The Princess’s Nenbutsu Sermon

Hiki Kyōichirō

A fictional period tale follows a princess and her attendants traveling through the rain-soaked Kiso mountains, where they encounter a roadside teahouse, villagers, and a gang of mountain bandits. The ensuing confrontation emphasizes coercion,…

The Sweet Surrender of Alice, Part Two

translated by Samukawa Midori

The second installment of a translated erotic serial depicting Alice’s escalating submission to a dominant partner through coercive commands, restraint, and ritualized humiliation. The narrative emphasizes psychological surrender and the eroticization of bondage and…

A Perverse Chronicle of Customs

Nakano Eizō

This historical customs essay surveys practices surrounding infanticide, abortion, child abandonment, and attempts to prevent or terminate pregnancy, drawing on older Japanese examples and changing social attitudes. It discusses methods involving exposure, drowning, drugs,…

Morning Glory of the Eastern Land: The Ōtō Rebellion and the Shinpūren

Nasu Fujio; illustrations by Mori Yorio

A historical fiction serial centered on the Ōtō Rebellion and the Shinpūren, combining samurai-era conflict with scenes of domestic tension, travel, and village life. The installment uses dramatic dialogue and illustrated episodes to evoke…

A Roundtable of Women Who Were Bound

chaired by Kawabata Tanako

A women-only roundtable, chaired by Kawabata Tanako, in which several participants discuss their experiences of being bound, including rope techniques, bodily sensations, pain, posture, endurance, and emotional responses. The conversation also considers bondage modeling,…

Love Slave, Part Nine

Kitō Kōichirō

The ninth installment of a melodramatic erotic serial centered on Harumi and several men entangled in affairs, deception, financial schemes, confinement, and violent confrontations. The narrative unfolds through extended dialogue and shifting revelations about…

Publication Notices and Advertisements

A cluster of publication and reader-service notices, including subscription and back-issue information, reader recruitment, editorial policies, manuscript-submission instructions, and publisher details. The notices also promote reader participation and explain changes to the magazine’s distribution…

Mansfield Picture Gallery

A picture-gallery feature presenting a series of Mansfield illustrations and photographs depicting sadomasochistic tableaux, including whipping, bondage, female domination, male submission, outdoor scenes, and theatricalized punishment. Captions frame the images as examples of erotic…

A Woman Pierced by Needles

Minamikawa Kazuko

A page of erotic illustrations depicts nude women subjected to elaborate rope bindings and needle piercing in varied poses. The accompanying Japanese title identifies the feature as “A Woman Pierced by Needles,” by Minamikawa…

Historical Punishment Scene

A historical-style erotic punishment illustration shows a nude figure bound and suspended upside down inside a rustic interior, alongside an older man and another prone figure near a brazier. Its period visual style and…

Erotic Female-Body Hell Illustrations

Itō Seiu; commentary by Murata Seiichi

An illustrated feature on Itō Seiu’s prewar “female-body hell” imagery, with commentary by Murata Seiichi. The drawings present women in eroticized scenes of rope restraint, bodily exposure, disheveled hair, and anguish, while discussing Seiu’s…

Wounded Man

Kitahara Rin

Kitahara Rin’s illustrated feature “Wounded Man” depicts eroticized scenes of a restrained and distressed man, including overhead binding and a dominant female partner. The imagery emphasizes male vulnerability, physical restraint, and staged sadomasochistic drama.

