Notes on Tetsuzo Tsukamoto

Keiichiro Maekawa

A critical profile of Tsukamoto Tetsuzō examines his SM reportage, photography, model presentation, reader response, and the changing relationship between documentary claims, staged performance, and erotic fantasy. The essay evaluates photographs as both aesthetic…

The Gate of the Purple Orchid

Furyu Gokudoken

A serialized period SM narrative involving household hierarchy, servants, nicknamed participants, commands, restraint, humiliation, and staged domination. Historical setting and melodramatic dialogue frame a continuing network of coercive sexual play among several characters.

Enchanted by SM Magazines

Noriko Omiya

Noriko Omiya’s extensive confession traces a path from reading SM magazines and imagining submission to writing editors, corresponding with readers, arranging meetings, and participating in bondage and domination. Marriage, secrecy, shame, fear, pain, agency,…

Great Eruption

Seiki Chiba

A sensational serialized narrative involving Hong Kong, hotels, travel, passports, disguise, secret meetings, abduction, confinement, fetish clothing, and staged sexual spectacle. The Beautiful Gorilla episode turns costume, bodily concealment, restraint, and exhibition into an…

Visiting the Old Capital’s … and the S&M …

Machiko Maeda

The Glamorous Fox Girl

Kensaku Kiyama

The Distant White Path, Part 1

Sakae Kuruki

Odd Salon

Readers’ Correspondence

Selected by the editorial department

Photo: Enjoying the Allure of Enchantment

Kinukawa Fumiyo

A photographic feature presenting staged bondage and suspension scenes in both monochrome and color, emphasizing rope, posture, domestic interiors, and the visual allure of restrained bodies.

A Camera-and-Pen Reportage: The Secret of Lewd Fingers—The Akino Eiko Chapter

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A long illustrated reportage follows an SM research group through staged bondage, suspension, shaving, commands, inspection, photography, and repeated sessions. Its later pages question whether camera-based reportage can separate detached observation from participation.

A Confession from My Own Experience: The Melody of Pain

Murasame Tōka

An autobiographical and reader-oriented column reflects on earlier SM magazines, bondage imagery, marriage, clubs, photography, and the tension between ordinary domestic life and private erotic fantasy.

Serial Novel: Dog—Great Eruption, Part 66

Chiba Seiki

A continuing erotic-adventure serial follows Gina through espionage, organized crime, capture, interrogation, trafficking, and escape. Its international settings and criminal plot are repeatedly shaped by scenes of captivity, coercion, humiliation, and restraint.

A Tattooed Woman’s Confession: I Love Tattoos

Fujikawa Sonoko

A first-person confession traces an intense fascination with tattooed bodies, tattoo imagery, pain, bodily transformation, and the social reactions surrounding women’s tattooing.

Serial Period SM Novel: The Gate of Shiran

Fūryū Gokudōken

A continuing historical S-novel set amid Edo-period household, foreign, servant, and courtesan milieus. Its plot centers on confinement, forced display, humiliation, punishment, competing claims of possession, and attempts at rescue or revenge.

My Personal History: Longing for a Rubber Mantle

Tsurusaki Yoshio

A personal sexual memoir describes the discovery of rubber clothing and a rubber mask, the growth of a rubber fetish, attempts to involve a partner, and the resulting tensions within courtship, marriage, and domestic…

An Examination of S&M: A Study of Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

Maekawa Keiichirō

A critical essay studies Tsukamoto Tetsuzō’s SM photography through pose, lighting, framing, facial expression, restraint apparatus, theatrical construction, and the viewer’s response to staged female vulnerability.

Serial S&M Group Work: Woman’s Captivity, Part 2

Saji Masazō

An M-Group captivity narrative follows Ryōko through pursuit, confinement, punishment, attempted escape, and institutional discipline. Large photographs and illustrations show ropes, cages, locks, handcuffs, grilles, and other restraint devices.

In Sympathy with Tokiko’s Self-Bondage: A Theory of Self-Bondage Technique

Satō Mamoru

A practical and theoretical essay examines self-bondage, ropes, handcuffs, suspension, body position, circulation, release, materials, and the physical dangers of absolute immobilization.

