Guide to Amorous Affairs, Part Three

Tsukiya Shizushi

The third installment of a comic erotic serial follows Dora, Ari, Musukita, and their associates through jealous confrontations, disguises, stolen jewelry, and attempted escapes. Its episodic dialogue and illustrations mix sexual intrigue with farcical…

The Value of Five Hundred Yen

Hoshi Yumeji

An erotic comic story examines the meaning of a five-hundred-yen payment within a troubled marriage and its surrounding romantic entanglements. Money, jewelry, household finances, and sexual relationships become intertwined as the characters negotiate desire,…

Temptation in a Hundred Forms: Men Who Prey on Young Women's Bodies

Tsumura Shinzō

A journalistic account of men who lure and exploit young women through employment offers, promises of secretarial or acting careers, and financial assistance. The cases portray sexual coercion, economic vulnerability, and the women’s descent…

These Things Happen Too: A Woman Who Wagered Her Body

A brief cautionary vignette about a gambling-house game in which money is wagered and, when funds run out, a woman’s body becomes the stake. It presents gambling as a setting for humiliation, sexual commodification,…

What Exposes the Reality of Popular Writers

Masked Writer

A critical essay examines the gap between the public reputations of popular writers and their private conduct, working habits, ambitions, financial arrangements, and dependence on publishers and literary fame. It satirically contrasts celebrated literary…

False Policemen on the Rampage

Nagami Ryūji

A social-satirical story portrays impostors posing as police or detectives, stopping students, couples, travelers, and villagers while exploiting their supposed authority for money, food, and personal advantage. Through comic dialogue and illustrations, it exposes…

Regional Strange Tale: Wedding Ceremony and the Stone Jizō

Hanamoto Shirō

A regional strange tale follows a troubled married couple whose childlessness, infidelity, and hopes for a child become entangled with a stone Jizō and other uncanny events. The story blends domestic sexual anxiety with…

Erotic Department Store: Dangerous Pictures and Shunga

An illustrated miscellany on erotic culture discusses provocative sexual situations and imagery, including department-store encounters, erotic curiosities, and modern sexual behavior. It then turns to shunga and related erotic pictures, considering their artistic conventions,…

Modern Tales of Erotic Monsters: Opening a Badger Game

Kasagi Yoshio

A comic-erotic supernatural tale follows the hapless 留吉 and his encounters with 菊三, women, and fox- or badger-like apparitions. Across episodes involving grotesque bodily transformations, illicit desire, deception, and a climactic “fox dance,” the…

The Fruit of an Illicit Love: Confession of an Attempted Lovers' Suicide

Mibe Mamoru

A first-person confession recounts an illicit romantic relationship that develops amid domestic and family tensions, culminating in an attempted lovers’ suicide and its emotional consequences. The piece is framed as melodramatic testimony about forbidden…

Honmoku: A Woman's Guide to the Ways of Love

Fujiwara Mitsuo

A sensational first-person account of a troubled love affair unfolds through clandestine meetings, jealousy, separation, and escalating violence involving a woman and a firearm. The piece presents romantic desire and betrayal in a dramatic,…

Strange True Story: The Woman Who Cooked at a Laborers' Camp

Itō Akimitsu

A sensational “true story” recounts the arrival of a woman hired to cook at a remote laborers’ construction camp, where the male workers’ attention turns into coercive sexual pursuit and violence. The narrative depicts…

Statement of a Suspicious Man at the Police Station on an Autumn Night

Konohana Daisuke

A suspense fiction piece framed as the statement of a suspicious man questioned at a police station. His account of a night involving jealousy, confrontations, violence, and a mysterious death gradually reveals the disturbing…

The Naked Dancer Arabesque

Tomino Hajime

An illustrated feature describing the stage performance and physical presentation of the nude dancer Arabesque. It focuses on striptease-style spectacle, the dancer’s movements and costume exposure, and the reactions of viewers to her erotic…

The Pillow Book: The Morning After Sleeping with a Woman

Sei Shōnagon

A literary vignette from Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book reflects on the dawn and morning-after encounter following a night spent with a woman. The passage dwells on clothing, appearance, atmosphere, and the emotional uncertainty surrounding…

