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A chronology of people, publications, images, ideas, and practices documented in the Japanese SM Magazine Archive.

Dates and appearances describe material currently documented in the archive. They should not be read as claims of absolute historical first occurrence.

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1953
October
Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 8–11

Spider

Ōtsuki Daizō

An illustrated melodramatic bondage story in which Kimiko is abducted and restrained by male antagonists, while other characters plot, threaten, and attempt to control her. The narrative combines captivity, coercion, jealousy, money, and rescue…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 10–13

Torture Chamber

Gyōda Kazuko, Tsuzuki Shigeru

An illustrated captivity-and-torture narrative in which Kaoriko is restrained by several men, subjected to coercive handling and humiliation, and pushed through escalating scenes of physical and psychological distress.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 12

Rope and Tattoo

Ōba Reiko

An illustrated feature on rope bondage and tattoo aesthetics, depicting women restrained in staged scenes with elaborate bindings, exposed bodies, and decorative tattoo motifs. The imagery emphasizes the visual and eroticized presentation of restraint…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14–15

Bound in the Ravine

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A photographic feature depicts a woman bound with rope in a rocky ravine and stream, using outdoor terrain and fixed positions as part of the staged restraint scenes. The accompanying text presents the images…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 16–17

My Five Punishments

Sugiura Nijiko

An illustrated portfolio presents five staged punishment scenes involving women tied with rope in settings including a piano, a railing, and other interior or architectural spaces. The drawings emphasize immobilization, exposure, and punitive bondage…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 16–27

The Cross-Dressed Man

Hinatsu Yukio

This fiction follows Chikichi, a lonely young office worker who secretly transforms himself with women’s clothing, a wig, and makeup, then ventures into public urban spaces as a woman. His encounters in theaters, nightlife…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18–19

Fantasy of the Snake Man

Araki Tamotsu, Takizawa Reiko

An illustrated erotic fantasy follows a physically unimpressive man who abducts a young woman to an abandoned mountain temple, where he imagines dominating and abusing her. The accompanying drawings portray the snake-man motif and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 20

Abnormal Group: Female Seppuku Fantasy

A photographic feature presents staged images of a woman enacting a seppuku fantasy, with accompanying text explaining that the scenes are simulated and discussing safer methods for future photography. The sequence combines eroticized execution…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 22

Tight-Binding Photo Parade, Part Five

The fifth installment of a photographic parade of male bondage scenes, arranged as a large grid of sequential images. The photographs show nude or lightly clothed men in varied rope-bound, immobilized, and sometimes outdoor…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 25–30

Confession of a Self-Tormenting Demon

Kawamada Shirō

A first-person confession describing an intense fixation on anal sexuality, humiliation, and submission to women. The narrator recounts and imagines elaborate abusive, restrictive, and fetishistic scenarios, including chained or otherwise constrained male bodies.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 31–34

A Perverse Erotic Letter

Mitomi Senshō

An erotic letter addressed to a woman, combining romantic address with highly transgressive fantasies of sexual domination, anal penetration, bodily exposure, restraint, and pain. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the text’s staged, sensational imagery of…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 35–39

Nostalgia for White

Kawamura Tetsuo

An autobiographical essay tracing the author’s lifelong fascination with the whiteness of women’s skin, from childhood impressions and erotic fantasies to adult encounters, marriage, and domestic sexual life. The narrative links this fetishized ideal…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 36–41

The Sorrowful Cry of Pleasure

Aoyama Izumi

An adult fictional confession narrated by a wife describes her troubled marriage to a domineering husband whose coercive sexual games involve bondage, blindfolding, restraint, beating, and other forms of sadistic control. Her fear, humiliation,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 40–44

Bewitched by Rope

Tokiyama Kayoko

A first-person erotic memoir about becoming obsessed with rope bondage, describing the discovery, practice, and intensification of tying and restraint in domestic and workplace-related settings. The account also refers to bondage imagery and the…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 42–60

Dream Demon

Matsui Kōko

An illustrated erotic fiction narrative in which Shōjirō and Natsuko become caught in escalating episodes of sexual pursuit, restraint, and domination. The story blends remembered encounters and dreamlike fantasy with jealousy, bodily vulnerability, and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 45–52

