A History of Rustic Marriage Customs

An illustrated historical survey of rustic marriage customs, focusing on betrothal, bridal transfer, wedding-night practices, consummation, chastity, and the community’s role in regulating married sexuality. The article compares regional traditions and older customs with…

The Lamp and Its Shadow

Kataoka Tatarō

A historical erotic narrative set in an Edo-period licensed quarter, where courtesans and other figures become entangled in betrayal, flight, captivity, and violent punishment. The story combines melodramatic suspense with scenes of coercion, humiliation,…

Kissing Sadism

Hai Geitei

An illustrated erotic-grotesque story centered on a man's compulsive pursuit of kissing, which turns encounters in entertainment and nightlife settings into acts of coercion, struggle, and injury. Its exaggerated violence and sexual obsession are…

Wedding Customs of Various Regions

A comparative account of wedding and courtship customs in different Japanese regions, including trial marriages, arranged relationships, household authority, gift exchange, and local expectations surrounding brides and grooms. The article also discusses how regional…

A New-Style Execution Ground

Itō Seiu

A dark erotic fiction centered on a brutal punishment scene in which bound women are subjected to intimidation, beating, and degrading treatment by a sadistic captor. Its imagery and narrative frame punishment as a…

Village Council Tales from the Field

A richly illustrated treasure-hunting feature recounts legends and reported discoveries of buried gold associated with historical figures, castles, temples, and wartime upheavals. It follows competing searches, disputed evidence, maps, excavations, and rumors surrounding hidden…

Wakashū Bushidō

Tozaki Heima

A historical erotic tale set in the Edo-period samurai world, following the beautiful young wakashū Sh之丞, his patron Toda Yasuhiro, and their circle through jealousy, secret desire, betrayal, and violent retribution. The narrative combines…

Fire, Part Six

Matsui Kōko

The sixth installment of a serialized erotic novel follows Ichirō’s increasingly obsessive pursuit of Junko and the violent sexual tensions surrounding their circle. The episode centers on coercive restraint, humiliation, and threatened violence as…

All-Women Roundtable

A women-only roundtable presents candid personal accounts of masochistic desire, bondage, pain, needle play, self-abuse, and encounters with dominant or submissive partners. The participants also discuss how marriage, beauty, social respectability, and sexual psychology…

Fallen Objects

A seven-panel illustrated comic follows a man dealing with objects that have been dropped or misplaced in the street, using visual gags and misunderstandings to build its humor.

Streetcar Anecdotes

Ōba Gorō

Ōba Gorō’s illustrated column presents humorous, sensational anecdotes about film actors and actresses, focusing on their supposed sexual energy, romantic behavior, and physical stamina both on and off the set.

Stories from the Postwar Entertainment District

A humorous, anecdotal account of postwar entertainment districts, describing performers, patrons, unusual attractions, and the changing atmosphere of popular amusements. The piece mixes observational reportage with sexualized stories and comic commentary on urban leisure…

Publication Notices and Advertisements

A miscellany of magazine notices and advertisements announces submission guidelines, editorial policies, back issues, subscriptions, reader recruitment, and the publisher’s contact information. It also promotes the magazine’s role as a specialist erotic publication and…

Streetcars Then and Now

Hamakawa Rakugan

A miscellany of sensational stories about performers and popular spectacles, beginning with the origins and display of the “flower streetcar” and continuing with accounts of swallowing swords, unusual bodily feats, and eccentric entertainers. The…

The Mute Urine Doll

Kōgo Yorio

This erotic fiction follows a man drawn into male same-sex encounters centered on public toilets, domination, beatings, humiliation, and drinking urine. His increasingly extreme submission brings intense pleasure but ultimately ends in physical collapse…

Stories You Should Not Tell People

multiple contributors

A framed, conversational erotic narrative recounts a series of illicit and sensational sexual episodes shared among acquaintances, including wartime memories, seduction, captivity, coercion, and punishment. Illustrated scenes reinforce the story’s themes of secrecy, erotic…

