The Ecstatic Realm of Ropes and Cords

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A large photographic program documents rope binding, foot restraint, hands-behind suspension, domestic bondage poses, seppuku staging, dominant and submissive roles, and outdoor suspension.

Women’s Blood-red Seppuku

A staged photographic sequence presents a woman performing seppuku play with a mirror, prop blade, theatrical blood, and ritualized self-harm imagery.

Female Dominant and Slave: The Realm of Masochism

A domestic photographic portfolio shows a dominant woman and male submissive in kneeling, foot-focused, costume, and restraint scenarios.

The Actual Practice of Bondage Photography: Neck Rope and Hands-Tied-Behind

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō, reading uncertain

An illustrated practical essay explains how to produce bondage photographs, including equipment, lighting, framing, rope configurations, poses, expressions, and the photographer’s direction of the model.

Mami and Shinobu

This first-person confessional fiction follows an intimate relationship structured by bondage, pain, endurance, domination, submission, and shifting master-slave roles. The installment concludes on printed page 53.

Nose, Rope, and Me

Nakamura Ryōko

A first-person fetish narrative centers on fascination with the female nose and develops through ropes, gags, handcuffs, humiliation, coercive fantasy, and reflections on authorship.

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Asao, romanization uncertain

A long serialized SM novel moves from harsh school discipline into prison, escape, recapture, medical examination, dissection, electrical stimulation, and institutional bodily control.

Human Ego

Rihei Takiguchi

An essay questions human claims to superiority by juxtaposing animal slaughter with executions, experimentation, and other forms of human cruelty.

The Grave of Fallen Leaves

An episodic narrative of Masako and Teizō combines coercive sexuality, humiliation, restraint, memory, and sadomasochistic fantasy with integrated illustrations.

From the Notes of a Certain Enema Maniac

Shigeru Akai, reading uncertain

A fetish-cultural essay discusses enema practices, collecting, magazine imagery, and changing prewar and postwar attitudes toward domestic medical and sexual practices.

From My Abdominal-Seppuku Experience Record

Ryōko Fujimura

A first-person account describes a ritualized abdominal-cutting fantasy involving preparation, a blade, blood, pain, and theatrical observation of the body.

Fantasia Masochistica

Setsuo Yamamoto

A dreamlike dialogue presents a male submissive dominated by women through commands, riding imagery, restraint, punishment, and humiliation.

A Woman’s Record: The Heike Settlement

Kazuko Kusaki, reading uncertain

A continuing first-person narrative links a bound woman and a rural community to inherited discrimination, poverty, forced labor, wartime flight, policing, family conflict, and survival.

On Cross-dressing Play

Oda Namio

A confessional contribution discusses makeup, wigs, clothing, cross-dressing, erotic role-play, restraint, dependency, and humiliation.

Girls’ Sumo and Wrestling Scenes

Maruyama Keizō

A confession traces a fascination with girls’ sumo and wrestling through memories, local contests, holds, throws, and increasingly elaborate scenes of female physical domination.

Strange Tales Salon: A Solitary View of Life

Nagata Isao

An essay reflects on loneliness, modern alienation, readership, correspondence, and the magazine as a social and intellectual network.

Seppuku Photos: Review and Reputation

Minamigata Jun

A visual-criticism column evaluates staged seppuku photography through composition, props, costume, makeup, blood effects, continuity, and the balance between theatricality and photographic realism.

The Bars of the Mental Hospital

Kazuo Kawamura, reading uncertain

An autobiographical account of psychiatric hospitalization describes ward routines, electrotherapy, restraints, surveillance, stigma, correspondence, and eventual release.

A Love Letter

Kyōko Hamamura, role uncertain

An extended exchange of intimate letters discusses marriage, pregnancy, bodily change, photographs, unusual sexual preferences, and the tension between domestic life and exceptional desire.

Ode to Christiel

Tsujimura Takashi and/or Kyōko Hamamura, roles uncertain

A continuing correspondence feature combines personal testimony, reader questions, erotic experimentation, enema and irrigation practices, restraint, pregnancy, contraception, privacy, censorship, and editorial handling of intimate material.

Memories of A, Bound to the Cherry Tree

Kubo Takashi

A formally listed contribution whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.

Thirty-nine Nights of Strange Tales

Tsujimura Takashi

A formally listed strange-tales feature whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.

Confessional Self-binding Tale: Miscellany of Moxibustion

Kimura Seiichi

A formally listed self-binding confession whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.

Beauty amid Ugliness: A Devotee’s Record

Tobu Kazuhiko, reading uncertain

A formally listed devotee’s record whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.

The Fantasy of the Nappa Tape

Arahara Orio, reading uncertain

A formally listed fetish-fantasy item whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.

A Molester’s Nonsense

Watanabe Tadao

A formally listed short item whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.

A Ghost’s Nonsense

A formally listed item with uncertain title identity whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.