The Dying White Swan

Tsuzuki Mineko

An illustrated erotic narrative in which a ballet student’s relationship with her teacher develops into escalating coercion, rope bondage, painful positioning, and suspension. Told in the first person, the story emphasizes fear, helplessness, bodily…

Insect Fantasy: A Collection of Yōkai Illustrations

Nakagawa Ayako

A collection of Ayako Nakagawa’s erotic illustrations depicts women bound, threatened, or overwhelmed by fantastical insects and yōkai-like creatures. The accompanying commentary emphasizes the imaginative compositions and the tension between realistic female bodies and…

Tormented Skin

A photographic feature presents staged scenes of women subjected to rope bondage and physical torment, including restraint with rough rope, insect imagery, and other sadistic tableaux. The accompanying text frames these photographs as stylized,…

At an Outdoor Punishment Ground

composition by Tsujimura Takashi; photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A photographic outdoor bondage feature documents model Murata Namiko being tied and posed in a forest setting for a staged punishment scenario. The accompanying production account describes location scouting, weather, equipment, repeated takes, and…

Fantasy of Abuse

Ōya Reiko

A stylized erotic illustration visualizes an imagined scene of abuse: a woman is shown in a contorted, restrained pose amid looming shadowy hands and figures. The composition emphasizes helplessness, threat, and the fantasy of…

Men Who Attack and Women Who Are Attacked

An illustrated visual essay surveys Western artworks depicting men attacking or sexually violating women, including works attributed to Rubens and Adriaen van der Werff. It presents coercive sexual imagery as a recurring subject in…

Gymnasium Warehouse

Kawamura Tetsuo; illustrations by Taki Reiko

A film scenario set in a school gymnasium warehouse, where a group of male students abduct, restrain, strip, and humiliate the student Eiko while staging photographic and theatrical scenes of coercion. The illustrated sequence…

Slave Festival

D. B. Anrera; translated by Miyake Ichirō

A translated erotic story in which Ascott and Chippers turn gambling and wagers into a contest of sexual domination, involving the coercive undressing, binding, humiliation, and abuse of women. The narrative escalates through rivalries,…

Modern Sadism

Kuruki Sakae

An extended essay examining modern sadism through personal recollection, sexual psychology, social conditioning, wartime and postwar experience, and the relationship between abnormal sexuality and contemporary society. It also discusses historical torture and execution methods…

Research into Hatsuhana Village

Murata Seiichi

A historical and practical study of the “Hatsuhana Branch,” a bamboo bondage apparatus described in older erotic and miscellany sources. The article discusses its purported construction, dimensions, tying method, and use in restraining the…

New Styles of Torture

Kita Reiko

Kita Reiko’s illustrated feature surveys imagined “new styles” of erotic torture, combining commentary on changing tastes with scenes of women subjected to rope binding, positional restraint, electrical devices, medical procedures, and disciplinary stripping. The…

My Memories

Okada Sakiko; illustrations by Hidawaki Kaoru

A first-person erotic reminiscence set around a girls’ school swimming-club camp, where the narrator is pursued, captured, stripped, tied, and subjected to prolonged teasing and punishment by a female-led group. Illustrated scenes accompany the…

The Lady Who Sees Horses

Hinatsu Yukio

A serialized erotic narrative about a married couple whose visit to a ranch exposes the wife’s intense fascination with horses. The husband’s curiosity, jealousy, and attempts to understand or direct her desires unfold through…

The Temptation of Sacred Paintings

Chikami Reiko

An illustrated erotic fiction follows 麻夜子 and 恵一郎 through encounters shaped by cinema, voyeuristic fantasy, seduction, coercion, and escalating physical restraint. Religious and “sacred painting” imagery frames the story’s atmosphere of forbidden desire, domination,…

My Clothes, Bound Clothes

A first-person confession describes designing and wearing clothing intended to bind the body, then experimenting with ropes, restrictive garments, and bodily exposure with the narrator’s husband. The piece presents clothing as a fetish object…

Buttock Fetishism

Yui Keiji

Yui Keiji’s essay examines an intense erotic fixation on women’s buttocks through personal recollections, observations of clothing and movement, beach encounters, cinema, and imagined scenes. It combines anecdotal testimony with reflections on the psychology,…

