Cruel Women

Johannes R. Birlinger

A translated case-based essay examines allegedly cruel women through historical and contemporary examples of female violence, domestic abuse, punishment, sadism, and social responses to women who inflict suffering.

From Cruelty to Sadism

Okinoya Sumiko

A first-person sadomasochistic narrative traces a woman’s experiences of abuse, coercion, and punishment as she moves from the position of victim toward sadistic control, accompanied by illustrations of violent restraint and corporal domination.

Notes on Meiji-Period Newspapers, Part Four

Azuma Shin

This historical column surveys sensational Meiji-era newspaper reports involving domestic conflict, sexual scandal, violence, female resistance, and unusual crimes, presenting them as evidence of changing social and sexual attitudes.

The Dawn of the City of Sodom

Mori Tadashi

Framed as the confession of a male sodomist, this erotic narrative recounts a night at a Japanese hot-spring city involving the pursuit of male companionship, clandestine desire, and sexual encounters in public and private…

Complete Submission

Sakata Shinji

A first-person erotic narrative portrays a young man’s intense submission to his father’s harsh discipline, especially through scenes involving horse riding, clothing, and corporal punishment.

A Certain Sodomite's Confession

Asaji Noboru

An autobiographical confession traces the narrator’s developing attraction to men from childhood through military service, describing same-sex longing, fantasy, and emotionally charged encounters with male comrades.

Longing for Sadism

Kyōmachi Shin'ichirō

This short illustrated essay explores the narrator’s fascination with sadism, presenting sadistic desire as a psychologically compelling erotic impulse.

Corncob Stories

Editorial Department

An editorial miscellany on fetishism surveys unusual fixations involving body parts—especially ears and earwax—and also presents imaginative erotic anecdotes and reader-contributed fantasies.

The Actress's Bare Feet

Takahara Masao

This essay examines actresses’ bare feet in detail, discussing their shapes, toes, size, and the erotic fascination they can provoke in spectators and photographers.

Record of Yuriko

Watanabe Yō

Yuriko recounts her life and sexual exploitation in a first-person record, moving from her upbringing into nude photographic modeling, nude performance, and other forms of commercialized erotic display and service.

To a Certain Model

A love-letter-style piece addressed to model Nagase Akiko, reflecting on her published image, physical presence, posing, and the charged relationship between model and male observer.

The Screen of Film Magazines and Theater

Watashiba Den'ichirō

An illustrated survey of bondage scenes in films, magazines, and theater, discussing how restraint, danger, eroticism, and dramatic staging are represented across popular media.

Blowing Pool

Kondō Kikuya

A long experience-based narrative set around a hospital ward, portraying impoverished and institutionalized patients, harsh treatment, sexual tensions, and the patients’ collective efforts to demand humane reforms. It culminates in formal demands and an…

The Acrobat Troupe

Yamada Makoto

An observational essay on a Chinese acrobat troupe and circus performers, focusing on their extraordinary feats, bodily discipline, costumes, and the spectators’ fascinated response to their bodies in performance.

A Faint Masochism Seen in Film, Continued

Haruki Toshio

A continuation of the author’s survey of films that portray faint or muted forms of masochism, discussing female characters, eroticized vulnerability, humiliation, and the suggestive emotional power of cinematic scenes.

Ideas for the Third Album

Narumi Fumio

A proposal soliciting reader ideas for the magazine’s third album, listing possible photographed bondage compositions and inviting contributions to shape the next collection.

Thoughts on Women's Professional Wrestling

Kiyama Shinsaku

An essay on the rapid popularity of women’s professional wrestling examines its performers, match techniques, bodily presentation, audience appeal, and prospects for future development.

Secret Obscenity

Aoba Jun'ichi

An erotic fantasy narrated from a woman’s perspective depicts a frightening nighttime encounter involving pursuit, captivity, physical restraint, and conflicted sensations of fear and desire.

Blooming in the Soil of Shared Bedding

Amadoro Kansai

This reflective essay considers same-sex desire, arguing that homosexual inclinations can emerge naturally and criticizing social prejudice, ignorance, and restrictive moral judgments.

