Twelve Forms of Contemporary Binding

Takiko

A visual survey presents twelve forms of contemporary Japanese binding, showing restrained figures in varied rope-bound positions with brief handwritten labels.

Punishment in the Twelfth Lunar Month

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu describes an Edo-period Yoshiwara punishment scene in which a courtesan is subjected to severe restraint and “fire punishment,” framed as warmth during the cold twelfth lunar month.

Illustrated Floor and Household Restraint

Miyako Mineko

An illustrated instructional feature demonstrates several floor-based and household restraint arrangements, depicting bound bodies, ropes, and positional variations in domestic settings.

Broom Torment

Seki

An illustrated erotic sequence depicts a woman subjected to broom-based torment while restrained in a series of posed bondage and punishment scenes.

Mask and Bound Hands and Feet

A photographic feature presents a masked woman with her hands and feet tightly bound, emphasizing immobilization and sensory restriction.

Tall Woven Boots

A photographic fetish feature focuses on a pair of tall lace-up woven boots worn by a white woman, presenting the footwear and feet as eroticized visual objects.

Spider

An erotic illustration titled “Spider” depicts a woman entwined with or threatened by a large spider-like figure in a dark, fantastical scene.

River Imp

Seki

“River Imp,” by Seki, is an erotic fantasy illustration based on the Japanese kappa folklore motif, showing a woman in a surreal encounter with a river creature.

Cruel Women: Illustrated Examples

commentary by Morimoto Aizō

Morimoto Aizō presents an illustrated and photographic survey of “cruel women,” discussing Western images of dominant women who humiliate, punish, control, or otherwise overpower men in staged erotic scenes.

Playful Domestic Service: Washing

A staged domestic-service scene shows a woman using a submissive man as a living stand while she handles a washbasin and prepares to apply makeup.

Playful Domestic Service: Trampling

A photographic sequence depicts a dominant woman trampling and pressing her feet against a submissive man, presenting the act as a playful but humiliating queen-and-servant scene.

Service, Part One: Chair

The first “chair” service exercise presents a woman seated or supported above a kneeling man in a shoulder-ride posture, who must maintain the position until released by his dominant mistress.

Service, Part Two: Shrimp Binding

A photographic feature depicts a woman secured in a compact shrimp-style bondage posture as part of a punishment or service scene.

Newlywed Bondage Fantasy: Departure

Hanayama Kazuhisa

An erotic illustration presents a newlywed domestic bondage fantasy in which a husband restrains his bride while attempting to take her temperature.

Newlywed Bondage Fantasy: Waterfall

Hanayama Kazuhisa

An erotic illustration depicts a newlywed domestic scene in which a husband approaches his resisting wife with an enema apparatus.

New Restraint Clothing

Shikata Takashi

An erotic illustration presents a man and woman modeling an elaborate outfit incorporating straps, belts, and other restrictive elements.

Private-Room Play

Shikata Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a private-room scene in which a woman is held and restrained with ropes and chains by a male partner.

Punishment Platform

Yoda Seiichi and Owazaki Hiroshi

This illustrated feature presents a punishment platform and related surrealistic scenes of figures secured with ropes, wires, and specialized restraint furniture.

A Year Wearing a Fundoshi

A photographic feature presents a young male wearing a fundoshi, alongside staged images of undressing associated with women’s underwear fetishism.

Outdoor Trampling and Whipping

Haruhi Rumi and two models

A staged outdoor sequence depicts models pursuing, knocking down, binding, trampling, and striking a restrained subject in a wooded setting.

Photographic Outdoor Rope Sequence

Haruhi Rumi and models

A step-by-step photographic sequence demonstrates outdoor rope restraint, including tying a subject to a pine tree, manipulating posture, and completing the bound pose.

Mirror of Delusion

Hōrōkyō, credit reading uncertain

An erotic illustration titled “Mirror of Delusion” depicts a figure enclosed in an ornate, fantastical setting surrounded by grotesque, possibly demonic forms.

Hell

Jōkō Juku, credit reading uncertain

An erotic illustration titled “Hell” portrays nude figures undergoing torment amid demonic imagery in an infernal landscape.

Shrimp Binding

Kawabata Tanako

“Shrimp Binding” presents a photographic bondage feature showing a woman posed and secured with chains in a tightly folded, restrained position.

