Secret Notes on Extreme Punishments

Suzuki Kazuo; art by Katsura Tōshi

An illustrated historical survey of severe punishments in Edo-period Japan, describing execution methods, penal procedures, criminal cases, and the social spectacle surrounding them.

The Spy’s Scattered Blossoms

Fujimi Iku; art by Minomura Kou

A serialized espionage adventure follows the glamorous Meika through surveillance, pursuit, abduction, torture, escape attempts, and sexually charged confrontations involving several captors and accomplices.

The Unfertilized Egg

Hori Kyōko

Hori Kyōko’s erotic fiction follows Toshiki’s obsessive attraction to Yumiko, blending memories of youthful beauty, fetishistic looking, emotional dependency, and increasingly troubling fantasies of possession and loss.

The New Early-Modern Tale: The Egg Flower Remedy

Ōkado Masato; art by Kihara Mitsuki

Ōkado Masato’s illustrated historical erotic tale is set in an early-modern Japanese world of bathhouses, samurai, merchants, and courtesans, where encounters, disguises, erotic bargaining, and violent reversals unfold around the titular egg-flower remedy.

The Southern-Barbarian Ship of the Women’s Hall

text and art by Utagawa Taiga

An illustrated historical erotic adventure in which characters become entangled with a mysterious Southern-Barbarian ship and women’s hall, amid abduction, confinement, deception, and violent struggles for escape and rescue.

The Snake-Charmer Princess

Fujikoto Nariya, romanization uncertain

A serialized fantasy-adventure follows the enigmatic snake-charmer princess and her encounters with explorers and outsiders, combining exotic travel, hypnotic or supernatural control, treasure-seeking, captivity, violence, and shifting power between women and men.

Secret Letter of Snow-White Skin

Hatada Mitsumitsu, romanization uncertain

A serialized historical erotic adventure follows rival warriors, retainers, and women caught in political intrigue, secret missions, abduction, interrogation, and coercive sexual encounters around Himeji Castle and the Tokugawa-era world.

The Dead Return to Life

Yagiri Shigehachi; translated by Okino Jirō

A serialized erotic crime story follows Shizuko, a young woman whose jealousy and troubled marriage lead to murder, concealment, pursuit, and eventual police intervention. The narrative combines domestic sexual tension with sensational scenes of…

Binding with a Red Cord

Odagiri Sō; art by Kuromori

This serialized historical erotic adventure shifts between a modern framing situation and a period tale of ninjas, abduction, interrogation, and violent erotic domination centered on a woman bound with a red cord. Its illustrations…

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The Courtesan Ninja

Takagi Ryūji; art by Nakajima Masami

An illustrated historical erotic serial follows a female ninja operating undercover amid rival houses, whose missions lead to capture, interrogation, coercion, and scenes of bondage and sexualized punishment in an Edo-period setting.

The Devil Was Watching

Jingyō Kyōichi; art by Yamada Sugiaki

A serialized mystery follows a reporter investigating a disturbing set of erotic photographs whose hidden clues connect a series of murders, suicides, and illicit relationships. Illustrated scenes of surveillance, coercion, and bound or imperiled…

The Murderer Was There

Mikunisawa Takashi; translated by Miyata Keijirō

This serialized crime thriller centers on a murderer who abducts and restrains a woman while police and reporters reconstruct the crime through interviews, clues, and forensic investigation. The narrative combines suspenseful pursuit with illustrated…

The Keian Female Ninja Path

Enjōji Tatsu; art by Nakajima Masami

This illustrated historical erotic serial follows the female ninja Hagino and her allies through Edo-period intrigue involving a hidden inheritance, secret maps, pursuit, infiltration, combat, captivity, and repeated escapes.

Breasts of Hell

Iida Toyokichi

A serialized SM crime thriller follows reporter Chiharu and others as they investigate the murder, abduction, and torture of Yumeko, whose trail leads through Tokyo underworld figures, secret rooms, and a mysterious woman known…

The Female Water Entertainer

Yanagitsutsu Jūzaburō

An illustrated historical erotic revenge tale set in Edo-period pleasure quarters, following a female water entertainer, a samurai, and a chain of murders, pursuits, coercive encounters, and uncanny events.

Light and Skin

Fujisawa Osamu

A photographic study of nude bodies that explores how lighting models skin, emphasizing tone, contour, texture, and sensual form through a sequence of studio images.

The Secret of the Bat Theater

Natsumoto Keinosuke

An illustrated erotic crime-suspense narrative about a glamorous actress’s abduction, secret performances at the Bat Theater, fetishistic coercion, pursuit, and the revelation of concealed motives and identities.

