What Is B?

Sakata Nobuharu

An open letter by a self-described masochist seeks the elusive “B,” presenting detailed physical and psychological portraits of the correspondents and their desired sadomasochistic relationship. The piece blends personal disclosure, erotic fantasy, and a…

The Hero of Inversion: Oda Nobunaga

Kasagi Toshirō

This extended historical essay portrays Oda Nobunaga as an “inverted hero,” examining his political and military career through claims about cruelty, sadism, religious hostility, strategic deception, and exceptional psychological temperament. Historical anecdotes and illustrations…

Modern Masochism Art Review

An essay-review considers modern masochism as an artistic and cultural form, examining how masochistic desire and imagery are represented and interpreted.

Aware

Aware Seiichirō

This serialized fiction follows Aware Seiichirō and his wife Myōko through a volatile marriage in which drinking, jealousy, domestic conflict, and escalating bondage reshape their relationship and power dynamics.

The Bare Face of the Bound Model

Tsuji Takashi

A reportage and photographic feature profiles bound models including Murata Namiko and Sakaguchi Rieko, describing staged rope-restraint sessions, outdoor and water-related settings, photographic direction, and the models’ responses to the work.

The Plaza of Solitude

Furukawa Yūko

An editorial open letter presents the magazine as a refuge and meeting place for readers drawn to unconventional literature, arguing for experimental, erotic, detective, and otherwise “heretical” writing while inviting readers to contribute.

Stepmother Abuse, Continued

Ōmura Mitsuko

This illustrated discussion examines bondage drawings and the expressive possibilities of rope, cords, and varied restraint positions, linking technical ingenuity with erotic atmosphere and visual composition.

Open Letter to the Editor

Karii Rei

A reader-correspondence section gathers letters about erotic illustrations, bondage imagery, sexual preferences, and readers’ responses to the magazine, emphasizing ongoing participation and exchange within its readership.

Toward Abnormal Literature

Nagami Jirō

An essay considers the role of “abnormal” literature in representing socially forbidden desire, psychological conflict, bodily cruelty, and the tensions between idealism and erotic longing.

On Tight Binding

Takada Yō

A discussion of tight binding examines rope restraint as an erotic practice, including binding positions, bodily presentation, technical arrangement, and the visual appeal of bound bodies in photographs.

Reader Communications

A multi-page reader-correspondence section gathers letters on masochism, fetishism, sodomy, enema practices, erotic photography, bondage, and readers’ reactions and submissions to the magazine. It documents the participatory exchange linking personal experiences, requests, criticism, and…

Masochist Communications

A masochist correspondence section discusses abdominal-cutting and seppuku fantasies, pain, blood, restraint, and related erotic imaginings, alongside notices for bondage-themed films and agency materials.

Fetish Communications

Readers exchange accounts and fantasies concerning fetish interests, including abdominal cutting, women’s feet and white socks, bodily appearance, erotic imagery, and related sexual preferences, with editorial replies and publication notes.

Topic Solicitation and Publication Information

The editors solicit manuscripts, illustrations, photographs, letters, and ideas on fetish and SM subjects while announcing publication and subscription information for the magazine.

Beautiful Door

An erotic illustration depicts a woman posed in a doorway with her raised arms and body apparently secured by straps or restraints.

Two-Horse Carriage

An erotic illustration presents a commanding woman holding reins attached to two kneeling, collared men, emphasizing a spectacle of female control and male submission.

Woman in the Water

Miyako Mineko

Two sensual illustrations portray topless women reclining and partially submerged in water amid floral motifs, patterned fabrics, and dreamlike aquatic surroundings.

Black News: Bondage

A photographic bondage feature presents women in black clothing restrained with bands and coverings, emphasizing tightly bound seated and reclining poses.

What Kind of Pose Will You Take?

A pose-focused photographic feature shows masked and restrained women adopting varied kneeling, crouching, and seated positions, with captions identifying the models.

Sideways Glance and Prone Pose

A photographic sequence contrasts a sideways glance with a prone pose, including outdoor and studio scenes of women bound with rope and cloth.

Bathed in the Morning Sun

A photographic scene shows a woman bound with rope while reclining outdoors in the morning sunlight.

Kimono

A photographic portrait presents a woman in kimono seated in a restrained pose, emphasizing traditional dress and rope bondage.