Kimono Suspension

Kawabata Tanako

A photographic feature presents a woman in a patterned kimono suspended and restrained with rope, emphasizing the interaction of traditional clothing, posture, and bondage display.

Waist Restraint

contributor credit uncertain

A photographic study depicts a woman kneeling while bound around the waist, presenting a staged restraint posture as a visual demonstration.

Yuriko’s Adventure

Inoue Kazuo, credit reading uncertain

This illustrated serialized erotic adventure follows Yuriko as she is pursued and forcibly restrained by men aboard a ship, escapes into the sea, reaches a tropical island, and encounters unfamiliar island inhabitants amid continuing…

An Invitation to Rope Play

Tsujimura Takashi

An instructional dialogue presents rope-play scenarios involving wives, lovers, students, and other partners, explaining methods of binding the body, blindfolding and gagging, positional restraint, and suspension through accompanying photographs and drawings.

The Woman of the Brothel

Mori Jun’nosuke

An erotic narrative follows a brothel woman whose encounters with the male narrator develop through themes of captivity, restraint, submission, jealousy, and forbidden desire, illustrated with staged bondage scenes.

Continued Diary of an Enema Maniac

Hanamura Emiko

A continuation of a fetish diary recounts the author’s intense interest in enemas, including intimate experiences, medical examinations, hospital visits, equipment, fluids, and increasingly elaborate procedures involving partners and acquaintances.

The Education of the Jealous Man

Nakaya Reiichi

A pseudo-medical and psychological essay examines pathological jealousy through case-like accounts of abnormal sexuality, including masochistic fantasies, self-binding, and morbid ideas about death and sexual control.

On Arms as Female Beauty

Yamaguchi Sanjūshi, romanization uncertain

An illustrated essay treats the female arm as an object of erotic beauty, discussing its shape, skin, hair, musculature, grooming, and the emotional and cultural meanings attached to its display.

Night-Light Island, Part Three

Kurihara Mugishin; illustrations by Shinjō

The third installment of a serialized erotic adventure follows encounters on an isolated island involving pursuit, coercion, captivity, verbal humiliation, restraint with ropes and household objects, and escalating sexual domination.

Obsession with Women’s Necks

Kasa Kazuten, romanization uncertain

An essay on an intense erotic fixation with women’s necks, illustrated through scenes of neck-focused restraint, handling, and visual attention.

The Woman with Red Armpits: Confession of My Armpit History

Saji Kōsuke

A first-person confession tracing the author’s armpit fetish, including erotic encounters, fantasies, clothing, body hair, and staged scenes of armpit-focused restraint and display.

Diaper Torment

Akai Shigeru

An illustrated feature describing diapering as an erotic torment practice, emphasizing diapers, immobilization, humiliation, and punitive control.

From My Manga Scrapbook

Haruki Toshino, romanization uncertain

A scrapbook-based survey of striking manga and magazine clippings, discussing bizarre and erotic imagery, changing publishing practices, and the appeal of sensational illustrations to readers.

The Escaped Prisoner

Shinohara Sakue

A serialized erotic crime-and-captivity narrative follows an escaped prisoner through pursuit, recapture, interrogation, confinement, and humiliating punishment by female authorities and their associates.

Enema Curiosities

Ōki Takashi, romanization uncertain

An illustrated first-person account of enema examinations and treatments emphasizes medicalized bodily exposure, embarrassment, coercive examination, and the narrator’s fascination with the procedure and its apparatus.

The Merits and Faults of the Navel in Senryū

Sudō Ritsuo

An essay examines the merits, faults, and erotic associations of the navel through humorous senryū, drawing on examples that connect bodily appearance, pregnancy, beauty, and intimate observation.

The Compulsive Undresser

Aoba Shin’ichi

A case-style psychological account explores compulsive undressing, describing public and private episodes of male and female nudity while considering exhibitionistic impulses, social inhibition, and possible clinical causes.

Further Reflections on Female Seppuku

Taya Takao; illustrations by Umeda Junzō

An illustrated essay surveys female seppuku as a historical and imaginative motif, combining literary scenarios, visual depictions, wartime and peacetime comparisons, case statistics, and discussion of motives, gender, and eroticized violence.

The Disappeared Hose

Shirogane Kōji

An erotic serialized story follows a company group and married couple on a hot-spring excursion, where social encounters, bathing arrangements, disguise, and a missing stocking generate embarrassment and suggestive complications.