Breast Chamber of Hell

Iida Toyokichi

A serialized erotic crime thriller follows drug traffickers, fugitives, and hired killers through a cycle of kidnapping, pursuit, revenge, and violent torture involving Feng Mei, Minghai, and their associates. The narrative repeatedly depicts women…

The Damask-Skin Curse

Takagi Ryūji

Takagi Ryūji’s illustrated Edo-period revenge tale follows a household and its visitors as supernatural curses, erotic coercion, violence, and successive deaths unfold around a mysterious woman and occult inscriptions. The serialized narrative combines grotesque…

The Demon Lurking in the Feet

Mizorogi Jakushi

A grotesque supernatural erotic tale follows Rumie as an uncanny black-cat presence and strange encounters expose an obsessive fixation on women’s feet, bodily difference, and forbidden desire.

Hatamoto Bedchamber Chronicle

Hashizume Hikoshichi

A historical erotic chronicle set among a hatamoto household and its retainers unfolds through secret intrigues, sexual coercion, captivity, violence, and revenge in a feudal domestic world.

The Monster of the Stock Hotel

Takeya Jūzō

A reporter investigates the Stock Hotel after hearing a woman’s cries from a locked room, uncovering a grotesque supernatural mystery involving captivity, hidden identities, and the hotel’s violent past.

Oshima’s Vendetta Journey

Yagiri Jūhachi

Set in the Edo period, this revenge tale follows Oshima on a vendetta journey that brings her into encounters with violent men, eroticized restraint, deception, and retaliatory justice.

The Inn of the Poison Butterfly

Matsui Yoriko

A dark erotic tale follows Takemi, a beautiful bar hostess whose financial vulnerability and forbidden desires draw her into manipulation, captivity, and escalating bondage and abuse by men around her. Illustrated scenes emphasize rope…

The Beauty Mound’s Karmic Consequence

Hada Hikaru

A historical erotic revenge tale follows violent entanglements among warriors, merchants, and women, linking sexual coercion, captivity, betrayal, and eventual karmic retribution. Its illustrations emphasize bondage, bodily exposure, torture, and grotesque punishment within an…

The House That Invites an Eerie Presence

Saruwaka Tonpei

A grotesque supernatural story centers on a mysterious house and the unsettling encounters, erotic propositions, and violent fantasies associated with it. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the narrative’s atmosphere of eerie voyeurism, bodily transformation, and…

The Transformed Young Samurai

Mikunizawa Takashi

A historical erotic revenge tale follows a young samurai whose forbidden relationship, family conflict, and encounters with supernatural transformation lead to violence, pursuit, and retribution, accompanied by dramatic narrative illustrations.

Will-o’-the-Wisp Riverbank

Utagawa Taiga

An illustrated supernatural erotic narrative set around a riverbank follows lovers, servants, ghosts, and deceptive apparitions through pursuit, captivity, escape, and revenge, presented in serialized scene panels with dialogue.

The Supernatural Death-God Hatamoto

Odagiri Sō

Set in Edo-period Japan, this lurid revenge tale follows a mysterious headless corpse and an investigation that uncovers sexual betrayal, murder, coercive bondage, and the supernatural return of a wronged woman to punish those…

Disappearance Underwater

Fujii Kenji

A suspenseful erotic crime story follows police investigators as they pursue a resourceful female suspect through disguises, surveillance, a bathhouse, and an underwater escape.

The Man Who Walks About Selling Death

Ojima Shin

A serialized crime-and-revenge thriller follows Saburō, Mari, and other conspirators through schemes involving deception, captivity, murder, drugging, and an underground room, while their shifting motives and betrayals drive the narrative toward further violence.

Strange Transformation Sketches

Suzuki Kazuo

Suzuki Kazuo presents an illustrated anthology of Edo-period strange tales involving supernatural transformations, ghosts, sexual intrigue, violence, murder, and revenge, accompanied by discussion of historical sources and reported testimony.

Almost the Anniversary of Your Death

Ujigawa Ryū

Serialized revenge fiction follows a destructive family conflict involving inheritance, coercion, sexualized domination, murder, suicide, and elaborate retaliation among the protagonists.

Men Who Toy with Women’s Bodies

Hattori Gen

An illustrated essay surveys theatrical and staged erotic representations of cruel, dominant women who restrain, humiliate, punish, and physically overpower men, while considering the appeal of these gender reversals to spectators.

Hell Ship

Nakajima Yoshimi

A serialized erotic fantasy follows Ōtaki, who is abducted and transported aboard a hell ship, where captors subject her to confinement, forced nudity, sexual violence, and sadistic punishment before further dangers unfold.

Autumn Wind at Kikyo Field

Inumon Masato

Set amid a turbulent historical battle, this erotic adventure depicts women and travelers caught up in warfare, abduction, pursuit, coercive sexual encounters, and violent domination around Kikyo Field.

