Notes on Meiji-Period Newspapers, Part Three

Azuma Shin

A documentary-style survey of Meiji-period newspaper reports concerning foreign settlements, prostitution, trafficking, domestic abuse, wife-selling, sexual exploitation, sensational crimes, and the era’s criminal punishments, with commentary on their historical significance.

Cruel Women

Johannes R. Birlinger

A translated and illustrated excerpt from Johannes R. Birlinger’s 1901 work on the cruel treatment of women, presenting historical and ethnographic examples of wife and servant abuse, flogging, confinement, forced labor, and patriarchal domination.

The Appearance of the Seven-Transformation Monk

A serialized Edo-period erotic fantasy follows the violent exploits of the transforming monk Shichibake Kozō and associated characters, featuring pursuit, abduction, deception, sexual coercion, and elaborate rope restraints and punishments. Illustrated scenes emphasize bound,…

Reader Correspondence

A substantial reader-mail section presents letters responding to the magazine’s fiction, illustrations, photographs, bondage and erotic features, while also recording requests, criticisms, personal disclosures, and suggestions for future issues and reader participation.

Latest Book Guide

A catalog-style guide advertises newly available erotic photograph and illustration booklets, especially works featuring female nudity, abdominal cutting imagery, bondage, restraint, punishment, and fetishized bodies, with titles, creators, formats, and prices.

Night Reflections

An editorial marking the magazine’s resumption discusses its interrupted publication, rising printing and distribution costs, circulation difficulties, and plans to sustain regular issues through reader support and improved editorial content.

Publication and Subscription Information

A publishing-information section lists the contents of earlier Kitan Club issues, invites readers to submit fiction, essays, reports, photographs, illustrations, and ideas, and provides subscription, back-issue, pricing, and publisher-distribution details.

Bagworm

An erotic illustration depicts a woman tightly bound and hoisted into the air like a bagworm, presented as a spectacle for onlookers and as an imagined form of public display.

A Small Athletic Meet

An erotic illustration and accompanying text portray a woman struggling through a small athletic meet while restrained and urged to run, turning physical exertion into a scene of coercion and humiliation.

Drifting Woman

A pair of erotic illustrations presents women in stylized drifting or reclining poses, emphasizing vulnerable bodily positioning and visual spectacle.

Spoils of the Gambling House

An illustrated erotic narrative depicts women seized after a gambling-house episode, gagged and rope-bound before being carried into a storehouse as sacrificial victims.

A Scene from Gulliver's Travels

Kitahara Sumiko

A two-panel erotic adaptation of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels shows a nude giant woman restrained and surrounded by Lilliputian people, with the miniature society examining her body.

Female Missionary

Sugihara Kōji

An illustrated erotic fantasy depicts a female missionary or trainer captured and restrained in a fantastical Lilliput-like setting, combining narrative captions with staged bondage imagery.

The Captive of the Little Island

A captivity fantasy recounts a woman awakening naked and tied on the shore of the Little Island, where miniature officials and a royal procession inspect and display her body.

Farewell

Furukawa Hiroko

This extended fictional work follows Yūko through troubled romantic and sexual relationships, confessional exchanges, fantasies of isolation, and episodes of coercion, restraint, humiliation, and domination. The narrative repeatedly examines the psychological conflict between desire,…

Theory of the Abnormal Novel

Satō Masuo

Satō Masuo offers a literary-critical theory of the “abnormal novel,” classifying its treatments of sadism, masochism, fetishism, and erotic transformation while discussing the genre’s narrative techniques, psychological appeal, and social significance.

Ten Months in Captivity

Haruta Ichirō

A first-person captivity memoir recounts ten months spent in a prison environment, focusing on the medical department, inmates, guards, institutional routines, illness, food, and the narrator’s shifting relationships with staff and fellow prisoners.

How I Punish Him

Takarazuka Fumio

An illustrated practical feature presents a woman’s methods of punishing and disciplining a male partner through commands, bondage, restraint, corporal punishment, teasing, humiliation, and staged erotic role-play.

Lesbianism and Enemas

Kajimura Kyōsuke

A sexological advice article examines a woman’s same-sex desire and relationship with a female partner, particularly the erotic and relational significance of enemas, while considering how the situation affects her marriage and future choices.

