The Fall of Takato Castle: A Secret Record of Cruelty

Kawano Kyōsuke

A serialized historical erotic narrative recounting the fall of Takato Castle during the Takeda–Oda conflicts. The story depicts the capture, restraint, humiliation, torture, sexual abuse, and killing of women amid wartime violence, accompanied by…

Modern Masochism Art Criticism: Infatuation

Oniyama Tadamasa, romanization uncertain

A serialized erotic narrative follows Miki as he plots and observes intimate encounters involving his wife and other characters, while suspicion, jealousy, deception, and psychological fixation intensify. The episode uses staged voyeuristic situations, domestic…

The Stars Are Wet

Hara Tadamasa

A melodramatic erotic narrative about an intense relationship among two women and a man named Akashi, shaped by jealousy, illness, sexual coercion, and emotional dependency. The story culminates in scenes of captivity, bondage, and…

Crime in My Youth

Kawamoto Yukio

A first-person retrospective confession about the author’s sexual curiosity and transgressive experiences during boyhood, centered on his attraction to a foreign schoolmate named Mary. The account combines adolescent sexual psychology with recollections of coercive…

The Intestines

Kishino Shigeru, credit reading uncertain

A narrative centered on high-pressure enemas and invasive intestinal treatment, describing the physical sensations, medical apparatus, and escalating procedure in a fetishistic context. The article combines bodily distress, clinical imagery, and anal experimentation.

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

Morimoto Aizō translates and explains excerpts from the 1901 German illustrated work Das Grausame Weib, presenting historical and literary scenes of women exercising cruel authority over men and enslaved people. The discussion is accompanied…

Highland Exhibitionism

Kawada Nobuyuki, credit reading uncertain

A first-person confession recounts an exhibitionist’s escalating compulsion to expose his body, beginning with furtive incidents around school toilets and developing into staged encounters with women in public and secluded settings. The narrative focuses…

The Juvenile Prisoner

Miji Otoko, romanization uncertain

A first-person juvenile-prison memoir describes a boy’s descent into crime, arrest, remand detention, interrogation, confinement, corporal punishment, and eventual court proceedings. Its sensational account emphasizes institutional captivity, prison discipline, fear, humiliation, and the psychological…

The Baptism of Marriage

Kawauchi Shigeo, credit reading uncertain

An erotic wartime narrative recounts a Japanese soldier’s capture by Zhu Huilan, an educated Chinese guerrilla commander, and his subjection to her violent authority, restraint, and sexualized humiliation. The captive’s fear gradually becomes entangled…

Confession of a Homosexual Man

Koseki Shunji, credit reading uncertain

A first-person life history traces a man’s same-sex desire from childhood and school experiences through later relationships, sexual encounters, secrecy, and emotional attachment. The account presents homosexuality as an enduring personal and psychological history…

Modern Masochism Art Criticism

Hara Tadamasa

Hara Tadamasa’s extended criticism examines masochistic themes in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde alongside films, fiction, and other cultural works. It interprets erotic suffering, gendered power, sexual psychology, and stylized representations of bondage, cruelty, and…

Publication Information and Advertisements

A composite section of publication information, reader correspondence, editorial notices, subscription and submission guidance, promotional material, and advertisements. It documents the magazine’s participatory reader community and the commercial and publishing networks supporting specialist erotic…

The Improper Aristocratic Lady

Nakagawa Ayako

An illustrated erotic scenario follows an aristocratic woman from a lavish ballroom into a secret basement, where her captor threatens and torments her. The accompanying dialogue emphasizes captivity, pain, and sadistic domination.

The Virgin of the Rocky Shore

A photographic feature presents a woman in a green sweater and skirt seated amid fishing gear, nets, and a boat on a rocky shore. The staged outdoor setting combines nautical labor imagery with a…

Bound at the Wild Sea

A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman tied and exposed on a rocky seashore, with crashing waves, cliffs, and open landscape intensifying the scene’s perilous and masochistic atmosphere. The accompanying prose presents the bound…

Circus Torment

Taki Reiko

An erotic illustration feature depicting women subjected to circus-like rope-binding positions, including inverted suspension, pole bindings, and other elaborate restraints. Captions identify the various bondage arrangements.

