Portraits of Female Slaves and Masochists

Takatō Tatsumō

The issue’s central feature presents female domination, male submission, fetishism, flagellation, masochism, and mythological arguments for female authority. Internal headings and case narratives remain part of this single article-level container.

The Reality of Sexually Promiscuous Women

Fujisaki Yō

An illustrated sensational narrative follows sexual pursuit, coercion, humiliation, violence, and shifting power relations between its principal characters.

A Tale of Desire: The Female Parlor Striptease

Kiyama Kinu

A comic and violent narrative set in the ozashiki entertainment world, where performance, sexual commerce, money, and bodily display produce repeated reversals of power.

Reader Communications

A reader letter and editorial response discuss excessive sexual desire, sexual education, and the magazine’s role as an advice forum.

Aoi Was a Precocious Sheltered Girl

Tsuji Mamako

A first-person confessional narrative describes a sheltered girl’s early sexual curiosity, clandestine initiation, emotional attachment, and later reflections on desire and respectability.

The Diseased Chicken

A grotesque domestic narrative uses a diseased chicken, family scarcity, illness, secrecy, and sibling conflict to create a comic-horrific account of bodily disorder and household trauma.

A Sexual History of Slavery throughout the World

Nobuchi Sō

A historical survey of Roman and medieval slavery discusses ownership, sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, punishment, prostitution, and class hierarchy.

Erotic Fragments from the Front: Anecdotes Concerning the Nikolayevsk Incident

Shimoide Takuichi

Wartime and military anecdotes concerning the Nikolayevsk Incident combine purported testimony with sexualized violence, captivity, punishment, foreignness, and racialized sensationalism.

The Erotic Riddle of the Artificial Phallus

Ōshō Sumiko

An illustrated sexological account of the harigata discusses its materials, historical use, manufacture, and relation to marital and female sexual pleasure.

International Correspondence: Erotic Judgments

International letters and replies discuss photographs, body hair, masturbation, sexual preferences, relationships, and cross-border erotic communication.

The Death of a Certain Perverted Couple

Hiromi Fujisaki

A purported true-crime narrative reconstructs a couple’s sexual pathology, domestic life, deaths, forensic clues, and the subsequent investigation.

A Guide to Ishigami and Stone Gods

An illustrated folklore and travel guide surveys Japanese phallic stones, fertility deities, shrine traditions, reproductive beliefs, and folk medicine.

Shanghai’s Huang Xiaofu: The Savage Tribe

Nonaka Aizō

A social-reportage feature describes Shanghai prostitution, nightlife districts, street solicitation, foreign commerce, clothing, performance, poverty, and sexual labor.

World Tour, Part 2: Sexual Techniques of Freedom and Love—Monaco

Miura Yoshiko

A travel essay presents Monaco and Monte Carlo through casinos, tourism, luxury, gambling, seaside spectacle, class, and the international fantasy of freedom.

The Legend of the Mandarin Ducks

Yamamoto Kajō

A short eroticized legend uses birds, secrecy, dreams, captivity, and uncanny transformation to frame inherited sexual folklore.

Sexual Acts Without Intercourse

A sexological essay examines abstinence, cruelty, unconscious masturbation, displaced desire, fetishism, sadism, masochism, and ritualized bodily imagery outside conventional intercourse.

The Mystery of the Horigata

An illustrated cultural history of 張形 treats the phallic substitute as a sexual implement, ritual object, manufactured commodity, and subject of clandestine folklore.

A History of Foreign Mistresses

Fukumori Kōji

A historical-social essay examines foreign women, treaty ports, sailors, merchants, entertainment houses, mixed-race children, clothing, and intercultural intimacy in Japan.

At the Crossroads of Moral Fall

Ōshō Sumiko

A serialized urban erotic fiction follows seduction, jealousy, voyeurism, financial dependence, deception, illness, and sexual relationships among characters in hotels, restaurants, and lodging houses.

Secrets of the Female Body: Pubic and Armpit Hair

Akada Tanaka

A period sexological essay discusses pubic and axillary hair, sexual maturation, grooming, bodily variation, racialized comparison, and erotic visual preference.

