Under the Beautiful Whip

Toyama Kazuhiko

A fictional SM narrative in which a male employee is summoned into the secret world of a beautiful female dominatrix and subjected to ritualized commands, display, physical training, and servile treatment. The story emphasizes…

Thoughts on Foreign Magazines

Kurahito Naruhito

An editorial comparison of Japanese and foreign erotic magazines discusses sensational reportage, sexual imagery, readership, censorship, and the influence of imported visual conventions, illustrated with foreign-style equestrian scenes.

Origin of Tateishi-sama

Fujitate Eikichi

Fujitate Eikichi investigates the origins of Tateishi-sama, combining a folklorist’s visit to a rural shrine with local traditions about its deity and sacred objects. The account then recounts an Edo-period legend involving adultery, accusation,…

How About This Enema Device?

Nakai Teruo

A practical feature presents and discusses several enema devices, describing their construction, operation, attachments, and possible uses in erotic play.

Unrequited Love

Matsui Reiko

A serialized erotic novella follows an intense relationship between Enko and Masuyo involving jealousy, coercive control, bondage, corporal punishment, humiliation, and escalating sexual domination.

Confession of a Panty Maniac

Sugiura Saburo

A first-person confession by a young office worker describing his intense fetishistic fixation on women’s panties. He recounts buying and seeking out underwear, observing women and lingerie-shop customers, and developing private fantasies around the…

The Terror of Tanbiso

Aoyama Miekichi

A serialized erotic-horror narrative set around a remote mountain villa, where a young woman becomes entangled in a cycle of deception, captivity, and violent revenge. The story depicts the victim’s restraint, torture, staged bondage…

Thoughts on the Akebono Society Incident

Furuta Sumio

An extended editorial investigation and critique of the Akebono Society incident examines sensational media coverage, police intervention, alleged sexual misconduct, and the ethical and evidentiary problems involved in judging the participants.

Zhu Jin Zhao

Kan Ryōta

This illustrated historical erotic narrative follows the capture and interrogation of Zhu Jin Zhao, portraying military authority, secrecy, coercion, and humiliating bodily punishment within a period setting.

The Land of Shadows

Taki Reiko

A serialized erotic captivity narrative depicts schoolgirls and other women subjected to abduction, interrogation, rope restraint, corporal punishment, forced exposure, and escalating coercive treatment by male authorities and captors.

Reader Salon

A reader-correspondence section featuring letters and editorial replies about erotic magazines, fetish interests, bondage and rope practice, gendered and marital sexuality, and bodily practices including enemas. It also reflects readers’ requests for information, photographs,…

The Life and Opinions of Mr. Asō Tamotsu

Asō Tamotsu

A first-person confession describes the pleasures and complications of male cross-dressing, including dressing in women’s clothing, presenting femininely in public, and incorporating the practice into married life.

My Fantasy Inspired by Chrysanthemums

Kitagawa Haruo

This illustrated fantasy feature gathers erotic imaginings centered on chrysanthemums, idealized female bodies, clothing, restraint, and other stylized scenes, while inviting readers to contribute their own fantasies and images.

The Strange Hell Hut

Yagiri Jūhachi

A profile and opinion piece on Asō Tamotsu recounts his domestic and erotic interests, including spanking and bodily display, alongside reflections on erotic publications and changing sexual attitudes.

From the Notebook of a Dreamer

Numa Shōzō

A dreamlike literary narrative explores interracial desire, slavery, coercion, and domination through a white woman’s encounters with Black men, blending erotic fantasy with reflections on racial hierarchy and historical power.

Acrobatic Cruelty Record

Mizuta Makiko

A period sadistic tale follows servants and travelers through abduction, confinement, punishment, and elaborate rope-bound scenes, including physically acrobatic suspension and public humiliation.

Hot-Spring Hell

Ochiba Jūrō

A first-person erotic bondage account describes two women being restrained, blindfolded, gagged, and subjected to escalating rope techniques and suspension under a teacher’s direction, presented as part of an “acrobat cruel record.”

The Underground City of Female Slaves

Shōyō Jūrō

A serialized SM fantasy follows a group of men who abduct and restrain women in an underground bathhouse and subject them to elaborate bondage, coercion, punishment, and sadistic ordeal scenes before police intervention and…

Editorial Notes and Afterword

An editorial afterword discusses the magazine’s new issue, reader submissions, commissioned illustrations, editorial selection, and the publication’s continuing role as a specialist erotic magazine.

Readers’ Correspondence

A multi-page readers’ mail section presents personal responses to the magazine’s bondage, fetish, erotic photography, and illustrated material, alongside requests, critiques, reports of readers’ interests, and submissions or ideas for future issues.

Female Body in a Shameful Pose

A photographic feature presents a woman bound with rope in a deliberately shameful, exposed pose, emphasizing bodily vulnerability and restrained posture.

Duet of Bondage

This photographic duet depicts a woman repeatedly bound in rope, including curled and reclining positions, foregrounding the visual composition of female restraint.

