Kitan Gag Topics

Furyu Taro

An illustrated collection of comic gag topics built around brief exchanges between men and women, spouses, lovers, and acquaintances. The jokes focus on courtship, marriage, infidelity, sexual anxieties, and domestic misunderstandings.

The Ghost of the Water Gate

Sumimura Mitsuo

An erotic supernatural tale set in an isolated fishing community, where a young man encounters a beautiful female ghost associated with the village water gate. Their attraction develops through nocturnal meetings, village gossip, and…

Twilight Longing

Aiyama Hisashi

A melancholy erotic romance presented through intimate confession and correspondence. A woman describes her marriage to a physically incapacitated husband, her frustrated longing and emotional attachment to another man, and the conflict between social…

Widow Comic: Devouring the Widow

Fumikawa Eiji

An erotic comic tale centered on a widow who becomes the target of voracious sexual pursuit. The episode uses humorous dialogue and exaggerated situations to explore widowhood, seduction, and sexual appetite.

Erotic Spring-Rain Papers

Hara Kotaro

A long-form Edo-period erotic romance following Shinhachiro through clandestine encounters, seductions, jealous entanglements, and confrontations involving women of different social positions. The serialized fiction is accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrations and emphasizes secrecy, desire,…

The Man Who Makes Women Straddle Him

Dohyo Shikohira

An erotic narrative centered on a female-sumo performance and the intense encounter between the wrestler Miyako and male observers or participants. The story combines staged wrestling, physical dominance, voyeuristic excitement, and shifting sexual power…

Love's Caress Machine

Matsui Yoriko

An episodic erotic romance following Miyako and Haruhiko through flirtation, emotional conflict, physical intimacy, and the consequences of their growing attachment. The narrative emphasizes seduction, bodily sensation, jealousy, vulnerability, and unequal expectations within courtship.

Dancing Bucket

Yumehiko

A fictional erotic drama follows Miyako as she secretly overhears an intimate confession involving her brother, gender transformation or feminization, and forbidden same-sex desire. The narrative emphasizes secrecy, emotional jealousy, and conflicted sexual identity.

Reader Mail, Submission Notice, and Publication Information

A community and publication-information page combines reader messages with notices inviting fiction, essays, illustrations, photographs, and other contributions. It also provides submission procedures, editorial contact information, subscription and purchase details, and announcements for the…

The Naked Witch: Color Frontispiece

A color frontispiece for “The Naked Witch” depicts a nude woman in an intimate interior, accompanied by erotic prose invoking mirrored rooms, duplicated bodies, and a fantastical “naked witch.”

Erotic Color Illustration

A full-page color illustration shows an intimate encounter between a reclining traditionally dressed woman and a man in Japanese clothing, with a sheathed sword visible beside him.

The Peach-Colored Inspector Arrives: Color Frontispiece

A color erotic frontispiece depicts two women in a traditional Japanese interior, posed intimately beside a low table laden with food. The vertical caption presents the scene as the arrival of a “peach-colored inspector.”

Revenge Drama: Color Frontispiece

A color dramatic illustration shows two partially undressed women in a room divided by a sliding screen, with one woman watching or confronting the other. The surrounding Japanese text frames the scene as an…

Nudes Dance

A photographic feature presenting nude female performers in a sequence of posed and dance-like studio images. Japanese captions emphasize movement, bodily form, and the visual appeal of the performers, with several portraits and group…

Jōdan Yokochō Circular Board

Fūryū Tarō

A humorous miscellany presented as a circular-board column, combining satirical topical notes, comic reports, school and workplace anecdotes, domestic jokes, and reader-style question-and-answer exchanges. Its humor frequently turns on everyday social tensions, gender relations,…

Nude Photograph Collecting Mania

A sensational illustrated feature about a man absorbed in collecting nude photographs and discussing the women, settings, and circumstances represented in his collection. The narrative explores erotic image-making, voyeuristic desire, photographic fantasy, and the…

I Am Surrounded by a Group of Women

Noto Ichizō

An erotic comic fiction follows a young physician and the women connected with a psychiatric and venereal-disease hospital, mixing medical examinations, ward life, flirtation, jealousy, and sexual intrigue. The episodic narrative satirizes doctors, nurses,…

Kitan Fake News

Nakamura Yonezō

A humorous “fake news” feature presents a series of invented reports and comic anecdotes involving public figures, officials, social scandals, and absurd incidents. Its mock-news format uses gossip, parody, and exaggeration for satirical entertainment.

