The Gambler

Miho Shizuko

An erotic fiction sequence centered on gambling, wagers, and the shifting relationships between men and women. The narrative portrays sexual awakening, seduction, jealousy, betrayal, and manipulation in nightlife and other intimate urban settings.

The Woman Who Haunts the Public Telephone

Tsubaki Akihiko

An erotic urban narrative involving a woman whose encounters are arranged or complicated through public telephones and secret communications. The story explores anonymity, sexual intrigue, deception, and shifting power between women and men.

Torture

Kataya Kaoru

A dramatized account of abuse by Japan’s Special Higher Police, depicting interrogation, physical torture, intimidation, and sexual violence against detainees. The narrative emphasizes coerced confessions, institutional cruelty, and the lasting psychological effects of police…

Continuation of the Octopus Story

Continuation of a serialized erotic story in which jealousy, suspicion, and troubled relationships lead to scenes of coercive sexual domination and bondage. Dialogue and embedded anecdotes frame the characters’ fascination with restraint, violence, and…

Shiri-Shiri

Masuda Shirō

An erotic comic-fiction narrative centered on Yuki and other characters whose encounters involve sexual teasing, voyeurism, exposure, and repeated fascination with the buttocks. The prose combines dialogue, escalating embarrassment, fetishistic humor, and illustrated slapstick…

Secret History of the Indian Court: Women of the Palace

Nakazawa Kōhei

An illustrated, sensationalized account of women associated with an Indian royal court, framed as a “secret history” and blending pseudo-historical exposition with stories of palace women, rulers, servants, marriage, childbirth, and sexual relations. The…

The Erotic Night Sash

Midorikawa Takehiko

An Edo-period erotic melodrama follows the intertwined desires of Gonza, Oyuki, and others amid clandestine meetings, seduction, jealousy, and shifting sexual alliances. The story develops into a tale of marital betrayal and revenge, culminating…

A Fine and an Attached Letter

Hokkai Hirozume

A comic-erotic story centers on Kasai, an electrical-company inspector who discovers unauthorized use of electrical equipment in Chiyo’s household and threatens a fine. His investigation turns into flirtation and sexual bargaining, with the fine,…

The Woman Who Showed Her Body

Matsutani Shigeru

A sensationalized erotic case narrative recounts a woman’s encounters with men during travel and at a hot-spring inn, including deliberate body display, voyeuristic attention, and sexual experimentation. The account develops into an emotionally troubled…

The Woman Boatman of Yobuko Harbor

Iguchi Masanori

An eroticized harbor narrative centers on a young woman who works as a boatwoman at Yobuko Harbor, describing her maritime labor, interactions with visiting sailors and passengers, and the sexual relationships that develop around…

Oroku of the Mountain People

Kasagi Yoshio

A sensational fictional narrative about Oroku, a woman from a remote mountain community, whose relationships with men become entangled in betrayal, jealousy, pursuit, and violent confrontation. The story combines erotic melodrama with depictions of…

Fire Play at the Apartment for Working Women

Kojima Shinji

A fictional drama set in an apartment housing kept women, where financial dependence, loneliness, and the women’s relationships with visiting men produce rivalry and emotional upheaval. Secret affairs and attempts to escape restrictive circumstances…

The Lustful General and the Serpent Actress

Takahashi Yoshinobu

An erotic historical adventure in which a powerful general becomes entangled with a seductive actress whose beauty and provocative behavior disrupt military discipline and household order. The story combines sexual intrigue, manipulation, jealousy, and…

Terror in Hokkaidō

Aizan Hisashi

A political adventure serial imagining a violent foreign invasion of Hokkaidō, accompanied by maps, military speculation, espionage, and resistance planning. Fishermen, villagers, soldiers, and Communist organizers become involved in a tense struggle over coastal…

Entertainment Columns, Reader Features, Puzzles, and Editorial Notices

Editorial Department

A miscellaneous editorial section combining a candid advice column on sexual and marital concerns with entertainment features, humorous manga, shogi puzzles and problems, short-fiction and manuscript solicitations, reader correspondence, and publication notices. It also…

Walking the Streets of Food

A journalistic tour of Osaka’s Shinsekai and Janjan Yokocho, documenting its food stalls, inexpensive eateries, pachinko parlors, cafés, bathhouses, and surrounding street life. The feature combines social observation with illustrated scenes of working-class leisure,…