Alluring Suspension

A photographic feature presents a woman suspended by rope in a series of staged, elegantly composed bondage poses, emphasizing her constrained posture and sensory vulnerability.

Chains, Collar, and Rope

A staged photograph shows a woman restrained on a bed with chains, a collar, and rope around her limbs and torso, highlighting elaborate bondage apparatus and immobilization.

The House in the Swamp Where People Disappear

Tsukumo Juro; illustrations by Hiyama Kitaro

A long-form illustrated erotic thriller follows two men investigating a remote swamp house where women disappear, uncovering abduction, captivity, interrogation, binding, torture, and escape attempts amid a sinister mystery. The serialized narrative combines sensational…

Moonlit Night

Jules-Henriot

An erotic illustration titled “Moonlit Night” depicts a voyeur observing a secluded scene, emphasizing the act of illicit looking and spectatorship.

Bondage in Formal Dress

This visual feature depicts a woman in formal dress bound with rope in seated and reclining poses, combining elaborate clothing with staged restraint.

The Mysterious Visitor

A sequence of photographs portrays a kimono-clad woman as a mysterious visitor who is successively bound, posed, and left restrained across domestic interior settings.

Cruelly Bound in Full Dress

A photographic feature presents a woman in formal Japanese dress tightly bound with rope in a series of staged seated, reclining, and contorted poses.

Tree and Woman

Yoshida Hisashi

A photographic feature shows a woman bound with rope to a tree in several outdoor poses, emphasizing the visual composition of kinbaku and the restrained body.

Four Forms of Alluring Bondage

A photographic feature presents four alluring bondage poses, showing a woman in traditional dress restrained with rope in standing, kneeling, and seated positions.

Bed of Bewitching Beauty

A photographic portfolio depicts a woman restrained in and around a bed, using varied rope arrangements and immobilized poses to create an atmosphere of stylized erotic submission.

The Crouching Little Bird

This photographic portfolio depicts a woman bound in tightly crouched and folded postures, with poetic captions comparing her confinement and fear to a little bird hiding beneath a tree.

Old-Fashioned Flower

A photographic feature presents a kimono-clad woman bound and subjected to eroticized restraint, contrasting traditional dress with exposed vulnerability.

Pose of Resentment

A staged photographic feature shows a woman in a boldly patterned robe bound across the torso and arms in curled and seated poses, evoking shame, resignation, and resentment.

The Painter of Enmado

Yagiri Juhachi

This serialized historical erotic fiction follows the painter Enmado as he creates and becomes entangled in increasingly violent scenes of female captivity, restraint, coercion, and pursuit, accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrations.

Rolling Torment

A photographic feature demonstrates “rolling torment,” depicting a woman tightly rope-bound in curled and constrained positions, including sequences in which her body is maneuvered or rolled on the floor.

Ecstasy of Belly Cutting

A staged photographic tableau eroticizes a woman’s exposure and abdominal focus through imagery evoking Japanese seppuku, with captions emphasizing sorrow, pain, and grim atmosphere.

Rope and Woman

A photographic portfolio explores rope wrapped around and binding a woman’s body, presenting restraint as a source of sensual ecstasy through varied poses and configurations.

Suspension Variations

A photographic feature presents variations on suspension bondage, showing a woman secured by ropes in elevated, inverted, and partially suspended positions.

Crucifixion and Handstand

Photographs demonstrate crucifixion-style bondage and handstand variations, with the model’s limbs tied and extended or inverted into highly restrictive display positions.

Spider Binding

A photographic kinbaku feature demonstrates a “spider binding” in which the subject is posed low to the floor with the legs drawn apart and secured by rope, accompanied by brief poetic commentary on immobility…

The Blindfolded Woman

A photographic feature depicting a blindfolded woman in varied rope-bound positions, accompanied by poetic text emphasizing the visual and psychological effect of the blindfold and her restrained suffering.

Breast Binding

A photographic feature presents breast binding, showing rope arrangements that restrain and frame the breasts in several kneeling and seated poses.

Round and Round Wrapping

A photographic feature demonstrates extensive round-and-round rope wrapping around the torso, arms, and legs, emphasizing tightly layered restraint and posed immobilization.

Bound on the Bed

A photographic study of a woman tied in multiple positions on a bed, using rope and chain restraints to stage intimate scenes of immobilization and submission.

Story of a Man Who Wants to Become a Maid

Ama Tetsuro

A serialized erotic story follows a man who longs to become a maid and enters a household where he is feminized, assigned domestic service, and subjected to humiliating discipline and restraint.

Duet in Rope

A photographic duet presents two women posed together in varied rope-bound positions, emphasizing their interaction, posture, and the visual composition of kinbaku scenes.

Two-Person Play on Parade

A photographic portfolio presenting two-person SM play in staged domestic settings, including rope bondage, close physical interaction, role-play, and varied restrained positions.

Bound Woman in Chinese Dress

A photographic feature depicts a woman in a patterned Chinese-style dress undergoing elaborate rope restraint in seated, reclining, and kneeling poses, with the garment and binding treated as central visual motifs.