The Peach-Colored Inspector Arrives

Negoro Yoshitarō

An Edo-period historical fiction follows the arrival of a secret bakufu inspector in the Yamato Koriyama domain, throwing the lord’s officials into fear and suspicion. They attempt to discover the inspector’s identity and undermine…

Until the Loincloth Is Disordered

Kamo Michihiko

A fictionalized dialogue and romantic episode considers whether engaged couples should permit sexual intimacy before marriage. The narrative explores desire, restraint, emotional uncertainty, and competing expectations surrounding premarital physical relations.

Hundred Strange Tales: Sighs of the City

Akashi Sanpei

A sequence of sensational urban erotic vignettes portraying clandestine affairs, prostitution, sexual bargaining, and comic or tragic encounters among city dwellers. The episodes emphasize the anonymity, commercial pressures, and emotional disquiet of modern metropolitan…

Siberian Sexual Landscape: Okyanska's Love

Anabuki Takeshi

An erotic narrative set against a Siberian frontier of military work camps and remote settlements, where labor, money, and institutional power shape access to women and sexual relationships. The story follows Okyanska and several…

Tokyo Nocturne

A first-person nocturnal vignette about wandering through postwar Tokyo, combining nightlife, encounters with women, sexual fantasy, and reflections prompted by popular films and urban entertainment. The piece presents the city as a setting of…

My Regret over My Mustache

Takamura Chōji

An illustrated serialized fiction follows office worker Miyazaki Shōzō and Haruko through an emotionally volatile relationship shaped by attraction, jealousy, social expectations, and questions of marriage. Their exchanges and confrontations explore gendered reputation, class-conscious…

Marriage Report

Nakamura Yonezō

A humorous illustrated marriage report presented through comic dialogue and mock interviews. It jokes about courtship, newlywed expectations, domestic roles, appearance, drinking, and sexual relationships.

Breast Guarded by Blood

Hokkai Chizuko

An erotic melodrama follows a young model whose relationship with her teacher and other men becomes entangled in desire, jealousy, possessiveness, and physical coercion. The story treats the female body—especially the breast—as a focus…

Revenge Drama

Kataya Kaoru

A melodramatic revenge story centered on marital betrayal, jealousy, and concealed sexual relationships. As suspicion and resentment intensify, the characters manipulate one another through confrontations, letters, and calculated acts of retaliation.

Three Masters of Lovemaking

An episodic erotic feature portraying three experienced seducers and their encounters with women in cafés, hotels, baths, and other social settings. Through dialogue and illustrative scenes, it emphasizes flirtation, sexual confidence, romantic maneuvering, and…

Gion Geisha Mizuage Notebook: Twilight on Hanamikoji

A detailed account of Kyoto’s Gion geisha district follows maiko and geisha life around Hanamikoji, including dance training, dress, etiquette, teahouse work, patrons, earnings, and the transition from apprenticeship to professional performance. It presents…

A Woman Awakens to Beauty

An illustrated essay responding to readers about “female beauty” examines the relationship between natural and artificial beauty, static bodily form and beauty in movement, and the aesthetic presentation of the nude body. Its discussion…

Nighttime City: Titillating Strange Tales

A sensational urban tale follows Sanpei and Namie through Tokyo’s nightlife, illicit encounters, jealousy, deception, and escalating sexual intrigue. The story moves among bars, back streets, rented rooms, and the city’s shadowy entertainment world.

