Fantasy of a Deformed Old Man

Sugihara Nijiko

Sugihara Nijiko’s illustration presents an eroticized fantasy involving a deformed elderly man, nude women, chains, and an atmosphere of coercion and grotesquerie.

I Accuse: As a Victim of Sadistic Punishment

Azuma Shin

This extended polemical essay examines sadism, sexual crime, juvenile delinquency, pornography, and postwar sexual repression through psychological theories, sexological writing, crime statistics, social case material, and literary and visual examples. It argues that such…

Crawling in Summer

Toba Eiko

This erotic narrative depicts a summer encounter that develops into coercive sexual domination, confinement, physical punishment, and fetishistic attention to the bound body, with accompanying illustrated scenes.

Two-Sided Mirror of the Painted Soul

Kawai Itsuko

A historical erotic fiction piece drawn from kusazōshi imagery, depicting a woman’s ritualized abdominal cutting amid melodramatic conflict, secrecy, and impending violence.

Psychiatric Evaluation of the Sexually Abnormal

Ōta Tenrei

A sexological essay examines sexually atypical desire and behavior, distinguishing abnormality from ordinary variation while discussing psychological factors, criminality, treatment, and social judgment.

On Female Beauty, Especially the Buttocks

Kari Rei, romanization uncertain

An illustrated essay examines ideals of female beauty with particular emphasis on the buttocks, comparing bodily proportions, posing, clothing, and aesthetic preferences while presenting a sequence of nude photographs.

The Female Party Member Gasping Beneath the Bloodstained Whip

Mitani Shōsuke

A sensational account of a female Communist Party member implicated in a brutal murder, tracing the police investigation, her escape and armed resistance, and her eventual capture and punishment.

Department-Store Mannequin

Shirogane Tanjirō

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows a department-store mannequin and the people drawn into its orbit, combining commercial display culture with voyeurism, captivity, rope restraint, and the discovery of a bound or murdered woman.

How Much I Have Changed in Ten Years

Naka Masao

An autobiographical memoir recounts the author’s decade-long transformation from fearing moxibustion to pursuing its intense heat and pain as erotic pleasure, including repeated treatments, bodily scars, and intimate encounters with a fellow enthusiast.

Curious Meditations

Sudō Ritsuo

An essay reflecting on the discovery, circulation, and cultural value of unusual erotic books, while considering how readers’ interests and psychological types relate to occupations, publishing, and literary taste.

Distorted Affairs

Takemura Fujisuke

A sequence of fictionalized episodes presents adulterous and emotionally distorted encounters involving married couples, widows, lovers, jealousy, secrecy, and erotic manipulation, framed through literary storytelling and commentary.

Sexual Fluids

Itō Seiu

A historically framed erotic narrative set around performers and entertainment districts, depicting gender ambiguity, sexual encounters, and the binding and restraint of a woman in a staged domestic setting.

Desire to Be Crushed

Aoba Fūichi, romanization uncertain

A first-person erotic confession describes an intense desire to be crushed or killed, with scenes of restraint, humiliation, sadistic control, and escalating fantasies of bodily danger and death.

The Female Animal Trainer

Ogata Itsuma

This serialized erotic adventure follows Julia, a female animal trainer caught among criminals and captors, as coercion, confinement, whipping, and forced performances with wild animals shape her ordeal and eventual transformation into a spectacle.…

Yumi Woman, Continued

Saji Kōsuke

The author describes recreating an erotic pose from a French film with his wife, detailing the tied and suspended positions, staging, and bodily responses involved in the scene.

Confession of a Girl with Exhibitionist Desires

Shibazaki Riko

A young woman confesses her growing desire to expose her body, recounting exhibitionist fantasies and experiences in public places, on trains, and during encounters with men who observe or approach her.

Twelve Chapters Concerning Abnormality

A twelve-part pseudo-sexological survey of “abnormality” presents case histories, dialogues, historical anecdotes, and illustrations concerning fetishism, sadism, masochism, exhibitionism, gender variance, same-sex desire, sexual violence, and other taboo practices. Its sensational medical and criminological…

The Secret of the Beautiful Boy, Part Three

Yamaguchi Kōichi

This serialized erotic narrative follows the beautiful boy Yukio as older men manipulate, train, restrain, and sexually exploit him in domestic, athletic, and outdoor settings while his secret life remains hidden from others.

