Could Your Name Cause You to Kill?

Kinsudōjin

This article examines Japanese name-based divination, arguing that surname and given-name kanji—and their stroke counts—can reveal personality, fortune, criminal tendencies, and even susceptibility to violent acts. It applies a numerological system of main, secondary,…

The Mystery of the Pawn Ticket

Segi Toshirō

A crime-mystery narrative follows the investigation of a bizarre riverside murder, with a pawn ticket providing the crucial clue. Police interrogation and the killer’s confession gradually reveal a story of betrayal, obsession, and revenge…

The Dōgenzaka Beautician Murder

Tobe Harumitsu

A sensational account of the murder of a Dōgenzaka beautician, whose strangled body is discovered at home. Police interrogate associates and reconstruct a web of jealousy, concealed relationships, and forbidden desire surrounding the crime…

The Woman Who Came from the Demon Tower

Sugiyama Kiyoshi

This illustrated erotic-grotesque fiction follows a mysterious woman from the Demon Tower who arrives at a remote hot-spring inn and becomes entangled with a doctor, his associates, and other guests. Sexual obsession, jealousy, mental…

Decoding the Imperial Navy’s Erotic Cipher

Usami Masao

Usami Masao deciphers the euphemisms, abbreviations, and coded vocabulary used for sexual behavior and relationships within the Imperial Japanese Navy. Drawing on naval life, wartime anecdotes, and illustrated examples, the article discusses prostitution, same-sex…

The Woman Used as a Gambling Stake

Tominaga Yōsuke

A serialized erotic narrative in which a woman becomes the stake in a gambling contest among men. As the wagers escalate, she is subjected to coercive possession, humiliation, restraint, and sexual exploitation, with the…

The Blood-Soaked Lust Demon

Miyashita Bunsaku

An illustrated serialized erotic crime narrative following Keijiro’s predatory encounters with women, marked by coercion, captivity, physical violence, and bloodshed. The story moves between eroticized assaults and their aftermath, including medical attention, police involvement,…

An Evening of Crime-Prevention Films

Editorial Department

A satirical mock program for an evening of “crime-prevention” films, presenting sensationalized scenes of sexual misconduct, assault, abduction, voyeurism, and fetishized encounters through pseudo-official narration, film captions, and cartoons. The feature combines moralistic public-safety…

The Woman Demon I Peeped At

Maeda Isamu

A first-person erotic mystery recounts the narrator’s voyeuristic peeping into a woman’s room and his growing fascination with her apparently beautiful yet uncanny, demon-like body. The narrative develops through investigation, testimony, and grotesque transformations,…

Why Did These Women Kill Their Own Relatives?

Kojika Aiko

Kojika Aiko examines several sensational cases in which women were accused or convicted of killing relatives, including the murder of a university student and alleged family-linked insurance crimes. The article reviews court testimony, evidence,…

The Uramado Wife Murder Case: Exclusive Trial Record

Editorial Department

An exclusive trial-record feature reconstructs a wife-murder case involving alleged arsenic poisoning, marital conflict, suspected infidelity, and the testimony of the accused and witnesses. Presented through police reports, courtroom questioning, and witness statements, the…

The Interfering Man Is Eliminated

Yūki Sō

A sensational account of the Clayton/Applegate household describes a sexually transgressive family, the murder of the husband, and the police investigation that follows. The narrative combines crime reporting, interviews, medical commentary, and lurid depictions…

Three-Way Battle

Isogai Jun

A narrative feature recounts a teacher’s sexually charged encounter with two young women, whose rivalry and shifting advances produce the article’s “three-way battle.” Dialogue, staged scenes, and illustrated erotic situations frame the episode as…

A Glimpse of Eroticism

Saijō Bonji

A humorous essay on eroticism in postwar everyday life, using imagined conversations, domestic episodes, and commentary on marital behavior, sexual appeal, and changing social attitudes. The accompanying cartoons reinforce its satirical treatment of intimacy,…

Aoki Residence Diary

Hirano Imao

A fictionalized diary-style narrative following the social and romantic entanglements of the Aoki household and its acquaintances. Through comic conversations and illustrations, it explores dating, generational differences, courtship, secrecy, and the tensions between conventional…

The Secret Chronicle of Suruga Dainagon: The Chapter of His Origins

Iwahori Taizō

An illustrated historical erotic serial set in the Edo period, following Suruga Dainagon and the woman Yuki amid intrigue, captivity, and encounters with a mysterious white ape. The chapter combines feudal drama with scenes…

Worldly Night Tales

Toyama Kazuhiko

A collection of eroticized tales set in different countries, including Sweden, Japan, Denmark, and South Africa. The stories depict seduction, sexual intrigue, fetishistic situations, and imagined encounters involving travelers, servants, historical figures, and wartime…

Publication Information

Publication information and promotional notices for the issue, including book advertisements, subscription and pricing details, publisher information, and an invitation for readers to submit material.