Flower-Scented Back Street

A melodramatic story set in a working-class urban neighborhood centers on Kaneda, Fumihiko, Shimizu, and their associates amid romance, poverty, labor organizing, and tensions between workers and company authority. Illustrated scenes emphasize intimate encounters…

The Shoplifting Heiress Murder Case

Setogawa Hiroshi

A true-crime narrative follows Misako, a young woman from a respectable family, whose petty shoplifting and efforts to conceal it lead to blackmail, sexual exploitation, and a murder case. The account reconstructs the people,…

Akihiko's Peach-Colored Theater Visit: There Are Such She-Leopards in the City

Tsubaki Akihiko

A sensational first-person reportage visits postwar urban venues of sexual entertainment, describing performers, customers, backstage arrangements, erotic games, and encounters in hotels and nightlife districts. The illustrated feature combines voyeuristic travel writing with depictions…

Sweet Dream, Peach-Colored Dream

Hisatomi Kōji

An erotic psychological melodrama centered on Shizuko, Sonoko, and their male companions. Romantic longing, secrecy, jealousy, financial vulnerability, and shifting sexual relationships lead to increasingly tense confrontations and emotional disillusionment.

The Lustful Man of the Naniwa Boat

Kasagi Yoshio

A first-person maritime erotic-horror narrative involving a sailor, a ship’s captain, and the captain’s daughter Yoshiko. Desire, coercion, violence, murder, death, and uncanny imagery unfold aboard and around a vessel, culminating in disturbing reflections…

The Couple Who Were Spied Upon

Tamaki Mitsuo

A comic erotic domestic tale about a married couple whose intimate life is disrupted when their landlady and others spy on them. Their attempts to find privacy lead to further misunderstandings and embarrassing exposure.

The Lover Toying with the Flower Barrel

Kaneko Shinobu

An erotic supernatural tale in which two men encounter a beautiful, mysterious woman—or women—near a river and become ensnared by a flower spirit’s seductive power. Vines, apparitions, dreams, and bodily peril blur the boundary…

The Naked Witch

Matsui Yoriko

An erotic supernatural tale in which Ryoji becomes captivated by the image of Takie appearing in a mirror. Their growing obsession blurs the boundary between reflection, fantasy, and physical encounter, leading to jealousy, forbidden…

Entertainment Grab Bag and Closing Miscellany

A closing miscellany of reader entertainments, including shogi problems, answer sections, riddles, quizzes, and word or picture puzzles. The page functions as a participatory recreational feature inviting readers to solve problems and compare responses.

The Reality of the Film and Stage Actor-Training Institute

An investigative feature examines film and stage actor-training schools in Osaka, focusing on their recruitment advertisements, entrance fees, instruction, employment promises, and relationships with production companies. Through reported cases and undercover-style accounts, it portrays…

The Mummy of the Bedchamber

Tanba Tarō

A satirical erotic tale about Ōtsuki’s troubled marital and sexual relationships, involving wives, mistresses, deception, and comic domestic schemes that ultimately lead toward a contrived happy ending. The story uses bedroom intrigue and sexual…

Candidates for the Salaryman Class

Noto Ichizō

A comic social satire follows Kaneda, an aspiring company man who learns to exploit corporate entertainment, expense accounts, female acquaintances, and office connections in pursuit of advancement. His adventures depict the emerging salaryman culture…

Around Nagatachō

Minato Saburō

A serialized political novel set around Nagatachō follows Diet members, ministers, and female secretaries through factional maneuvering, money politics, ambition, and sexual intrigue. Its successive episodes satirize the hidden relationships and corrupt dealings behind…

Bodies Embraced in a Love Suicide

Kawabata Mimio

This crime-romance fiction opens with the discovery of the bodies of a young woman and a student-like man in a quiet suburban woodland, apparently dead together in a love suicide. Police questioning and narrative…

Obscene Hanging-Chart Illustrations

Haruki Sanji

An illustrated erotic narrative follows Yoshiko and the men around her through seduction, domestic intrigue, sexual encounters, and shifting power within a household. The accompanying hanging-chart-style drawings visualize the story’s erotic scenes and period…

Memories of My Years as a Prostitute

Yoshioka Gin子

A first-person memoir recounts the author’s years as a prostitute, describing clients, working routines, sexual negotiations, and the emotional and bodily experience of commercial sex. The piece also reflects on changing desire, livelihood, and…

The Gambler

Miho Shizuko

An erotic fiction sequence centered on gambling, wagers, and the shifting relationships between men and women. The narrative portrays sexual awakening, seduction, jealousy, betrayal, and manipulation in nightlife and other intimate urban settings.