Leather Fetishism

A photographic portfolio presents women modeling leather garments and accessories in posed scenes, emphasizing leather clothing as a source of erotic identity and fetish appeal.

A Single Bewitching Flower

A poetic photographic portfolio presents a solitary woman bound with rope against rocky outdoor settings, combining floral and bewitching imagery with scenes of restrained posing and exposure.

Cruelty on the Table

A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman tied to and around a table in contorted, uncomfortable positions, presenting restraint as a staged scene of cruelty and spectacle.

Punishment Picture Collection

A collection of staged punishment images depicts women subjected to varied forms of restraint and ordeal, including suspension, outdoor exposure, stocks, chains, and dangerous industrial or railway settings.

Postures of Love Rope

This photographic feature presents multiple stylized postures produced by binding a woman with rope, accompanied by text describing the mysterious, entrancing qualities of rope restraint.

Uninvited Peril

Yoda Seiichi; illustrations by Okita Shoji

This illustrated captivity tale follows Stella, a woman traveling through a fictional foreign country who is intercepted by security forces, interrogated, stripped, restrained, and subjected to escalating threats before attempting to escape.

Crotch Binding

An illustrated photographic feature demonstrates crotch binding, showing a model secured with rope around the torso, hips, thighs, and crotch in a series of seated and reclining positions.

On Urning

Okumura Sekio

Okumura Sekio’s essay explains male homosexuality through the period’s sexological vocabulary, discussing same-sex desire, Uranianism, pederasty, sexual development, and social attitudes toward homosexual relationships.

Writhing in Rope

A photographic feature depicting a woman tightly bound in rope and shown writhing through a series of restrained poses.

Before the Mirror

A photographic scene shows a woman bound while seated before a mirror, emphasizing the doubled view of her restrained body and her own image.

Beauty Beauty

Shishimura Yutaka

A serialized lesbian SM novel follows Tsukimi and Hoshimi through jealousy, seduction, coercive sexual encounters, humiliation, punishment, and increasingly elaborate scenes of restraint. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the work’s staged erotic and fetishistic atmosphere.

Walking the Dog

Ema Hisami

An erotic illustration depicts a gagged and roped person being led or made to crawl like a dog, with restraints at the neck, arms, and legs.

Punishment at the Drying Yard

Ema Hisami

An erotic illustration depicts a woman bound to a household drying-yard structure, gagged and immobilized as a punishment tableau.

A Woman's Belly Is Trampled

An illustrated coercive episode depicts a woman fleeing before being overpowered, humiliated, and trampled by men, with the accompanying narrative emphasizing pursuit and bodily domination.

On The Great Bodhisattva Pass

Yumo Shigeru

A film-history essay compares several screen adaptations of The Great Bodhisattva Pass, focusing on changing performances, production styles, and the recurring eroticized scenes of O-hama’s capture, binding, and humiliation.

Suspended Woman

Oda Toshimi

An erotic illustration shows a woman suspended from the ceiling by breast restraints, with her wrists and ankles tied as she hangs like a Christmas ornament.

Bed of Needles

Oda Toshimi

An erotic illustration depicts a gagged woman lying on a bed of pointed needles, presenting pain and immobilization as a masochistic fantasy.

Snake Attacking a Woman's Body

Tagami Keiko

A staged monochrome image shows a woman restrained while a snake is draped across and around her body, combining animal danger with erotic captivity imagery.

Ecstasy of Rope

A photographic feature presents women bound in elaborate rope arrangements, emphasizing immobilized poses, rope placement, and the visual spectacle of kinbaku.

Chair Binding

A photographic feature demonstrates a woman secured to a chair with her arms bound behind her and her thighs and ankles tied with rope, accompanied by a reflection on the restricted mental world of…

Suspended Posture

This photographic sequence presents suspended and near-suspended postures in which a woman’s bound legs and body are supported or strained by ropes, including variations using a chair and floor.

A Cruel Two-Woman Game

A staged two-woman scene depicts a larger woman bound and subjected to torment by a smaller dominant woman through foot pressure, rope pulling, and hair pulling, framed as a cruel erotic game.

The Season of Rime Ice

Arikawa Masako

The opening installment of a winter-set lesbian narrative introduces an isolated snowy town, a chance encounter, and the narrator’s growing fascination with another woman amid an atmosphere of secrecy and emotional restraint.

Hands and Feet Wrapped Round and Round

A photographic bondage feature shows a woman repeatedly wrapped with rope around her hands, feet, and body in several tightly constrained poses.

The Male Homosexual Murder Case: An Investigation

Umyōin Kazuta

The continuation develops an intense relationship between women through hospital visits, caregiving, bodily vulnerability, jealousy, and erotic domination, blending medical settings with fantasies of control and surrender.

Black-Hair Night Tales

Kurosaki Yoshiyuki

An essay on the erotic and symbolic significance of long black hair surveys hair care, styling, salon practices, beauty ideals, and the fascination with black-haired women in Japanese and wider cultural traditions.

Bound on the Spot

A photographic sequence presents a woman restrained in place with rope, including poses using fixed household fixtures and furniture.