Gags

Shinkawa Hiroo

An SM couple presents a first-person account of their bondage and enema-oriented practices, including staged scenarios and bodily discipline, and appeals to readers to submit related experiences for publication.

Report and Appeal from an SM Couple

Murasaki Shiki

A serialized Edo-period erotic adventure follows abducted and restrained women, with scenes of rope bondage, captivity, coercion, humiliation, and struggle among gamblers, entertainers, and rescuers.

The Gate of Purple Orchids

Fūryū Gokudōken

This illustrated historical essay surveys women’s sumo from Edo-period references through regional folk traditions, examining its terminology, performance customs, gendered symbolism, and eroticized representations in print and popular culture.

Notes on Women’s Sumo, Part 3

Omatsu Hirahiko

A reportage-style account traces Machiko’s progression into an M-oriented lifestyle, describing her marriage, rigorous physical and sexual training, enemas and anal procedures, and staged photographic demonstrations of restraint and discipline.

The Path Machiko Followed Toward M

Haseda Kameji

An illustrated erotic narrative depicts women drawn into the “Dog Castle,” where a male master subjects them to captivity, humiliation, sexualized display, and coercive disciplinary scenes.

Captive of the Dog Castle

Mizue Shin

A practical illustrated feature discusses the design, fitting, fastening, cleaning, and use of rubber raincoats, masks, and full-body garments for restrictive, sensory, and erotic purposes.

The Tormenting Rubber Raincoat

Umekawa Sachiko

A serialized SM narrative follows Mochizuki Reiko as she is drawn into a militarized regime of command, discipline, confinement, and elaborate bondage, culminating in harsh punishments and staged restraint scenarios.

Great Eruption

Chiba Seiki

A mixed reportage and photographic feature documents Yuki’s relationship with an SM partner through interviews and an extended sequence of staged rope-bondage sessions involving varied positions, restraints, sensory control, and photographic display.

Yuki’s Sensitive Parts

Sakaki Masao

An illustrated instructional essay presents protocols and scenarios for sex-slave service, emphasizing obedience, discipline, restraint, grooming, deferential speech, humiliation, and the cultivation of a submissive role within a master–slave relationship.

Mariko’s Memo: Sex-Slave Handbook

Kitagawa Mariko

An illustrated M-faction social record follows the narrator’s European travels, casino encounters, and relationships with dominant women and submissive men, depicting staged scenes of bondage, humiliation, and sexual discipline.

M-Faction Social Record: Queen of the Casino

Onizan Kensaku

A personal letter and photographic feature recounts the writer’s long-standing desire for bondage and enemas, presenting intimate memories, fantasies, and posed scenes of restraint and enema play.

A Letter from Noriyo: I Longed for Bondage and Enemas

Saijō Noriyo

An illustrated erotic narrative follows a married man drawn into an increasingly coercive hotel encounter involving female dominance, restraint, corporal punishment, humiliation, and marital betrayal, with the apparent sexual trap also tied to financial…

Sweet Trap

Morimoto Aizō

An illustrated erotic narrative follows a married man drawn into an increasingly coercive hotel encounter involving female dominance, restraint, corporal punishment, humiliation, and marital betrayal, with the apparent sexual trap also tied to financial…

Camera Hunt: Ecstatic Inverted Suspension

Roppongi Kaoru

A photographic portfolio documents a bound woman being maneuvered through dramatic inverted suspension and other rope-restraint positions, emphasizing the spectacle of the staged scene.

Pleasure Is Right There

A sequence of staged erotic photographs depicts a woman restrained in domestic and bedroom settings, including sensory restriction and tightly bound poses presented as scenes of erotic pleasure.

Inaugural Editorial: Like the Sun and Moon

Editorial Department

The inaugural editorial introduces Sun & Moon as a specialist magazine devoted to unconventional sexuality, erotic imagination, SM culture, and perspectives excluded from mainstream society, while inviting readers and contributors to help develop its…

The Lifestyle of the Aesthetic Type: Practicalists’ Roundtable

A roundtable of experienced SM practitioners discusses their lifestyles, relationships, experimentation, and practical techniques, including bondage, needle play, photography, and the role of specialist magazines. The participants also reflect on marriage, secrecy, and balancing…

Confession of a Buttocks-Whipping Enthusiast

Kasai Rokurō

An autobiographical confession by Kasai Rokurō describing his strong interest in whipping and other forms of corporal punishment, including encounters involving restraint, role-play, and the direction of a female partner, accompanied by staged erotic…

Two Years of SM with My Sister-in-Law

Ōno Seiya

Ōno Seiya recounts two years of SM involvement with his sister-in-law, presenting a secret and emotionally complicated relationship centered on erotic experimentation, restraint, and changing sexual roles.