The Woman Who Haunts the Public Telephone

Tsubaki Akihiko

An erotic urban narrative involving a woman whose encounters are arranged or complicated through public telephones and secret communications. The story explores anonymity, sexual intrigue, deception, and shifting power between women and men.

Torture

Kataya Kaoru

A dramatized account of abuse by Japan’s Special Higher Police, depicting interrogation, physical torture, intimidation, and sexual violence against detainees. The narrative emphasizes coerced confessions, institutional cruelty, and the lasting psychological effects of police…

Continuation of the Octopus Story

Continuation of a serialized erotic story in which jealousy, suspicion, and troubled relationships lead to scenes of coercive sexual domination and bondage. Dialogue and embedded anecdotes frame the characters’ fascination with restraint, violence, and…

Shiri-Shiri

Masuda Shirō

An erotic comic-fiction narrative centered on Yuki and other characters whose encounters involve sexual teasing, voyeurism, exposure, and repeated fascination with the buttocks. The prose combines dialogue, escalating embarrassment, fetishistic humor, and illustrated slapstick…

Secret History of the Indian Court: Women of the Palace

Nakazawa Kōhei

An illustrated, sensationalized account of women associated with an Indian royal court, framed as a “secret history” and blending pseudo-historical exposition with stories of palace women, rulers, servants, marriage, childbirth, and sexual relations. The…

The Erotic Night Sash

Midorikawa Takehiko

An Edo-period erotic melodrama follows the intertwined desires of Gonza, Oyuki, and others amid clandestine meetings, seduction, jealousy, and shifting sexual alliances. The story develops into a tale of marital betrayal and revenge, culminating…

A Fine and an Attached Letter

Hokkai Hirozume

A comic-erotic story centers on Kasai, an electrical-company inspector who discovers unauthorized use of electrical equipment in Chiyo’s household and threatens a fine. His investigation turns into flirtation and sexual bargaining, with the fine,…

The Woman Who Showed Her Body

Matsutani Shigeru

A sensationalized erotic case narrative recounts a woman’s encounters with men during travel and at a hot-spring inn, including deliberate body display, voyeuristic attention, and sexual experimentation. The account develops into an emotionally troubled…

The Woman Boatman of Yobuko Harbor

Iguchi Masanori

An eroticized harbor narrative centers on a young woman who works as a boatwoman at Yobuko Harbor, describing her maritime labor, interactions with visiting sailors and passengers, and the sexual relationships that develop around…

Oroku of the Mountain People

Kasagi Yoshio

A sensational fictional narrative about Oroku, a woman from a remote mountain community, whose relationships with men become entangled in betrayal, jealousy, pursuit, and violent confrontation. The story combines erotic melodrama with depictions of…

Fire Play at the Apartment for Working Women

Kojima Shinji

A fictional drama set in an apartment housing kept women, where financial dependence, loneliness, and the women’s relationships with visiting men produce rivalry and emotional upheaval. Secret affairs and attempts to escape restrictive circumstances…

The Lustful General and the Serpent Actress

Takahashi Yoshinobu

An erotic historical adventure in which a powerful general becomes entangled with a seductive actress whose beauty and provocative behavior disrupt military discipline and household order. The story combines sexual intrigue, manipulation, jealousy, and…

Terror in Hokkaidō

Aizan Hisashi

A political adventure serial imagining a violent foreign invasion of Hokkaidō, accompanied by maps, military speculation, espionage, and resistance planning. Fishermen, villagers, soldiers, and Communist organizers become involved in a tense struggle over coastal…

Entertainment Columns, Reader Features, Puzzles, and Editorial Notices

Editorial Department

A miscellaneous editorial section combining a candid advice column on sexual and marital concerns with entertainment features, humorous manga, shogi puzzles and problems, short-fiction and manuscript solicitations, reader correspondence, and publication notices. It also…