New Photograph Introduction, Part One

A photographic portfolio presenting staged images of a woman in rope restraints and constrained poses.

Ideyu

Kitahara Junko

An illustrated bondage fantasy by Kitahara Junko, credited as adapted from work by Yoshiaki Izumi, depicting women restrained with rope in domestic and architectural settings.

Restrictive Clothing and Masks

Kumoi Hisako

A visual feature displaying restrictive clothing, masks, and other staged forms of bodily concealment and restraint, including a masked figure attended by another person.

Modern Masochism Art Review, Reprint Series No. 12

A reprint-series visual review of modern masochism, illustrated with photographs of women performing in close contact with tigers before an audience.

Takireiko Sketch Collection

Takireiko

A two-page sketch portfolio by Takireiko presenting nude female figures in varied, suggestive poses and arrangements.

New Euro-American Style, Part Four

La Bonda

The fourth installment of “New Euro-American Style,” a La Bonda illustration depicting a stylized group restraint pose involving several women.

Depictions of Torment in Literature

Fujimi Iku

This literary essay surveys depictions of torment, coercion, restraint, and punishment in Japanese narrative works, using historical erotic fiction and accompanying illustrations to examine how scenes of female captivity and suffering are constructed.

Newspaper and Magazine Communications: Homosexuality Among American Soldiers in Shimbashi

Yagiri Jūhachi

A sensational news-style report describes two American soldiers in Shimbashi whose same-sex relationship culminates in a joint suicide attempt, with one soldier found dead and the incident reported to the police.

My Loincloth, Part Two

Matsubara Michiyo

In this autobiographical continuation, the author discusses a personal fascination with wearing a fundoshi and related underwear, describing bodily sensations, appearance, domestic experiences, and changing clothing practices through text and illustrations.

Interest in the Same Sex Rather Than the Opposite Sex

Hatamura Hajime

A sexological advice essay considers a seventeen-year-old boy’s stronger interest in male friends than in women, attributing his feelings to developmental and environmental factors while discussing the possibility of same-sex desire.

The House of Silence

Koyama Takeo

A serialized, heavily illustrated crime-and-captivity narrative follows a couple and prison authorities through abduction, interrogation, confinement, bondage, corporal punishment, and eventual execution, emphasizing elaborate scenes of coercion and suffering.

Corset Mambo

Hayashi Yasuhiko

A first-person erotic account centers on a woman being tightly laced into a corset and subjected to prolonged restraint, physical discomfort, and enforced movement while the narrator reflects on the garment’s sensory and fetish…

The Attraction of Skirts

Azuma Ichirō

An essay explores the author’s fascination with women’s skirts, discussing skirt styles, movement, fabric, and the erotic impressions they evoke through personal observations and anecdotes.

Adolescence: Letters Between Mother and Child

Yamaguchi Kōichi

An epistolary account traces an adolescent’s development through letters exchanged with his mother, covering family concern, physical growth, sumo training, and the emotional distance and attachment between parent and child.

The Bride of the Prison

Naruyama Nōhei

A historical erotic narrative set in the Edo period depicts a woman abducted and confined as a “prison bride,” with scenes of coercion, physical restraint, humiliation, and sexual domination.

The Birth of the Yellow Orami

Maki Fujio

A serialized erotic fantasy follows Sakai’s encounters in an imaginary female-ruled society where men are captured, restrained, humiliated, and subjected to coercive conditioning by powerful women, including the ruler Una and the mysterious Yellow…

Proposal for an Exhibition of Women Bound in Japanese Dress

This proposal outlines an exhibition and discussion event devoted to women bound in traditional Japanese dress, combining photographs, drawings, demonstrations, and research into the techniques and visual presentation of kinbaku.

Ideas for Images of Beautiful Women

Konishi Tetsuji

The article presents scenario ideas for staged erotic contests involving beautiful women, including wrestling, martial arts, and other physical confrontations that emphasize female strength, rivalry, domination, and dramatic spectacle.

Through the Light, Final Installment

The concluding installment of a sensational hospital reportage examines psychiatric patients, ward life, staff practices, sexuality, abuse, and the need for more humane institutional care.

In Praise of Eyelashes

An essay celebrates women’s armpit hair as a natural bodily feature, contrasting it with modern grooming norms and exploring its visual and erotic appeal.

Female Warrior with a White Blade

Fujiyama Hide緒

This illustrated historical erotic fiction follows female warriors amid battlefield combat, captivity, sexual coercion, bodily violence, and self-sacrificial death during Japan’s summer campaigns.