Reader Correspondence

A reader-mail section presents personal accounts, questions, requests, and editorial replies concerning erotic experiences, relationships, bondage, and sexual concerns.

Latest Kitan Club Books

A multi-page promotional catalog advertises recent Kitan Club and related erotic publications, including illustrated and photographic works focused on bondage, fetishism, bodies, and sexual scenarios.

Ancestral Female Belly-Cutting

Furukawa Shinsuke

An anecdotal historical account examines the practice of women cutting their own abdomens, presenting family lore and testimony about a woman who performed or threatened such an act with a small knife.

Editorial and Publication Information

The closing publication page combines a preview of the forthcoming issue with reader-exchange information and practical editorial or subscription notices.

Advertisements and Subscription Notices

A densely packed advertising and subscription section promotes Kitan Club and related publications, erotic books, photographic collections, model-photo contests, illustration and writing opportunities, and mail-order purchasing.

Painful Dream

Shima Takashi

An illustrated dream sequence portrays a woman bound with rope and suspended upside down, awakening in an atmosphere of painful suffocation and distress.

The Second Exposure Banquet

Miyazaki Shōhei

This illustrated erotic scene depicts a strange banquet in which a bound participant is displayed before an amused gathering, following an episode of coercive drinking and exposure.

Nylon Raincoat

A photographic feature presents a model bound while wearing a nylon raincoat, emphasizing the garment’s tactile and fetishistic appeal.

What Kind of Pose Shall I Take?

A photographic feature presents model Sagawa Michiko posed seated and bound with a rope, accompanied by a caption describing her first experience of being tied for the camera.

My Wrists Hurt, Untie Me Quickly

A photographic feature shows model Kaga Rieko in several tightly bound poses, with the accompanying text dramatizing discomfort as the rope tightens around her wrists and circulation is affected.

Night Thief

Shima Takashi

This illustrated historical erotic tale follows a warlord’s daughter who is captured by opportunistic thieves amid the chaos of the Warring States period and subjected to sexualized captivity.

Warring States

Shima Takashi

A richly illustrated historical erotic fiction presents Hime’s capture by armed men during Japan’s Warring States period, followed by repeated scenes of gagging, binding, pursuit, rescue, and renewed captivity.

Notes on Meiji-Period Newspapers

Azuma Shin

This historical newspaper survey assembles Meiji-era reports and advertisements concerning marriage, women’s schooling and compulsory nude physical examinations, domestic abuse, sensational murders, and the administration of corporal punishment in Korea.

Reader Communications

A reader-correspondence page presents letters and editorial replies about the magazine’s reception, readership, requested subjects, and submitted material, while inviting continued contributions and support.

Wandering in Swaddling Clothes

Hanno Tōma

A first-person fetish narrative recounts the writer’s fascination with diapers and diaper-like garments, describing encounters, fantasies, remembered incidents, and the influence of Japanese and imported erotic imagery.

Black Slave Training

Kuroiwa Iwao

An erotic fantasy recounts a white youth’s capture and enslavement of a Black girl on a South Seas island, including domestic labor, chaining, corporal discipline, and sexualized domination.

A Certain Seppuku Maniac's Essay

Kasahara Magonosuke

Framed as a passionate letter, this dark erotic fantasy describes a lover’s fixation on seppuku, blood, blades, bodily injury, and sadomasochistic surrender.

Women Bound in Enjoyable New Year Films

Minega Miya

This film-oriented feature surveys Japanese New Year movie scenes in which actresses are captured, tied, suspended, or otherwise restrained, discussing the staging and appeal of bondage imagery.

Ten Months in Captivity

Haruta Ichirō

A first-person memoir of ten months in prison, describing confinement, penal labor, meals, medical routines, relations among inmates and staff, and the humiliations and tensions of institutional life.

Introduction to the Yamaguchi Bodybuilding Method

Yamaguchi Kōichi

An instructional presentation of the Yamaguchi bodybuilding method, explaining exercises, equipment, body-strengthening routines, and practical training experiences intended to improve physical development.