Reader’s Confession: A Life with a Mirror

Kiguchi Haruko

A formally listed reader confession whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.

Foot Literature and Records

Nagai Yasuo

A formally listed fetish-cultural reference feature whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.

Readers’ Correspondence

Kimura, given name illegible

A formally listed correspondence section whose body pages are absent from the issue scan.

The Goddess of Salvation

Thirty-Nine Nights Group

An erotic illustration presents a goddess-like woman standing triumphantly while several bound men cling to or lie at her feet, framing salvation through female power and male submission.

Elegant Iroha Playing Cards

Takireiko

This illustrated playing-card feature presents a sequence of stylized Japanese scenes involving women and men subjected to bondage, restraint, humiliation, and captivity.

Beautiful Figure in Takate-Kote Ushirode Binding

Takireiko

A photographic feature depicts a woman seated in an elaborate takate-kote ushirode rope binding, with her arms restrained behind her back and her kimono arranged as part of the composition.

Bonfire

Shiba Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a man binding and gagging a woman beside a bonfire in a dark outdoor setting.

The Display in the Yard

Shiba Takashi

An erotic illustration shows a woman tied spread-eagled to a raised frame in a yard while a man observes from a nearby building.

The Boss Woman and Three Slaves

Harukawa Namio

An erotic illustration portrays a dominant woman seated over and controlling three bound male slaves, emphasizing an orchestrated scene of female authority and male submission.

Mounted on a Startled Horse

Harukawa Namio

An erotic illustration depicts a woman straddling and dominating a restrained male figure while wielding a riding crop, under the caption “Mounted on a Startled Horse.”

Yakuza Lynch

Kurokawa Fujio

A staged erotic illustration titled “Yakuza Lynch” portrays a group of men restraining and abusing a bound woman in a dark gangster-themed scene.

Tatami-Ring Geisha Sumo

Yukizaki Kyojin

An erotic illustration presents a geisha-themed wrestling scene on a tatami ring, combining nudity, grappling, and physical domination before onlooking men.

Seppuku in Ski-Wear Style

Takireiko

An erotic illustration depicts a woman in ski wear staging a stylized seppuku scene, combining modern winter clothing with imagery of ritual self-disembowelment.

Expressions of Ecstatic Torment and Close-Ups of Rope

Kinukawa Fumiyo

A photographic feature presents close views of a restrained woman’s ecstatic or distressed expressions alongside detailed views of the rope used in the scene.

My Pleasure

Takeno Hiroko

A staged photographic portfolio titled “My Pleasure” depicts women bound with rope in varied bed-based poses, including gagged and partially undressed presentations.

The Expressive Beauty of the Gag

Rika Yukiko

A photographic feature presents a woman gagged and tightly rope-bound in a series of posed close-ups, emphasizing the visual expressiveness of restrained speech and facial sensation.

Fantasy of Torn Underwear

Otsuka Keiko

A staged photographic sequence depicts a woman in torn or disordered lingerie subjected to elaborate rope bondage in indoor and outdoor settings, combining damaged clothing with scenes of erotic restraint.

Prelude to Submission: Complete Submission

Kinukawa Fumiyo

A photographic feature titled “Prelude to Submission: Complete Submission” shows a woman moving through collapsed, contorted, and fully submissive poses, with images of physical helplessness and completed submission.

The Trained Pet Dog

Rika Yukiko

A photographic feature presents a woman treating a nude male submissive as a trained pet, including feeding and foot-oriented scenes of obedience and service.

Slave Beneath Her Feet

Rika Yukiko

A photographic bondage feature depicts a nude woman immobilized in elaborate rope restraints and posed as a slave beneath another person’s feet.

Female Seppuku Pantomime and Close-Ups

Otsuka Keiko

A staged photographic sequence portrays a woman performing a stylized female seppuku or self-disembowelment pantomime with a sword, followed by close-up images of her body and expressions.

The Feel of a Diaper Cover and Rubber

A photographic feature depicts a woman wearing diaper-cover garments and rubber while bound in several rope configurations, emphasizing the tactile and fetishistic appeal of the materials.

A Moment of Ebi Binding

Rika Yukiko

A single photographic scene presents a woman tightly rope-bound in the ebi-shibori, or shrimp-binding, position.

Akemi Writhing

Kondo Hajime

An illustrated serialized narrative follows the actress Sayuri through a theatrical world of staged bondage, harsh discipline, humiliation, exploitation, and personal conflict as she struggles to survive and establish herself on the stage.

Chronicle of a Woman: The Woman from Aizu

Sudo Ritsuo

A first-person erotic chronicle recounts an encounter with an enigmatic woman from Aizu whose identity and fantasies are intertwined with the memory of the Byakkotai, wartime sacrifice, and ritualized self-injury. The accompanying illustration reinforces…

The Tongue Knew

Sawai Kazuo

This episodic erotic narrative follows the narrator’s increasingly intimate and manipulative encounters with Yuri, a married woman whose seductive performances involve jealousy, forbidden desire, bodily display, and fantasies of knife play modeled on samurai…

Thirty-Nine Nights of Strange Tales

Tsujimura Takashi

A serialized cycle of bizarre erotic tales presents episodes of abduction, captivity, bondage, assault, sadistic violence, and sexual humiliation, accompanied by dramatic illustrations and framed as sensational fantasy.