Love Slave, Part Ten

Kitō Kōichirō

The tenth installment of a serialized erotic narrative follows a man entangled with Harumi and her husband or rival, as past romantic rivalries, money disputes, betrayal, and revenge develop into coercive sexual domination. The…

San’yūtei Enchō

Masaoka Iruru

A literary discussion of rakugo master San’yūtei Enchō and his grotesque, supernatural narratives, including tales of murder, vengeful spirits, illicit desire, and tragic domestic relationships. The article surveys characteristic plots and figures from Enchō’s…

In Reply to the Hymn to Ars

Hamura Kyōko

A first-person confession recounts an unhappy marriage, escalating sadistic and bondage episodes, escape and subsequent sexual relationships. The narrative also turns toward reflections on anal sexuality, bodily shame, and the tension between degradation and…

Sadism in the Bedchamber of Love

Kageura Ken

A serialized erotic essay examining sadism within romantic and sexual relationships through scenes of domination, coercion, bodily control, and punishment. It considers the psychological dynamics of sadistic and submissive partners while presenting dramatized bedroom…

Amphibious Animal, Part Two: A Tale of Male Love

Okada Mashirō

A correspondent responds to an earlier “hymn to Ars,” combining autobiographical sexual confession with discussion of anal pleasure, enemas, bodily experimentation, and sexual psychology. The piece also includes editorial correspondence and playful commentary on…

A Sodomite’s Wanderings

Takigawa Tetsuo

A first-person autobiographical account of a male narrator’s wandering life and same-sex relationships in postwar Japan. The narrative recalls encounters with male lovers, work and poverty, gay bars and social marginality, presenting personal desire…

A Solitary Wanderer’s Record

Komiya Kiyoshi

A sustained essay defending women’s wearing of trousers, especially slacks, against claims that the fashion represents masculinization or social decline. It examines the history and terminology of women’s trousers, changing postwar fashion, gender hierarchy,…

A Strange Confession

Mizukami Ryūtarō

A first-person confessional account tracing formative childhood experiences, bodily and sexual development, and later masochistic or abusive erotic encounters. The narrative combines autobiographical recollection with scenes of coercion, humiliation, dependency, and eroticized violence.

How a Woman Loses the Power to Resist When Bound

Itō Seiu

An illustrated essay examining how binding allegedly diminishes a woman’s physical and psychological capacity to resist. It combines sexual-psychological speculation, historical and anecdotal examples, descriptions of restraint methods, and staged bondage scenes to present…

The Binding Curse: From the Nishida Kotoe Fatal-Injury Investigation

Tsujimura Takashi

A sensational investigative account presented as excerpts from Nishida Eiji’s second police statement concerning the fatal abuse of his wife, Kotoe. The testimony describes escalating marital cruelty, rope bondage, gagging, forced nudity and positional…

Various Implements Used in Torture

Hosoya Masako

An illustrated survey of implements used in eroticized torture and “torment,” including ropes, gags, straps, and striking tools. The text describes their applications and presumed bodily or sensory effects, while the accompanying drawings depict…

Four Scenes of Abnormal Sadistic Abuse

Hitomi Kenjirō

A four-part erotic narrative depicts sadistic encounters involving coercion, restraint, humiliation, and the submission of women within domestic and interpersonal settings. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the staged scenes of bondage and abuse.

Spider and Butterflies

Tobita Ryōji

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows Rie, an aspiring actress drawn into a photography and film operation that exploits her ambitions through staged bondage, sexualized costuming, and coercive scenes. The story develops a predatory…

Sadistic Sexual Play

Naka Michirō

An essay on sadistic sexual play examines sadist and masochist identities, their psychological motivations, and forms of erotic experimentation, including tattooing and other bodily practices. Anecdotal cases and visual material frame the discussion within…

Reiko’s Twelve Months: Chrysanthemum

Kita Reiko

An illustrated erotic narrative from the “Reiko’s Twelve Months” series, depicting Reiko subjected to elaborate rope binding, humiliation, and coercive treatment by male figures. The accompanying prose presents the scene as serialized SM fiction.