From a Dreamer’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

A collection of erotic dream scenarios depicting bondage, sexual service, interracial and occupation-era fantasies, and unequal relationships between Japanese women and foreign men. The pieces mix imagined encounters with commentary on gender, desire, and…

Fantasy of Ugliness

Awami Ichirō

A serialized erotic fantasy follows a woman undergoing medical treatment and surgical intervention before becoming the focus of fetishistic observation, restraint, humiliation, and sexualized caregiving. Its scenes move between hospital settings and domestic encounters,…

Collected Manuscript Gleanings

Editorial Department

An editorial compilation of submitted manuscripts and autobiographical writings, presenting readers’ erotic fantasies, bondage and punishment scenes, gendered power struggles, and personal sexual recollections alongside editorial framing and commentary. The section demonstrates the magazine’s…

The Person with an Afflicted Soul

Kitahara Junko

A psychologically intense erotic narrative follows an artist and her associates through obsessive attraction, illness, confinement, and scenes of coercive bondage and physical abuse. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the story’s staged, dramatic atmosphere.

My Image: F4’s Soliloquy

A first-person “F4” soliloquy presents erotic bondage imagery and detailed descriptions of tying, restraint positions, bodily sensation, and submission, accompanied by illustrations of bound figures.

Two Confessions

Aoba Kaede

Two first-person confessions explore erotic fascination with men’s hairy legs and bodies, moving between personal encounters, fantasy, voyeuristic observation, and sexualized memories of body hair.

The Domesticated Human Yapoo

Numa Shōzō

This serialized erotic fantasy follows Japanese protagonists who are captured and reduced to domesticated “Yapoo,” combining futuristic racial hierarchy with bodily transformation, forced service, humiliation, and bondage. The narrative repeatedly stages coercive sexualized control…

Feminization Desire and an Experimental Record of Female-Hormone Use

Furui Masataka

This article examines the desire for feminization and presents an experimental record of male subjects using female hormones, describing changes in body shape, skin, hair, breasts, voice, and sexual function alongside medical risks and…

The Experience of Itohime

Takahashi Yoshie

Presented as Itohime’s personal experience, this account describes the use of female hormones and the resulting feminization of the body, including breast development and other physical changes, while recounting medical consultations, adverse symptoms, and…

Dust-Basket Diary

Kuga Kiei

A serialized erotic fiction diary follows the increasingly coercive relationship between Kōsuke and Kimiko, portraying domestic domination, restraint, humiliation, corporal punishment, bodily fetishism, and psychological cruelty through a succession of staged encounters.

From Recent Films

A short film-oriented feature reflects on eroticized images and scenarios of domination, emphasizing the visual construction of fetishistic spectacle and the viewer’s response to it.

The World of Beauty and Fetishism

A concluding feature explores beauty through fetishistic visual and bodily motifs, presenting stylized erotic imagery that links physical appearance, clothing, pose, and desire.

The Female Warrior Tayū

A dramatic account of a female gidayū performer whose demanding artistic life is intertwined with illness, marriage, family tensions, and emotional sacrifice.

Bondage Film News

A roundup of contemporary films featuring women subjected to bondage, handcuffing, gagging, captivity, pursuit, and other sensational restraint scenarios, with brief plot and cast details.

Deaths Caused by Restraint and Sound-Suppression Devices

A sensational report examines police investigations into nude photography and the circulation of images depicting women in compromising or restrained poses, asking where artistic beauty ends and obscenity begins.

A Proposal to Form a Masochists’ Club

Yamada Masao

Yamada Masao proposes forming a masochists’ club to provide discreet fellowship, mutual understanding, correspondence, and opportunities for members to share their interests.

Local Reports and Correspondence

A mixed news and correspondence section reports local incidents, police and custodial matters, restraint-related accidents and deaths, film activity, and reader or contributor communications from around Japan.

Modern Masochism Art Review

Hara Tadamasa

Hara Tadamasa reviews modern masochist art through illustrated self-images and staged scenes, discussing how bodily presentation, clothing, restraint, humiliation, and fetishistic fantasy are represented visually.

Reader Correspondence, Editorial Replies, and Publication Notices

Editorial Department

A multi-page reader-correspondence section presents letters and editorial replies about erotic experiences, fetish interests, bondage and punishment practices, personal relationships, and reactions to the magazine, alongside publication notices, submissions guidance, and announcements concerning forthcoming…

A Woman Struggling in a Trap

Hato Yō

A woman is discovered bound and struggling in a trap, while the surrounding narrative develops a threatening, coercive encounter involving restraint and physical vulnerability. The accompanying illustrations emphasize rope bondage and the captive woman’s…

The Spirit of the Abandoned House

Akiyoshi Mitsu

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows investigators and other characters through an abandoned-house mystery involving a missing or endangered woman, drugging, restraint, violence, and interrogation. Its episodes combine detective-story suspense with scenes of captivity,…