Spiders and Butterflies, Part Two

Hida Kinryōji

The second installment of a serialized erotic novel follows a film-studio scenario in which performers and assistants manipulate a woman through staged bondage, restraint devices, forced poses, and escalating humiliating performances. The narrative combines…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 53

Abnormal Fairy

Mishima Toshio

A short sexological essay considers “abnormal” sexual behavior through the relationship between bodily impulses, mental life, desire, shame, and gendered expectations. It presents sexual psychology as a way of interpreting unusual erotic interests and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 54–62

Mistaken for a Writer of Torment

Matsui Kayoko

In this humorous autobiographical essay, Matsui Kayoko describes repeatedly being mistaken for an expert or author of sadistic bondage because of her association with erotic magazines. The account develops through conversations, awkward social encounters,…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 61

Rope and Corset

Akimoto Tsutomu

An illustrated erotic essay examines a young student’s fascination with nude models and paintings, linking artistic representation, voyeurism, and unconventional sexual desire. The accompanying artwork depicts a nude woman and an observing man in…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 62–68

Pale Eroticism

Komai Noboru

The article continues its discussion of nude models, artists, and erotic spectacle before shifting into a serialized bondage narrative, “Slave Festival.” The fiction depicts women being stripped, restrained, displayed, and subjected to coercive sexualized…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 67–70

The Allure of Women’s Feet

Kanemaru Sōkichi

An illustrated essay on the erotic fascination with women’s feet, combining personal anecdotes, imagined scenes, and observations about stockings, bare feet, and men’s responses to foot imagery. It treats the foot as a fetishized…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 69–73

The Lady Who Wants to Be Naked

Takeno Tōsuke

A sensational erotic fiction piece about a woman driven by an intense desire for nudity and sexual excitement. Through encounters with several men, the narrative depicts escalating exhibitionism, seduction, and unconventional group encounters, accompanied…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 71–78

The Life of Kinezumi Kichigorō

Midori Takehiko; illustrations by Sanjō Haruhiko

A sensational historical account of Kinezumi Kichigorō, an Edo-period thief whose capture is followed by repeated interrogations and severe corporal punishment. The narrative emphasizes his extraordinary physical endurance, the authorities’ escalating methods, and his…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 74–82

Slave Festival, Part Two

D. B. Anrera; translated by Miyake Ichirō

A serialized erotic-fiction installment depicting a “slave festival” in which women are restrained, stripped, humiliated, and sexually abused by groups of men. The narrative shifts among recollection, staged bondage scenes, and voyeuristic descriptions of…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 79–82

Methods for Constructing a Torment Stage, Part Two

Itō Seiu

A practical guide to constructing and presenting a “torment stage” for theatrical or photographic scenes. It discusses stage dimensions, backdrops, props, lighting, color, paint, and scenic composition, with diagrams showing how to create a…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 83–89

Gamiami’s Bedroom

Kunikata Mariko

An illustrated popular-fiction episode set in the world of naniwabushi performers, following O-Chiyo and other entertainers through professional rivalries, romantic entanglements, illness, violence, and police investigation. The narrative combines backstage and itinerant performance culture…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 83–93

Smoldering Fire, Part Eleven

Matsui Eiko; illustrations by Kurihara Shin

This installment of the serialized erotic fiction follows a tangled conflict involving jealousy, deception, photographs, money, and marital betrayal. The plot escalates into abduction, violent coercion, and elaborate rope restraint before the characters move…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 90–97

Naniwa-bushi and Blood

Masaoka Iruru

An illustrated erotic-grotesque tale in which a narrator’s encounters with an alluring woman unfold through dreams, corpses, bloodshed, and uncanny transformations. The narrative links obsessive desire and violent fantasy with factory life, social unease,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 94

Dr. Kangyoku’s Sexuality Consultation

Jōshiki Sensei

A sexuality-consultation column answers a young female university student who is intensely attracted to women’s bodily scent and worries that the preoccupation is disrupting her studies and relationships. The response frames the interest as…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 95–96