The Beauty of the Kilt

Kashimura Takehiko

An essay on the erotic and aesthetic appeal of the kilt as a revealing garment, considering bodily exposure, tight clothing, spectatorship, and the psychological responses produced by dress and partial nudity.

The Taste of the Demon

Takagi Nobuo

Takagi Nobuo combines observations of animal excretion and mating behavior with autobiographical accounts of fetishistic encounters, exploring the erotic significance of feces, enemas, and other taboo bodily pleasures.

The Sadism of Dr. Erskine

Nonaka Aizō

Nonaka Aizō presents a literary-psychological study of Dostoevsky’s sadistic imagination, connecting episodes from the author’s life, family background, writings, and reception to recurring themes of cruelty, domination, and sexualized violence.

Thoughts on Female Horse Riding

Baba Takatsugu

Baba Takatsugu reflects on the erotic meanings of women riding horses, combining personal recollections, magazine and film references, riding attire, bodily movement, and fantasies of female physical power and display.

How I Punish Him

Takarazuka Fumio

An erotic narrative depicts a male subject being disciplined by dominant women through elaborate bondage, blindfolding, gagging, positional restraint, and sensory control, interwoven with dialogue and staged scenes.

On the Seppuku of Female Swordswomen

Aoyama Yoshiki

This essay examines the eroticized image and symbolism of female swordswomen performing seppuku, discussing traditional clothing, ritual staging, bodily detail, blood, and the appeal of the scene in historical and visual culture.

Letter to Kasuga Rune

Moriguchi Ayako

A reader letter to Kasuga Rumi expresses a male devotee’s desire to serve a female dominant, recounting submissive fantasies and requesting continued interaction and guidance.

Miserable

A first-person account of life in a juvenile correctional institution describes solitary confinement, forced nudity, beatings, humiliating punishments, and the arbitrary brutality of institutional discipline.

I Accuse: The Problem of Abu

Mizukami Ryūtarō

Mizukami Ryūtarō presents a provocative first-person “accusation” of Abu while reflecting on sadism, masochism, gendered desire, violence, and the psychological boundary between erotic fascination and cruelty.

Complete Submission

Sakata Shinji

Sakata Shinji recounts formative experiences of harsh paternal and educational discipline, including beatings, fear, shame, and eventual submission to overwhelming authority.

Nose Prelude

Kitaya Eiji

An essay on the erotic and imaginative significance of the nose, illustrated with botanical and fetish imagery, that also discusses piercing, hooks, restraints, and the construction and use of a leg-spreading bondage device.

Film Bondage Fragments

Midori Takehiko

A critical essay examines bondage and suspension scenes in Japanese and foreign films, recalling specific productions and evaluating the realism, staging, visual impact, and physical mechanics of their restraint sequences.

Reader Communications

A reader-correspondence page presents letters and editorial replies about the magazine’s reception, readership, requested subjects, and submitted material, while inviting continued contributions and support.

Mania Is Born

Sakanoe Nobuhiko

A first-person autobiographical narrative traces the author’s path from youthful aviation ambitions through wartime and postwar experiences, culminating in an encounter that awakens his fascination with fetishistic bodily practices, restraint, and enema imagery.

Research on the Navel

Suma Ritsuo

This pseudo-scientific and sexological essay surveys navel shapes, positions, bodily development, and aesthetic judgments, combining comparative observations, anecdotal evidence, and erotic interpretations of the navel as a fetishized body part.

Cruel Women

Johannes R. Birlinger

A translated chapter examines women’s desires for control and examples of female cruelty, domination, and violence in intimate, social, and historical settings.

Seppuku Desire

Sawato Kiyokatsu

An essay explores fantasies of seppuku and the psychological meanings of knives, bodily penetration, self-harm imagery, and imagined death, linking these motifs to erotic and masochistic desire.