Joys and Sorrows of Being Tormented

Magane Kanjirō

A first-person account of the pleasures and suffering associated with being bound, beaten, disciplined, and otherwise subjected to torment, reflecting on the narrator’s physical sensations and emotional responses.

Seppuku Research Night Talk, Part Six: Its History and Influence on Literature

Nakayasu Hiromichi

A historical study of seppuku that traces its ritual and social development and examines how suicide, execution, and related scenes influenced Meiji and earlier Japanese fiction, drama, and illustration.

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

A translated and contextualized selection from a 1901 German illustrated work portraying cruel women who punish, torture, humiliate, and sometimes kill men and enslaved or subordinate figures.

Oda Nobunaga and Male Love

Kawakami Yatarō

A fictionalized historical narrative about Oda Nobunaga’s relationships with male attendants, especially the young Mori Ranmaru, blending battlefield history, courtly intrigue, and eroticized male love.

Red-Tag Prisoner

Shinohara Sakue

A first-person confession recounts imprisonment under female guards, describing regimented scoring, physical punishment, humiliation, restraint, and the narrator’s fear and submission.

Cruelty in Modern Literature

Murata Seiichi

This illustrated survey examines scenes of punishment, bondage, humiliation, and sexualized cruelty appearing in modern Japanese literature, reproducing literary excerpts alongside interpretive commentary.

The Woman with Tattooed Breasts

Kayama Fūtarō

A serialized sensational erotic mystery about a woman marked by breast tattoos, her sexual allure and unusual bodily practices, and the investigations, relationships, and disturbing incidents surrounding her.

Abnormal Dream: Following the Snake-Shaped Spring Sun

Okada Yoshio

A surreal erotic dream narrative follows a male protagonist who is repeatedly bound, disciplined, and tormented by women in elaborate rope and restraint scenarios, accompanied by fetish illustrations.

Longing for Acrobatics

Ōji Tarō

Ōji Tarō offers a first-person account of his lifelong fascination with acrobatic contortions, describing childhood encounters with performers, strenuous self-training, bodily pain, and the sensual gratification he derives from extreme flexibility.

Youth Crying Out

Takatsuki Daizō

A serialized erotic narrative follows schoolgirls subjected to escalating teacher-imposed discipline, bondage, humiliation, and corporal punishment, framed through the girls’ fear, curiosity, and conflicted responses. The story emphasizes institutional authority and the sexual psychology…

The Woman Who Burns Her Body

Matsui Kagoko, romanization uncertain

This fictional narrative follows Maki and her male companion through an unstable relationship of seduction, jealousy, bondage, physical punishment, and alternating control, culminating in increasingly coercive scenes of restraint and torment.

Women of the Bicycle Racetrack

Tajima Toshiko

A serialized narrative set around a women’s bicycle racetrack depicts female racers, spectators, gambling, domestic tensions, and eroticized competition, linking athletic display and public spectatorship with sexual rivalry and personal vulnerability.

An Experiment in Being Tormented While Cross-Dressed

Kishimoto Seiryū

Kishimoto Seiryū documents an erotic experiment in which a man is dressed as a woman and subjected to elaborate binding, suspension, and corporal punishment, accompanied by staged photographic illustrations and references to earlier Japanese…

From a Masochist’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

An autobiographical-style masochist’s notebook combines anecdotes about domestic servants and elite households with reflections on masochistic desire, bodily impurity, discipline, and the psychological conditioning of obedience.

Two Women of Summer

Aoyagi Keizō

A fictional summer narrative presenting two erotic encounters shaped by attraction, infidelity, secrecy, and emotionally charged relations between men and women.

White Blade

Ōshima Hajime

An eroticized narrative of ritual suicide and abdominal cutting presents a group’s military-style seppuku performance in graphic, sequential detail, emphasizing the spectacle, discipline, and bodily violence of the drawn blade.

The Woman Who Sleeps on Nails

Takano Saburō

A serialized sadomasochistic thriller follows a young woman through seduction, coercive control, confinement, and a violent nail-bed ordeal involving doctors, professors, and other observers.

Jealousy’s Manipulated Torment

Sumi Akiko

A first-person erotic confession recounts two sisters’ emotionally charged same-sex relationship, the use of men and social situations to provoke jealousy, and escalating group sexual games involving secrecy, manipulation, and fetishized clothing.

Letters from a Young Obstetrician-Gynecologist

Minamida Fumio

Framed as letters from a young obstetrician-gynecologist, this eroticized medical narrative describes intimate examinations, instruments, operations, and the unequal power relations between physicians and female patients.

