Special Feature: Making the SUN & MOON Cover

A special feature documenting the production of the SUN & MOON cover, presented through staged bondage photography and cover-design credits. The feature emphasizes the visual construction of the magazine’s anniversary cover.

Commemorating Three Years of Nichigetsusha: A Winding Course

Seta Kaiichi

Seta Kaiichi reflects on the three-year development of Nichigetsusha and the magazine’s changing editorial direction. He discusses the “Tomoe/Egara” project, the relationship between photography and performance, and the contributions of SUN & MOON participants…

Greetings

Hayashi Munehiro

The supplied page is a table of contents that identifies Hayashi Munehiro as the author of the issue’s “Greetings” item, but it does not reproduce the greeting text itself.

Hot Winds Swirled in the Scorching Room!!

Arakawa Yasushi

A dramatic feature presented as an episode of oppressive heat and intense sensation, described in the contents as taking place in a scorching room with hot winds swirling.

Immersed in Pleasure

Roppongi Kaoru

The contents page lists “Immersed in Pleasure” as one of the issue’s photographic or literary features, but provides no substantive article text or imagery beyond its title and placement in the table of contents.

Proxy Wife Misako

Seta Kaiichi

A feature about Misako, portrayed through the idea of a “proxy wife,” suggesting an intimate or erotic narrative focused on substituted marital roles and relationships.

Volunteering for Training: Kitajima Taeko

Seta Kaiichi

A profile or account of Kitajima Taeko, presented as someone who volunteers for BDSM training and discipline.

Special Color Graph: Awareness of Innate Disposition and the Desire for Intoxication

Takamatsu Kosei

A special color photographic feature documenting staged BDSM scenes involving rope bondage, immobilization, sensory restriction, gagging, and other forms of erotic discipline.

Mrs. S

Seta Kaiichi

A photographic feature centered on Mrs. S in a series of posed rope-bondage scenarios, showing full-body and close-up views of restraint and handling.

Pet Miko

Seta Kaiichi

A photographic feature on Pet Miko depicting a bound model in staged floor-based restraint scenes, including hands-on rope manipulation and constrained postures.

Drawn to Utamaro

Seta Kaiichi

A photographic feature presenting elaborate rope-bound poses inspired by the erotic imagery associated with Utamaro. The staged indoor tableaux emphasize composition, restraint, sensual display, and the visual relationship between the bound body and surrounding…

Color My Album: Practice, My Secret Notebook

Onuki Koji

A photographic practice album documenting a model’s progressive bondage scenes, including spread-eagle positions, rope suspension or securing, clothespin adornments, and controlled sensory play. The sequence has the feel of a private visual notebook recording…

Pregnant Beauty: Pleasure in the Bondage Cage

Nakamiya Sakae

A photographic bondage feature presenting a pregnant woman posed in a domestic “cage” and restrained with rope while moving through crouched and kneeling positions. The images emphasize staged erotic submission, bodily vulnerability, and the…

Bewitching Flower in the Bath: Watanabe Yoshimi

Seta Kaiichi

A photographic feature on Watanabe Yoshimi set in a bath and shower environment, depicting nude and partially restrained poses amid running water, bathing fixtures, and tactile close-ups. Its imagery combines water, physical exposure, and…

The Underground Aesthete Surfaces

Shima Shiko

A photographic feature presenting an underground aesthetic through staged images of a masked woman posed in elaborate rope bondage and provocative domestic tableaux. The sequence emphasizes costume, restraint, body display, and carefully composed black-and-white…

Making the Yume Photo Record

Arakawa Yasushi

A photographic record showing a woman being positioned and photographed in varied rope-bondage configurations, with a male photographer or partner directing the session. The images document the process, poses, and visual presentation of the…

Editorial Postscript and Information

A Sun & Moon PR page advertises THE KIKI, a limited-edition publication from 日月舎, with sample cover imagery, a ¥1,700 mail-order price, and publisher/contact information. The page functions primarily as a promotional and ordering…

Secret Diagrams of Sensual Pleasure and Shame

Yamaguchi Tsubaki

An illustration feature presenting a sequence of stylized erotic bondage scenes, including rope restraint, suspension, contorted poses, and partnered encounters. The images emphasize sensual pleasure, vulnerability, and the theatrical visual language of Japanese S&M.