Various Dreams Drawn by a Masochistic Woman: Five Nights of Lewd Dreams

Kawaji Murako

A five-part dream narrative moves through surreal episodes of domination, restraint, massage, bodily sensation, humiliation, and shifting power relations involving women, men, and a dog.

A Lament for a Man and Woman: The Distant White Road

Kuruki Sakae

A multi-part narrative follows a man whose present relationships are shaped by memory, earlier-life imagery, social status, workplace encounters, and changing intimacy. Its opening blends recollection, erotic attraction, fantasy, and emotional distance.

Confession: The Last Enjoyable Night

Negishi Kenji

A nostalgic first-person account describes a final pleasure trip with a married acquaintance before her marriage, including travel to the Izu/Atami area, an inn, elaborate bondage, suspension, props, photography, and reflections on memory.

Untold Story from the Defeat: Japanese Women’s Slaves

Suzuka Akiko

A sensationalized war-confession narrative links Japanese women’s experiences in Manchuria to defeat, coercion, postwar shame, forced display, bondage, drugs, alcohol, staged lighting, and sexualized authority. It concludes with an explicit completion marker.

Confession: Around My Adolescence

Sakakibara Takashi

A retrospective confession recounts adolescent voyeurism around school and women’s toilets, focusing on privacy, bodily exposure, concealed observation, clothing, mirrors, and the development of erotic curiosity.

Masochistic Story: Splendid Gourmet Food

Asaba Yasushi

A continuing narrative combines food, fashion, professional respectability, bodily functions, humiliation, voyeurism, enemas, laxatives, and public or workplace concealment. It concludes at printed page 179.

Strange Tales of the Women’s Prison at Denmachō: Tales of the Women’s Jail

Tominaga Sōta

An Edo-period historical narrative follows debt, household ruin, revenge, capture, and the incarceration of Kachō in a women’s prison. Female guards and inmates subject her to forced undressing, binding, beating, exposure, coerced singing and…

Hanging Miss Maeda Machiko: A Discussion of Hanging Punishment

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

Fiction: The Beautiful Boy Club

Maruta Ōji

The Conduct of an Abnormal Gentleman: Record of M-Type Friendships

Kiyama Kensaku

S Research Group Gossip-Meeting Report: How Yasuko Yajima Came to Be Tied Up

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A substantial photographic portfolio documents staged bondage and shibari involving numerous adult female models. Its captions and sequences emphasize rope technique, suspension, immobilization, blindfolding, domestic-room staging, and the transformation of SM performance into erotic…

Understanding the Psychology of the Desire for Human-Animalization

Fujikawa Tōjirō

A brief illustrated discussion interprets a fetishistic desire described through human-animalization terminology, linking private fantasy, bondage imagery, and psychological explanation.

An SM Discussion Amid Shame

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

Tsukamoto records an SM study-group meeting, its correspondence network, travel and hotel arrangements, photographic sessions, and the interaction of embarrassment, exhibitionism, authority, and spectatorship.

Confession: Lonely, Sleepless-Night Rubber Play

Umekawa Sachiko

A first-person confession describes elaborate rubber clothing, masks, boots, gloves, belts, and a full hood, followed by solitary dressing, mirror observation, fantasy, and bathing imagery.

Serial: The Gate of Shiran — Southern Barbarian Torture

Fūryū Gokudōken

An installment of the historical-fantasy serial places characters in aristocratic and pseudo-historical settings of torture, restraint, suspension, forced display, punishment, and spectatorship, with accompanying illustrations and image-gallery material.

Experience Account: The White Irrigator

Naeki Yōko

A dramatized first-person account follows hospital preparation, enema administration, barium imaging, catheterization, bodily sensation, embarrassment, and interactions with nurses, with medical intestinal diagrams throughout.