New Yoshiwara Public Exposure

Itō Seiu

An illustrated historical account of public exposure and punishment in the Yoshiwara pleasure district, describing the former inspection site and the punishment reportedly imposed there on an arrested flower seller. The accompanying scene portrays…

Auctioning the Beautiful Pony

A visual feature presents women as eroticized “ponies” being displayed and auctioned, including scenes of staged presentation, pony-style costume, and submission. The photographs emphasize spectacle, labeling, and the transformation of women into fetishized property.

Flagellation

A short visual feature titled “Flagellation” depicts women using whips and a restrained woman equipped for punishment. The images focus on eroticized whipping, bodily control, and bondage.

White and Black

A black-and-white erotic photographic feature stages intimate and physically charged encounters between a white woman and a Black man. Its text foregrounds dramatic contrasts of light and shadow, interracial desire, bodily difference, and an…

Foreign Bondage Photographs

A photographic feature presenting foreign bondage imagery includes a prone person bound with rope in a posed restraint scene, with an accompanying note drawing attention to the method of tying the knot.

Woman Sitting on a Man’s Waist

A staged photograph shows a woman seated on the waist of a prone, apparently restrained figure, emphasizing a physically dominant female pose.

Takate Kote

Sugihara Kōji

A photographic instructional feature presenting the takate kote, or upper-body arm-and-chest tie, through staged bondage poses. The images emphasize the rope arrangement, immobilized posture, and visual presentation of the bound model.

Burning Shanghai

A photographic erotic fantasy set against the imagery of wartime Shanghai, depicting a woman subjected to threatening interrogation and degrading treatment by a male captor. Captions emphasize coercion, humiliation, and the captor’s sadistic gaze.

Capture-Play Stage Photographs

A visual portfolio titled “Capture-Play Stage Photographs,” showing staged scenes of women being captured, restrained, and displayed in outdoor and theatrical settings. The photographs draw on period capture imagery and dramatic bondage tableaux.

Three Punishment Pictures

Suzuki Tetsuo

A three-part illustrated feature portraying punitive and sadistic encounters in a historical Japanese-style setting, including whipping, cutting threats, restraint, and domination. The accompanying dialogue foregrounds severe corporal punishment and female-controlled violence.

Hit-and-Run Killing: Two Flowers Scattered on the Railway

A sequential erotic illustrated narrative follows two young women through bicycle and railway-track accidents, scenes of danger, bodily vulnerability, and apparent rescue or aftermath. The feature presents railway violence as a sensational, staged spectacle…

Infernal Punishment Pictures

A series of erotic illustrations imagines women subjected to grotesque punishments in an infernal setting, surrounded by demons and skeletons. The scenes draw on hell imagery, physical restraint, and theatrical depictions of suffering.

Human Flesh Market

Kita Reiko

An illustrated erotic narrative presents women restrained and displayed before groups of male spectators in a dark, theatrical setting. The scenes include bondage to poles, forced poses or dancing, and an explicitly depicted enema…

Pine-Needle Torment

A single erotic illustration depicts a nude woman draped over a pine-tree branch amid dense needles, turning a natural setting into an image of torment, exposure, and bodily vulnerability.

Bound to the Bed

A photographic feature depicts a woman restrained in a prone position on a bed, with her limbs secured and her tearful expression evoking an imagined spanking scene. The accompanying text emphasizes the suggestive absence…

Is This All Right?

A close-up photograph shows a man’s wrist being firmly stepped on by a woman wearing a black high heel. The caption presents the image as expressing female superiority, male submission, and the contrasting satisfaction…

A Woman with a Whip and a Man as Her Horse

A photographic feature depicting a whip-wielding woman dominating a man presented as her human horse. The accompanying images emphasize forceful sadistic performance, submission, and the theatrical staging of corporal punishment.

Bizarre Hypnotist

An illustrated erotic fantasy centered on bizarre or cruel hypnosis, with figures placed in scenes of sexual control, restraint, and punishment. The artwork presents domination and bondage as theatrical, imaginative scenarios rather than documentary…

Modern American Sadism Photograph Collection

A photographic portfolio presenting staged scenes of modern American sadism, including women subjected to suspension, gagging, restraint devices, and other bondage positions. The feature emphasizes the visual display of sadistic practices and specialized apparatus.