Female Belly-Cutting in Training Clothes

Kameyama Hideo

A short erotic narrative depicts a woman in training clothes undergoing belly-cutting as a stylized act of violent punishment and sexualized submission.

Playing with Life

Futamata Shizuko

This serialized erotic story follows Sumie and Nobuo through a volatile relationship involving marital conflict, coercive sexual games, bondage, humiliation, and escalating danger, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

From the Notebook of a Certain Masochist

Numa Shōzō

A first-person notebook-style account describes a masochist’s fantasies, desires, sexual experiences, and reflections on fetishistic relationships, punishment, social stigma, and the search for sympathetic companionship.

The Woman Who Laughs Under Torture

Tsujiura Takashi

A first-person erotic narrative follows an artist’s increasingly sadistic experiments with a female model, who endures elaborate restraints and torture while laughing, accompanied by an erotic illustration of a woman bound to a guillotine-like…

Landing Before the Enemy

Mikine Kōji

A dark erotic narrative depicts a boy or young man subjected to authoritarian captivity, interrogation, forced exposure, physical punishment, and humiliating restraint in a prison- or institutional setting.

Okyū and the Loincloth

Nagaharu Osamu

This autobiographical fetish account traces the author’s long-standing erotic fascination with women’s loincloths and moxa treatment, recalling domestic and school-age encounters in which clothing, bodily inspection, and therapeutic pain become sexualized.

Confusion

Kawashita Jun'ichi

An extended first-person erotic essay describes the author’s fixation on tying women, recounting fantasies and experiences involving rope wrapping, waist binding, concealment, and the visual appeal of restrained female bodies.

Let Me Wear Your Underwear

Yoshino Mayumi

A personal erotic confession and reader-style exchange centers on the desire to obtain, wear, and imagine women’s underwear, discussing cross-dressing, intimate clothing, secrecy, and fetishistic fascination.

Praise of Bodily Beauty

Itō Susumu

This essay praises the erotic and aesthetic qualities of the traditional Japanese fundoshi, describing its fit, tying, bodily contours, and heightened sensual effect in everyday and bathing contexts.

Fireside Talk

Izuta Osamu

A conversational erotic anecdote set around a rural social gathering describes flirtation, drinking, sexual pursuit, and the manipulation of appearances and reputation, accompanied by a staged image of a woman in traditional dress.

Jealousy and Woman

Kaji Shin'ichi

This fictional account follows a hostess whose relationships with male customers become entangled with money, sexual access, jealousy, secrecy, and competing expectations of affection and marriage.

Cruel Women

Johannes R. Birlinger

A translated case-based essay examines allegedly cruel women through historical and contemporary examples of female violence, domestic abuse, punishment, sadism, and social responses to women who inflict suffering.

From Cruelty to Sadism

Okinoya Sumiko

A first-person sadomasochistic narrative traces a woman’s experiences of abuse, coercion, and punishment as she moves from the position of victim toward sadistic control, accompanied by illustrations of violent restraint and corporal domination.

Notes on Meiji-Period Newspapers, Part Four

Azuma Shin

This historical column surveys sensational Meiji-era newspaper reports involving domestic conflict, sexual scandal, violence, female resistance, and unusual crimes, presenting them as evidence of changing social and sexual attitudes.

The Dawn of the City of Sodom

Mori Tadashi

Framed as the confession of a male sodomist, this erotic narrative recounts a night at a Japanese hot-spring city involving the pursuit of male companionship, clandestine desire, and sexual encounters in public and private…

Complete Submission

Sakata Shinji

A first-person erotic narrative portrays a young man’s intense submission to his father’s harsh discipline, especially through scenes involving horse riding, clothing, and corporal punishment.

A Certain Sodomite's Confession

Asaji Noboru

An autobiographical confession traces the narrator’s developing attraction to men from childhood through military service, describing same-sex longing, fantasy, and emotionally charged encounters with male comrades.

Longing for Sadism

Kyōmachi Shin'ichirō

This short illustrated essay explores the narrator’s fascination with sadism, presenting sadistic desire as a psychologically compelling erotic impulse.

Corncob Stories

Editorial Department

An editorial miscellany on fetishism surveys unusual fixations involving body parts—especially ears and earwax—and also presents imaginative erotic anecdotes and reader-contributed fantasies.