The Bathhouse Girl Peeks into the Men's Bath

Nishihara Tsuyako

A humorous erotic tale set in a modest bathhouse follows the bathhouse attendant’s daughter as she secretly peeks into the men’s bathing area and becomes entangled in the resulting flirtation and sexual intrigue. Its…

Female Knight-Errant on the Road

Ryokumō Hiko

An erotic adventure narrative follows a female wanderer moving through a succession of encounters with men, including deception, coercion, sexual bargaining, and episodes of captivity or rescue. The story combines chivalric-travel conventions with sensational…

Collection of Sexual Perversions

Akashi Sanpei

A collection of humorous and sensational erotic anecdotes presents unconventional sexual behavior through short narrative episodes, editorial dialogue, and accompanying cartoon illustrations. The feature ranges across fetishistic interests, voyeuristic situations, sexual experimentation, and anxieties…

Aozora Haruko's Exploit: The Angel's Crime

Sugiyama Kiyoshi

A sensational serialized crime narrative about nurse Aozora Haruko, whose relationships and movements become entangled in a murder investigation involving a hospital, conflicting testimony, and forensic clues. The story unfolds through interrogation-style dialogue, police…

Secret History of Japan's Opening: Consul Harris and Okichi

Umikawa Eiji

A historical-romantic account of Townsend Harris’s role in the opening of Japan and his relationship with Okichi, presented as a dramatic secret history. The narrative emphasizes diplomatic tensions, cultural encounter, sexual politics, and the…

The Lover of Mrs. Chakkari

Akashi Sanpei

A humorous seven-panel comic in which an eager male admirer performs increasingly servile tasks for Mrs. Chakkari in hopes of winning her favor, only to be manipulated and dismissed. The feature uses romantic pursuit…

The Company President Who Became the Seed of a Novel

Yamamoto Sakae

A confessional-style narrative about a married working woman whose company president makes unwanted advances and attempts to draw her into an affair through gifts, money, special treatment, and workplace pressure. She ultimately resists the…

Pillow Talk in a Haunted House

Hyogo Ippei

A newlywed couple exchange intimate pillow talk while recounting unsettling experiences connected with a haunted house. Their conversation blends domestic sexuality, marital teasing, and a progressively eerie supernatural tale involving strange sounds, apparitions, and…

The Tooth of Desire

Sasaki Kurumanao

An erotic melodrama unfolds through conversations involving Madame, Arita, and the sisters Yayoi and Akiyo. Past relationships, deception, jealousy, and unresolved desire surface as the characters confront romantic betrayal and the damaging rivalry between…

The Poor Rich Man

Tsujimura Enezaburo

A comic picaresque narrative about a man caught between poverty and sudden access to money. His earnings are spent on conspicuous clothing, food, drinking, gambling, women, and questionable schemes, creating a satirical portrait of…

North Korea and Siberia Prisoner Wanderings: Exhibitionism at the Latrine

Anabuki Takeshi

A grotesque, comic account combining wartime prisoner wandering in North Korea and Siberia with an episode of compulsive public exposure in a latrine. The piece uses captivity, bodily degradation, scatological humor, and exhibitionism as…

Boogie-Woogie in the Amusement Quarter

Kado Kotaro

A comic, episodic narrative set in the amusement quarters, where opportunistic characters turn found objects, fortune-telling, bogus photographs and paintings, and other street entertainments into scams. The illustrated sketches present nightlife hustling through caricature,…

Song of Bodily Sorrow

Aiyama Hisashi

A sensational, first-person-style illustrated confession about a pro baseball celebrity and a movie star whose relationship becomes entangled with marriage, jealousy, sexual desire, illness, and emotional collapse. The narrative treats celebrity romance as a…

Young Swallow Tactics: I Was Juggling Four at Once

Teramoto Akira

A first-person account of an unemployed man who develops a calculated method for courting and financially relying on several women simultaneously. The narrative presents overlapping romantic relationships, gifts, money, and social maneuvering as an…

Strategy for Capturing an Idle Madam: How I Won a Beautiful Widow

Saotome Akira

A first-person story about Ryota, a young man who uses a classified advertisement and his supposed judo or boxing abilities to enter the household of an affluent widow. Through charm, persistence, and calculated attentiveness,…

Awakening of the Female Body: An Old Maid Falls

Arisawa Aro

An erotic narrative follows an unmarried older woman whose dormant sexuality is awakened through the calculated attentions of an experienced man. The story explores her vulnerability, desire, and eventual surrender to seduction.

