, staged scenarios, photographs, and illustrations. It presents concealment, disguise, and…

A Masochistic Man’s Secret Letter

Yanagisaki Kenji, credit reading uncertain

A first-person secret letter from a masochistic man describes his long-standing fantasies of female control, rope restraint, nudity, punishment, and staged bondage, accompanied by editorial commentary and erotic illustrations. The piece frames these desires…

Regarding a Certain Letter

Kawabata Tanako

This correspondence feature presents and answers a reader’s letter concerning erotic photographs, bondage fantasies, discreet meetings, and the emotional complications of exchanging intimate material. The editorial reply treats the exchange as part of the…

Sentimental Education, Part Ten

Kurihara Shin; text credit reading uncertain

This serialized erotic narrative follows the married Shōzō and Yuki as literary ambitions, financial pressures, jealousy, and encounters with the enigmatic S lead into increasingly coercive sexual games involving domination, submission, and bondage.

International Spy Headquarters

Nonaka Aizō

A sensational spy-prison narrative traces the persecution and captivity of women connected with Shanghai and wartime China, depicting interrogation, torture, sexualized humiliation, executions, and the harsh operations of an international espionage organization.

Seme in Contemporary Literature

Murata Seiichi

A literary-critical essay examines depictions of coercion, domination, violence, and disciplinary sexuality in modern Japanese fiction, connecting these motifs to military experience, gender relations, and readers’ emotional responses.

In Beautiful May

Furukawa Hiroko, credit reading uncertain

An extended first-person erotic narrative presents a woman’s fantasies and experiences of sadistic and masochistic sexuality, including bondage, humiliation, marital conflict, punishment, and the tension between sexual desire and social respectability, accompanied by erotic…

Regarding It

Forty-Six

A recurring personal essay or reader contribution reflects on erotic fascination with women’s noses and responds to the magazine’s earlier discussion and imagery of this body-part fetish.

Three Forms of the Female Nose

contributor credit unclear

A nose-focused aesthetic and fetishistic essay compares three forms of the female nose, using photographic examples and discussing beauty standards, cosmetic presentation, and attempts to emphasize or alter the nose’s appearance.

Reader Correspondence, Editorial Material, Binding Diagrams, and Publication Notices

multiple contributors

A mixed reader-and-editorial section presents correspondence, forthcoming issue announcements, subscription and ordering information, manuscript guidelines, and illustrated instructions for tying or binding garments.

Three Scenes by Itō Kōzō: Jealousy, Cruelty, and Exposure

Itō Kōzō

A sequence of erotic illustrations dramatizes a husband’s jealousy and desire for revenge after his wife elopes, presenting scenes of marital betrayal, punishment, and exposure.

The White Queen of the Ruined City

Suzuki Gyosui

An erotic illustration from “The White Queen of the Ruined City” depicts a dominant woman physically controlling and restraining a submissive man in a stylized fantasy scene.

Women’s Wrestling

Taki Reiko

An illustrated feature depicting women engaged in dramatic wrestling holds and falls, emphasizing physical struggle and eroticized competition.

American Photo

This photographic feature presents staged American bondage scenes in which a woman is chained or strapped to beds, tables, and chairs in varied restrained positions.

September Field Scene

Itō Seiu

A September-themed illustrated scene presents women wrestling outdoors in a stylized, eroticized composition accompanied by seasonal literary text.

Pasture Story

Kaiji Kazuhisa, credit reading uncertain

A serialized erotic narrative follows Susan at a rural pasture as conflicts with her employers and their associates lead to coercion, captivity, bondage, humiliation, attempted escape, and violent sexual domination.

The Martyrdom of Saint Concordia

Nakagawa Ayako

An illustration and accompanying note depict the martyrdom of Saint Concordia, emphasizing her public stripping, whipping, killing, and sacred suffering.

The Miracle of Saint Agnes

Nakagawa Ayako

An illustrated account of Saint Agnes recounts her refusal of a Roman prefect’s marriage proposal, her threatened sexual violence and execution, and her miraculous survival at the stake before being killed by the sword.

Flower and Flower

This erotic illustration titled “Flower and Flower” portrays two nude women in an intimate reclining embrace.

From History

Nakagawa Ayako

A historical illustrated feature surveys scenes of captivity, confinement, torture, and punishment, drawing on religious, classical, and legendary sources and emphasizing the spectacle of restrained bodies.

The Color Quarter of Akegarasu

Muramatsu Rokuryō

A serialized historical erotic narrative follows the courtesan Sayoye and the men around her through episodes of seduction, jealousy, coercion, bondage, punishment, and sexualized power struggles in an early-modern pleasure-quarter setting.

Woman Cast into a Rocky Stream

A photographic scene depicts a woman lying among rocks in a rushing mountain stream, with a caption describing her being tied supine to a log spanning the water.

Record of Outdoor Binding: Sun-Drying on a Pine Trunk

Tsujimura Takashi; model Itō Masako

This photographic record presents a woman bound against the trunk of a pine tree in an outdoor setting, emphasizing public exposure and rope restraint.

Please Do Not Torment Me Too Much, My Lady

Haruhi Rumi and Itō Masako

A staged photographic feature presents rope-play scenes involving two women, including close physical handling and a suggested upside-down suspension pose, framed as a playful appeal not to be tormented too much.

Tightening the Hands Behind the Back

Haruhi Rumi and Itabuki Makiko

A staged photograph shows one woman using her leg for leverage while tightening another woman’s wrists behind her back in a carefully secured rope restraint.

Newlywed Autumn Game: Nut Gathering

Taki Reiko

This staged outdoor bondage photograph presents a “newlywed” in a nylon raincoat restrained with her hands behind her back amid autumn garden grasses and flowers.

Newlywed Autumn Game: Continuing Rain

Taki Reiko

A continuation of the autumn newlywed vignette depicts the restrained woman seated in falling rain with her raincoat hood pulled deeply over her eyes and her waist cord tied behind her.

Single-Leg Suspension and Chest Restraint

Murata Tamiko

A photographic feature demonstrating a woman bound across the chest and suspended by one leg, presented as a rope-restraint pose by Murata Tamiko.

Shrimp Binding and Hands-Behind Binding

Nakafuji Tamiko and Itō Mieko

A photographic feature presenting two rope-binding configurations: shrimp binding and a hands-behind-the-back binding in which the rope is visually concealed.

The Lustful Rain Does Not Cease

Matsui Raiko

A serialized erotic narrative follows Chikako and other characters through jealousy, coercion, captivity, and escalating bondage and punishment, accompanied by dramatic illustrations and dialogue.

Trampling

Haruhi Rumi and Koike Masami

A staged photographic scene of a woman trampling a prone male model, accompanied by text describing female domination, male submission, and the possibility of distress during the ordeal.

Punishment of a Male Servant

Haruhi Rumi and supporting model

A staged photograph and caption depict a male servant bound and subjected to corrective beating as punishment for perceived disobedience or failure.