Abnormal Sexual Desire as Depicted in Erotic Books

Hanabusa Rikurō

An illustrated historical survey examines depictions of unconventional desire in Japanese erotic books and prints, including voyeurism, clandestine sex, grotesque transformations, necrophilia, and erotic dolls. It connects these motifs to Edo-period censorship, fantasy, and…

A Grotesque Picture of Demonic Putrefaction

Mine Hidetarō

An illustrated sensational miscellany combines grotesque fiction with commentary on sexual fixations, moving through episodes of bodily mutilation and cannibalism, a survey of voyeuristic behavior, graveyard horror, and a violent sadomasochistic encounter. Recurring images…

Exploring Tokyo’s Red-Light Districts by Pen and Camera

A written-and-photographic reportage feature explores a Tokyo red-light “blue-line” district, documenting its streets, interiors, workers, customers, and the atmosphere of nightlife. The article combines observational captions and interviews or commentary about rural women who…

Fūzoku Art Museum

A richly illustrated survey of erotic and “fūzoku” art, combining historical paintings, prints, and staged photographs with commentary on sexual desire, seduction, exhibitionism, self-love, and changing ideals of male and female sexuality. The feature…

Restraint Depicted in Illustrations

Miki Hiroshi

Miki Hiroshi surveys the depiction of female rope restraint in postwar Japanese erotic illustrations, tracing recurring scenes such as women bound to posts, trees, or other structures. The article compares examples from contemporary erotic…

Three States of a Woman Being Tormented

Kita Reiko

An illustrated feature presenting three depictions of women subjected to sexual coercion or torment, including scenes of pursuit, restraint, and assault drawn from historical Japanese-style imagery. Captions and accompanying text emphasize the contrast between…

The Sufferings of Christine, Part Two

translated by Azuma Minoru

A translated serialized erotic narrative recounting Christine’s captivity and repeated abuse by Paul and other men. The story emphasizes coercion, restraint, humiliation, sexual violence, and Christine’s attempts to resist or escape, while shifting between…

Torture in the Women’s Prison at Kodenmachō

Fukada Tetsu

A historical account of torture and interrogation practices imposed on women imprisoned at Kodenmachō during the Edo period. Drawing on criminal records and related sources, it describes procedures such as restraint, water torture, beatings,…

The Allure of Dangerous Play

Yanome Gen’ichi

An essay on the appeal of risky amusements and transgressive behavior among modern young women, especially students. It examines thrill-seeking through nightlife, dancing, flirtation, fashion, swimming, and other activities, presenting these behaviors as products…

Male-Love Café

Kabiya Kazuhiko

An essay on male-love cafés as social spaces for men attracted to men, describing their clientele, coded categories, urban locations, manners, and changing place in postwar Japanese nightlife. It combines sociological commentary with literary…

My Wife Will Not Let Me Tie Her

Okada Keisuke

A first-person narrative follows a husband whose fixation on binding women conflicts with his wife’s initial refusal to participate. His fantasies, attempts to reproduce images of bound women, and eventual efforts to bind and…

New Torments, Old Torments

Ueda Seishirō

An illustrated essay comparing contemporary and historical forms of sexualized torment, bondage, and punishment. It contrasts modern fetish practices and imagery with older Japanese disciplinary and torture methods, focusing on bodily control, humiliation, and…

Longing for Seppuku

credit appears to read Kameoka Shichirō

A historical erotic narrative set among samurai households, in which jealousy, adultery, family honor, and revenge culminate in ritual suicide and violent abdominal cutting. The story eroticizes seppuku, bodily injury, submission, and the psychological…

No Virgins in Tokyo!

Hinatsu Yukio

A satirical account of young women and men navigating modern Tokyo’s dating and sexual culture. Through encounters involving university students, nightlife, drinking, fashion, and changing courtship expectations, it contrasts contemporary urban behavior with older…

To Kawabata Tanako

Hamura Kyōko

A personal letter from Kyōko Hamura to Tanako Kawabata apologizes for a delayed reply and discusses their continuing correspondence, exchanged photographs, and an intense erotic fascination with the recipient’s body. The letter functions as…

The Room of Ecstatic Cruelty

Kita Reiko

An erotic narrative centered on a couple’s private room, where artistic imagery, bodily display, restraint, and psychological domination become intertwined. The accompanying illustrations and prose explore sadomasochistic desire, fetishism, voyeurism, and unequal sexual power.