A Record of Love and Bondage

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A first-person confession recounts a man’s lifelong fixation on women’s waists, beginning with childhood memories and developing into an obsessive adult pursuit involving clothing, scent, photography, and the binding or wrapping of women’s bodies.…

Private Punishment and Torture in the Yoshiwara

Fukada Tōru

A historical essay examining private punishment and torture in the Yoshiwara pleasure district, with emphasis on Edo-period practices used against prostitutes and other women. It surveys restraint, corporal punishment, abuse, and the social and…

A Curious Confession of Sadism

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A narrative confession centered on male sexual desire and encounters in postwar Tokyo, including nightlife, foreign men, and sexually charged observation. The piece presents same-sex erotic experience through a sensational, semi-fictional first-person style.

Blood Drained from the Body

Oka Kazuma

A first-person account of an obsessive fetish for menstrual blood and other bodily traces. The narrator describes secretly observing women, collecting and examining discarded sanitary materials, and incorporating these acts into fantasies involving his…

The Awakening of Sadism

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A sadistic confession describing the emergence and expression of sadistic impulses through coercive, humiliating, and physically abusive encounters. The narrative is framed as an intimate personal account rather than practical instruction.

An Illustrated Tale of a Beautiful Punishment Ground

Iwahori Hiroshi; illustrations by Sanjō Haruhiko

An Edo-period erotic tale follows an artist commissioned to create an illustrated punishment scene, as artistic ambition, the publisher’s demands, and tensions involving his wife or model increasingly blur the boundary between representation and…

Lesbos Correspondence

Sonomura Keiko

A correspondence feature presenting letters from women readers about same-sex desire, romantic and sexual relationships, secrecy, marriage, and emotionally difficult personal situations. The editor responds to readers with advice and invitations to continue contributing…

Notes on Perverse Gags

Takatsuki Daizō

An illustrated essay examining erotic gags and forms of forced silence, including handkerchiefs, cloth gags, and other restraints. It discusses their visual and imaginative effects, connects them to punitive and captivity scenarios, and reflects…

A Female Student’s Part-Time Confession

Nomura Emiko

An erotic fictional narrative centers on two women, Chikako and Junko, whose rivalry develops into an intense female-sumo wrestling contest watched and encouraged by Akashi. The accompanying illustration and extended match scenes emphasize physical…

The Distorted Woman

Toba Eiko

An erotic fiction narrative follows Riko, a young woman in a school and boarding-house environment, whose relationships with a teacher and other women become increasingly coercive, emotionally manipulative, and sexually charged. The story combines…

Madame Red Crane

Matsui Kōko

A first-person erotic narrative framed as an episode from a torn diary, in which a young woman encounters the formidable Madame Red Crane and becomes involved in an escalating regime of rope bondage, restraint,…

Sodomite Correspondence

Fujii Akira

A reader-correspondence section focused on men seeking same-sex relationships, presenting personal introductions, physical descriptions, romantic preferences, and requests for suitable partners. The editorial exchanges also discuss loneliness, self-presentation, compatibility, and the practical difficulties of…

Diary of a Repatriate from Communist China

Maejima Yoshio

A first-person repatriate’s account of detention in China describes imprisonment, deprivation, forced nudity, beatings, threats, and other humiliating abuses by guards and fellow prisoners. The narrative presents captivity as a sustained ordeal of physical…

Sweet Feces

Kan Yoshichirō

An erotic narrative centered on voyeuristic fascination with women’s urination and defecation, including fantasies of transparent or exposed toilets and encounters shaped by shame, curiosity, and sexual excitement. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the story’s…

Splendid Delusions

Saga Koyomi

A short erotic fantasy about a young man whose nighttime encounter with an alluring woman develops through drinking, seduction, and dreamlike erotic imaginings.