French Lesbian Photograph Collection

A multi-page photographic collection depicting French women in lesbian erotic encounters, including intimate embraces, seduction, undressing, and physically dominant or submissive poses. Accompanying captions frame the images as scenes of same-sex desire and romanticized…

How to Apply a Gag

A photographic instructional feature demonstrating how to apply a gag, showing the restrained subject and the placement and securing of the gag.

Pillar Binding

A photographic demonstration of pillar binding (hashira shibari), showing a seated subject secured with rope in a compact, restrained posture.

Beauty Exercises

Taki Reiko

An illustrated erotic feature presents painful contortions and one-foot toe suspension as supposed “beauty exercises,” framing female endurance and display through bondage imagery.

Inspired by Pears and Peaches: Whip Torment

Taki Reiko

An illustrated scenario depicts a woman, still dressed, restrained over a basket filled with eels. The accompanying text invokes instinctive fear of snakes and eels as the basis for an imaginative torment scene.

Cruel Women: Illustrated Portfolio

Moriki Aizō

An illustrated portfolio presenting European and American images of cruel or dominant women, including scenes of whipping, punishment, sexual discipline, and female control. Captions identify works such as Das Grausame Weib and other imported…

Eight Mechanically Assisted Punishments

Kojō Hideo

An illustrated feature presenting eight punishment scenarios using mechanical or structural devices, including rotating boards, stretching equipment, suspension arrangements, and other bondage apparatus. The captions frame these as staged erotic punishment tableaux.

Dragging Around

A staged erotic photograph titled “Dragging Around” depicts a partially nude woman bound with ropes and pulled or led through an interior space, emphasizing forced movement and physical restraint.

Reflections on Rope: The Allure of Binding One’s Wife

Kuruki Sakae

Kuruki Sakae reflects on the emotional and erotic appeal of tying his wife, combining personal memories of marital bondage with observations on desire, jealousy, freedom, and sexual psychology. The essay discusses rope restraint as…

Ten'ichibō Goes to Hell

An illustrated historical erotic narrative in which Ten’ichibō and other characters are captured, restrained, interrogated, and subjected to elaborate punishments and humiliations. The story combines period adventure, captivity, rope bondage, and scenes of sexualized…

An Abused Boyhood

Mine Kōji

A first-person account of an abused boy’s experiences of arrest, confinement in a juvenile prison, forced undressing, physical punishment, humiliation, and sexualized mistreatment. The narrative emphasizes the fear, degradation, and lasting psychological effects of…

In'u Kumasu

Matsui Raiko

This installment of a serialized SM novel follows a series of coercive encounters involving students, artists, and acquaintances who manipulate, restrain, gag, blindfold, and punish one another in domestic and bathhouse settings. The narrative…

Erotic-Letter Correspondence

Eri Mizue

A personal erotic letter addressed to Yashima Sawako, in which Eri Mizue reflects on an intense fascination with women’s beauty, same-sex desire, and fantasies of female vulnerability, restraint, and erotic spectacle. The correspondence also…

A Record of Wailing

Furukawa Yūko

A long first-person confession in which Yūko Furukawa recounts a troubled marriage, sexual masochism, bondage and punishment fantasies, and the psychological conflicts surrounding desire, shame, guilt, and self-knowledge. Illustrated episodes and dramatic monologues frame…

The Sweet World of the Masochist

Kurata Tetsurō

Kurata Tetsurō offers a reflective analysis of masochistic desire through several forms of erotic play, including bondage, direct physical pain, disciplinary scenes, and worship of an idealized woman. The accompanying illustrations depict male submission,…

Bondage and Punishment Miscellany

A multi-page roundtable brings together filmmaker Yoshino Jirō, writer Itō Seiu, photographer Yamashita Kyujiro, and writer Matsui Yoriko to discuss bondage, punishment, rope tying, women’s roles, erotic imagery, and their experiences in film and…