The Legs That Reign over the Altar

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A serialized erotic narrative about a man captivated by the legs and feet of the glamorous Eiko, whose encounters with Yuko and other women develop into increasingly fetishistic and sexually charged scenes of admiration,…

Western Clothes, Automobiles, and the Rendezvous House

Shibata Toshio

A social commentary on office girls and other young women whose modern identities are expressed through Western dress, automobiles, cafés, and rendezvous culture. Through anecdotes and satirical observations, it examines consumer aspirations, class display,…

Longing for Seppuku: A Personal Experience

Mizunai Takeo

A first-person account centered on a woman’s fascination with seppuku and the narrator’s participation in an increasingly intense scenario involving knives, exposed flesh, blood, and ritualized abdominal cutting. The piece blends personal confession with…

Married Women Who Have Abortions

Nishijima Minoru

A report and interview-style discussion of married women who terminate pregnancies, presenting personal cases and medical perspectives on the reasons, procedures, costs, and consequences of abortion. The article emphasizes poverty, family responsibilities, health concerns,…

On Cultural Prohibitions

Chiba Saburō

An essay on the aesthetic and psychological appeal of female kinbaku, considering how cultural standards, fashion, artistic representation, and historical context shape perceptions of beauty. The author argues that restrained female forms can evoke…

Memories of Prison

Miyauchi Yoshio

A first-person memoir of incarceration in a juvenile prison, describing prisoner classification, uniforms, labor, meals, inspections, restraints, guard procedures, and disciplinary punishments. The account emphasizes the regimented routines, humiliations, and physical hardships of prison…

The Swan of Ecstasy

Toba Eiko

A decadent erotic fiction centered on Yukari, a beautiful young wife whose sensual presence fascinates and destabilizes the people around her. Set amid elite domestic and tea-room environments, the narrative develops through marital tension,…

Kabuki and Sadism

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An essay examines sadistic motifs in kabuki, discussing scenes of bloodshed, torture, mutilation, punishment, and supernatural violence alongside the theatrical conventions and visual staging that make such cruelty dramatically compelling. It also considers how…

The Criminal History of the Tyrant Ivan, Part Three

Takatori Nagaharu

The third installment of Takatori Nagaharu’s sensational historical narrative recounts the brutality of Ivan the Terrible, including executions, torture, arbitrary punishment, political violence, and cruelty toward family members and subjects. The serialized account presents…

Women of the Secret Vice District

Onogi Osamu

An investigative feature on women and commercial sex in Tokyo’s postwar red-light districts, including the organization of brothels, recruitment and treatment of women, customer behavior, and the economic and social conditions surrounding the trade.…

From a Masochist’s Notebook, Part Two

Numa Shōzō

A serialized first-person notebook in which a self-identified masochist recounts erotic fantasies, domestic scenarios, imagined female authority, fetishized clothing and footwear, bodily humiliation, and related reflections on masochistic psychology. The later sections also discuss…

The Woman I Tortured

Nezu Meiji

A fictionalized first-person wartime confession in which a Japanese military man recounts the capture, interrogation, torture, and sexual abuse of a Chinese woman, alongside the complicity of other soldiers. The narrative emphasizes brutality, coercive…

A Hundred Scenes of Married Women

Kijima Kōji

An illustrated literary feature presenting a series of episodes and observations about married women, focusing on their domestic circumstances, appearance, relationships, desire, and encounters with men. The piece blends social commentary with melodramatic and…

To Shida Yōko

Hamura Kyōko

A personal letter responding to Shida Yōko’s published sexual confession and discussing intimate bodily experiences, erotic experimentation, masochistic and sadistic feeling, marriage, and the frankness of sexual self-expression. It functions as reader correspondence that…

The Chair of Needles

Furushō Hideo

A heavily illustrated fantasy scene titled “The Chair of Needles,” depicting a woman bound or restrained on an ornate chair amid needle-like objects. The accompanying prose frames the image as a frightening, surreal, eroticized…