Women of the Execution Ground

Kawano Kyōsuke

A historical narrative of women subjected to brutal punishment and execution, combining accounts of execution-ground spectacles with scenes of captivity, bodily torment, and sexualized cruelty.

Record of Abuse

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A dark fictional account of captive Li being dragged between prison rooms and subjected to escalating beatings, binding, humiliation, and bodily violence by guards. The narrative emphasizes coercion, helplessness, and the perpetrators’ sadistic control…

A Drifting Corpse

Kanagawa Saeko

A crime-and-captivity narrative in which a woman is bound with rope, subjected to sadistic control, and ultimately becomes a corpse cast adrift on the water. The story combines eroticized restraint with murder, drowning, and…

Confessions of a Fetishist

Yoshino Seiichi

A first-person fetish confession tracing the narrator’s erotic fixation on women’s sputum, saliva, coughing, and related bodily fluids. The account moves from formative memories and voyeuristic observation to the deliberate collection and appreciation of…

Fire, Part Ten

Matsui Kōko

The tenth installment of Matsui Kōko’s serialized erotic fiction follows the increasingly coercive entanglement of Kifune Ichirō, Sayuri, Yūsaku, and Kunihiko. The narrative centers on elaborate rope bondage, suspension, sexual humiliation, jealousy, and the…

The Husband of Twins

Hiki Kyōichirō

A fictional account of a man who becomes the husband and subordinate plaything of wealthy twin sisters. Across the episode, the sisters subject him to humiliating, coercive games involving nudity, restraint, animal imagery, and…

How to Construct a Punishment-Ground Stage

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu provides practical guidance for constructing a theatrical punishment-ground set, describing stage layouts, scenic backdrops, props, restraints, and methods for creating convincing outdoor or indoor scenes. Illustrations demonstrate apparatus and arrangements for staged…

Readers’ Exchange

A reader-correspondence section presenting letters, personal disclosures, requests, advice, and introductions among readers interested in erotic and SM culture. The exchange also includes reader-submitted visual material and editorial responses, reinforcing the magazine’s role as…

From a Masochist’s Notebook, Part Five

Numa Shōzō

A serialized masochist’s notebook combines discussion of staging and scenic design for erotic punishment scenes with fictionalized episodes of fetishistic and submissive desire. The narrative centers on foot and shoe fetishism, women’s control, humiliation,…

The Fall of Kita-no-shō Castle

Iwahori Hikaru

An illustrated historical-erotic narrative recounting the fall of Kita-no-shō Castle during the Sengoku period. It depicts the siege, defeat, deaths, escape attempts, and capture of women inside the castle, with captivity and coercive sexualized…

The Sweet Surrender of Alice, Part Three

translated by Samukawa Midori

The third installment of a translated erotic serial in which Alice is subjected to escalating restraint, display, sensory observation, and coerced sexual submission. The narrative emphasizes the voyeuristic staging of her body, physical helplessness,…

Publication Notices and Advertisements

A notices and advertising page promoting forthcoming issues, soliciting manuscripts and club participation, and providing subscription, mail-order, and publication information for Kitan Club and related materials.

Tormented Soft Skin

A photographic feature portraying a woman restrained in a room in a series of staged rope-bondage tableaux, accompanied by prose emphasizing her beauty, vulnerability, resistance, and emotional distress. The images include suspension, binding, and…

Ways of Binding a Woman to a Pillar or Pole

An illustrated practical guide presents seven ways to bind a woman to a pillar or pole, showing different rope arrangements and restrained positions.

Covered in Sand

An erotic photographic feature depicts a nude woman lying partially covered in sand in an outdoor setting.

Until a Woman Is Bound

Muramura Takashi, Okada Shigeo

A photographic instructional feature demonstrating how to bind a woman with rope, including wrist restraints, cross-body wrapping, seated and reclining positions, and methods for tightening and securing the finished arrangement.