Women's Subconscious Desires

Hayakawa Susumu

This surreal erotic fiction explores women’s hidden desires through dreamlike scenes of marital conflict, coercion, restraint, humiliation, and female submission, blending psychological speculation with violent fantasy.

Fujio Tamotsu's Life and Opinions

Fujio Tamotsu

An interview-style life-and-opinions piece discusses the author’s views on women, European and American social customs, domestic servants, horse riding, whipping, and other forms of eroticized discipline, accompanied by illustrated scenes.

The Stairway to My Wife's Depths

Higashimachi Saburo

A domestic SM melodrama follows a troubled marriage and household hierarchy in which illness, servants, in-laws, coercive discipline, beatings, and enemas reshape relationships and the protagonists’ positions within the family.

My Life in Women's Clothing

Mishima Yayoi

In this autobiographical account, a male narrator describes his lifelong attraction to women’s clothing, gradual adoption of makeup and feminine presentation, and experiences appearing publicly and traveling as a woman.

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Ozo

A serialized SM fiction narrative set in a brutal prison depicts male and female inmates subjected to elaborate iron restraints, nose-ring and gag devices, forced positions, corporal punishment, and domination by guards, alongside escape…

Kitan Salon

The Kitan Salon is a reader-oriented miscellany combining an editorial review of the previous issue with correspondence, personal submissions, bondage and fetish discussions, reader requests, illustrations, product notices, and other contributions to the magazine’s…

Decisive Battle

Yukizaki Kyojin

This illustrated feature presents a montage of nude men and women in staged, combat-like erotic embraces and grappling poses under the title “Decisive Battle.”

Another Me

Utsumi Shoji

A first-person confessional narrative follows a man’s developing fascination with feminine identity, cross-dressing, and elaborate self-binding, including memories of his sister, marriage, and private bondage fantasies. The account links these practices to loneliness, secrecy,…

Cruel Scenes in Recent Films

Higashiyama Eishi

A film commentary surveys cruel and sensational scenes in recent Japanese movies, emphasizing women subjected to ropes, restraint, torture, pursuit, and execution-like peril, with attention to staging, costumes, camera views, and the visual impact…

Weight Test

Kurokawa Fujio

An erotic illustration depicts a woman restrained beneath a weighted board while a man supervises a test involving suspended weights.

Wax-Tear Characters

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration shows a restrained woman undergoing a ritualized scene in which a man appears to inscribe or apply material to her body, evoking wax tears and characters.

Punishment at the Foot of the Bridge

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a woman bound and kneeling at the foot of a bridge as part of a public outdoor punishment tableau.

Fantasy of the Sea: The Seal and the Beauty

Ryu Reiko

An erotic illustration depicts a bound woman reclining amid rough seas and rain while a seal rises behind her, presenting a surreal fantasy of the sea.

Reverse Hold

A staged erotic photograph titled “Reverse Hold” shows a woman kneeling over and physically controlling a prone man in a wrestling-style restraint.

The Flower of the Storage Shed

Kurokawa Fujio

An erotic illustration shows a woman restrained to a chair with ropes around her limbs while a man supports or handles her in a dim storage-shed setting.

A Nasty Prank

Kurokawa Fujio

An erotic illustration depicts a man restraining a seated woman while forcing her mouth open in a cruel prank.

A Business Girl's Suicide

Ryu Reiko

An erotic illustration presents a businesswoman kneeling beside a bed with her clothing pulled open and apparent dark stains beneath her, depicting a sensationalized suicide scene.

Wet Statue

Tsukamoto Tetsuzo

A photographic bondage study shows a nude woman tightly bound with rope across her torso, arms, and legs in a stylized restrained pose.

Beauty Between the Boards

Kinukawa Fumiyo

A photographic feature presents a woman posed in multiple rope-bound positions on a wooden-floored interior, emphasizing the visual beauty and composition of kinbaku restraint.

Writhing Toward the Black Serpent

A photographic sequence depicts a woman tightly bound on bedding and interacting with a dark rod or cane in an eroticized “black serpent” scenario.

The Process of Ebi-zeme Play

Otsuka Keiko

A step-by-step photographic feature documents the progression of an ebi-zeme rope-bondage scene, including seated and floor-bound positions, gagging, and manipulation with a rod.

The Chains of Imprisonment

A photographic feature presents a woman immobilized with heavy chains in a series of staged imprisonment and bondage scenes.

I Do Not Want to Go Over There

A staged photographic sequence depicts a woman resisting being taken away while partially undressed, restrained, and overpowered in a captivity scenario.