Questions and Answers on Perversion, Part Three

Ukiya Takasaburō

A continuation of the magazine’s question-and-answer feature on “perversion,” presented as an extended dialogue about unusual sexual desires, marital and domestic situations, fetishistic interests, and imagined or enacted sadistic behavior. The discussion combines psychological…

The City of Beautiful Youths

Shima Yukio

A fictional account of young men navigating Tokyo’s cinemas, cafés, shops, and nightlife, focusing on their striking appearance, fashionable self-presentation, rivalry, and attraction. The story explores the social performance of masculine beauty and the…

Ten Forms of Edo Punishment

An illustrated historical feature presenting ten forms of punishment used in Edo-period Japan. The sequence depicts bound and publicly exposed figures undergoing harsh corporal and humiliating penalties, emphasizing the spectacle and severity of premodern…

The Princess Who Became Gravel

Moriwa Ayako

An erotic historical fiction narrative set in a feudal Japanese setting, in which a princess and another woman are subjected to captivity, interrogation, binding, public punishment, and execution. The story emphasizes elaborate coercive scenarios,…

Women I Met at a Marriage Bureau

Kuromaru Keiji

A journalist reports on encounters with women seeking spouses through a marriage consultation bureau, describing their personal circumstances, appearance, expectations, and interactions with prospective matches. The piece also examines matchmaking advertisements, fees, screening practices,…

Four-Ma-Road and Its Surroundings

Himeumi Shirō

A first-person travelogue of Shanghai’s Four-Ma Road district and its surrounding streets, describing public transportation, neighborhood divisions, signage, restaurants, shops, and the contrast between Chinese, Japanese, and foreign spaces. The later sections recount visits…

The House of the Whip

Sugawa Natsue

An erotic suspense narrative set around a mysterious household in which a woman becomes entangled in coercive encounters involving male authority, surveillance, punishment, and sexual domination. Repeated scenes of bondage, whipping, humiliation, fear, and…

Conversations on Erotic Implements

Nakano Eizō

Nakano Eizō discusses erotic implements through historical anecdotes, changing sexual customs, and contemporary examples, considering their uses, appeal, social context, and potential dangers. The essay also comments on the movement from handmade or traditional…

A New Sadism

Azuma Minoru

An essay examining “new sadism” through cinematic and dramatic scenes of pursuit, capture, gagging, and cruel restraint. It treats sadism as a psychological and aesthetic structure, emphasizing the interplay of male brutality, female vulnerability,…

Five Forms of Cruel Restraint

composition by Tsujimura Takashi; photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A photographic feature presenting five staged forms of cruel restraint, with female models bound by rope in varied positions around furniture and posts. Captions identify the arrangements and models, emphasizing practical rope binding, immobilization,…

The Pleasure of Peeping

Mogami Kyōko

A mixed illustrated erotic narrative about the pleasures and anxieties of peeping, told through recollections of voyeuristic encounters in domestic and public settings. Its episodes trace sexual curiosity from childhood into adulthood, emphasizing forbidden…

Love Slave, Part Seven

Kitō Kōichirō

The seventh installment follows a husband who frames his wife Harumi’s extramarital encounters as an erotic form of enslavement. He secretly observes, facilitates, and eventually orchestrates her meetings with other men, dwelling on jealousy,…

Pathological Tendencies in Postwar Sex Crimes

Ashio Kyōzō

A criminological and social analysis of postwar sex crimes, arguing that social upheaval, weakened moral restraints, and changing youth culture contributed to sexual offenses. It surveys cases involving rape, sexual assault, murder, juvenile offenders,…

The Lament of an Urning

Mashita Kōji

A first-person lament by a man describing his attraction to other men, his difficulty finding companionship, and the loneliness and stigma produced by social prejudice. The mixed text and illustrations portray homosexual desire, urban…

My Theme

Okada Eiko

A first-person erotic confession/narrative recounts the development of a woman’s bondage interests through school experiences, memories of childhood punishment, and an intense relationship with Akiko. The story features reciprocal female domination and submission, rope…