Letters from Male Homosexuals

A letter and editorial response address male same-sex desire, loneliness, social pressure, work, marriage, health, and self-control.

Tracking Down a Counterfeiter of One-Thousand-Yen Notes

Miyagawa Rikizō

A counterfeit-money investigation combines rural reportage, domestic suspicion, adultery, jealousy, interrogation, concealment, and murder.

Sexual Feelings Appearing in Cities and Countryside

Abe Ukō

An essay reads popular verse as evidence of longing, jealousy, separation, marriage, sexual desire, and changing social feeling.

A Woman’s Sexual Memoir: From Office Girl to an Executive’s Mistress

Izawa Ranko

A first-person memoir links office work, economic dependence, adultery, hotels, consumer culture, secrecy, and the narrator’s changing understanding of desire.

Letters from a Sexual Deviant

A confessional letter describes compulsive fetishistic and coercive practices, shame, bodily detail, medical authority, punishment, and the possibility of treatment.

The Soles of Women’s Feet: Enchantment

Akasaka Gō

A historical and psychological essay treats feet, shoes, stockings, exposure, beauty, and foot fetishism across Japanese and foreign examples.

The Queen of the Female Sword-Drama Is Still Going Strong

Fujiyama Yoshi

An illustrated theatrical feature eroticizes a female sword-play performer through backstage scenes, costume, spectatorship, youthful fascination, jealousy, and physical combat.

Does Love Exist among Animals?

Kinushima Tanfū

A popular natural-history essay compares animal mating, attachment, jealousy, breeding, and sexual competition with human love and desire.

Summer and Sexual Crime

Kanbe Shin

A seasonal essay connects heat, clothing, bathing, public exposure, voyeurism, harassment, and sexual crime through moralizing pseudo-medical commentary.

The Mole on the Inner Thigh

Sasada Yutaka

Comic dialogue and erotic anecdotes address bodily marks, marriage, pregnancy, sexual expectations, reputation, and domestic relationships.

Sex and Cruelty: Cruelty, Pain, and Desire

Tō Hihito

A wide-ranging sexological essay links erotic desire to pain, violence, domination, gender hierarchy, historical examples, and supposedly anthropological accounts of cruelty.

Comparing the Erotic Exploits of Restoration Heroes

Popular history recasts Bakumatsu and early Meiji figures through courtesans, lovers, sexual rivalry, disguise, violence, and erotic scandal.

The Female Student Who Wet Her Skin

Akiyama Rumiko

A confessional student narrative explores illness, education, teacher-student intimacy, bathing, emotional dependence, summer travel, and anxiety about social judgment.

Perverse Love Letters

An illustrated exchange of erotic letters discusses nude modeling, bondage, exhibitionism, voyeurism, erotic art, private experience, and the relationship between readers and magazine production.

A Young Man: An Erotic Strange Tale

Matsutani Shigeru

An illustrated narrative follows an adolescent boy’s curiosity about adult women, bathing, observation, domestic sexuality, and eventual erotic initiation.

Notes on Religious Art

Ōmiya Kiyoko

An art-history essay surveys religious imagery, nudity, erotic symbolism, torture, martyrdom, execution, and the changing treatment of sexual and violent motifs in Western and Japanese art.

Mountain Village Nightscape

An erotic rural-night narrative uses a farmhouse, bride, bathing, voyeurism, dancing, restraint, and shifting sexual roles as its principal motifs.

The Dream-Sexual Beautiful Boy

Mimura Ikuo

A heavily illustrated first-person confession traces adolescent sexual development, voyeurism, bathing, homoerotic and heterosexual desire, shame, bodily self-consciousness, and postwar social experience.

Manuscript Solicitation and Subscription Notices

Kitan Club editorial office

The closing page solicits unusual experiences, confessions, crime stories, fiction, erotic photographs, and illustrations, and provides subscription, ordering, pricing, and office information.