Cruelty to the Abdomen

Ōshima Hajime

A prose-and-illustration feature surveys sadistic fantasies focused on cutting, piercing, binding, and otherwise tormenting the abdomen, presenting elaborate scenarios of bodily injury and distress.

Women, Flowers of Crucifixion

Nakagawa Fusao; illustrations by Shikata Takashi

A historical erotic narrative depicts women subjected to crucifixion, restraint, interrogation, and execution amid Edo-period violence, concluding with extended fantasies of female abdominal cutting and ritualized death. Its illustrations emphasize staged scenes of punishment,…

Contemporary Masochism Art Criticism

Hara Tadamasa

An art-critical essay examines contemporary masochism through opera, cinema, music, painting, and literary representation, arguing that masochistic aesthetics emerge through psychologically charged images of suffering, restraint, and eroticized power. It discusses works and artists…

Tight Bond

Kusanagi Hisato

A serialized erotic narrative follows a married couple whose relationship develops through coercive encounters, binding, confinement, humiliation, and escalating struggles over authority, desire, and secrecy. The story repeatedly links domestic intimacy with physical restraint…

A Record of Lesbos

Murai Keiko, credit reading uncertain

A literary account of Lesbos explores female same-sex desire through references to Sappho and tribadism, combining reflections on sexual psychology with scenes of attraction, jealousy, secrecy, and intimate correspondence. Its episodes trace how forbidden…

Sexual Fluids, Part Eleven

Itō Seiu

The eleventh installment of a transgressive erotic narrative presents theatrical scenes of sexual display, coercion, nudity, and voyeuristic spectatorship among performers and audiences.

A Study of Female Wrestling Beauty

Kitajima Kazutoshi, romanization uncertain

An illustrated study of female wrestling examines wrestling holds, bodily strength, movement, and the eroticized visual appeal of wrestlers’ bodies, especially the breasts, hips, legs, and buttocks.

Ten Months in Confinement

Haruta Ichirō

A first-person account of ten months in confinement describes prison cells, surveillance, inspections, labor, meals, daily schedules, interpersonal tensions, and the psychological effects of incarceration.

On Enema Play

Hamura Kyōko

Hamura Kyōko presents a practical account of enema play, describing equipment, insertion methods, body positions, quantities, and precautions, accompanied by instructional illustrations of restrained participants.

Recollections of Moxibustion Mania

Hosaka Shin, credit reading uncertain

Hosaka Shin recounts a moxibustion fixation involving repeated therapeutic and eroticized applications of heat, bodily exposure, restraint, and the intense sensations associated with treatment.

A Cross-Dressing Photography Maniac

Suzuki Jūzō

Suzuki Jūzō describes a cross-dressing photography enthusiast who collects women’s clothing, transforms his appearance, poses for photographs, and pursues increasingly elaborate staged images and private fantasies.

The Life of Rakukichi

Hakubundō Kichiroku, credit reading uncertain

A serialized autobiographical erotic narrative follows Rakukichi from school and adolescence into adult life, emphasizing his repeated encounters with physically and psychologically dominant women, humiliation, punishment, and male submission. The illustrated episodes also depict…

A Teacher’s Confession

contributor credit uncertain

Presented as a teacher’s first-person confession, this episode describes the sexualized disciplining, coercion, and humiliation of younger male subordinates, framed through workplace hierarchy and the narrator’s sadistic control.

Perversion Through Extremes and Contradictions

Kitajima Kazutoshi

Kitajima Kazutoshi reflects on extreme and contradictory forms of sexual desire through autobiographical encounters, discussing fetishistic attraction, voyeuristic observation, pursuit of women, and fantasies of domination, bodily transformation, and humiliation. The closing material also…

From My Miscellaneous Reflections

Nakagawa Fusao

A personal miscellany reflecting on the contents and presentation of a recent erotic magazine issue, including its visual material, readers’ reactions, and the author’s preferences for future publishing.

The Lifeline My Father Gave Me

Tobita Ryōji

A sensational fictional narrative in which Aiko is confined in a psychiatric hospital, subjected to coercive medicalized abuse and restraint, and drawn into a violent escape and revenge plot involving her father and the…

The Plaza of Evil

Kawada Junko, credit reading uncertain

A multi-part sensational feature combining purported case accounts, personal testimonies, and editorial commentary about unusual sexual behavior, coercion, medical treatment, humiliation, and the psychology of masochistic desire.