Contemporary Masochism Art Criticism: Masochism in Film and Publishing

Hara Tadamasa

An art criticism essay examines masochistic imagery and themes in films, including historical and contemporary cinematic representations, while also discussing related erotic publishing and visual culture.

A Woman in Slavery

Takamatsu Asako

A fictional first-person account follows a female factory worker who becomes a domestic servant and is subjected by her employer to coercive sexual exploitation, humiliation, and bondage. Illustrated episodes emphasize her enforced submission and…

The Smile of the Male Flower: A Record of Captivity

Mikihara Jirō

A first-person captivity narrative follows Pierre, a male model subjected to binding, nudity, humiliation, and coercive artistic direction, with repeated attention to the erotic staging and photographing of his body.

The Woman Called Me

Kasuga Rumi

A woman recounts her sexual and emotional development from adolescence through intimate relationships, marriage, and domestic life, presenting a personal confession shaped by secrecy, desire, and changing gender expectations.

Women of Sadism

Sai Shōgo

A first-person essay examines women with sadistic tendencies through encounters with an intimidating, verbally abusive female tax-office worker whose dominance and cruelty fascinate the narrator.

Rainbow of the Enchantress

Ryūtanji Yū

The fourth installment of a serialized erotic novel, “Rainbow of the Enchantress,” depicts an artistically framed encounter with a mysterious, sexually charged woman through scenes of modeling, spectatorship, fetishized bodies, and erotic domination.

Types of the Abnormal Seen Through Reader Letters

Editorial Department

The editorial department surveys reader letters describing varied sexual interests and fantasies—including bondage, sadism, fetishism, cross-dressing, medicalized practices, and bodily scenarios—while presenting them as evidence of the magazine’s participatory reader culture.

Humiliation in a Railway Car

Kuki-mura Sato, credit reading uncertain

An illustrated erotic narrative depicts a woman being overpowered, stripped, and publicly humiliated by men in and around a railway carriage, emphasizing coercion, captivity, and voyeuristic spectacle.

Record of Outdoor Binding

Tsujimura Takashi

A photo-report documenting an outdoor rope-bondage session, with models tied and suspended among trees, rocks, streams, and waterfalls; the text also discusses pose planning, equipment, weather, and photographic staging.

Illustrated Bondage Arrangements

contributor credit unclear

An illustrated feature presenting several imaginative bondage arrangements, including women restrained to furniture, overhead structures, and other settings in staged poses.

Sentimental Education, Final Installment

Azuma Shin

The concluding installment of Azuma Shin’s serialized erotic novel follows wartime and postwar separations, reunions, jealousy, marital tensions, and coercive bondage encounters involving its central characters.

Editorial and Publication Information

A reader-communications and editorial-information section presents correspondence, editorial replies, submission guidance, and notices about forthcoming issues and requested contributions.

mprovised Restraint Positions Using Furniture and Frames

A visual feature presents women placed in improvised restraint positions using chairs, frames, poles, carts, and other household or outdoor structures, with brief Japanese labels identifying the setups.

October Punishment Scene

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu’s October illustration depicts a crowded historical marketplace or fairground scene centered on a bound and punished woman, combining spectatorship, public display, and institutionalized violence.

The Two Men Pursuing Her

illustrated by Hanayama Kazuhisa, credit reading uncertain

This twelve-part illustrated erotic narrative follows a woman pursued by three men through encounters at the seaside, on a train, and in domestic or theatrical settings, escalating into deception, captivity, binding, and threatened punishment…

Monkey Game

Tsujimura Takashi

A staged bondage sequence titled “Monkey Game” depicts women restraining one another and using a cloth gag in an intimate role-play scenario.

Variant Hands-Behind Binding

A photographic practical feature demonstrates a variant hands-behind binding, using rope arrangements that secure the arms and body in a modified rear-restraint position.

Scattered Blossoms at the Water’s Edge

Tsujimura Takashi; model Nakafuji Tamiko

This photographic portfolio stages rope-bound scenes with model Nakafuji Tamiko on a beach, showing several outdoor restraint positions at the water’s edge and on the shore.

The Queen’s Daily Routine: Washing Her Face

Haruhi Rumi and Koike Masami

In this staged episode of the Queen’s morning routine, a subordinate must remain behind her while she washes, taking care not to spill the cup of water and facing punishment for even a minor…

The Queen’s Daily Routine: Foot Service and Release

Haruhi Rumi and Koike Masami

A kneeling male servant greets the smoking Queen by attending to and kissing her feet, after which the routine culminates in his release from service.