From the Notebook of a Certain Sexual Masochist, Part Two

Amadoro Seiei

A first-person masochistic memoir describing participation in a secret club where leather-clad women and male attendants stage scenes of domination, humiliation, whipping, and forced submission. The episode emphasizes the narrator’s fascination with female authority,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 97–100

Amphibious Animal, Part Three: A Tale of Male Homosexuality

Oka Shinshirō; illustrations by Kiuchi Tsunekawa

A serialized epistolary tale centered on male homosexual desire, correspondence, fantasy, and encounters between men. Its letters and accompanying illustrations develop themes of same-sex attraction, erotic longing, secrecy, and emotionally charged relationships across changing…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 98–103

Cruel Demon

Mimori Shirō

A sensational sexological and criminological essay examining sadism, masochism, sexual violence, and sexually motivated murder. It combines psychological interpretation with historical and contemporary case reports, including illustrated depictions of abusive and criminal encounters.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 101–106

Cursed Rope

Tsujimura Takashi

Presented as a police statement concerning the death of Nishida Kotoe, this crime-centered narrative recounts a husband’s escalating rope bondage, humiliation, coercive sexual abuse, and sadistic violence against his wife, culminating in lethal injury.…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 106–112

The Endpoint of Sexual Abuse

Sakanoue Nobuo

A sensational pulp-horror narrative follows a physician whose fixation on a female patient develops into coercive sexual exploitation, sadistic bodily manipulation, and violent medical abuse. His attempt to reshape her into an imagined ideal…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 107–118

The Traveling Actor of Ecstatic Cruelty

Nureki Chimuo; illustrations by Tsuzuki Hachiko

A serialized erotic narrative follows a traveling theatrical troupe whose performances and backstage life revolve around coercive bondage, punishment, humiliation, and sexual domination of its actresses. The troupe’s increasingly elaborate staged scenes blur theatrical…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 113–119

At the End of Sadism

Kurosu Yoshio

A psychological erotic fiction portraying a female beauty-salon worker whose fascination with women, particularly the beautiful Masako, develops into possessive and destructive obsession. The narrative combines salon life, intimate female relationships, sexual fantasy, jealousy,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 119–124

Torment in Modern Literature

Murata Seiichi

An essay examining representations of torment, cruelty, and eroticized suffering in modern literature. It surveys literary works and authors to consider how sadistic and masochistic impulses, desire, and psychological conflict appear in modern narrative.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 120–125

Diary of Obsession

Kusaba Yōko

An illustrated historical essay examines sexual offenses involving Buddhist monks, nuns, temple women, and female attendants in the Edo period. Drawing on legal precedents and punishment records, it describes investigations, public exposure, confinement, flogging,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 125–129

Masochist and Sadist

Tomioka Haruo

A fictional narrative about a relationship structured by sadistic and masochistic desire, escalating physical control, humiliation, and coercive sexual encounters. The story is accompanied by erotic illustrations depicting the characters’ scenes of restraint and…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 126–132

Female Criminal Punishment Scroll

Kikuyama Susumu

An illustrated case narrative portrays a male domestic worker subjected to degrading treatment and forced animal-like servitude by a female employer, including confinement in a doghouse. The concluding discussion considers male same-sex desire, effeminacy,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 130–134

The Sweet Surrender of Alice, Part Four

translated by Samukawa Midori

Part four of the serialized erotic narrative follows Alice as she is repeatedly tied to chairs and poles, gagged, exposed, and subjected to coercive sexual teasing and punishment by the male narrator. The installment…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 134–139

Bestial Human

Miyauchi Misao

An essay examining the preferences of male homosexuals, including favored physical types, age differences, personal appearance, occupations, social status, and masculine or feminine traits. It combines contemporary social observation with historical examples and literary…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 135–144

Love Slave, Part Eleven

Hōkizan; illustrations by Kanayama Kinshaku

The eleventh installment of a serialized erotic narrative follows a tense hospital-centered confrontation involving injured characters, nurses, deception, financial pressure, and escalating control. Its scenes of capture, binding, humiliation, and coercive sexual power are…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 140–146

