A Woman’s Confession

Okada Satsuko

A first-person account follows a rural woman working in Tokyo who is drawn into a lodging house and subjected to escalating coercion by a man and woman. Her ordeal includes rope binding, gagging, immobilization,…

The Lamp of Adonis

Sasada Ei

A tragic literary narrative about Shinkichi, an older man who finds intense companionship and erotic attachment with the younger Matsuo, then suffers anxiety and heartbreak when their relationship is threatened by separation and social…

A Conversation Between Two Men

Kameoka Kyōko

A dialogue presents the aftermath of a married woman’s earlier confession of infidelity. The speakers discuss her unhappy marriage, emotional and sexual attachment to another person, possible divorce, and the guilt, secrecy, and uncertainty…

The Sexual Life of a Spy

Arima Masaaki

A historical-sexological essay on the sexual customs of Romani communities, discussing courtship, marriage, gender roles, sexual behavior, clothing, adornment, color symbolism, erotic beliefs, and magical practices. The account reflects the period’s comparative and often…

A Tragic Comedy

Sasada Ei

An illustrated comic dialogue depicting an escalating domestic quarrel involving accusations, deception, money, and strained marital or household relationships. Its eroticized humor is built around sexual jealousy, social embarrassment, and the breakdown of trust…

Fire, Part Three

Matsui Kōko

The third installment of Matsui Kōko’s serialized erotic fiction follows a married couple whose encounter with an intimidating man develops into an elaborate scenario of restraint, humiliation, jealousy, and coercive sexual fantasy. The narrative…

Publication Notices and Advertisements

A publisher’s notices page solicits unpublished writing, illustrations, photographs, cartoons, fiction, and other contributions, while outlining editorial guidelines and payment practices. It also announces back issues, subscriptions, direct reader orders, publisher information, and a…

A Study of the Beauty of Tight Binding with the Hands Behind and the Arms Raised

composition by Tsujimura Takashi; photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A photographic study of tight rope binding with the hands secured behind the body and raised, presenting several postures and variations using ropes and a bamboo pole. The accompanying text discusses the visual beauty,…

Confessions of a Reformed Delinquent

Goku Osamu

A first-person confession by a former delinquent describing detention in a juvenile correctional institution, including institutional discipline, confinement, punishment, and degrading treatment. The narrative reflects on the physical and psychological effects of custodial correction…

How to Obtain the Wine of the Gods

Numa Shōzō

A first-person erotic account presents the pursuit and consumption of a woman’s urine as the “wine of the gods.” Framed partly as practical advice, it describes arranging a toilet and collecting vessel to obtain…

Longing for the Obese Body

Asō Tsuwako

An autobiographical confession traces the author’s longstanding attraction to obese bodies, recalling childhood impressions, encounters with nude male bodies, and later fantasies involving exhibitionism, medical observation, and masochistic exposure. The piece presents this fixation…

Riding Clothes, High Boots, and the Whip

Morimoto Aizō

A first-person erotic account of a fascination with riding clothes, high boots, and whips, developing through encounters with women and riding-related scenes into episodes of bondage, whipping, and female control. The narrative emphasizes the…

A Mysterious Interrogation

Arima Inaho

A first-person erotic narrative set partly in a coeducational high-school milieu, in which female students subject a male figure to an elaborate interrogation and punishment involving ropes, forced positions, whipping, gagging, and humiliation. The…

My Newlywed Life

Shimamura Yasuo

A first-person account of married life describing escalating erotic tensions between a wife and husband, including marital bondage, role reversals, sexual experimentation, and the wife’s conflicted responses to domestic intimacy. The narrative combines autobiographical…

The Occasion for Blooming

Shida Yōko

A confessional narrative about a woman whose masochistic and exhibitionistic impulses develop through fantasies of bodily exposure, abdominal injury, knives, and violent erotic scenarios. The account links private sexual imagination with the thrill of…

The Shadow of Jealousy

Izumi Tatsunosuke

A first-person erotic narrative centered on jealousy, illicit intimacy, and an escalating encounter in which a woman is subjected to elaborate rope bondage and punitive domination. The story emphasizes possessiveness, humiliation, and the psychological…

The Dream I Saw Last Night

Kawabata Tanako

A dream-diary-style account of a frightening yet erotically charged nightmare in which the narrator is led into a secluded house, captured, gagged, and bound with rope by others. The piece dwells on helplessness, sensory…

Lament of a Young Bride

Hanamura Tsuruji

A multi-part erotic narrative set in Osaka’s Tobita pleasure district, following a male visitor’s encounters and conversations with prostitutes and other women. Across successive episodes, the story explores commercial sex, marital tensions, sexual bargaining,…