The Ageless Maiden

Sasamoto Tōru

This erotic fantasy centers on the enigmatic young woman Hanako and the fascination she arouses in a rural household, presenting youthful beauty, intimate observation, romantic intrigue, and fetishized bodily detail.

The Hot-Spring Inn Murder Case

Kawano Kyōsuke

A serialized sensational mystery follows the investigation into the death of a young woman associated with a hot-spring inn, whose body is discovered after heavy rain and whose final movements implicate two male guests.…

Death-Coffin Komachi

Shimamoto Haruo

A historical supernatural revenge tale follows the ninja善四郎 and other figures through curses, apparitions, pursuit, abduction, and violent confrontations surrounding the mysterious “death coffin” and the fate of Komachi. The illustrated narrative repeatedly depicts…

Strange Tale of Nude-Woman Island

Natsumoto Keinosuke

An illustrated historical erotic adventure recounts the capture and coercive exploitation of women on a mysterious “Nude-Woman Island,” combining narrated episodes with staged scenes of captivity, restraint, and domination.

Young Nude

Fujisawa Osamu

A photographic nude feature presents a young female model in a series of posed studio images emphasizing the body, posture, and visual spectacle of nudity.

The Scarlet Crape-Paper Tale

Nakajima Kimi

An illustrated historical erotic tale follows the abduction and subjugation of a woman through elaborate rope and cloth restraints, coercive encounters, and the fantasies of captors and servants.

The Price of a Virgin

Gamage Kazumi

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows gangster Renjiro’s pursuit and coercive domination of the young woman Yoko amid abduction, violence, sexualized punishment, and police investigation, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

Palace of Troubled Slaves

Odagiri Sō

An illustrated historical erotic serial follows Natsu, a woman captured and sold into slavery, as she endures coercive restraint, humiliation, punishment, and attempted escape amid slave-market and palace intrigue.

The Cage of Hell

Shima Fuji

A serialized SM fiction narrative set around a theatrical troupe, in which actresses and other women are subjected to coercive bondage, punishment, humiliation, and sexualized backstage domination by men who stage and observe their…

Prostitution Slave Street

Iida Toyokichi

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows men who abduct, confine, and sexually exploit women in a prostitution district, depicting coercion, captivity, violence, and the circulation of enslaved women through organized brothels. The story uses…

Tragic Wish at Hatchōbori

Hashizume Hikoshichi

A historically set, illustrated crime narrative follows samurai and townspeople through coercion, betrayal, pursuit, and violent retribution in Edo-period Hatchōbori. Its melodramatic plot combines forbidden desire with captivity and murder.

Strange Suicides

Kanbe Yūichi

A sensational illustrated report presents a series of unusual suicides, including deaths by hanging, gas, drowning, firearms, and other carefully described methods, accompanied by staged photographic scenes and explanatory commentary.

Prostitute Rain

Erigaki Zan

A serialized erotic horror narrative follows high-school student Ayako as her encounters with teachers escalate into coercive sexual abuse, pursuit, humiliation, and violent domination amid persistent rain and threatening supernatural imagery.

Jar Hell

Kawaguchi Naoki

A serialized supernatural erotic-horror tale in which a mysterious woman and predatory men become entangled in confinement, bodily transformation, hallucination, and violent domination associated with an uncanny jar or vessel.

Calendar of Fragrant Skin

Iwahori Hikaru

An Edo-period erotic serial follows the beautiful Otama as she is drawn into a world of sexual coercion, captivity, voyeuristic display, and power struggles within elite households and pleasure settings.

White Flame

Kōno Haruo

A first-person erotic narrative portrays an intense and secretive sexual relationship between two men, framed through longing, reunion, physical intimacy, and emotional dependence.

An Eerie Notebook: Do Not Open That Box

Sasaki Chikara

A fictional found notebook recounts bizarre and terrifying incidents involving a mysterious sealed box, supernatural events, violence, and the efforts to uncover the truth behind them.

Female Slaves in Foreign Magazines

Tōge Kōsuke

This illustrated survey of foreign erotic magazines examines depictions of female slavery, bondage, captivity, and coercion through imported photographs, staged scenes, and magazine commentary.

The Ivory Throne

Tachibana Shintarō

A serialized adventure fantasy follows expeditions, African rulers and soldiers, enslaved people, and violent struggles surrounding the fabled Ivory Throne, emphasizing captivity, coercion, and rescue.

Bubble Hell

Matsui Yoriko

A serialized erotic narrative follows Ginji and Junko through an increasingly coercive relationship involving restraint, physical punishment, humiliation, domestic scenes, and conflicted marital desire.

The Captive Beauty

Hada Hikaru

A historical erotic serial set amid Sengoku-era warfare depicts samurai and soldiers capturing, humiliating, restraining, and exploiting women, while following the resistance and escape efforts of the central characters.