Ehehehe Adult

Machi Keisuke

A comic serialized fiction follows a mysterious, physically imposing man whose strange behavior and encounters with women, employers, and military figures produce farcical complications. The narrative expands into an eccentric wartime and secret-mission adventure…

The Female Stowaway Unit Lands

Tsugumo Toshirō

A reportage-style account describes a group of Korean women and children secretly crossing by boat to Tsushima, portraying their poverty, fear, concealment, and efforts to survive amid postwar border surveillance. It also follows the…

First Night at a Hot-Spring Inn

Minato Harumichi

An erotic narrative set during a newlywed couple’s first night at a hot-spring inn. Through conversations, observation, and sexual encounters, it explores honeymoon expectations, marital intimacy, and the atmosphere of commercial hot-spring travel.

Oden’s Hell of Earthly Desires

Numamura Hiroshi

An erotic melodrama centered on Oden and Sakichi in a hot-spring village, where desire, seduction, deception, and social vulnerability lead to jealousy and violent conflict. The story combines explicit bathhouse and lodging scenes with…

Young Lovers Who Died for Love

Harada Haruo

An essay examines cases of lovers who died together or attempted suicide, discussing romantic attachment, despair, social circumstances, and the varied forms of “love death.” It also considers how such incidents were reported and…

Warship March

A long illustrated satirical serial built around colloquial conversations among shopkeepers, workers, couples, and other urban characters. Through comic scenes of shopping, entertainment, romance, domestic life, popular amusements, and references to military equipment and…

Pure Love Journey

Minato Saburō

An erotic serialized narrative following a company employee on business travels between Japanese cities, where workplace relationships, money, and personal ambitions intersect with romantic and sexual encounters. The story combines travelogue-like episodes with illustrated…

The Remarkable Thing

Wakamizu Yutaka

An erotic essay and anecdotal tale centered on the term “remarkable thing” (逸物), discussing its suggestive etymology and its association with exceptional male sexual endowment. A historical or legendary episode involving a sexually charged…

Once Upon a Time: Erotic Gleanings from the Battlefront

Shimode Shōichi

A humorous collection of erotic anecdotes attributed to wartime military life, describing soldiers’ encounters, barracks culture, and sexual adventures around the battlefront. The piece uses comic reminiscence and anecdotal storytelling to portray masculine camaraderie…

The Fairy of Heike Valley

Numanuki Kenjirō

An erotic grotesque fiction set around the remote Heike Valley, following encounters among men and women whose desires, deceptions, and bodily transformations unfold in rural and hot-spring environments. The narrative combines supernatural or fairy-like…

Chastity at Midnight

Matsutani Shigeru

A serialized erotic fiction centered on Masako and Kotaro, whose marriage is unsettled by jealousy, emotional conflict, and suspected or actual infidelity. The narrative develops through tense domestic confrontations and scenes of sexual domination…

Mrs. Sumire’s Illustrated Body

Natsusu Haruchiyo

An illustrated erotic narrative portraying Mrs. Sumire as a married woman whose beauty and sexuality attract male attention and lead to seduction, adultery, and confrontations involving her husband and other men. The feature also…

Perfectly Obvious

Yoshiikawa Yō

A surreal erotic fiction in which a drifting man encounters strange women, rooms, paintings, and episodes that blur waking experience with dream and fantasy. The narrative emphasizes voyeuristic observation, pursuit, shifting identities, and unsettling…

The Morals of Today’s University Students

Hanaki Kanji

A collection of anecdotal discussions and purported case histories concerning the sexual conduct of contemporary university students. The episodes portray student encounters with older married women, domestic servants, young women, and other partners, framed…

The True Story of a Courtesan’s Life

Fujita Seiji

A literaryized “true story” follows the fortunes of a courtesan in the pleasure quarters, depicting her encounters with clients, shifting romantic attachments, and the emotional and social costs of her constrained life. The narrative…

The Port of Habu

Shimoyama Takeo

Set in the port town of Habu, this romantic narrative centers on a returning sailor who reconnects with a former beloved, now enmeshed in marriage and domestic obligations. Their renewed attraction develops amid drinking-house…

White Petals

Yumeno Ippei

An erotic story about a Japanese military doctor stationed in a remote mainland village who becomes fascinated by a beautiful woman attached to a women’s relief unit. Medical observation, wartime displacement, and successive intimate…