Reflections on Female Seppuku

Kurosaki Sensui

An illustrated essay examining female seppuku in Japanese history and literature, contrasting women’s methods, circumstances, and symbolic meanings with male samurai suicide. The accompanying staged photographs dramatize ritualized self-disembowelment and related acts of surrender,…

Color Photo Record: Kue, the Married Woman Who Longs for Abuse

A color photographic feature portraying Kue, a married woman described as longing for abuse, in staged scenes of nudity, bondage, restraint, and physical domination. The images emphasize ritualized sadomasochistic performance and the visual dynamics…

Agony of Breast Crushing

A photographic sadomasochistic feature depicting a woman restrained while her breasts are compressed between wooden boards and subjected to escalating physical pressure. The images emphasize staged bondage, bodily distress, and endurance within an erotic…

Suspended by All Four Limbs and Scorched by Candle

A photographic feature showing a woman bound and suspended or positioned with all four limbs restrained while attendants apply candle heat to her body. The sequence presents staged BDSM torment through immobilization, exposure, and…

Prelude to a Young Wife's Lustful Indulgence

A photographic feature depicting a young wife restrained with rope in outdoor and traditional domestic settings, progressing through posed scenes of bondage and physical submission.

Candle Stand of Inverted Suspension with Legs Spread

A photographic sequence centered on inverted suspension with the subject’s limbs spread and secured by rope, incorporating candlelight and staged ritualistic imagery.

After a 2,000 cc Enema by Irrigator

A photographic feature depicting a woman restrained in a chair during and after an enema administered with an irrigator, emphasizing physical discomfort and endurance.

Agony of a Forced Bent Posture

A photographic feature showing a woman bound into forced bent and contorted postures, with restraints applied to her limbs and body and imagery emphasizing pain, helplessness, and submission.

Invitation to a Trance-like Dream Realm

A photographic feature presenting a woman in staged, dreamlike scenes of bondage, blindfolding, and rope restraint. The sequence uses theatrical poses, unusual angles, and dark interiors to evoke a trance-like or surreal erotic realm.

Outdoor Training

A photographic feature depicting outdoor and indoor BDSM training scenarios, with women restrained, bound, blindfolded, and posed in rustic or domestic settings. The sequence emphasizes rope bondage, physical control, and staged disciplinary tableaux.

Return Feast of Masochistic Pleasure with Mrs. Akiko Honma

A photographic feature centered on Mrs. Akiko Honma in staged scenes of masochistic bondage and submission. The images show elaborate black-and-white rope arrangements, bound poses, and apparent group participation in a ritualized feast setting.

First Technique Session with Mrs. Shizue Takada

A photographic feature documenting Mrs. Shizue Takada undergoing an introductory bondage and restraint session. The sequence shows rope binding, blindfolding, gagging, immobilization, and supervised positioning in a staged S&M setting.

Bondage Passion Photo Gallery: Honeyed Banquet

A photographic bondage feature depicting a woman in staged rope restraints, blindfolds, gags, and restrictive positions, with several scenes involving assisting or observing partners. The sequence emphasizes elaborate physical restraint, erotic power exchange, and…

Michiko's Thousand and One Nights of Loving Abuse

A photographic feature devoted to Michiko and her partner, presenting a sequence of staged sadomasochistic scenes involving bondage, restraint, masks, blindfolds, and controlled power exchange in domestic settings. The accompanying Japanese text frames the…

Secret Record of a Young Wife's Training

A photographic feature depicting a young wife undergoing a staged BDSM training regimen involving blindfolding, restraint, forced postures, and controlled physical examination. The sequence emphasizes ritualized discipline, vulnerability, and the documentation of submission.

Woman Tomi: Women's Sumo

A photographic feature on women’s sumo, showing female performers in loincloth-style attire adopting sumo stances and engaging in staged wrestling demonstrations. The imagery combines traditional sumo motifs with theatrical female athletic performance.