Yasuna’s Madness

Arima Chizuko

A dramatic account centered on a traditional Japanese dance performance of “Yasuna Kyōran,” describing rehearsal, stage performance, and the complicated relationship between a dance teacher and dancer. The narrative also explores erotic tension, gender-role…

The Wife Who Fled

Kagawa Senjirō

An erotic melodrama about a troubled marriage in which suspicion, sexual jealousy, infidelity, and emotional instability culminate in the wife’s flight. The story develops through intimate encounters, confrontation, and escalating threats within a precarious…

Lesbos Correspondence

Sonomura Keiko

A reader-correspondence section addressing women’s same-sex love, with personal accounts and questions about attraction, intimacy, secrecy, and emotional uncertainty. The editors respond in an advisory and supportive tone, inviting readers to submit further experiences…

Diary of a Puritan, Part Two

Kurishima Hiroshi

The second part of a puritan’s diary describes a physically charged wrestling encounter between the narrator and a male friend, focusing on restraint, bodily strength, submission, and fascination with the male body. The narrator’s…

Sodomia Correspondence

Fujii Akira

A male same-sex correspondence section presenting autobiographical accounts of attraction, relationships, sexual experiences, and emotional conflict from adolescence through adulthood. Editorial commentary considers the psychology of male homosexuality, social pressures, relationship difficulties, and the…

The One-Eared Legend

Hamura Hiroshi

An Edo-period erotic tale unfolds around a popular performer and a young woman whose encounter becomes entangled in deception, pursuit, captivity, and violent retribution. The illustrated serial narrative emphasizes bodily suffering, coercive power, and…

Fantasy Murder

Hiki Kyōichirō

A psychological mystery set around an isolated Karuizawa villa, whose history includes the delayed discovery of a German former owner’s suicide. Marital jealousy, eerie apparitions, paintings, and the presence of a dog blur the…

My Confession: The Severed Chapter, Part Two

Sudō Tsuneo

A first-person confessional narrative tracing the author’s developing interest in sexology, abnormal psychology, literature, art, and erotic experience. It recounts postwar work and relationships while reflecting on private desires, observation, and the formation of…

Recollections of Splendid Cruelty

Shindō Eriko

An autobiographical recollection tracing the author’s early fascination with cruelty—from tormenting goldfish and other small creatures to increasingly deliberate acts of sadistic violence. The narrative presents these memories through vivid animal and domestic scenes,…

The Pleasure of Being Tickled

Yamamoto Yuri

A first-person erotic narrative about the narrator’s escalating pleasure and distress while being tied, gagged, and repeatedly tickled by an older woman. Detailed scenes of rope restraint, bodily immobilization, teasing, and forced endurance make…

A Sadist’s Wandering Record

Amano Tetsuji

A personal record of sadistic experiences and fantasies, including episodes of intimidation, physical punishment, and violent spectacle. The author also reflects on the emergence of his adult sadistic sexuality, attributing its development in part…

Cinema, Sadism, and Other Matters

Izumi Tatsunosuke

A film-cultural essay examines depictions of cruelty, sadism, eroticized violence, and voyeuristic spectacle in films, focusing especially on Sergei Eisenstein’s *Ivan the Terrible* and related historical and sensational cinema. It also reflects on changing…

A Female Prisoner’s Experience of Private Punishment, Part Two

Kosaka Tamie

A serialized account of female imprisonment describes women subjected to coercive and humiliating punishments, including stripping, forced dancing and postural exercises, bodily exposure, and degrading toilet-related treatment. The narrative emphasizes captivity, institutional power, endurance,…

Fire, Part Seven

Matsui Kōko

The seventh installment of Matsui Kōko’s serialized erotic novel follows a married couple through jealousy, coercion, and escalating bondage during travel and domestic encounters. The narrative features rope restraint, gagging, forced positions, humiliation, and…

After Fog, Rain

Kawabata Tanako

A diary-style erotic narrative describes a rainy mountain excursion that develops into an outdoor bondage and photographic scenario. Rope restraint, nudity, exposure, discomfort, and the voyeuristic staging of the bound body form the story’s…