Footstool

Haruhi Rumi and Koike Masami

The male subordinate is used as the Queen’s footstool and must continue supporting her feet while she finishes reading the letters delivered to her.

Dog Training

Haruhi Rumi and Koike Masami

A staged photographic feature depicts a woman training another person as an obedient “dog” through collaring, handling, and command-oriented physical discipline.

Outdoor Female Wrestling

Haruhi Rumi and Itabuki Makiko

A photographic sequence presents outdoor wrestling and grappling between women, framed as playful but coercive domination and punishment without ropes.

Erotic-Print Fantasies

Miyako Mineko

This illustrated feature surveys erotic ukiyo-e-inspired fantasies, including scenes of sexual submission, supernatural snake imagery, and imaginative encounters drawn from historical Japanese print culture.

Commemorative Photography

A staged photograph depicts a man preparing to tie his newlywed wife to a chair outdoors for a deliberately strange commemorative portrait.

Newlywed Autumn Game

Taki Reiko

An illustrated erotic scenario presents a newlywed woman in autumn dress and traditional settings undergoing playful restraint and display, accompanied by dialogue and changing poses.

Traditional-Costume Play

illustrated by Hanayama Kazuhisa

A multi-page illustrated feature portrays women in elaborate traditional Japanese costumes being tied, posed, and restrained in theatrical indoor and outdoor scenes.

Warning Against Violence

A cautionary illustrated feature depicts a woman bound and urges women to learn judo as a means of protecting themselves from violent attack.

Gags and New Women’s Shoes

A visual feature presents a gagging device for a “talkative woman” alongside photographs of a new style of women’s shoe.

Secret Photographic Album: Rope Poses, Part One

multiple models

A photographic album presents staged rope-binding poses of women, including standing, seated, and floor positions, as the first installment of a bondage portfolio.

Secret Photographic Album: Rope Poses, Part Two

multiple models

A photographic portfolio presents multiple models in rope-bound poses, including blindfolded and tightly restrained configurations, as a continuation of a secret album.

Fantasy of Rope and Whips

Sugihara Nijiko

A staged erotic photograph depicts a woman subjected to rope restraint amid whip imagery, presenting bondage as a fantasy tableau.

Nightmare

Sugihara Nijiko

An illustrated scene from the picture story “Nightmare” portrays a distressed woman in a threatening restraint scenario, framing coercion and fear through erotic narrative imagery.

Male Beauty and Abused-Masochist Poses

A visual feature juxtaposes an idealized portrait of youthful male beauty with a photograph of a consensual bondage scene in which a male participant is tied by the hands and ankles and subjected to…

After the Bath and Women’s Bathhouse Imagery

Kawabata Tanako and historical artist

This feature presents a woman relaxing in a yukata after bathing alongside eroticized bathhouse and moxibustion-room imagery drawn from historical visual culture.

Illustrated Floor Restraint Studies

An illustrated “Reiko tying-method classroom” experiments with floor-bound female figures in varied costumes and poses, presenting multiple rope-binding arrangements as stylized restraint studies.

Female Seppuku Studies

Kawai Kazuhito and others

A staged photographic study of female seppuku presents a woman posing with a blade at her abdomen, including scenes of simulated cutting and blood for an extreme erotic death fantasy.

A Feminist’s Page: Feet and Clothing

Kagawa Toshiko

This illustrated fetish feature focuses on the erotic display and handling of women’s feet, hands, and clothing, including images of a woman wiping a foot.

Submission and Overthrow

Haruhi Rumi and Koike Masami

A staged photographic sequence depicts a woman physically overpowering and subduing a prone man in a scene centered on domination and submission.

The Wisteria Woman

Futamata Shizuko

A serialized erotic narrative follows a woman whose life is marked by wartime displacement, exploitation, captivity, and coercive sexual encounters, combining personal tragedy with bondage imagery.

Collection: From My Scrapbook

Saji Kōsuke

A scrapbook-style collection presents and comments on erotic clippings and illustrations involving bondage, sexual scenarios, and an intense fascination with particular bodily features such as hair, mouths, and armpits.

Record of the Demon Insect

Hōno Mayumi, romanization uncertain

This supernatural erotic narrative depicts the intertwined exploits of Madame, Ruri, and other characters amid transformation, domination, restraint, sexual violence, and grotesque insect imagery.