A Woman with Domestication Desire: An Appeal for Gang-Rape Desire

Toiri Hisomu

A signed reader submission recounts a group SM encounter involving restraint, humiliation, anal stimulation, and fantasies of collective coercion, presenting extreme intensity as both troubling and pleasurable.

A Strange Melody: A Study of the Realities of Female Urination

Saji Mazō

A mock-research report classifies female urination by posture, angle, force, sound, smell, and aftercare, turning ordinary bodily functions into objects of fetishistic observation and purported scientific analysis.

Serial M-Group Work: Woman Captive

Saji Mazō

A continuing captivity narrative follows Ryōe through workplace humiliation, coercive examinations, surveillance, interrogation, transport, restraint, punishment, and institutional domination, with embedded visual galleries.

Prize-Submission Work: The Abused Person

Kirishima Jirō

A long illustrated first-person narrative depicts women subjected to service-based exploitation, economic dependence, bondage, humiliation, punishment, and sadistic control in domestic and commercial settings.

My Résumé: Seeking Hope in a Rubber Manto

Tsurusaki Yoshio

The author recalls a lifelong fascination with rubber garments, unsuccessful searches for a rubber cape, changing availability, consumer scarcity, and hopes for renewed production and contact with fellow enthusiasts.

A Study of S&M: A Sketch of Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

Maekawa Keiichirō

A critical essay studies Tsukamoto’s writing and photography through staging, pose, ropes, props, models, humiliation, voyeurism, and the relationship between literary description and photographic evidence.

Serial Novel: Great Eruption, Episode 67

Chiba Seiki

This comic-adventure serial episode combines diplomatic intrigue, hotel scenes, surveillance, captivity, disguise, escape, sexualized coercion, and the recurring figure of Goliath.

My Family’s Birthday Present: Thin Binding

Hayaki Yumeji

A first-person birthday scenario escalates through numbered stages of bondage, interrogation, embarrassment, pain, control, and photographic role-play, supported by staged images.

Serial: SM Swapping, Pinocchio

Akitsu Shinjirō

A continuing role-play narrative moves from discipline and rope restraint in an SM club to hotel meetings, multiple participants, exchanged keys, and planned partner swapping.

Obsessed with Beautiful Noses: Reflections on Nose Punishment

Sugiyama Junzō

An illustrated essay considers ideals of nose shape, facial beauty, rhinoplasty, popular taste, and the eroticized humiliation or fetishization of a bodily feature.

M-Woman Communications: Hiroko Is a Trembling Lamb

Takamura Hiroko

A woman’s correspondence-style memoir describes attraction to an older partner, bondage, discipline, fear, staged abuse, fantasy, and erotic surrender, accompanied by photographs.

Serial: M-Group Friendship Record no. 50, The Dancing Male Leopard

Kiyama Kensaku

A dialogue-heavy serialized narrative follows performers and associates of an SM-oriented theatrical group through drinking, rivalry, humiliation, role-play, hotel encounters, and staged sexual performance.

Confession of an Abnormal Sexual Experience: Recollections of My Sexuality

Togoshi Harutarō

A married middle-aged narrator recalls adolescent and adult sexual experiences, SM interests, fetish imagery, bondage, prostitution, coercive encounters, and the formation of his sexual imagination.

Edo Cruelty Chronicle: The Uncanny Beckoning Cat

Shiratori Daizō

An Edo-period supernatural-cruelty narrative begins around a prosperous tea shop, a beautiful proprietress, and a mysterious beckoning cat, then develops through erotic exploitation, abduction, binding, mutilation, criminal violence, and grotesque retribution.

A Camera-and-Pen Reportage: The Owner of a Famous Organ Worth a Thousand Centipedes

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

An Adolescent Daydream: In the Bundle of Straw

Hara Kimiko

Hiroshi Goes (4): Bye—the Sun Sets on ‘Kura’

Kuruki Sakae

Color Photo Section (11 Poses)

Kasai Naoko; Yajima Yasuko; Fukada Kikuko; Akino Eiko; Maeda Machiko; Takamura Hiroko; Naeki Yōko; Fukui Momoko

Kiku Salon

Readers’ Correspondence

Melancholy and Solitary Beauty: Photo Special

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A large monochrome photographic portfolio showing multiple women in rope bondage, gags, pillar restraints, floor positions, and partial suspension in Japanese interior settings.