Silent Storm

A black-and-white photographic feature portraying a woman posing among trees, bamboo, grasses, and woodland undergrowth. The sequence uses varied reclining, climbing, and seated poses to create a quiet yet dramatic “silent storm” atmosphere with…

Female Body: Light and Shadow

A visual feature studying the nude female figure through a sequence of posed photographs and drawings. The images emphasize changing body positions, silhouette, light, shadow, and the expressive possibilities of figure composition.

The Erotic History of Women’s Sumo

Shirō Masuda; surname reading uncertain

An illustrated chronological history of women’s sumo and related erotic performance, covering ritual, folklore, festivals, Edo entertainment, censorship, and modern commercial spectacle.

Beautiful Cruelty

A photographic feature titled “Beautiful Cruelty” presents a series of staged images of a woman restrained with rope in domestic interiors and posed in vulnerable, submissive positions. The sequence emphasizes the visual drama, ritualized…

The Tormentor on the Wedding Night

A photographic feature depicting a woman subjected to elaborate bondage and humiliation, framed around torment on a wedding night. The staged scenes emphasize restraint, coercion, vulnerability, and sadomasochistic erotic imagery.

Fūryū Hell

A photographic feature presenting a series of staged scenes in which a woman is bound, immobilized, and posed in distress, including scenes suggesting confinement and punishment. Its “hell” motif turns ritualized restraint and suffering…

The Woman Who Lost Her Breasts

A first-person woman recounts marriage, illness, breast surgery, bodily shame, altered identity, medical treatment, and the emotional consequences of losing her breasts.

Expressions of a Bride’s Sexuality on Her Wedding Night

A photographic feature presents a bride’s changing facial expressions and poses in an imagined wedding-night setting, accompanied by handwritten-style Japanese captions. The sequence emphasizes sensuality, emotional anticipation, embarrassment, and intimate bridal performance.

The Door of Love and Hate

A photographic feature presenting staged scenes of women bound with rope in domestic interiors, using varied poses, restraints, costumes, and expressions to evoke erotic power, vulnerability, and captivity.

The Confession of an Abnormally Sexually Curious Young Man

A first-person young-man narrative explores bathing, nudity, voyeurism, homoerotic and heterosexual curiosity, and changing sexual desire through sensational confession and illustrated episodes.

Garden of Hell

A short photographic feature titled “Garden of Hell,” depicting elaborately staged scenes of women restrained and posed on floors and furniture, emphasizing theatrical torment and eroticized confinement.

Trembling Toward Ecstasy

A staged photographic feature presenting a woman in a series of elaborate rope restraints, reclining and kneeling poses, and theatrical settings. The images emphasize eroticized immobilization, bodily display, dramatic composition, and performance.

Sexual Life of Hikaru Genji

Hatamura Renji

A literary-sexual commentary interprets Hikaru Genji’s erotic psychology, relationships, curiosity, jealousy, and social privilege through episodes from The Tale of Genji.

The Collecting Maniac

Shōji Kōhei

A sensational narrative follows Heisuke’s fixation on women’s clothing, bodily exposure, voyeurism, and the acquisition of fetishized objects through intrusive erotic encounters.

Midnight Banquet

A short photographic sequence titled “Midnight Banquet,” depicting a woman bound with ropes amid draped fabrics and a dimly lit interior. The imagery combines erotic restraint with nocturnal, staged tableau and dramatic mood.

Strange Transformations of the Nude

A photographic feature depicting nude or partly nude figures arranged in unusual, sculptural poses and group formations. The images emphasize bodily transformation, contortion, and the boundary between human bodies and abstract visual forms.

The Beauty of Bare Feet

An illustrated essay treats feet, toes, soles, posture, and bare-foot beauty as aesthetic and erotic subjects, placing fetishistic attention within Japanese artistic and literary tradition.

Lewd Trees

A visual feature titled “Lewd Trees,” combining nude figure photography with suggestive arrangements and a related line drawing. The presentation treats the human body and branching or intertwined forms as provocative natural imagery.

Venus, Goddess of Desire

Abe Ukō

An illustrated mythological feature discusses Venus, Adonis, Psyche, and Cupid through themes of beauty, jealousy, erotic power, and attachment, with historical art reproductions.