Hebiko Island

Magaki Shin

This fictional narrative follows Shigeru and other boys confined in a remote juvenile institution, where they endure hunger, beatings, forced labor, harsh discipline, and attempted escapes while struggling against institutional oppression.

The Poisonous Yellow Moth

Mizorogi Jakushi

A dark erotic-fantasy narrative follows a man’s encounter with a mysterious woman whose attraction, bodily transformation, and eventual moth-like identity are linked to poisonous yellow moth powder and occult experimentation.

The Slave-Ship Incident

Dan Tatsuji

A historical account of the Maria Luz slave-ship incident recounts the abuse and attempted escape of Chinese contract laborers, the Japanese legal intervention that freed them, and the ensuing diplomatic dispute over slavery, human…

The Female Slave’s Jewel

Fujimi Miyako

A historical erotic adventure set in the Mongol world follows enslaved women subjected to captivity, coercive service, rope restraint, punishment, and pursuit amid rivalries over a precious jewel.

Earless Grass

Sasamoto Tōru

A literary narrative follows a young woman with severe hearing loss through hospitalization, surgery, family concern, and an emotionally complex relationship with a nurse as she hopes to regain hearing and independence.

The Bodhisattva of the Cellar

Enjōji Tatsu

An Edo-period erotic captivity tale in which the painter Sōtatsu abducts O-Mitsu, binds and confines her in a cellar, and subjects her to escalating threats, humiliation, and sexual coercion before the narrative’s violent climax.

The Incarnated Ecstatic Female Buddha

Umeda Kusuo

A surreal erotic narrative in which an artist’s encounter with a young woman becomes an obsessive dream of bodily transformation, mystical female sexuality, and the merging of devotional imagery with desire.

Skull Lantern

Shimamoto Haruo

This serialized historical erotic adventure follows samurai, attendants, and other characters through abduction, interrogation, violent captivity, escape attempts, and conspiratorial pursuit in an Edo-period setting, accompanied by dramatic bondage and torture illustrations. Rope restraint,…

The Vanished Tattooed Nude

Akitsu Kyōta

An illustrated sensational account follows the disappearance of a tattooed nude woman and the police investigation, mixing eroticized scenes of captivity, coercion, and interrogation with lurid reportage.

Nude Masterpieces

Fujisawa Osamu

A photographic portfolio presents staged black-and-white nude studies emphasizing sculptural poses, bodily form, concealment, and visual spectatorship.

Secret Tales of Obscene Cults Abroad

Tōge Kōsuke

This purportedly foreign-sourced dossier surveys obscene cults, occult religions, sexual rituals, secret societies, and sensational cases involving fetishistic or coercive practices.

Tickling Kannon

Enjōji Tatsu

An Edo-period serialized erotic adventure follows the schemes of the physician Kōan and other villains as they pursue money, abduct O-Shizu, and subject her to elaborate rope restraints and relentless tickling. The illustrated narrative…

The Burning Women’s Cave

Mizorogi Shukuko

This serialized erotic fantasy follows travelers and local men who are lured toward a hot-spring mountain and an uncanny women’s cave, where seductive, grotesque female figures subject them to captivity, humiliation, and bizarre supernatural…

Wheel of Vengeance Hell

Nakabayashi Setsuzō

This illustrated Edo-period erotic revenge serial follows shifting confrontations among townspeople, courtesans, and criminals as abduction, confinement, deception, and violent punishment drive the characters toward reciprocal vengeance.

The Goddess’s Jar

Minamimura Ran

This serialized erotic fantasy follows investigators and other victims into a murderous occult cult centered on a seductive goddess, whose rituals involve coercion, bondage, bodily transformation, and supernatural violence.

Selections from a Heretical Temple of Lust

Suzuki Kazuo

A historical survey of alleged heretical lust cults in the Edo period, describing their beliefs, sexualized rituals, sensational incidents, official investigations, arrests, executions, and related illustrated scenes. It presents these accounts through archival documents…

The Riding Immortal Woman

Fujimi Iku

An erotic fictional dialogue about a young man visiting a beautiful female fortune-teller whose predictions and seductive authority lead to a coercive, physically dominant sexual encounter, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

The Magic of the Waist Cord

Shimamoto Haruo

A serialized erotic-occult tale in which practitioners use waist cords, binding rites, curses, and other magical techniques to control women and summon frightening supernatural experiences. The narrative combines ritualized restraint, violent fantasy, and dramatic…

The Strange Cult of Loving Spirits

Iida Toyokichi

This serialized erotic fantasy follows characters drawn into a sinister spirit-worship cult whose schemes involve abduction, coercion, captivity, ritualized bondage, and attempts at rescue and revenge. Its illustrated narrative combines supernatural menace with sensational…