The Actress Bound on a Journey

Fujiki Senji

This illustrated erotic narrative follows an actress traveling through rural Japan, performing and recounting staged bondage encounters involving rope restraint, theatrical performance, and relationships with spectators and companions.

Returning Spring Flower

Shirogane Kōji

A serialized historical erotic narrative set amid wartime mobilization, following soldiers and women through coercive encounters, captivity, and sexualized restraint.

Evil Habit, Part Two

Enomoto Toshiko

A marital SM narrative in which a domineering wife subjects her husband to escalating humiliation, physical punishment, and coercive domestic discipline, illustrated through staged scenes.

How I Torture Him

Takarazuka Fumio

An illustrated erotic account presenting a man’s methods of binding, controlling, and observing women, with detailed scenes of rope restraint, imposed poses, and voyeuristic display.

On Women's Underwear

Minakami Ryūtarō

An essay on women’s underwear examines the author’s fascination with garments such as corsets, girdles, stockings, and brassieres, combining personal fetish experience with observations on changing fashion, social attitudes, and erotic spectatorship.

Fallen Love

Sawai Kazuo

A serialized erotic narrative follows Yukari through coercive encounters involving domination, humiliation, punishment, bondage, and escalating sexual control by male characters, including scenes centered on an enema device.

Nipple Types and Classification

Tsuchiya Naniwa

An illustrated pseudo-scientific feature classifies nipple shapes and types, drawing on purported research and newspaper coverage while presenting the female breast as an object of anatomical and erotic observation.

The Two-Section Enema

Hanamura Emiko

A clinical-style erotic episode follows a patient’s difficult visit to a hospital, where doctors and nurses administer a two-stage enema and discuss the procedure, bodily sensations, and its aftermath.

Complete Submission

Sakata Shinji

A first-person literary narrative recalls a young woman’s encounter with an intimidating, physically powerful father figure, combining fascination and submission with violent horse-cart episodes, corporal discipline, and intimate domestic caregiving during illness.

A Sadist's Miscellaneous Thoughts

Muraoka Sukehiro

This reflective essay examines sadistic taste through the aesthetics of female bondage, considering restraint, bodily posture, clothing, exposure, and the difference between compelling visual tension and mere cruelty, alongside accompanying erotic illustrations.

Expecting the Next Bondage Again

Numa Shōzō

Numa Shōzō responds to a woman critic’s condemnation of his masochistic writing, defending and debating its implications through arguments about gender, sexuality, psychology, and social theory. The piece functions as an extended polemic and…

Before the History of Female Labor

Nanahara Yōichirō

Nanahara Yōichirō presents a historical, partly autobiographical account of female textile workers, describing factory discipline, sexual exploitation, confinement, beatings, and other abuses suffered by young women in the prewar labor environment. Testimony and illustrative…

The Female Belly-Cutting of Kurima Zubon

Kaji Sanshū

Kaji Sanshū combines sensational case histories of female factory workers subjected to binding, beating, and other punishments with an illustrated erotic narrative centered on a woman in riding breeches who cuts her abdomen. The…

Women's Chastity Devices

Tanaka Aiko

A widow describes adopting a men's loincloth as a protective undergarment against sexual harassment, recounting how she wears and secures it and presenting practical details of its construction and use.

Juvenile Prison Experience: Gray

Mikine Kōji

A first-person account of life in a juvenile prison describes regimented labor, exercise, surveillance, escape attempts, interrogation, and harsh physical discipline among incarcerated boys.

The Method of Male Self-Abuse

Okamura Fumio

A personal and instructional account of male self-abuse describes erotic responses to loincloths and bodily exposure, along with rope bindings, inverted positioning, and other self-restraint techniques.

Collected Tales of Genital Mishaps

Editorial Department

An editorial miscellany presents several sensational anecdotes involving genital injury, sexual mishaps, and related bodily embarrassment, framed as collected manuscript material.

Thirty Years of Pursuing Abnormality

Yamada Masami

Yamada Masami’s memoir reviews thirty years of pursuing “abnormality,” recalling fetishistic interests, especially women’s noses and faces, alongside observations on beauty, erotic psychology, marriage, illustrations, and the development of specialist erotic publishing.