The Actress's Bare Feet

Takahara Masao

This essay examines actresses’ bare feet in detail, discussing their shapes, toes, size, and the erotic fascination they can provoke in spectators and photographers.

Record of Yuriko

Watanabe Yō

Yuriko recounts her life and sexual exploitation in a first-person record, moving from her upbringing into nude photographic modeling, nude performance, and other forms of commercialized erotic display and service.

To a Certain Model

A love-letter-style piece addressed to model Nagase Akiko, reflecting on her published image, physical presence, posing, and the charged relationship between model and male observer.

The Screen of Film Magazines and Theater

Watashiba Den'ichirō

An illustrated survey of bondage scenes in films, magazines, and theater, discussing how restraint, danger, eroticism, and dramatic staging are represented across popular media.

Blowing Pool

Kondō Kikuya

A long experience-based narrative set around a hospital ward, portraying impoverished and institutionalized patients, harsh treatment, sexual tensions, and the patients’ collective efforts to demand humane reforms. It culminates in formal demands and an…

The Acrobat Troupe

Yamada Makoto

An observational essay on a Chinese acrobat troupe and circus performers, focusing on their extraordinary feats, bodily discipline, costumes, and the spectators’ fascinated response to their bodies in performance.

A Faint Masochism Seen in Film, Continued

Haruki Toshio

A continuation of the author’s survey of films that portray faint or muted forms of masochism, discussing female characters, eroticized vulnerability, humiliation, and the suggestive emotional power of cinematic scenes.

Ideas for the Third Album

Narumi Fumio

A proposal soliciting reader ideas for the magazine’s third album, listing possible photographed bondage compositions and inviting contributions to shape the next collection.

Thoughts on Women's Professional Wrestling

Kiyama Shinsaku

An essay on the rapid popularity of women’s professional wrestling examines its performers, match techniques, bodily presentation, audience appeal, and prospects for future development.

Secret Obscenity

Aoba Jun'ichi

An erotic fantasy narrated from a woman’s perspective depicts a frightening nighttime encounter involving pursuit, captivity, physical restraint, and conflicted sensations of fear and desire.

Blooming in the Soil of Shared Bedding

Amadoro Kansai

This reflective essay considers same-sex desire, arguing that homosexual inclinations can emerge naturally and criticizing social prejudice, ignorance, and restrictive moral judgments.

Reader Correspondence

A reader-mail section presents personal accounts, questions, requests, and editorial replies concerning erotic experiences, relationships, bondage, and sexual concerns.

Latest Kitan Club Books

A multi-page promotional catalog advertises recent Kitan Club and related erotic publications, including illustrated and photographic works focused on bondage, fetishism, bodies, and sexual scenarios.

Ancestral Female Belly-Cutting

Furukawa Shinsuke

An anecdotal historical account examines the practice of women cutting their own abdomens, presenting family lore and testimony about a woman who performed or threatened such an act with a small knife.

Editorial and Publication Information

The closing publication page combines a preview of the forthcoming issue with reader-exchange information and practical editorial or subscription notices.

Advertisements and Subscription Notices

A densely packed advertising and subscription section promotes Kitan Club and related publications, erotic books, photographic collections, model-photo contests, illustration and writing opportunities, and mail-order purchasing.

Painful Dream

Shima Takashi

An illustrated dream sequence portrays a woman bound with rope and suspended upside down, awakening in an atmosphere of painful suffocation and distress.

The Second Exposure Banquet

Miyazaki Shōhei

This illustrated erotic scene depicts a strange banquet in which a bound participant is displayed before an amused gathering, following an episode of coercive drinking and exposure.

Nylon Raincoat

A photographic feature presents a model bound while wearing a nylon raincoat, emphasizing the garment’s tactile and fetishistic appeal.

What Kind of Pose Shall I Take?

A photographic feature presents model Sagawa Michiko posed seated and bound with a rope, accompanied by a caption describing her first experience of being tied for the camera.

My Wrists Hurt, Untie Me Quickly

A photographic feature shows model Kaga Rieko in several tightly bound poses, with the accompanying text dramatizing discomfort as the rope tightens around her wrists and circulation is affected.