Transformation of the Demon Princess, Part Eight of the Secret Memorandum

Shimamoto Haruo; illustrations by Nakajima Kimi

The eighth installment of a serialized historical erotic fantasy follows the Demon Princess and her associates through espionage, disguises, pursuit, capture, and violent confrontations in an Edo-period setting. The richly illustrated narrative combines supernatural…

The Demon’s Exorcist

Jinkō Kyōichi

A serialized occult-crime narrative follows journalist Kato as he investigates a bizarre murder involving a married couple, a mysterious hospital, unusual photographs, and the suspected hypnotic or supernatural influence of Dr. Kuki. The story…

The True Nature of Cholera

Tai Ryōei

A serialized erotic narrative follows Toshirō’s obsessive attraction to Yumi, whose beauty and unusual behavior draw him into a psychologically charged sequence of pursuit, fantasy, and sexual confrontation. The story develops through recurring scenes…

The Shuriken

Sayama On

A serialized erotic period drama centered on Wakana and Sasuke, involving jealousy, pursuit, deception, and violent confrontations around a theatrical and pleasure-quarter setting. The narrative includes coercive restraint, humiliation, and scenes of sexualized domination,…

We Buy Corpses

Yagyū Wataru

A serialized historical-grotesque crime narrative about Dr. Knox’s Edinburgh anatomy school and the body snatchers Burke and Hare, who procure corpses for dissection and payment. The story develops through murder, corpse trafficking, clandestine investigation,…

Tattooed Benten, Part One

Nakabayashi Setsuzō

The first installment of a historical erotic adventure follows rival ninja figures and their pursuit of a heavily tattooed woman amid theft, disguise, capture, and repeated confrontations. The narrative combines sensational crime plotting with…

The Intruder

Miyake Ichirō

This illustrated serialized fiction depicts a rainy-night intruder forcing his way into a young woman’s room and subjecting her to threats, coercion, and physical assault. The episode develops into a violent pursuit and confrontation,…

The Man Who Came from Hell to Kill

Mano Rei

A serialized crime-and-captivity story about a violent man whose escape from prison leads to pursuit, revenge, abduction, and murder. The narrative combines prison intrigue with sadistic threats, coercive encounters, and illustrated scenes of restraint…

Record of Wandering

Fushimi Kazuo

A first-person record of the author’s wandering encounters and relationships with young men in postwar Japan, including reflections on same-sex desire, emotional attachment, sexual experience, and the tensions between idealized love and physical longing.…

A Letter to a Wayward Married Woman

Nakano Mitsuo

An erotic fantasy presented as a letter to a married woman, in which the male narrator offers himself as a submissive object for her affection, control, and punishment. The accompanying illustrations reinforce themes of…

Jealousy of the Index Finger

Asayama Seiji

A serialized erotic mystery follows a police investigation into the suspicious death of a woman connected to several men, whose conflicting accounts reveal jealousy, illicit desire, drugs, and possible murder. The narrative combines detective-style…

Friday Terror

Toba Eiko

A serialized erotic crime thriller follows Ema through a series of disturbing Friday-night encounters involving a mysterious woman, fetishistic photographs and drawings, abduction, bodily injuries, and a murder investigation. As the mystery deepens, scenes…

Curious Conversations

Kawaguchi Eiji

A lively essay recounts backstage stories from gambling halls, describing professional gamblers, wagers, cheating, bluffing, money management, and the social codes of gambling contests. The author uses anecdotes and imagined conversations to examine gambling…

The Window

Misaki Yōnosuke

A short illustrated narrative follows a young man’s encounter with a household and its occupants after responding to a newspaper advertisement. The story develops an atmosphere of secrecy, psychological unease, dependency, and eroticized restraint…

Love Doll

Narumi Genkichi

A serialized erotic mystery in which a writer investigates a disturbing household history involving a dead woman, suspicious diaries and drawings, psychological disturbance, and possible murder or suicide. The narrative combines bondage imagery and…

The Black and White of Murderous Intent

Ujigawa Ryū

A serialized crime and SM thriller follows Masami and her accomplices as they abduct, restrain, interrogate, and murder victims, while investigators and witnesses gradually piece together the perpetrators’ identities. The narrative combines sensational criminal…

Slug Fantasia

Saka Minoru

A surreal erotic fantasy in which a man and woman encounter giant slugs and undergo grotesque bodily transformations. The illustrated narrative combines hypnotic, coercive encounters with imagery of crawling, sticky bodies, restraint, and metamorphosis.

The Mermaid Covered in Scars

Matsui Raiko

An erotic crime-and-captivity narrative follows Yuka and her associates through suspicion, murder, interrogation, escape, and violent confrontations, with recurring motifs of coercion, restraint, and sadistic threat. The concluding pages are accompanied by posed erotic…