The Fault Line of Sodomy

Kayabiya Kazuhiko

An essay examining male same-sex desire and the boundaries by which sodomy or homosexuality was classified and understood. It considers sexual behavior, identity, and the social and psychological tensions surrounding non-normative male sexuality.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 145–146

Women’s Trousers: A Final Answer

Azuma Shin

An essay presents a concluding discussion of women’s trousers, tracing their historical and social significance through changing fashions, military and occupational dress, and debates over gender roles. It argues that clothing reflects broader shifts…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 147–151

Lesbos Correspondence

Sonomura Keiko

A reader-correspondence feature presenting questions, personal accounts, and advisory exchanges concerning women’s intimate relationships and lesbian desire. The section also discusses erotic representation, bodily intimacy, romantic jealousy, and the community function of sharing experiences…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 149–150, incomplete in scan

A Secret History of Beautiful Princesses

Kameoka Genichirō

A historical-style erotic narrative about a beautiful princess whose relationships with young men and warriors are framed through contrasting sadistic and masochistic desires. Set against warfare, siege, surrender, and ritualized violence, the story culminates…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 152–158

The Closed Female Body

Toba Eiko

An erotic literary narrative about sexually charged encounters, bodily desire, and the gradual exposure of a woman’s concealed inner life. The story follows shifting relationships marked by secrecy, seduction, sexual experimentation, and transgressive or…

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November
Magazine Issue KK Correspondence

December 1953

The December 1953 issue of KK Correspondence, No. 15, closes the year with an especially varied combination of personal sexual reflection, masochistic confession, bondage imagery, practical techniques, reader participation, editorial commentary, and photographic material.…

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Magazine Issue Fuzoku Soshi

December 1953

The December 1953 issue of Fūzoku Sōshi closes the year with one of the magazine’s richest combinations of historical punishment, bondage photography, artistic classification, sexual psychology, pathological case history, translated sadistic fiction, and Japanese…

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Magazine Issue Kitan Club

December 1953

The December 1953 issue of Kitan Club is an unusually expansive year-end number that combines rope photography, illustrated restraint systems, fetish and masochism essays, literary fiction, serialized narratives, film criticism, autobiographical writing, female-dominance fantasy,…

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Magazine Issue Fuzoku Soshi

December 1953 Special Issue

The December 1953 special issue of Fūzoku Sōshi is less a conventional monthly number than a lavish anthology of the magazine’s developing erotic world. Advertised as a “secret edition” or collector’s issue, it gathers…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 3

Balanced Pleasure

Nakagawa Ayako

A full-page erotic illustration by Nakagawa Ayako presents several nude figures bound with rope in an elaborate wooden-frame tableau. The staged composition emphasizes intertwined bodies, immobilization, and dramatic restraint.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 4–27

A Grand Collection of Terrifying and Bizarre Pictures

A multi-page visual portfolio presenting terrifying, bizarre, and erotic illustrations in historical Japanese settings. The scenes depict women subjected to rope bondage, suspension, captivity, coercive handling, and fantastical or violent punishment, accompanied by captions…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 5

Binding Methods Using Posts and Leverage

Itō Seiu; illustrations by Chikami Reiko

An illustrated instructional feature by Itō Seiu presenting multiple Japanese rope-binding methods that use posts, beams, and leverage to secure the body in varied positions. Captions explain the placement and tightening of ropes around…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 5–6

The Twin Blades of the Rope

Yuki Aoi

An illustrated erotic narrative set in a traditional Japanese milieu depicts women subjected to elaborate rope bondage, including seated and suspended positions, alongside dialogue expressing jealousy, humiliation, and revenge. The feature presents restraint as…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 6

A Certain Pose Produced by Tight Binding

composition by Tsujimura Takashi; photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A photographic feature showing a model placed in a tightly bound, folded seated pose, with rope arranged around the torso and legs. The single staged image emphasizes the visual form and bodily posture produced…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 7–10

Illustrated Female-Prisoner Punishments

Tsuzuki Mineko

An illustrated feature presenting scenes of female prisoners subjected to various punishments and restraint arrangements, including public display, dragging, burning, and splitting or stretching forms of punishment. The accompanying prose frames these scenes through…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 7–8