Confession of a Cultured Animal

Tsunoda Heihachi

A first-person confession by a private tutor describing his voyeuristic observations of an employer’s household and his subsequent sexual involvement with a young woman. The narrative centers on peeping, secrecy, fetishized clothing and bodies,…

New Nude Rhapsody

Nanajō Miki

An essay arguing for a more expansive appreciation of nude bodies in art, contrasting conventional representations of male and female bodies and discussing photography, sculpture, painting, and the aesthetics of bodily form. It also…

Sexual Intercourse

Fujiyasu Setsuko

A first-person erotic confession tracing the author’s childhood attachment to animals, developing sensory and sexual interests, family influences, relationships, and later encounters with erotic desire. The narrative blends autobiographical memory with reflections on animal…

Love Slave, Part Four

Kitō Kōichirō

Part four of Kitō Kōichirō’s serialized first-person SM fiction follows a husband whose idealized new-marriage fantasies develop into encounters involving female authority, humiliation, punishment, and elaborate restraint. The narrative moves between domestic and theatrical…

The Woman on a Sheet of Paper

Sasaki Tadashi

A first-person erotic encounter in and around a public lavatory develops around a woman’s display of herself, colored newspapers or toilet paper, and fantasies of being bound. The narrator describes the woman’s appearance, behavior,…

Pilgrimage Through Pictures of Hell

Nagaoka Aiichirō

This essay traces images of bound women and related eroticized restraint across hell paintings, Japanese prints, illustrations, photographs, films, and popular magazines. It compares historical and postwar visual culture, discussing changing conventions of kinbaku,…

The Death of a Beautiful Boy

Okada Mashirō

A tragic erotic narrative about the relationship between two men, centered on the beauty, vulnerability, and changing circumstances of a young man named Ryōsuke. Their intimate encounters and conversations about desire, masculinity, and same-sex…

Ecstasy and Religious Rapture

Takatori Nagaharu

Takatori Nagaharu compares sexual passion with religious ecstasy, arguing that both involve intense affect, altered consciousness, and devotion to an idealized object. Drawing on psychological theory, Christian and Buddhist traditions, saints’ visions, and other…

Camera Lovers’ Society

Okada Sakiko

A serialized erotic fiction narrative follows reporter Hirobi as she becomes involved with a secretive camera-lovers’ society. What begins as an investigation develops into a coercive staged photography session involving nudity, rope bondage, restraint,…

Rulers and the Ruled

Watanabe Shinji

An extended essay examines the psychological relationship between rulers and subjects through sadistic and masochistic impulses, coercion, obedience, humiliation, and the pursuit of pleasure through domination or submission. It illustrates these ideas with historical…

Torture in Aesthetic Expression: Torture in Film, Theater, and Fiction

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An essay examines how torture and eroticized restraint are represented aesthetically across cinema, theater, and fiction. It discusses staged scenes of captivity, rope bondage, humiliation, and gendered domination, comparing Japanese and Western examples and…

Continued: Prison Garb

Furukawa Yūko

A continuation of Furukawa Yūko’s serialized erotic narrative, in which a female protagonist is subjected to elaborate scenes of arrest, confinement, interrogation, punishment, and restraint. The story moves between prison-like fantasy, correspondence, marital and…

Historical Notes on Seppuku, Part Two

Nakayasu Kōdō

A historical survey of Japanese seppuku, examining its formal procedures, terminology, social meanings, and notable examples from the samurai era through modern times. The article also considers distinctions between ritual seppuku, punishment, battlefield death,…

Bound Actresses, Part Two

Iioka Kinkichi

A continuation of the magazine’s catalogue of actresses depicted in bondage, describing staged scenes of women being tied, restrained, punished, abducted, or displayed in films and illustrated erotic settings. The feature combines performer names,…

A Refined Form of Torture

Azuma Minoru

Azuma Minoru presents sadistic pleasure as a refined form of torture, discussing pain, restraint, gagging, blindfolding, sensory deprivation, and the psychological effects of carefully controlled confinement. The article also offers practical observations on materials,…

Selections from Heresy

Nibiyama Hitoshi

A literary selection of strange-marriage and human-animal encounter tales, drawing on Japanese legend and folklore. Stories involving snakes, horses, dogs, monkeys, and other uncanny figures combine erotic desire, transformation, abduction, sacrifice, and supernatural or…

Fire, Part Four

Matsui Kōko

The fourth installment of Matsui Kōko’s serialized erotic fiction follows a married couple through a tense encounter involving jealousy, coercive intimacy, and elaborate rope restraint. The woman is repeatedly bound, immobilized, and humiliated while…

Publication Notices and Advertisements

A miscellany of Kitan Club publication notices, including calls for manuscript submissions, editorial policies, back-issue availability, subscription and direct-order information, and details of the forthcoming April issue. The page also promotes the magazine’s reader…