Ten Months in Captivity

Haruta Ichirō

Haruta Ichirō recounts ten months of postwar imprisonment, describing prison hierarchy, labor assignments, discipline, meals, sanitation, inspections, fellow prisoners, and the routines and indignities of institutional confinement.

Foot Worship

Takahara Masao

A personal essay celebrates women’s feet and describes the author’s attempts to observe, photograph, and collect images of attractive feet in everyday and staged settings. The article is richly illustrated with foot photographs and…

A New Corset

Yanagi Fusako

An illustrated feature presents a new tightly laced corset, describing its construction, steel stays, restrictive fit, and effects on the wearer’s body and movement. It treats the garment both as clothing and as an…

From the Notebook of a Certain Masochist

Numa Shōzō

This serialized masochist’s notebook presents a fictional domestic power relationship in which a submissive man is subjected to commands, humiliation, bodily discipline, servitude, and increasingly animalizing treatment by dominant women. The episodic narrative uses…

My Theory of Debauchery

Kazuma Masao

An essay develops a personal theory of enema eroticism, discussing the psychological formation of atypical desire, the conditions that encourage or inhibit it, and differences in how men and women may experience and express…

A Masochist Seen in Film

Haruki Toshio

A film-oriented essay examines masochistic and gendered erotic scenarios in several Japanese and foreign films, interpreting scenes of humiliation, domination, female power, and male vulnerability through cinematic spectatorship.

Acrobat Correspondence

Kyūshū Kōjō

A correspondence column combines editorial replies and reader reports about acrobatic performance, training, bodily flexibility, and eroticized acrobatic imagery, emphasizing readers’ participation in the magazine community.

Profile of a Nude Model

Tsuji Takashi

A profile of nude model Kaga Rieko, combining biographical commentary with staged studio and outdoor photographs depicting rope-bound, blindfolded, and otherwise restrained poses; a second model, Sugawa Reiko, is also presented in kinbaku scenes.

Notes on Meiji-Period Newspapers, Part Three

Azuma Shin

A documentary-style survey of Meiji-period newspaper reports concerning foreign settlements, prostitution, trafficking, domestic abuse, wife-selling, sexual exploitation, sensational crimes, and the era’s criminal punishments, with commentary on their historical significance.

Cruel Women

Johannes R. Birlinger

A translated and illustrated excerpt from Johannes R. Birlinger’s 1901 work on the cruel treatment of women, presenting historical and ethnographic examples of wife and servant abuse, flogging, confinement, forced labor, and patriarchal domination.

The Appearance of the Seven-Transformation Monk

A serialized Edo-period erotic fantasy follows the violent exploits of the transforming monk Shichibake Kozō and associated characters, featuring pursuit, abduction, deception, sexual coercion, and elaborate rope restraints and punishments. Illustrated scenes emphasize bound,…

Reader Correspondence

A substantial reader-mail section presents letters responding to the magazine’s fiction, illustrations, photographs, bondage and erotic features, while also recording requests, criticisms, personal disclosures, and suggestions for future issues and reader participation.

Latest Book Guide

A catalog-style guide advertises newly available erotic photograph and illustration booklets, especially works featuring female nudity, abdominal cutting imagery, bondage, restraint, punishment, and fetishized bodies, with titles, creators, formats, and prices.

Night Reflections

An editorial marking the magazine’s resumption discusses its interrupted publication, rising printing and distribution costs, circulation difficulties, and plans to sustain regular issues through reader support and improved editorial content.

Publication and Subscription Information

A publishing-information section lists the contents of earlier Kitan Club issues, invites readers to submit fiction, essays, reports, photographs, illustrations, and ideas, and provides subscription, back-issue, pricing, and publisher-distribution details.

Bagworm

An erotic illustration depicts a woman tightly bound and hoisted into the air like a bagworm, presented as a spectacle for onlookers and as an imagined form of public display.

A Small Athletic Meet

An erotic illustration and accompanying text portray a woman struggling through a small athletic meet while restrained and urged to run, turning physical exertion into a scene of coercion and humiliation.

Drifting Woman

A pair of erotic illustrations presents women in stylized drifting or reclining poses, emphasizing vulnerable bodily positioning and visual spectacle.

Spoils of the Gambling House

An illustrated erotic narrative depicts women seized after a gambling-house episode, gagged and rope-bound before being carried into a storehouse as sacrificial victims.