Whip

Shimizu Mitsue

A two-page illustrated feature centers on nude female figures posed with whips and related implements, using dramatic compositions to evoke eroticized punishment and fetish display. The emphasis is on stylized imagery rather than instructional…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 9–10

Torment

Mitani Ichiba

An erotic illustrated torment scene depicts a woman struggling against restraint while a man responds with escalating sadistic excitement. The accompanying caption presents the encounter as a coercive fantasy centered on domination and suffering.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 11–12

Three Expressions

composition by Itō Seiu; illustrations by Chikami Reiko

An illustrated feature titled “Three Expressions,” combining portraits of women’s faces with staged scenes of bondage, exposure, and severe punishment or death. The work emphasizes changing facial expressions within stylized erotic and punitive tableaux.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 11–12

Three Flowers

Yoshida Taeko

This illustrated fiction presents scenes of jealous and coercive male domination: Yoshiko is bound and gagged while interrogated, while other women face captivity, sexual wagering, humiliation, and fear of being taken away. The accompanying…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 13

Illustrations of Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu

An illustration by Itō Seiu depicts a grotesque legend in which a ruler takes pleasure in cutting open pregnant women to observe their unborn children, until a divine intervention reveals a fox spirit’s identity.…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 14

Three Torn Bellies

This illustrated scene from the Kabuki tradition of Adachigahara portrays Ibara, mother of Abe no Sadatō, cutting open pregnant women, imprisoning the extracted children, and praying to a dragon deity while plotting to disturb…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15–16

Forced Undressing

Nanji Kōji

An illustrated erotic scene depicts a woman being forcibly undressed and restrained by a man, with accompanying dialogue emphasizing coercion, resistance, and control. The feature presents forced disrobing as a stylized fantasy of domination…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 15

The Painting That Laughs

Yagiwa Hideo

An illustrated erotic scene centered on a laughing Noh mask, with a woman shown bound in rope and placed within a theatrical, ritualized tableau.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 16

Living Sacrifice Cuisine

An illustrated tableau titled “Living Sacrifice Cuisine,” depicting bound and partially disrobed women arranged around a table and food-like objects in a grotesque sacrificial fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 17

Two Forms

A photographic feature titled “Two Forms” presents a bound figure in a contorted, forward-bent posture, with ropes securing the body to a supporting frame or pole. The image emphasizes contrasting bodily configurations produced through…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 17–18

Two Whips

Asada Minoru

A two-part erotic illustration feature depicting women in stylized bondage scenes, including rope restraint and whip-related dominance imagery. The images combine theatrical costume, posed submission, and detailed kinbaku compositions.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18

Rod Punishment

“Rod Punishment” is a photographic depiction of a restrained figure positioned on a horizontal bar and secured with ropes while a rod is used as the central punishment device. The scene combines staged bondage…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 19

A New Pleasure Game

Taki Reiko

An illustrated feature presenting a “new pleasure game” involving a nude woman and a partner in a rope-based restraint scene. The visual emphasizes staged erotic play and physical immobilization.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 19

The Room of Yōkai

Ōhashi Yasei

An illustrated supernatural fantasy scene titled “The Room of Yōkai,” showing a vulnerable woman surrounded by grotesque spirits and uncanny creatures, with imprisoned figures visible behind bars. The imagery blends erotic spectacle with dark…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 20

Brother and Sister

An illustrated erotic scene titled “Brother and Sister,” depicting a clothed man and a nude woman in an intimate encounter accompanied by dialogue expressing embarrassment and reluctance. The piece centers on forbidden, incestuous fantasy.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 20–25

Research Notes on Wooden-Horse Torture

Shimazaki Satoshi

Shimazaki Satoshi examines the historical wooden-horse punishment, comparing its use in Japan and the West and discussing the bodily effects of its posture and pressure. The article also documents contemporary experiments with a female…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 20

The Snake Pit

An erotic illustration depicts bound figures suspended over a deep pit filled with snakes, combining peril, captivity, and bondage imagery.

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