Women’s Punishment Grounds in Postwar Popular Prints

Takatsuki Daizō

An illustrated survey examines depictions of women’s punishment and restraint in postwar popular fiction and erotic publishing. It compares scenes by different artists, publications, and narrative settings, presenting them as evidence of changing postwar…

The Society of Masochists

Sophie Widemann; translated by Numa Shōzō

A Japanese translation of Sophie Widemann’s French erotic novel Une Société de Masochistes, introduced by the translator and illustrated with scenes of domestic domination. The narrative follows Sofia as she trains Jan into an…

Various Forms of Punishment

Azuma Minoru

A practical and psychological discussion of varied punishment scenarios, focusing on rope binding, restrictive positions, sensory discomfort, spanking, and the dynamics of sadistic and masochistic response. Illustrated examples show different ways of tying subjects,…

Miscellaneous Thoughts on Capture and Binding

Goku Osamu

An illustrated historical and technical survey of Japanese capture-rope methods, describing rope materials, lengths, knots, and numerous named patterns used to restrain arrested persons. The article connects traditional torinawa techniques with contemporary erotic bondage…

My Record, Final Chapter

Kuroi Chinpei

The final chapter of Kuroi Chinpei’s autobiographical record recounts his longstanding sexual fantasies, fetishistic interests, bondage-related imagination, and conflicted relationships with women and his wife. It also follows his encounters with Christianity, guilt, confession,…

Love Slave, Part Five

Kitō Kōichirō

The fifth installment of Kitō Kōichirō’s serialized erotic fiction follows a married couple whose relationship develops into an elaborate “queen” role-play. The wife assumes increasingly dominant control over her husband through staged commands, humiliation,…

At the Queen’s Feet

Hida Ryōji

An erotic dominance fantasy centered on a submissive figure at the feet of a commanding queen, emphasizing hierarchy, surrender, and ceremonial submission.

The Martyr Who Is Imitated

Naruse Akira

Naruse Akira examines the recurring cultural image of the Christian martyr and its imitation in sadistic and masochistic imagination. The essay discusses Tokugawa anti-Christian persecution, torture and execution, religious sacrifice, authoritarian violence, and the…

Glass Toilet

Hano Mayumi

A first-person erotic narrative centered on urination, public toilets, and the narrator’s increasingly intense fascination with women’s bodies and bodily functions. The story combines voyeuristic observation, fetishistic imagery, and scenes of private sexual fantasy.

A Dramatic Animal Tale

Sasada Ei

A satirical erotic story presented as a supposedly moralistic tale, following a widow and a younger man through sexual attraction, pursuit, marriage, and domestic life. Its comic dialogue and exaggerated plot use romance, economic…

An Interlude Addressed to Kawabata

Yano Sakusei

A reader writes to Kawabata about the beauty of bound bodies and asks about his personal history with bondage, including when his interest began, memorable experiences, and the circumstances behind his work and photographs…

Boys and Women’s Seppuku

Nakayasu Kōdō

This historical-sexological essay surveys accounts of seppuku by boys and women, drawing on chronicles, literary works, theater, illustrations, and modern reports. It emphasizes the gendered symbolism, bodily spectacle, emotional drama, and eroticized presentation of…

In the Laboratory

Tsunoda Heihachi

A first-person erotic confession recounts how a man becomes subject to a female physician’s laboratory experiments and increasingly submits to her authority. He is medically examined, injected, stripped, restrained in specialized apparatus, and subjected…

Diary of a Female Beast

Kondō Keizō

A serialized first-person SM narrative in which a woman recounts her abduction, confinement, and repeated rope bondage, gagging, and physical punishment by a dominant man. The melodramatic account intertwines captivity, humiliation, emotional dependency, and…

The Hanged Swan

Kawabata Tanako

A first-person diary-style erotic narrative recounts the binding and suspension of a woman, detailing rope placement, posture, physical sensation, and the shifting interaction between the participants. The piece presents suspension as an intense scene…

Snapshots of Tight Binding with Rough Rope

A photographic feature demonstrates tight binding with coarse hemp rope, showing multiple configurations involving the torso, breasts, arms, legs, and wrists. The accompanying text discusses rope selection, pressure, bodily sensation, and the visual presentation…

Memories of Shanghai

Himeumi Shirō

Himeumi Shirō recalls his experiences in Shanghai, describing the city’s wartime and postwar transformation through its parks, cinemas, streets, theaters, and entertainment districts. The memoir pays particular attention to prostitution, public erotic performances, sexualized…