The Female Serpent

Matsui Yoriko

An erotic narrative centered on Ryūji’s growing fixation on the alluring Mitsue, whose appearance and behavior are repeatedly associated with a female serpent. His fantasies and encounters conflict with domestic relationships, while theatrical and…

Widow Killer

Yamagata Seiu

A sensationalized crime narrative about the brutal murder of a shopkeeping widow in a coastal fishing community, followed by the discovery of her mutilated body and the police investigation into the suspected killer. The…

Memoirs of a Non-Virgin

Ōjō Sumiko

A serialized first-person-style memoir of Sumiko, a young woman whose working life, financial hardship, and relationships lead her into sexual exploitation and a changing understanding of desire, intimacy, and independence. Episodes depict her encounters…

The Scroll of Punishments at the Shrine-Maiden Mansion

Okada Kanko

An erotic fiction narrative follows Nobuo and Kazue/Katsuko amid jealousy, betrayal, and coercive encounters in a shrine-maiden household. The story centers on confinement, punishment, bondage, and escalating sadomasochistic domination in an underground room.

Walking Through Kagoshima’s Entertainment Districts

Haruyama Mitsuko

A travel feature surveys Kagoshima’s lively commercial and entertainment quarters, describing shops, restaurants, nightlife, local residents, and encounters with visitors. It also presents regional speech, customs, scenery, hot springs, and postwar urban development as…

Erotic Picture-Scroll Tales

An Edo-period erotic mystery centers on a stolen or incriminating pillow picture and the murder of a woman. Through interrogations, suspicious behavior, physical clues, and discussion of the picture’s details, the investigator gradually reconstructs…

A Married Woman’s Longing

Izumi Haruki

A social-realist domestic tale follows the strained marriage of Heikichi and Sayo, a working-class couple facing poverty, jealousy, sexual tensions, and financial instability. Their household troubles are intensified by gambling, outside attractions, and the…

War and Sexual Desire Pictorial Collection

An opening visual portfolio combining harem imagery, scenes of wartime sexual violence, and photographs of a restrained and tormented woman, establishing the special issue's intersection of war, erotic spectacle, and domination.

The Balkan War

A lengthy illustrated feature treating the Balkan Wars as a setting for sexual disorder, coercion, violence, and military occupation, mixing historical framing with sensational erotic anecdote.

Moscow's Bewitching Flower

Fujita Seiji

A Russia-set narrative that uses Moscow and revolutionary or wartime imagery as the setting for erotic intrigue and sexual danger.

The Tragedy of Corpse Violation: Salome and Sadism

Takano Yasuke

A short sensational essay linking the Salome tradition with corpse violation, sadism, death, and eroticized violence.

Notes of a Woman Who Became a Chinese Soldier's Wife

Tajima Yumiko

A first-person memoir-style narrative describing a Japanese woman's relationship with a Chinese soldier amid the disruptions of wartime and postwar life.

The Chief Engineer's Madam: Siberian Sexual Landscape

Anabuki Takeshi

A Siberia-set wartime or captivity vignette focused on a senior engineer and a woman associated with his environment, using the setting to explore improvised sexual relations and desire.

The Tragedy of the Chastity Commando Unit

Sugiyama Kiyoshi

A sensational wartime narrative concerning a military group and the sexual vulnerability of women around it, framing war through violence, chastity, and coercive sexual danger.

Women of the Ports

Shimoyama Yu

A survey-style piece on women encountered in different ports, connecting maritime mobility with prostitution, sexual commerce, and changing local customs.

War and Masochism

Akasaka Tsuyoshi

A compact essay relating wartime experience and violence to masochistic psychology and erotic response.

The Lama's Erotic Buddha

Awagaoka Kikuo

An exoticized narrative linking Buddhist or lamaistic imagery with sexuality, religious taboo, and erotic fantasy in a non-Japanese setting.

How to Solve Chinese Chess Mating Problems

Ohashi Kyoshi

A short instructional and puzzle column explaining mating problems in Chinese chess and presenting example positions.

Napoleon's Soldiers

Matsutani Shigeji

A historical-sensational account of Napoleonic soldiers that focuses on army life, sexual behavior, women, and the effects of campaigning on ordinary morality.

Army Special Seventh Heaven

Manabe Ginkichi

A short wartime article describing a specially organized military sexual facility and the institutional management of soldiers' sexual needs.

Genghis Khan's Sexual Tactics

Nakazawa Kohei

A historical-erotic feature portraying Genghis Khan's campaigns through conquest, sexuality, women, and the organization of military and domestic life.