Long-Cherished Wish for Tight Binding

A photographic feature documenting rope-bondage scenes involving a bound woman and partner, including floor and suspended restraint positions. Captions emphasize the woman’s physical responses and the use of rope as an erotic medium.

Scenes of Tormenting Three Enslaved Women

A photographic feature depicting three women subjected to elaborate bondage, restraint, suspension, gagging, and staged sadomasochistic torment in indoor and outdoor settings. Captions frame the sequence as a group domination scenario involving multiple participants…

Portraits of Beautiful Women in Loving Abuse

A photographic feature presenting staged portraits of women in erotic bondage and restrained poses, including rope ties, blindfolding, and suspension-oriented imagery. The series emphasizes stylized composition, vulnerability, and consensual-looking power-play scenarios rather than a…

Crotch Torment

A photographic BDSM feature depicting a woman subjected to elaborate rope bondage, restraint, and crotch-focused teasing or torment. The staged sequence emphasizes immobilized poses, physical vulnerability, and the participation of unseen or partially visible…

Elegy

A photographic feature centered on “Nozomi,” identified in the accompanying Japanese text as 17, depicted in a sequence of staged bondage and coercive sexual-assault scenarios. The images show rope restraint, gagging, forced positioning, and…

Shame and Punishment Photo Feature

A photographic S&M feature depicting a woman posed in scenes of restraint, exposure, and ritualized punishment, including bindings, crawling postures, and outdoor settings. The sequence emphasizes visualized shame and submissive humiliation through stylized erotic…

Sweet Play Tied to Trees

A photographic bondage feature depicting a woman restrained with cloth and rope against trees in the Aokigahara forest. The sequence emphasizes elaborate outdoor tying, immobilized poses, and the visual staging of consensual-looking BDSM play.

Reader-Submitted Secret Photo Special

A reader-submitted photographic feature presenting staged S&M scenes involving adult models in elaborate bondage, gagging, restraint, and dominant/submissive poses. The images emphasize posed bodily display, rope and clothing restraints, and intimate domestic settings.

Overseas Correspondent Report: S&M Play Information, America Part 5

A photographic report on S&M play in America, presenting staged scenes of women in rope bondage, leather restraints, gags, harnesses, and other forms of immobilization. The feature emphasizes the visual and practical variety of…

Humiliating Shaving

A photographic feature showing a nude adult model bound and subjected to humiliating body-hair shaving as a ritualized fetish scenario. The imagery focuses on exposure, restraint, and the degrading visual aspects of the shaving…

Opening Color Pages

An opening color photographic feature depicting an adult female model in staged BDSM scenes involving rope bondage, restraints, blindfolding, gagging, and suspension-style positioning. The imagery emphasizes ritualized humiliation, physical vulnerability, and fetish performance.

Fantasy Abuse

A photographic fantasy-abuse feature depicting nude adult models in staged scenes of rope bondage, restraint, and sexual humiliation. The sequence emphasizes theatrical poses, close physical control, and the visual presentation of captivity scenarios.

Beautiful Face Play

A sequence of fetish photographs showing a woman in elaborate rope and leather restraints, including facial gagging and suspension-style poses, with close attention to expressions of sensation and submission.

Pregnant Belly Exposure

A photographic feature depicting a pregnant woman’s exposed abdomen while she is posed in rope bondage, emphasizing the visual contrast between pregnancy and fetish restraint.

Two Suspension-Torment Poses

A photographic feature presenting two staged suspension-torment poses of a bound adult female model, using rope restraints and immobilizing body positions as the central visual motif.

Yōbaku Mōrō Ezu

Yamaguchi Tsubaki

An illustrated erotic feature presenting four scenes of Japanese women subjected to rope restraint, immobilization, and submissive posing. The artwork combines bondage imagery with traditional kimono, domestic interiors, bamboo, and other distinctly Japanese visual…

My Half-Life of Diaper Obsession

Tsutsumi Misao

An autobiographical account of a man’s lifelong diaper fixation, tracing its development from adolescence through marriage and describing diaper wearing, wetting, infantilist role-play, and related clothing practices. The illustrated feature also discusses his wife’s…