The Slave’s Rest

Nakayasu Kōdō

A first-person erotic narrative about a woman treated as a slave and subjected to elaborate bondage, humiliation, corporal punishment, and coercive sexual control. The story emphasizes her enforced submission and the sadistic fantasies of…

The Bound Wife

Fujiyasu Setsuko

A serialized erotic narrative recounting Sachiko’s transformation from a married woman into a bound and controlled wife. Through captivity, rope restraint, forced nudity, domestic discipline, and escalating abuse, the story develops a slave-wife fantasy…

A Bitter Hand

Hayakawa Shinjirō

A first-person erotic narrative recounts a woman’s short, destructive marriage to Onoda, a double-amputee war veteran whose physical dependence becomes the basis for her control and sexual revenge. Their domestic life is marked by…

An Episode from the Vacuum Zone

Sasaki Tadashi

A fictional wartime military anecdote set in the barracks world of the Japanese army, depicting soldiers’ sexual frustrations, intimate entanglements, and the disruptive presence of domestic relationships and desire during the final years of…

Diary of a Puritan

Kurishima Hiroshi

A first-person diary records a young man’s voyeuristic fascination with male beauty, including his intense response to a nude male photograph and his conflicted reflections on sexuality, desire, and a repressive upbringing.

The Criminal History of the Tyrant Ivan

Takatori Nagaharu

A sensational historical account of Ivan the Terrible, portraying his reign through stories of political violence, torture, executions, massacres, and arbitrary cruelty toward nobles, servants, and ordinary people. The article emphasizes the tyrant’s sadistic…

Fire, Part Five

Matsui Kōko

The fifth installment of Matsui Kōko’s serialized erotic novel follows a married couple whose encounters with artists and other outsiders awaken forbidden desires, jealousy, and shifting sexual roles. The narrative develops through adulterous intrigue,…

Publication Notices and Advertisements

A cluster of editorial and publication notices for Kitan Club and KK Tsūshin explains submission guidelines, editorial policies, back-issue availability, subscription and direct-purchase arrangements, and the recruitment of special members and readers. It also…

O-Sayo Night Storm

Takatsuki Daizō; illustrations by Kita Reiko

An illustrated historical erotic narrative in which O-Sayo is captured and subjected to escalating restraint, gagging, humiliation, and coercive sexual domination. The sequential scenes emphasize her helplessness as her captor binds and controls her…

The Blood-Soaked Fairy

Kakuda Sumio

An erotic-grotesque tale follows several women whose intimate encounters escalate into ritualized domination involving restraint, burning, wounds, and blood. The narrative also plays with same-sex desire and ambiguity surrounding the characters’ sex and bodies.

The Joy of Youth

planning and text by Miki Saburō; photography by Hamakawa Kichizō

A photographic feature celebrating youthful pleasure and bodily freedom through staged images of a young woman outdoors, including scenes beside and in the water. The accompanying text evokes spring, nature, sensuality, and the hopes…

The Sufferings of Christine

translated by Azuma Minoru

An unfinished translated serialized narrative in which Christine recounts her troubled upbringing, her father’s financial collapse, and pressure to marry the wealthy Paul. Her resistance leads to threats, abduction, physical restraint, and escalating coercive…

Employment Guidance as I Saw It

An illustrated, satirical look at employment guidance and job-seeking, presenting a series of comic scenes involving applicants, workplaces, and sexualized social interactions. The feature uses eroticized cartoon imagery to comment humorously on employment and…

From Constitution and Physique

An illustrated discussion considers whether a person’s physical constitution or body type can reveal erotic or sexual proclivities. A series of humorous vignettes presents social, intimate, and observational situations to explore the limits of…

Such Things Happen

A short illustrated comic feature presents a series of humorous sexual and romantic misunderstandings, using domestic and voyeuristic situations for comic effect. The captions and scenes emphasize the absurdity of everyday erotic encounters.

A Striptease Show for a Little Money

An illustrated erotic comedy about a low-cost striptease performance, depicting the performer, spectators, and the awkwardly humorous reactions surrounding the show.

Comic Street Scenes

Kawachi Kōji

A sequence of humorous erotic cartoons portraying everyday street and domestic situations, including marriage, henpecked husbands, female authority, flirtation, and sexual embarrassment.

The Ugly Woman’s Debauchery

Sado Izumi

This illustrated fiction traces an ostracized woman’s pursuit of pleasure through the domination and brutalization of men, including binding, biting, burning, and bloodletting. Her cruelty is presented alongside bodily stigma, jealousy, and struggles for…

Steps of the Rainbow

Izumi Tatsunosuke

A serialized erotic narrative follows a narrator and companions through encounters in Ginza that develop into voyeuristic and coercive scenes involving a woman being stripped, tied, restrained, and displayed. The story emphasizes eroticized observation,…