A Guide to the Art of Love: An Episode of Bedroom Play

Hanaki Minoru

An erotic relationship narrative framed around marital boredom and misunderstanding depicts a husband and wife discussing sexual dissatisfaction and rediscovering intimacy through experimentation and attentive lovemaking. The text combines bedroom advice with explicit fictional…

The Woman in the Movie Theater

Tomita Shinji

A first-person comic tale about a man who encounters an alluring woman at a Kyoto movie theater and becomes entangled in her calculated flirtation. As he follows her through the station and city, his…

Pure-Hearted Tactics: What's Inside the Handbag?

Kojima Shinichi

A fictional romantic episode in which a seemingly innocent woman and a nervous salaryman negotiate attraction, money, and trust through a series of encounters. The handbag becomes a recurring object of suspicion and concealment…

Secret Method for Breaking Through the Period of Marital Boredom: The Surprise Tactic That Worked

Tsubaki Akihiko

A marital-advice narrative about a husband who becomes alarmed by his wife’s changed behavior during their period of boredom and hires a private detective to investigate. The inquiry, misunderstandings, and emotional confrontation ultimately serve…

The Distance of the Body

Naoki Ryunosuke

A fictional domestic drama portraying the growing emotional and physical distance between husband and wife, Akiko and her husband. Suspicion, sexual frustration, wounded pride, and escalating quarrels expose the fragility of their marriage and…

The Adolescent Girl

Hirai Kyosuke

A psychologically charged fiction about an adolescent girl whose fascination with romantic film scenes awakens confused desires and fantasies. The narrative moves between ordinary domestic life, cinematic imagery, and dreamlike experiences as she struggles…

The Adulterous Husband Was Alive

Kasagi Yoshio

A suspenseful family melodrama in which suspicion of an adulterous relationship spreads through a household and provokes jealousy, deception, and confrontation. The story escalates from secretive domestic encounters to physical violence, bloodshed, and a…

The Man Who Crawled Out from Beneath the Stage

A comic erotic tale about a man who hides beneath a bed while evading discovery in a volatile household, then attempts to escape when the danger seems to have passed. The story relies on…

One Hundred Curious Tales of Urban Licentiousness

Shinji Kanro

A serialized collection of brief, humorous erotic anecdotes presented as “curious tales” of urban licentiousness. Through comic dialogue and exaggerated situations, the stories depict infidelity, sexual misadventure, marital conflict, flirtation, and other forms of…

Pink Apartment Kaleidoscope

Yakusa Kyosuke

A comic-erotic series of vignettes set among the residents of a postwar apartment building. Interwoven episodes depict flirtation, adultery, sexual misunderstandings, domestic quarrels, and the eccentric behavior of men and women living in close…

The Story of an Ape That Fathered a Human Child

Natsuhara Tsuneo

A first-person mountain adventure and curious tale about an encounter with a powerful ape in an isolated rural setting. The account develops into the sensational claim that the ape had sexual relations with a…

Favorite Variety, Part 1: The Bear's Paw

Isshotei Shujin

The first installment of a comic erotic serial follows the sexually dissatisfied and adventurous Hisako, her husband Nobuo, and a series of rural male acquaintances, including the figure known as Bear Grandpa. Illustrated episodes…

Favorite Variety, Part 2: Madame Skunk

Isshotei Shujin

The second installment introduces the character Madame Skunk in a voyeuristic, grotesquely comic erotic episode. The narrative and accompanying illustration focus on sexualized bodily display, clandestine observation, and the character’s provocative behavior.