Relay Camera Hunt: A Red Ripe Persimmon Left on One Branch

Seta Kaiichi

A photo-reportage follows an editor’s staged bondage sessions with a married couple, combining interviews, role-play dialogue, and extensive images of rope restraint, humiliation, and changing SM dynamics.

Barbarian Girls: 8mm Home-Movie Introduction

This feature reviews and introduces the 8mm erotic home movie The Barbarian Girls, presenting its fetishized bondage, punishment, and sensational imagery as an imported film attraction.

Rope-Tying Classroom

Roppongi Kaoru

A practical lesson demonstrates the “behind-the-back A-form” tie, explaining rope placement and tension while illustrating the completed restraint on a model.

Confessional Memoir: My Wife’s Past

Tashiro Masashi

A confessional memoir recounts the narrator’s wife’s past in the nightlife business and his subsequent use of rope bondage, punishment, and staged photographs in their relationship, ending with a return to their present domestic…

Overseas SM Photo Introduction, Part One

The first installment presents overseas SM photographs, chiefly depicting Black women in fetish clothing and staged scenes of bondage, domination, and sadistic display.

Overseas SM Photo Introduction, Part Two

The second installment continues the overseas SM photo feature with additional images from a specialist Bizarre magazine, emphasizing Black female subjects in posed bondage and sadomasochistic scenes.

Pregnant-Woman Bondage

Nakamiya Sakae

An erotic reportage by Nakamiya Sakae describes a married couple’s escalating bondage photography centered on the wife’s pregnancy, including rope restraint, blindfolding, gagging, and staged domestic scenes. The accompanying photographs document varied kinbaku positions…

Pregnant Beauty

A photographic portfolio presents a pregnant model in a series of rope-bound, blindfolded, seated, standing, and floor-based poses, emphasizing the visual display of pregnancy through staged restraint.

Female Slave

Y.Y.

This photographic feature portrays a woman as a female slave through a sequence of staged rope-bondage scenes, including restrained floor and seated positions overseen by a male participant.

The M-Woman Awaiting Torment

A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman restrained in a succession of seated, standing, and floor positions, emphasizing her anticipation of torment, physical helplessness, and shame.

Training a Young Wife into an M-Woman

N.

A staged photographic sequence presents the discipline and transformation of a young wife into an M-woman through elaborate rope restraint and controlled submissive poses.

A Rope Doll in a Straitjacket

Murai

This photographic portfolio shows a rope-bound woman posed like a doll, including tightly wrapped torso and limb configurations, blindfolding, and other forms of immobilization.

Illustrated Bondage of a Voluptuous Female Body

Kawasaki R.

A photographic feature presents a woman in a series of tightly rope-bound poses, documenting Japanese kinbaku techniques and the visual aesthetics of immobilized bodies.

The Inclinations of a Masochistic Woman

Shinozaki Keiko

In a first-person erotic reportage, a woman recounts how encounters with older authority figures and later partners deepened her masochistic desires, submissive role, and interest in bondage and discipline.

Special Project: Collection of Works

Taga Kin

This special illustrated portfolio presents ten staged erotic scenes involving bondage, restraints, suspension, coercion, and sexualized punishment.

Bamboo Torment Image

Taga Kin

An illustrated feature presents bamboo-based restraint devices and positions, combining practical explanations with staged photographs of their use in bondage scenes.

Pregnant-Woman Bondage

Nakamiya Sakae

A camera-report feature follows a staged bondage photography session involving a pregnant model, including editorial dialogue, specialized restraints, posing, and the production of images for an SM publication.

The Pillar and Us

Uraga Mieko

A confessional narrative by a married woman describes incorporating a structural pillar and household settings into the couple’s consensual bondage and marital SM practices.