Afterward, the Bound Actresses

Masuoka Kinkichi

A survey of actresses in stage and screen productions describes memorable scenes in which women are captured, tied, gagged, restrained, or otherwise subjected to bondage and punishment, with attention to their performances and visual…

Sad Love: Kuritaguchi

Jūji Kōsuke

This historical erotic tragedy follows lovers in the Edo period whose forbidden relationship leads to pursuit, betrayal, captivity, torture, execution, and a fatal reunion amid a deeply mournful romance.

That Pleasure

Komura Jirō

A first-person erotic narrative follows a man’s growing fascination with feminine performance and transformation, culminating in his being dressed, restrained, and subjected to punishment as he discovers masochistic ecstasy.

Authentic Scene Punishment

Mizui Shōjirō

A practical, diagram-supported account explains how to construct and use a sheet-based restraint apparatus for staged punishment, including the positioning and binding of the subject’s limbs.

Complete Enema Miscellany

Karii Rei

This essay surveys enema practices as erotic and medicalized activities, relating bodily sensation and female pleasure to historical imagery, changing sexual culture, and modern fetish interests.

Bondage Scenes in Western Painting

Samaki Seisaku

An essay examines bondage scenes in Western paintings and related films, comparing how tied, restrained, and imperiled bodies are staged through composition, props, lighting, and dramatic action. It treats these images as part of…

The Guest Wife

Kaji Shin'ichi

This erotic fiction follows Tanida’s increasingly controlling encounter with Tsubomi, a woman he meets while traveling, as flirtation develops into prolonged bondage, humiliation, and coerced sexual play in domestic and public settings. The narrative…

In Response to the Forty-Five-Centimeter Wasp Waist

Ebima Yōko

In a personal response about achieving a forty-five-centimeter “wasp waist,” the writer describes corset wearing, tightlacing routines, bodily discomfort, and the emotional appeal of reshaping the torso through sustained discipline. The account presents waist…

Hero of Inversion: Oda Nobunaga, Chapter Six

Kasagi Toshirō

A historical essay on Oda Nobunaga examines his authoritarian samurai ethos, reputation for cruelty, executions, military campaigns, and ambition to conquer China, presenting his violence and downfall through a psychologically and sexually charged portrait.

X's Butt

Kawase Kazumi

An illustrated erotic narrative centers on a woman’s exposed buttocks, voyeuristic observation, bodily humiliation, and the violent cutting of an X-shaped mark, blending sensational storytelling with fetish imagery.

Women's Belly Argument

Odai Fumi

A humorous illustrated essay debates women’s abdominal shape, fatness, pregnancy, clothing, and bodily exposure while discussing changing beauty standards and presenting stylized visual examples of female bodies.

Collar of Speech

Tsujimura Takashi

An essayistic miscellany considers “abnormal” sexuality in modern fiction, film, and theatrical culture through literary commentary, anecdotes, and observations about erotic behavior and artistic representation.

Corncob Story Collection

Editorial Department

The editorial department reviews and contextualizes unpublished reader manuscripts, then presents an erotic narrative about sisters subjected to coercion, captivity, humiliation, and sexualized control.

Red Flowers Are Crying, Part Two

Matsui Matoko

The second installment follows Misako through preparations for marriage and a highly charged domestic and wedding setting in which family power, sexual vulnerability, and coercive erotic tension increasingly shape her experience.

Confession of Lost Love

Jō Hideto

Reader Communications

A reader-correspondence page presents letters and editorial replies about the magazine’s reception, readership, requested subjects, and submitted material, while inviting continued contributions and support.

Latest Kitan Club Books and Special Publications

Reader Communications and Next-Issue Notice

Latest Books and Publication Catalog

Editorial and Publication Information

The Red Flowers Are Crying, Part Two

Rōko Matsui

The second part of Rōko Matsui’s serialized erotic novel follows Misako’s troubled relationship with Natsuo through jealousy, marriage, betrayal, coercive control, and increasingly violent bondage encounters. The narrative combines romantic melodrama with captivity, restraint,…

Ten Months Imprisoned

Ichirō Haruta

Ichirō Haruta presents an account of ten months in a postwar prison, describing confinement, prison routines, illness, institutional discipline, fellow inmates, and emotionally charged visits from a wife. The piece emphasizes the psychological strain…