Sodomites and the Love of Lesbos

Someda Gen

A comparative essay examines male homosexuality and lesbianism through historical, literary, religious, biological, and sexological arguments, with discussion of changing social attitudes.

The Changing Nakajō Style

Takeuchi Setsuo

An Edo-period-style erotic serial follows a female physician and other characters through seduction, abduction, coercion, household intrigue, and clandestine encounters.

A Short History of Japanese Male Love

Asakura Bunmei

A historical survey traces male love through antiquity, court society, Buddhist institutions, and the samurai class, emphasizing male beauty, youth, hierarchy, and literary evidence.

The Record of a Masculine Woman

A woman describes masculine appearance and behavior, artistic life, relationships with women, gender identity, and the use of an artificial phallus in a personal testimony.

The Aesthetics of the Buttocks

Hatano; given name uncertain

An illustrated commentary considers the buttocks as an erotic and aesthetic object, comparing bodily ideals, nude art, cultural difference, and conventions of shame.

On Nude-Body Faddism Seen from the Female Side

Hoshi Shizuko; reading uncertain

A woman’s essay compares female and male responses to nude photography, art exhibitions, bathhouses, and commercial erotic imagery, emphasizing spectatorship and culturally produced shame.

M and S

A serialized erotic story of clandestine meetings, coded messages, secret clubs, disguise, coercion, bondage imagery, and shifting power between two central figures.

Chinese Male Prostitutes: Xianggong

A social report describes xianggong, the commercial organization of male prostitution, clientele, prices, recruitment, poverty, exploitation, and historical precedents in Chinese urban entertainment.

The Lament of Mixed Blood

Shimoide Shōichi

A postwar reportage feature examines mixed-race children, occupation-era relationships, prostitution, poverty, racial stigma, family secrecy, and the uncertain future of vulnerable children.

Memories of My Time as an Army Lieutenant

Akira Morii

An autobiographical military memoir recalls army life, travel, military authority, encounters with Korean people, and the narrator’s reflections on class, gender, and national identity.

Plant-Colored Pride

Kiyoshi Ueda; reading uncertain

A discursive illustrated essay links flowers, fruits, vegetables, colors, fertility, gendered beauty, and botanical symbolism to erotic imagination across Japanese and Western traditions.

The Mother and Daughter of a Hot-Spring Hotel

A dramatic hotel narrative follows a mother and daughter through debt, business pressure, sexual rivalry, pregnancy, deception, class tension, and the economic vulnerability of women.

From a Masochist Man and Women in Restraint

Yoshio Haraga; reading uncertain

A male correspondent describes masochistic submission, restraint, and humiliation, followed by a visual sequence of women bound with ropes, poles, and other devices.

Sexual Consideration of Body Odor

Junichi Tani

A sexological essay treats sweat, skin secretions, puberty, menstruation, perfumes, hygiene, and alleged gendered or racial differences in odor as erotic signals.

The Male-Love Murder Case

Iguchi Masatada

An illustrated maritime detective serial investigates murder, concealed evidence, conflicting testimony, and sexual or personal relationships among men aboard a ship.

The Ethics of Infidelity

Kyōko Kizaki; reading uncertain

A married narrator examines extramarital attachment, marital dissatisfaction, guilt, jealousy, domestic responsibility, and the moral consequences of infidelity.

Record of Eroticized Cruelty

Reiko Ichita; reading uncertain

A first-person account recounts bondage, blindfolding, whipping, forced nudity, humiliation, artistic depiction, and the transformation of pain and restraint into remembered erotic experience.

A Study of Perverse Private Punishment

Tanba Tarō

A comparative history of adultery, incest, sexual offenses, private revenge, legal punishment, exposure, mutilation, execution, tattooing, and gendered sexual regulation across cultures.

A Walk Through the Back Streets of Life

A multi-page illustrated social satire follows a husband and wife in an increasingly crowded household, depicting marital intimacy, repeated childbearing, infant care, and the exhaustion of supporting a large family. The sequence uses humorous…