New Year Reflections: Seeking Better Material

Kawamoto Ryūji

Kawamoto Ryūji’s New Year editorial reflects on the difficulty of obtaining fresh, compelling material, discusses changing SM readership and publishing conditions, and calls for more distinctive contributions and participation.

Dream-Filled Nightlife

Oka Jun

An extended personal and instructional feature on domestic and marital SM presents bondage scenarios, handmade restraint equipment, role-play, and staged photographic scenes as ways for couples to explore erotic fantasy and everyday sexual life.

Sun & Moon Correspondence

The magazine’s correspondence and community pages combine editorial notices, reader and contributor communications, group introductions, submission requests, publication information, and previews of forthcoming material.

Inverted Suspension: Tormenting a Woman Like a Bagworm

A photographic feature depicts a woman bound in rope and suspended upside down from a frame, with successive views emphasizing the inverted posture, immobilization, and staged ordeal.

The Secretly Delighted Wife and the Husband’s Position: Practicalists’ Roundtable

A practicalists’ roundtable in which couples and the moderator discuss domestic restraint, including rope and belt techniques, bondage positions, sensory restriction, equipment, household staging, and the negotiation of marital roles and pleasure.

Confessional Memoir: My Wife’s Past

Hasegawa Tadao

Hasegawa Tadao’s confessional memoir reflects on his wife’s sexual past, the narrator’s changing desires and anxieties, and the ways secrecy, marriage, and fetishistic imagination shape their relationship.

A Hot Wind Swirled Through the Blazing Room

Kasai Rokurō

A first-person erotic reportage recounts a series of elaborately staged bondage sessions involving suspension, restraint, spanking, humiliation, and photographic performance, presented through extended illustrated scenes.

My First SM Photographs

Ōoka Mitsuo

A photographer describes making his first SM photographs, including recruiting a model, arranging restraints and poses, managing the shoot, and reflecting on the practical and commercial aspects of erotic image-making.

Captivated by a Chastity Belt

Segawa Toshio

This extended erotic reportage follows Rie’s sexual and relational history, her encounters with SM and bondage, and the author’s development of chastity-belt concepts and other restraint apparatus inspired by her body and behavior.

Miscellaneous Impressions of SM Play

Seki Mineo

A reflective essay considers the writer’s experiences of SM, the changing representation of bondage and sexual desire in specialist magazines, and the psychological differences between ordinary sexual relationships and SM encounters.

Body-Painting Humiliation

A photographic feature depicts a woman subjected to body painting, rope bondage, exposure, and humiliation in a staged SM scenario.

Training a Young Wife into an M-Woman

Roppongi Kaoru

A photographic and narrative feature presents the staged training of a young wife as an M-oriented submissive through marital bondage, discipline, exposure, and ritualized restraint.

Bondage by Request

A photographic feature depicting a male model, initially in sailor-style clothing and later undressed, subjected to elaborate rope restraint and posed submission.

A Moment of Ecstasy

N.

The first part of N.’s photographic sequence presents a bound subject in staged domestic and bedroom settings, emphasizing rope restraint, exposure, and eroticized vulnerability.

A Moment of Ecstasy, Part Two

N.

The continuation of N.’s sequence shows further intimate bondage tableaux in which the subject is restrained and posed across a bed and against patterned furnishings.

Pregnant-Woman Bondage

Nakamiya Sakae

A photographic and instructional feature presents a pregnant woman bound in varied rope configurations, including seated, reclining, standing, and restrained postures, with discussion of technique and bodily positioning.

The Pleasure of Peeping, Part Two

Oka Jun

This second installment explores voyeuristic pleasure through erotic anecdotes, commentary, and staged photographs of women subjected to blindfolding, gagging, rope bondage, and other intimate scenes.

Captivated by a Mysterious Bondage Belt

Takasugi Kei

An erotic narrative follows an older man’s recollection of pursuing and restraining a female student with a distinctive bondage belt, rope, blindfolds, and other restraints, accompanied by staged images of the episodes.

Bamboo Torment Image

Taga Kin

An illustrated practical feature presents bamboo-based bondage devices and configurations, explaining their construction and use for immobilization, positional restraint, suspension, sensory restriction, and corporal punishment.

From SMP to SMG?