A Scene from Gulliver's Travels

Kitahara Sumiko

A two-panel erotic adaptation of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels shows a nude giant woman restrained and surrounded by Lilliputian people, with the miniature society examining her body.

Female Missionary

Sugihara Kōji

An illustrated erotic fantasy depicts a female missionary or trainer captured and restrained in a fantastical Lilliput-like setting, combining narrative captions with staged bondage imagery.

The Captive of the Little Island

A captivity fantasy recounts a woman awakening naked and tied on the shore of the Little Island, where miniature officials and a royal procession inspect and display her body.

Farewell

Furukawa Hiroko

This extended fictional work follows Yūko through troubled romantic and sexual relationships, confessional exchanges, fantasies of isolation, and episodes of coercion, restraint, humiliation, and domination. The narrative repeatedly examines the psychological conflict between desire,…

Theory of the Abnormal Novel

Satō Masuo

Satō Masuo offers a literary-critical theory of the “abnormal novel,” classifying its treatments of sadism, masochism, fetishism, and erotic transformation while discussing the genre’s narrative techniques, psychological appeal, and social significance.

Ten Months in Captivity

Haruta Ichirō

A first-person captivity memoir recounts ten months spent in a prison environment, focusing on the medical department, inmates, guards, institutional routines, illness, food, and the narrator’s shifting relationships with staff and fellow prisoners.

How I Punish Him

Takarazuka Fumio

An illustrated practical feature presents a woman’s methods of punishing and disciplining a male partner through commands, bondage, restraint, corporal punishment, teasing, humiliation, and staged erotic role-play.

Lesbianism and Enemas

Kajimura Kyōsuke

A sexological advice article examines a woman’s same-sex desire and relationship with a female partner, particularly the erotic and relational significance of enemas, while considering how the situation affects her marriage and future choices.

Female Belly-Cutting in Training Clothes

Kameyama Hideo

A short erotic narrative depicts a woman in training clothes undergoing belly-cutting as a stylized act of violent punishment and sexualized submission.

Playing with Life

Futamata Shizuko

This serialized erotic story follows Sumie and Nobuo through a volatile relationship involving marital conflict, coercive sexual games, bondage, humiliation, and escalating danger, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

From the Notebook of a Certain Masochist

Numa Shōzō

A first-person notebook-style account describes a masochist’s fantasies, desires, sexual experiences, and reflections on fetishistic relationships, punishment, social stigma, and the search for sympathetic companionship.

The Woman Who Laughs Under Torture

Tsujiura Takashi

A first-person erotic narrative follows an artist’s increasingly sadistic experiments with a female model, who endures elaborate restraints and torture while laughing, accompanied by an erotic illustration of a woman bound to a guillotine-like…

Landing Before the Enemy

Mikine Kōji

A dark erotic narrative depicts a boy or young man subjected to authoritarian captivity, interrogation, forced exposure, physical punishment, and humiliating restraint in a prison- or institutional setting.

Okyū and the Loincloth

Nagaharu Osamu

This autobiographical fetish account traces the author’s long-standing erotic fascination with women’s loincloths and moxa treatment, recalling domestic and school-age encounters in which clothing, bodily inspection, and therapeutic pain become sexualized.

Confusion

Kawashita Jun'ichi

An extended first-person erotic essay describes the author’s fixation on tying women, recounting fantasies and experiences involving rope wrapping, waist binding, concealment, and the visual appeal of restrained female bodies.

Let Me Wear Your Underwear

Yoshino Mayumi

A personal erotic confession and reader-style exchange centers on the desire to obtain, wear, and imagine women’s underwear, discussing cross-dressing, intimate clothing, secrecy, and fetishistic fascination.

Praise of Bodily Beauty

Itō Susumu

This essay praises the erotic and aesthetic qualities of the traditional Japanese fundoshi, describing its fit, tying, bodily contours, and heightened sensual effect in everyday and bathing contexts.

Fireside Talk

Izuta Osamu

A conversational erotic anecdote set around a rural social gathering describes flirtation, drinking, sexual pursuit, and the manipulation of appearances and reputation, accompanied by a staged image of a woman in traditional dress.

Jealousy and Woman

Kaji Shin'ichi

This fictional account follows a hostess whose relationships with male customers become entangled with money, sexual access, jealousy, secrecy, and competing expectations of affection and marriage.