A Correctional-Psychology Response to Perversion

editorial or specialist contributor

This essay challenges prevailing interpretations of “perversion” in group psychology, arguing that social and political pressures can produce or magnify supposedly deviant behavior and that such cases should be examined with greater psychological nuance.

Female Seppuku in Historical Printed Works

Kawai Itsuko

Kawai Itsuko examines depictions of female seppuku in early Japanese kusazōshi and related printed narratives, discussing recurring scenes of women’s self-disembowelment, loyalty, sacrifice, and dramatic eroticized violence.

Recollections of a Hernia Belt

Mori Ta

Mori Ta recounts childhood and adolescent experiences involving a hernia belt, medical examinations, bodily exposure, discipline, and the lasting fascination these encounters created, accompanied by illustrations of the remembered scenes.

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

A translated and annotated survey of historical anecdotes about cruel women, emphasizing female authority, domestic discipline, corporal punishment, and sadistic treatment of children, servants, and husbands.

On a Day of Love

Furukawa Yūko

A serialized erotic narrative in which a woman’s intense love and emotional dependence become entangled with coercion, bondage, beatings, humiliation, and repeated scenes of physical restraint, accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrations.

Actresses Who Were Bound

Ioka Kinshū, romanization uncertain

An illustrated feature surveys stories and staged depictions of actresses being tied, describing bondage scenes, restraint methods, and the erotic appeal of female captives in theatrical and cinematic contexts.

On Four Beautiful Women’s Noses

Kitaya Mizo, romanization uncertain

An illustrated essay examines the noses of four women presented as beautiful, comparing their shapes, proportions, and facial effects while discussing changing ideals of feminine beauty and cosmetic judgment.

From a Masochist’s Notebook

contributor credit uncertain

A serialized first-person masochist’s notebook recounts fantasies and encounters involving submission, humiliation, service, and discipline under socially dominant women, framed through class, gender, and authority relations.

To Ibuki Misako

contributor credit uncertain

A letter addressed to Ibuki Misako discusses staged bondage photography, including breast restraints, nudity, rope work, poses, and the visual presentation of the female model’s body.

The Hero of Perversion: Oda Nobunaga

Yasuda Kazuo, credit reading uncertain

An illustrated historical erotic narrative portrays Oda Nobunaga’s cruelty, sexual domination, captivity, punishment, and encounters with performers and subjects amid Sengoku-era warfare and courtly life.

Masochism Correspondence

multiple readers

A reader-correspondence section presents readers’ and editors’ exchanges about masochistic and sadistic interests, erotic photographs, illustrations, posing, clothing, and requests for future magazine material.

Lesbos Correspondence

multiple readers

A reader-correspondence section collecting accounts and questions about female homosexuality, lesbian desire, gender presentation, and related erotic experiences.

Enema Correspondence

multiple readers

Readers exchange detailed personal accounts and practical observations concerning enemas, intestinal cleansing, enema devices, bodily sensations, and the erotic use of enemas.

Abdominal-Cutting and Cross-Dressing Correspondence

multiple readers

Correspondence discussing abdominal-cutting imagery and fantasies, including requests for and descriptions of scenes involving female bodies and cross-dressing.

Prize Announcements, Editorial Notes, Contents, and Publication Information

Front matter and house notices announce contest results and forthcoming features, list the issue’s contents and contributors, solicit reader submissions and photographs, and provide subscription, mail-order, and publication information for Kitan Club.

Ten Scenes of Yoshiwara in Senryū (川柳吉原風景十態)

A ten-panel illustrated senryū feature depicts erotic and comic scenes associated with Yoshiwara pleasure quarters, including flirtation, sexual teasing, voyeurism, and playful restraint.

Ink Blackening (墨ぬり)

Kudaka Kazuhisa

An erotic illustration by Kudaka Kazuhisa portrays a kimono-clad woman engaged in an ink-brushing or ink-blackening scene, emphasizing stylized Japanese beauty, costume, and fetishized visual presentation.

The Bloodstained Reins (血染の手綱)

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu’s illustrated erotic narrative presents a historical-period tale of sexual coercion, voyeuristic spectacle, punishment, and women subjected to elaborate restraint, including rope and snake imagery.