Suzuki Kōichi

A mixed photographic and narrative feature describes the production of SM films and staged erotic scenes, including the recruitment and direction of performers, photography, secrecy, and the author’s encounter with a woman involved in…

Autobiography of a Masochistic Woman: Female Slave Yoshiko

Nishihara Yoshiko

Yoshiko’s first-person account traces her development from an ordinary married life into a female-slave identity shaped by a dominant partner, bondage, discipline, sexual submission, and changing domestic relationships, accompanied by documentary-style photographs.

Relay Camera Hunt: Continued Training of a Young Wife into an M-Woman

Roppongi Kaoru

A staged erotic reportage follows the successive rope-binding sessions used to train a young wife into an “M-woman,” combining editorial narration, dialogue, and photographic demonstrations of varied restrained positions and sensory restriction.

The Image of Discipline

A photographic feature presents staged scenes of women undergoing elaborate rope restraint, blindfolding, suspension, and disciplined poses in domestic and studio-like settings.

M-Woman T Living in the West

A visual feature centered on M-woman T presents her bound and blindfolded body in staged erotic scenes associated with submissive identity and restraint.

The Three Bagworms: A Roundtable

A long-form roundtable brings together SM writers, editors, and participants to discuss personal experience, bondage practice, erotic photography, publishing, changing sexual culture, and the future of specialist magazines.

Beloved Wife Bondage Diary

Ichinose Sōshi

A husband records a domestic bondage diary describing the progressive tying, positioning, blindfolding, gagging, and photographing of his wife in consensual marital SM scenes.

An Abnormal Sex Life

Aoki Shigeru

An extended erotic reportage follows a woman’s “abnormal” SM relationship, detailing staged sessions involving submission, restraint, punishment, specialized equipment, and photographic documentation.

Collector of Humiliation: A Record of Solitary Pleasure

Moriyama Shūichi

Moriyama Shūichi surveys the development of postwar Japanese SM magazines and image culture through memories of collecting publications, models, photographs, and bondage materials, linking archival preservation to changing tastes in humiliation and restraint.

I Am the Bachelor King

Katsura Keiki

Katsura Keiki presents a first-person erotic memoir about his relationships, domestic life, encounters with SM enthusiasts, and experiments involving bondage, discipline, and partner exchange, framed by reflections on SM magazines and changing sexual cultures.

Altar: My First SM Swap Experience

A photographic feature documenting an introductory SM swap experience, showing a restrained participant and staged scenes of bondage, sensory restriction, and sexualized role exchange.

Secret Mania Photograph Collection

A photographic collection depicting staged scenes of a nude woman subjected to rope bondage, blindfolding, gagging, and controlled positioning by a male partner.

Love Slave

Shima Shikō

This photographic feature presents a woman as a “love slave” in a series of staged rope-bound scenes involving blindfolding, exposure, and submissive poses.

M-Woman T Living in the West, Part Two

Part two of the M-Woman T series follows a Western-resident submissive woman through staged photographs of rope bondage, blindfolding, and varied restrained positions on beds and furniture.

Shibuya Album, Part One

A photographic portfolio presenting a woman in varied rope-bound positions, primarily on a bed, as part of a Shibuya-themed kinbaku album.

Special Training Sequence

Y.Y.

Y.Y.’s staged photographic sequence depicts a woman undergoing a stylized bondage and discipline routine through successive rope-bound positions, including standing and floor-based restraints.

Reader-Submitted Photographs

Ichinose Sōshi

A reader-submitted photographic feature by Ichinose Sōshi showing a woman in several staged rope- and chain-bound poses, including restrained and gagged compositions.

Scramble

Editorial Special Photography

A photographic feature presenting staged scenes of a blindfolded and harnessed woman subjected to varied bondage and restraint poses.

Dazzling Menstrual Belt

Mutsuki Shōichirō

A historical and cultural account of menstrual belts, tracing their development from earlier Japanese practices through modern commercial products and their adoption in erotic and fetish contexts.

Continuing to Dream, Now…

Kawabe Seiya

A mixed photographic narrative follows Chieko’s progression from an encounter with the photographer through increasingly controlled posing, nudity, rope restraint, commands, and submission-oriented performance.

The Beauty of Rope and Leather

Inayama Tamio

An essay compares the aesthetic and cultural qualities of rope and leather in Japanese and Western SM, emphasizing natural materials, traditional kinbaku, and the symbolic meanings of restraint, accompanied by illustrative bondage photographs.