House of the Lustful Bhikkhuni

Midori Sumariyuki

An Edo-period erotic adventure follows the resourceful 金平 as he pursues encounters with women connected to pleasure quarters, households, and theatrical or elite circles. The serialized narrative combines disguise, pursuit, jealousy, violence, and sexual…

Night-Blooming Flowers: Erotic Story Collection

A collection of erotic stories depicting dancers, entertainers, mistresses, and other women whose intimate lives are shaped by money, contracts, patrons, infidelity, and exploitation. The episodes emphasize backstage and domestic encounters, sexual performance, emotional…

The Completely Naked Charred Corpse

A mystery investigation centers on the completely naked, charred body of a young woman discovered after a lodging-house fire. Through witness questioning, scene reconstruction, and autopsy clues, investigators challenge the apparent suicide explanation and…

The Bride's Sexual Modesty

Yoshinobu Takashi

This comparative essay examines sexual modesty among brides, focusing on embarrassment, resistance, and expectations surrounding marriage and the wedding night. It surveys differing customs and attitudes toward female sexuality across communities, including examples from…

Breast Commotion: Southern Squabble Picture Scroll, Part 4

Tsukiya Seishi

Part four of a serialized illustrated pulp tale follows Maria and her husband through a volatile world of jealousy, sexual rivalry, cabaret entertainment, and suspected infidelity. The escalating quarrel becomes entangled with violence, a…

Nude Photographic Studies

A two-page photographic feature presenting posed nude studies of women in domestic or studio-like settings. The images emphasize the female nude as an erotic and aesthetic photographic subject.

Illustrated Table of Contents and Nude Study

An illustrated contents spread listing the issue’s stories, essays, humorous pieces, and other features, accompanied by a stylized nude female study. The page combines magazine navigation and promotional erotic imagery in a decorative layout.

Stripper Story: The Queen of Sex

Saotome Akira

An erotic illustrated feature presenting a masked nude performer as a celebrated “queen of sex.” The central image emphasizes her stage persona, dramatic pose, costume accessories, and striptease glamour.

Following an Ultra-Postwar Young Lady

Tsubaki Akihiko

An erotic illustrated feature following an ultra-postwar young woman through scenes of flirtation, kissing, group socializing, and nude intimacy. The imagery frames youthful sexual experimentation and unconventional relationships in a voyeuristic, report-like style.

Love's Caress Machine

Matsui Yoriko

An erotic illustrated fantasy centered on a “caress machine,” depicting intertwined bodies within a surreal, mechanical and urban setting. The feature treats technology as a vehicle for imagined intimate pleasure.

I Am a Peeping Glass

Sone Saburo

A multi-page visual feature built around the voyeuristic image of a “peeping glass,” combining erotic drawings or photographic collage with nocturnal scenes of nude figures and lovers. Its imagery emphasizes looking, concealment, and erotic…

Sunday Pleasures: Rendezvous Stories

Hanano Misako

A comic erotic narrative built around a Sunday morning in bed, romantic encounters, and the recollection or anticipation of rendezvous. Informal dialogue and playful misunderstandings give the story its conversational humor.

The Kawahara Couple's Artificial Insemination

Nijiyama Mayune

A satirical story about the Kawahara couple’s childlessness and their consultation about artificial insemination. The narrative explores marital anxiety, donor selection, secrecy, and the comic implications of applying modern reproductive medicine to sexual and…

My Amorous Misunderstanding

Negoro Yoshitaro

An erotic comic tale about a man whose desire and assumptions lead him into an amorous misunderstanding. The narrative uses awkward encounters, overheard conversations, and embarrassed reactions for sexual humor.

Borrowing a Wife Without Permission

Wakakusa Yumeko

A bawdy domestic comedy in which a wife becomes entangled in an unauthorized or improper arrangement involving another man, with jealousy, suspicion, and mistaken interpretations driving the plot. The story emphasizes marital intimacy and…

Stripper Story: The Queen of Sex

Saotome Akira

A serialized erotic melodrama follows Namiko, an ambitious stripper who rises through Osaka’s nightclub and theater world while navigating male exploitation, rivalry, jealousy, and romantic entanglements. Her pursuit of recognition as a “queen” of…

A Woman Who Loves with Her Body and a Woman Who Loves with Her Heart

Ikariji Maya

A short fictional study contrasts a woman whose love is expressed through physical desire with one whose attachment is emotional and devoted, using marital and romantic tensions to explore competing ideas of feminine love…

Ear-Cleaning Strange Tale

Yoshioka Kakine

An erotic comic tale centers on ear-cleaning as an intimate pretext for flirtation, seduction, and sexual intrigue. The episodic narrative combines salon and domestic encounters with humorous illustrations and exaggerated bodily situations.