Night Thief

Shima Takashi

This illustrated historical erotic tale follows a warlord’s daughter who is captured by opportunistic thieves amid the chaos of the Warring States period and subjected to sexualized captivity.

Warring States

Shima Takashi

A richly illustrated historical erotic fiction presents Hime’s capture by armed men during Japan’s Warring States period, followed by repeated scenes of gagging, binding, pursuit, rescue, and renewed captivity.

Notes on Meiji-Period Newspapers

Azuma Shin

This historical newspaper survey assembles Meiji-era reports and advertisements concerning marriage, women’s schooling and compulsory nude physical examinations, domestic abuse, sensational murders, and the administration of corporal punishment in Korea.

Reader Communications

A reader-correspondence page presents letters and editorial replies about the magazine’s reception, readership, requested subjects, and submitted material, while inviting continued contributions and support.

Wandering in Swaddling Clothes

Hanno Tōma

A first-person fetish narrative recounts the writer’s fascination with diapers and diaper-like garments, describing encounters, fantasies, remembered incidents, and the influence of Japanese and imported erotic imagery.

Black Slave Training

Kuroiwa Iwao

An erotic fantasy recounts a white youth’s capture and enslavement of a Black girl on a South Seas island, including domestic labor, chaining, corporal discipline, and sexualized domination.

A Certain Seppuku Maniac's Essay

Kasahara Magonosuke

Framed as a passionate letter, this dark erotic fantasy describes a lover’s fixation on seppuku, blood, blades, bodily injury, and sadomasochistic surrender.

Women Bound in Enjoyable New Year Films

Minega Miya

This film-oriented feature surveys Japanese New Year movie scenes in which actresses are captured, tied, suspended, or otherwise restrained, discussing the staging and appeal of bondage imagery.

Ten Months in Captivity

Haruta Ichirō

A first-person memoir of ten months in prison, describing confinement, penal labor, meals, medical routines, relations among inmates and staff, and the humiliations and tensions of institutional life.

Introduction to the Yamaguchi Bodybuilding Method

Yamaguchi Kōichi

An instructional presentation of the Yamaguchi bodybuilding method, explaining exercises, equipment, body-strengthening routines, and practical training experiences intended to improve physical development.

The Beauty of the Kilt

Kashimura Takehiko

An essay on the erotic and aesthetic appeal of the kilt as a revealing garment, considering bodily exposure, tight clothing, spectatorship, and the psychological responses produced by dress and partial nudity.

The Taste of the Demon

Takagi Nobuo

Takagi Nobuo combines observations of animal excretion and mating behavior with autobiographical accounts of fetishistic encounters, exploring the erotic significance of feces, enemas, and other taboo bodily pleasures.

The Sadism of Dr. Erskine

Nonaka Aizō

Nonaka Aizō presents a literary-psychological study of Dostoevsky’s sadistic imagination, connecting episodes from the author’s life, family background, writings, and reception to recurring themes of cruelty, domination, and sexualized violence.

Thoughts on Female Horse Riding

Baba Takatsugu

Baba Takatsugu reflects on the erotic meanings of women riding horses, combining personal recollections, magazine and film references, riding attire, bodily movement, and fantasies of female physical power and display.

How I Punish Him

Takarazuka Fumio

An erotic narrative depicts a male subject being disciplined by dominant women through elaborate bondage, blindfolding, gagging, positional restraint, and sensory control, interwoven with dialogue and staged scenes.

On the Seppuku of Female Swordswomen

Aoyama Yoshiki

This essay examines the eroticized image and symbolism of female swordswomen performing seppuku, discussing traditional clothing, ritual staging, bodily detail, blood, and the appeal of the scene in historical and visual culture.

Letter to Kasuga Rune

Moriguchi Ayako

A reader letter to Kasuga Rumi expresses a male devotee’s desire to serve a female dominant, recounting submissive fantasies and requesting continued interaction and guidance.

Miserable

A first-person account of life in a juvenile correctional institution describes solitary confinement, forced nudity, beatings, humiliating punishments, and the arbitrary brutality of institutional discipline.

I Accuse: The Problem of Abu

Mizukami Ryūtarō

Mizukami Ryūtarō presents a provocative first-person “accusation” of Abu while reflecting on sadism, masochism, gendered desire, violence, and the psychological boundary between erotic fascination and cruelty.