Walking the Streets of Food

A journalistic tour of Osaka’s Shinsekai and Janjan Yokocho, documenting its food stalls, inexpensive eateries, pachinko parlors, cafés, bathhouses, and surrounding street life. The feature combines social observation with illustrated scenes of working-class leisure,…

Ehehehe Adult

Machi Keisuke

A comic serialized fiction follows a mysterious, physically imposing man whose strange behavior and encounters with women, employers, and military figures produce farcical complications. The narrative expands into an eccentric wartime and secret-mission adventure…

The Female Stowaway Unit Lands

Tsugumo Toshirō

A reportage-style account describes a group of Korean women and children secretly crossing by boat to Tsushima, portraying their poverty, fear, concealment, and efforts to survive amid postwar border surveillance. It also follows the…

First Night at a Hot-Spring Inn

Minato Harumichi

An erotic narrative set during a newlywed couple’s first night at a hot-spring inn. Through conversations, observation, and sexual encounters, it explores honeymoon expectations, marital intimacy, and the atmosphere of commercial hot-spring travel.

Oden’s Hell of Earthly Desires

Numamura Hiroshi

An erotic melodrama centered on Oden and Sakichi in a hot-spring village, where desire, seduction, deception, and social vulnerability lead to jealousy and violent conflict. The story combines explicit bathhouse and lodging scenes with…

Young Lovers Who Died for Love

Harada Haruo

An essay examines cases of lovers who died together or attempted suicide, discussing romantic attachment, despair, social circumstances, and the varied forms of “love death.” It also considers how such incidents were reported and…

Warship March

A long illustrated satirical serial built around colloquial conversations among shopkeepers, workers, couples, and other urban characters. Through comic scenes of shopping, entertainment, romance, domestic life, popular amusements, and references to military equipment and…

Pure Love Journey

Minato Saburō

An erotic serialized narrative following a company employee on business travels between Japanese cities, where workplace relationships, money, and personal ambitions intersect with romantic and sexual encounters. The story combines travelogue-like episodes with illustrated…

The Remarkable Thing

Wakamizu Yutaka

An erotic essay and anecdotal tale centered on the term “remarkable thing” (逸物), discussing its suggestive etymology and its association with exceptional male sexual endowment. A historical or legendary episode involving a sexually charged…

Once Upon a Time: Erotic Gleanings from the Battlefront

Shimode Shōichi

A humorous collection of erotic anecdotes attributed to wartime military life, describing soldiers’ encounters, barracks culture, and sexual adventures around the battlefront. The piece uses comic reminiscence and anecdotal storytelling to portray masculine camaraderie…

The Fairy of Heike Valley

Numanuki Kenjirō

An erotic grotesque fiction set around the remote Heike Valley, following encounters among men and women whose desires, deceptions, and bodily transformations unfold in rural and hot-spring environments. The narrative combines supernatural or fairy-like…

Chastity at Midnight

Matsutani Shigeru

A serialized erotic fiction centered on Masako and Kotaro, whose marriage is unsettled by jealousy, emotional conflict, and suspected or actual infidelity. The narrative develops through tense domestic confrontations and scenes of sexual domination…

Mrs. Sumire’s Illustrated Body

Natsusu Haruchiyo

An illustrated erotic narrative portraying Mrs. Sumire as a married woman whose beauty and sexuality attract male attention and lead to seduction, adultery, and confrontations involving her husband and other men. The feature also…

Perfectly Obvious

Yoshiikawa Yō

A surreal erotic fiction in which a drifting man encounters strange women, rooms, paintings, and episodes that blur waking experience with dream and fantasy. The narrative emphasizes voyeuristic observation, pursuit, shifting identities, and unsettling…

The Morals of Today’s University Students

Hanaki Kanji

A collection of anecdotal discussions and purported case histories concerning the sexual conduct of contemporary university students. The episodes portray student encounters with older married women, domestic servants, young women, and other partners, framed…