A Woman's Nature

Yamamoto Sakae

A serialized erotic farce explores women’s desire, jealousy, and sexual resourcefulness through a series of encounters involving teachers, shopkeepers, and other men. The story uses comic misunderstandings, seduction, and changing romantic pairings to dramatize…

Detective True Story: The One-Eyed Murder Demon

Shiga Noboru

A detective true-crime account of a multiple murder investigated through witness testimony, physical clues, suspect questioning, and police pursuit. The narrative emphasizes the killer’s disturbing one-eyed appearance and the gradual reconstruction of the crime.

Early Spring: Two Love Stories

Shingetsu Genba

An erotic fiction feature presenting two intertwined love stories marked by adult desire, seduction, jealousy, and emotional conflict. The episodes depict intimate encounters in domestic and bathing settings, with relationships complicated by age, marriage,…

Then and Now Women

Hyogo Ippei

A comic, dialogue-driven comparison of women “then and now,” contrasting older ideals of femininity and marriage with modern women’s independence, romantic expectations, and changing social behavior. The narrative follows several men and women through…

The Women of the Needle Shops

Suzuki Michi

A collection of humorous and erotic vignettes centered on women connected with sewing, garment work, urban entertainment districts, and domestic life. Its episodes portray flirtation, marriage, infidelity, sexual negotiation, and the tensions between respectable…

A Kiss Worth One Hundred Thousand Yen

Kamiyama Tatsuo

An erotic-humorous tale about a man who becomes entangled with a woman and ends up paying an exorbitant sum for only two kisses. The story satirizes romantic desire, male vulnerability, and the commodification of…

Erotic Curiosity Short Feature

Midorikawa Hiko

A fictionalized erotic feature contrasting the secrets and sexual conduct of a prewar mother with those of her postwar daughter. Through encounters, confessions, and suggestive situations, it explores changing female sexuality, generational attitudes, and…

Erotic Comic Anecdotes

Furyu Taro

A humorous erotic anecdote depicting an unexpectedly physical sexual encounter between a man and a woman, told in a lively, comic style. The accompanying illustration emphasizes the bodily comedy and theatricality of the episode.

Following an Ultra-Postwar Young Lady

Tsubaki Akihiko

A fictional first-person investigation follows a reporter pursuing accounts of exceptionally beautiful women through postwar urban nightlife, including bars, clubs, and private rooms. Interviews, disguises, flirtation, drinking, and successive erotic encounters structure the episodic…

The Maiden and Bestial Desire

Fujimoto Chieko

An erotic fiction about Yamooka, an Osaka businessman, and a young woman whose relationship develops through attraction, sexual desire, jealousy, and possessiveness. Their affair becomes increasingly troubled as emotional dependence and violent impulses undermine…

Curious Falsehoods

James Gon

A comic illustrated miscellany built from absurd lies, misunderstandings, and brief dialogue scenes. Its jokes satirize marriage, romance, domestic life, work, illness, bureaucracy, and everyday social behavior.

Curious Tale: The Dripping Bucket

Yumehiko

A lurid folkloric tale framed as the confession of a sick old monk visiting a remote mountain watchman’s hut. Recalling events from decades earlier, the narrator describes sexual entanglement, murder, and the remorse and…

The History of a Prostitute's Love

Kyogoku Eiko

An erotic fictional narrative tracing a prostitute’s emotional and sexual entanglements, including seduction, economic hardship, deception, and unstable attachments. The story emphasizes the conflict between commercial sexuality and genuine romantic feeling.

The Woman Who Carries a Pillow and Blanket

Sumida Kikuo

An erotic short story about a man whose encounter with a woman carrying bedding develops into an intense and complicated sexual relationship. The narrative explores clandestine intimacy, emotional attachment, jealousy, and the disruption of…

Stripper Story: I Never Knew Such a Strong Woman Existed

Ozaki Bunpo

An erotic story centered on a strikingly assertive woman and her encounters with men, including a stripper-like female performer whose confidence and sexual agency unsettle those around her. The narrative follows attraction, seduction, and…

Kitan Wit Classroom

Shusabin

A humorous classroom-style miscellany presenting witty observations, questions, and answers about sex, marriage, bodily concerns, fashion, and everyday social behavior. The page also incorporates light puzzles and other recreational material.