Color Photo Section: Twelve Poses

A color portfolio extending the opening visual material through staged rope bondage poses photographed in domestic interiors.

The Beauty of Cruelty

Ekawa Chikusui

A brief illustrated introductory piece reflecting on the aesthetic attraction of cruelty and restraint within the issue's SM framework.

Melancholy and Solitary Beauty: Hiroko Takamura

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

An extended photo-and-text feature centered on Takamura Hiroko, documenting a succession of rope restraints, gags, leg positions, floor bondage, and staged SM play.

Stepmother: The Fateful Encounter of S and M

Itō Toshirō

Erotic prose fiction exploring a relationship structured around sadistic and masochistic attraction, with psychological tension between familial roles, desire, and domination.

Image Gallery: Garden's Rare Flower

Maeda Hiomi

An erotic illustration of a restrained woman posed astride a garden object, accompanied by the surrounding fictional narrative.

My Collection: Collecting Female Breast Impressions

Satō Mitsuyasu

A collector describes making and preserving impressions of women's breasts and explains the personal fetish, encounters, and collecting practices associated with the archive.

Image Gallery: Meal Preparation Suspended

Shiba Toshiya

An illustrated bondage fantasy inserted into the surrounding collector narrative.

Chain Fundoshi: Ending the Keeping of a Slave Wife

Akino Yoshimizu

A short first-person piece centered on a chain fundoshi and changing relations between a dominant husband and submissive wife.

Image Gallery: Scream of Soft Flesh

Suzaka Akira

A single-page illustration depicting a woman in elaborate fetish restraints and accompanied by a brief narrative fragment.

SM Play Report: Tormenting a Rubber-Clad Doll

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

An extensive illustrated report follows a married woman dressed in rubberized clothing through an organized SM session, combining participant commentary with photographs of restraint, sensory restriction, and group play.

The Magic of Electricity

Fūryū Gokudōken

A pulp erotic-fiction installment involving captivity, electrical torment, international characters, and escalating sadomasochistic danger.

Image Gallery: Experiment with a New Torment Device

Oka Takashi

An elaborate fantasy illustration presents a captive woman restrained in a mechanical torment apparatus.

Image Gallery: Ghastly Hospitality

Maeda Hiomi

A bondage illustration places a restrained woman in a threatening fantasy scene built around exaggerated forms of hostile hospitality.

Prostration Before the Goddess: The Birth of a Masochist

Jō Kentarō

The narrator recalls formative experiences that led to a self-recognition as a masochist, connecting school memories, humiliation, fetishistic fascination, and later adult desire.

Image Gallery: The Finest Hospitality

Oka Takashi

A historical-style erotic illustration uses a dominant woman and restrained man to invert conventional gender authority.

From Kept Wife to Play Wife, from Play Wife to Slave Wife

Tamamoto Akiko

A wife describes how her marriage moved from conventional domestic life into deliberate SM play and finally into a self-understood slave-wife relationship.

The Sun Sets on Bāgura, Part Two

Kuruki Sakae

A travel and erotic-adventure installment follows the narrator through encounters away from Japan, blending observations of place, sexuality, nightlife, and SM-inflected fantasy.

Image Gallery: Rope, Chain, and Whip

Shiba Toshiya

A captive woman is shown bound with rope and chain beside a whip, compressing several recurring SM implements into a single fantasy image.

Image Gallery: Black Cat

Maeda Hiomi

A surreal erotic illustration pairs a reclining woman with a black cat, adding an ominous symbolic element to the surrounding narrative.

Image Gallery: Memories of Cohabitation

Oka Takashi

An illustration of a domestic bondage encounter evokes remembered intimate life within the accompanying prose.

My Body Ripens

Naeki Yōko

A woman's autobiographical reflection recounts the development of bodily and sexual awareness and her growing involvement with SM experience.