Pacific War: Erotic Reminiscences from the Dust of Battle

Takahara Junzo

A reminiscence-style piece connecting Pacific War experience with sexual encounters and memories of desire amid military life.

Letter from a Male Homosexual

Nanri Fumihiko

A letter or testimonial addressing male same-sex desire and the personal difficulties associated with homosexual identity and relationships.

Women's Combat Picture Scroll: The Origin of Minowa Inari

Masuda Shiro

An illustrated historical or legendary tale centered on conflict involving women, combining martial narrative with eroticized female combat imagery.

Women's Army Campaign Record

Kahara Daisuke

A wartime narrative concerning women's military participation and the experiences of female personnel within a campaign setting.

The Chastity of a Japanese Woman Taken in Manchuria at the End of the War

Ikeuchi Hakuyo

A wartime testimony-style account of a Japanese woman in Manchuria at the end of the war, emphasizing sexual danger, coercion, and the language of chastity.

The Volunteer Nurse of Love

Ito Chuzo

A story concerning a wartime or military nurse whose caregiving role becomes entangled with erotic attachment and sexual relations.

Bengawan Solo: A Tragic Romance Around the Java War

Imura Yukio

A Java-set wartime romance built around separation, danger, and erotic attachment, using the Bengawan Solo setting to frame a transnational tragic love story.

Breaking Through the Female-Body Patrol Line

Naniwa Saburo

A wartime comic-erotic narrative in which military surveillance and the female body become the basis for sexual humor, danger, and illicit movement.

Stories from the Southern Special Comfort Facilities

Mishima Shota

A documentary-style account of Japanese military comfort facilities in the south, describing their organization, the women associated with them, and the sexual lives of soldiers.

The Bewitching Dancing Princess

A short erotic entertainment vignette focused on an alluring dancer and the spectacle surrounding her performance.

Two Soldiers

Watanabe Sakuichi

A wartime narrative centered on two soldiers whose experiences are filtered through sexuality, human weakness, and the moral dislocations produced by military life.

Siberian Prisoner-of-War Record: Sketches of Telma Hospital

Hanamoto Shiro

A lengthy memoir-style sketch of life in a Siberian prisoner-of-war hospital, describing institutional routines, bathing, medical inspection, illness, staff, prisoners, and the intimate conditions of captivity.

The Female Spy Dances

A short sensational piece about a female spy subjected to coercion and interrogation while maintaining her refusal to confess.

War and Prostitutes: The Relationship Between War and Women

Tamori Hiroshi

An essay examining the recurring relationship between warfare, prostitution, women, and the sexual demands created around military populations.

Notes on Male Homosexuality

Asakura Fumiro

An explanatory essay on male homosexuality that discusses same-sex desire, sexual behavior, and contemporary understandings of homosexual men.

The Human-Toilet Fantasist

Ninomiya Chuichi

An extended fetish narrative framed as an unusual documentary account of a man obsessed with fantasies involving the human body as a toilet, combining confession, voyeurism, bodily functions, and sexual fixation.

Demonic Private Punishment

Machi Keisuke

The second installment of an adult mystery series, presenting a sensational narrative in which punishment, violence, sexual coercion, and criminal intrigue are central dramatic devices.

The Physiology of Female Pubic Hair: Are Hairy Women More Lustful?

Tanaka Yoshio

A sexological discussion of female pubic hair that considers bodily variation and the popular belief that greater body hair indicates stronger sexual desire.

Old-Time Frontline Erotic Gleanings, Part Three

Shimode Shoichi

A collection of short wartime erotic anecdotes concerning soldiers, camp life, women, and improvised sexual arrangements at the front.

Screen Star Novel: Machiko Kyo

Natsume Chiyo

A fictionalized or semi-fictionalized popular-culture feature centered on actress Machiko Kyo, presenting her public image and imagined private or romantic life through prose and star imagery.

Lewd Kabuki Illustrated Tales

Midori Takehiko

An illustrated historical-erotic feature recounting sexual anecdotes and scandals associated with Kabuki actors, theaters, and pleasure culture, linking theatrical history with erotic folklore.

Strange Picture Collection

An opening portfolio of erotic drawings and staged photographs depicting nude bodies, bondage, restraint, and power reversal.

Ten Talents of the Nude Woman

Reiko (reading uncertain)

A full-page illustrated study of multiple nude female figures in varied poses, emphasizing eroticized bodily display.