The Day I Punished Madame Keiko

Niwa Kenichirō

A first-person erotic S&M narrative recounts a session in which the narrator disciplines Madame Keiko through role-play, restraint, spanking, whipping, and other staged punishments. The piece combines scene description with reflections on feminine presentation,…

Reiko in Training

Fujimoto Daisaku

A first-person account describes Reiko being introduced to increasingly demanding S&M training, including verbal commands, restraint, bondage, sensory control, and other disciplinary exercises. The accompanying photographs document staged training scenes and demonstrate the progression…

Sadistic Journey: My Life of Love and Torment with My Wife

Matsuzaka Kazumasa

Matsuzaka recounts a long marital relationship shaped by sadomasochistic experimentation, describing how he and his wife developed increasingly elaborate routines of restraint, punishment, and sexual role-play. The text presents these experiences as a personal…

Yuga Photo Gallery: Young Wife's Honey Flame

A photographic erotic feature presenting a young wife in staged domestic scenes involving nudity, restraint, and elaborate rope bondage. The sequence emphasizes posed bondage tableaux, including immobilization, exposure, and power-play imagery in household and…

My Diaper Playmate

Tsutsumi Misao

A photographic feature depicting a sailor-uniformed young woman in diaper-themed role-play, posed in domestic settings and shown restrained in a series of staged, submissive scenes.

Bound Female Prisoner

Shikoku Sadosei

A staged bondage photography feature portraying a female prisoner fantasy through extensive rope restraint, suspension, kneeling, and confined poses, with the subject shown in progressively more restrictive positions.

Momoko, Part Three

Akima Tōko

This installment of a dark erotic serial follows escalating relationships shaped by coercive bondage, confinement, physical punishment, and psychological domination. Domestic encounters and revelations about past violence deepen the narrative’s atmosphere of obsession, revenge,…

Practical Rope-Bondage Techniques, Part Two

Shirakawa Sō

The second installment of a practical illustrated guide to Japanese rope bondage demonstrates progressively more complex ties for standing, seated, kneeling, and prone positions. Step-by-step photographs and instructions explain rope routing, crossings, tightening, positioning,…

Continued: To My Master: Letters from Miyoko

Takizawa Miyoko

A continuing correspondence from Miyoko to her master combines submissive love letters with staged photographs depicting bondage, discipline, sexual service, and obedience. The letters discuss sending photographs, arranging meetings and telephone calls, following instructions,…

Traveler in the Forest of Bondage

Ōsawa Rie

An autobiographical account of a woman’s development within bondage and sadomasochistic sexuality, beginning with coercive childhood games with her brother and continuing through later relationships, partners, and self-exploration. The article combines narrative testimony with…

Introducing My Wife-Slave, Tamiko

Takizawa Fumiyoshi

A photographic BDSM feature presents a husband’s account of introducing his wife, Tamiko, to an increasingly elaborate slave relationship. The narrative describes domestic discipline, restraint, humiliation, enemas, and staged scenes of sexual submission.

Awakening to Couples' Play

Tajima Yoshio

A first-person couples memoir recounts a married pair’s gradual awakening to sadomasochistic play and the escalation of their shared experiments. The illustrated narrative includes rope bondage, spanking, blindfolding, forced poses, and negotiated or resisted…

Tomoko Training Travel Record: The Flame-Bound Girl Who Burned in Naniwa

Shima Shikō

A photographic BDSM travelogue follows Tomoko from Tokyo to Osaka and Kyoto, documenting hotel-room scenes and the equipment, settings, and routines used during her training. The narrative describes escalating bondage, restraint, sensory stimulation, impact…

Reader Correspondence

A reader-correspondence section featuring letters from S&M enthusiasts across Japan. Contributors discuss bondage practice and photography, share personal experiences and requests for exchanges or advice, and participate in the magazine’s network of readers and…

Yuga Salon

A mixed reader-and-community feature presenting personal notices, requests for S&M partners, bondage photographs and illustrations, and reports on specialized rooms and equipment. The section also includes reader commentary and promotional material oriented toward exchanging…

Shūsei Saibun

Yamaguchi Akito

An editorial apologizes for production and editorial shortcomings in the previous issue, including improperly trimmed pages, and explains the launch of the special S&M issue as part of a broader rethinking of the magazine’s…