Gags: Notes on Overseas Sadism, Part One

Azuma Shin

Azuma Shin’s first installment of “Notes on Overseas Sadism” compares Japanese and Western approaches to sadistic practices, focusing especially on gags and other restraint devices. It surveys historical and theatrical examples—including elaborate masks, punitive…

The Man I Sought, Part Four

Matsui Kanoko; illustrations by Taki Reiko

Part four of Matsui Kanoko’s autobiographical erotic narrative follows her shifting infatuations and encounters with several men, including a clothing-shop clerk and university students. The account culminates in a seaside episode involving swimsuits, mutual…

Mirror Demon Tale

Shimamura Haruo

A sadistic historical fantasy in which the mysterious Mirror Demon and the beautiful Komachi lure victims into an underground chamber and subject them to elaborate bindings, suspension, and torture. The illustrated narrative combines supernatural…

Loincloth Mania

Mizutani Yukio

An extended erotic essay on fascination with men’s loincloths, following personal encounters, underwear-washing scenes, and the narrator’s escalating interest in male bodies and loincloth display. The piece treats the loincloth as both a clothing…

Nostalgia for the Long Pipe

Nishi Sadao

Nishi Sadao nostalgically recalls the long tobacco pipe as an eroticized object, connecting childhood memories, domestic scenes, and illustrated or cinematic images with later adult fascination. The essay also reflects on shared smoking rituals…

Reflections on Female Seppuku

Taya Keisei

Taya Keisei surveys and reflects on representations of female seppuku, discussing historical examples, medical plausibility, sensational imagery, and the cultural fascination surrounding women’s self-disembowelment. The essay considers how erotic illustrations and related fantasies transform…

Spring Chronicle of Masochistic Fantasy

Nagatsuka Hiroji

A masochistic erotic fantasy set around young men and their social circle, depicting submission, humiliation, bondage, beatings, gagging, and enforced nudity. The narrative moves through imagined scenes of capture and discipline, emphasizing male submissive…

Confession of a Homosexual

Oda Masaharu

An autobiographical confession by a man describing same-sex attraction and intimate relationships with male comrades during military service, followed by marriage to a woman and the persistence of forbidden same-sex desire in his domestic…

Beautiful Young Sadist

Yamanaka Tetsuji

An erotic narrative follows Hiroshi, a beautiful young man whose encounters with a dominant woman develop through staged seduction, restraint, humiliation, and sadistic punishment. The illustrated serial emphasizes female control and the protagonist’s conflicted…

From the Notebook of a Masochist: The Queen of Water

Numa Shōzō

Two illustrated episodes from a masochist’s notebook present eroticized historical bathing fantasies centered on powerful women, servants, and subordination. The scenes draw on figures such as Anne Boleyn and Poppaea and combine luxurious baths…

The Techniques of Interrogation, Arrest, and Torture

Mitani Shōsuke

An illustrated instructional feature surveys interrogation, arrest, and torture methods, including restraint with ropes, gagging, pursuit, and the use of implements. It combines practical descriptions with historical discussion of policing and punishment from the…

The Room of Evil

Futamata Shizuko

A fictional first-person account follows a woman through an unsettling erotic underworld of captivity, surveillance, and coercive encounters. As she enters the titular “room of evil,” power shifts between men and women through bondage,…

Twenty-Man-Yen Prize Manuscript Competition: Interim Announcement

Editorial Department

The editorial department announces the interim results of the 200,000-yen manuscript competition, listing selected submissions and their authors. It explains that the entries have undergone preliminary review and that final judging and publication decisions…

Being Bound for the First Time

Murata Namiko

Murata Namiko recounts her first experience as a bound model during an outdoor photography session. She describes being tied to a tree and later restrained in staged scenes, moving from apprehension and discomfort toward…

Male Dressmaker

Higa Yuki

An illustrated serialized erotic narrative centered on Miko and encounters with a male dressmaker in and around a tailoring shop. Tailoring, clothing, exposure, teasing, and escalating sexual power and humiliation shape the story’s episodes.

I Committed Seppuku

Kishida Eiko

A first-person account by Kishida Eiko describing an imagined and eventually enacted episode of abdominal self-cutting with a razor during a bathing trip. The narrative emphasizes the writer’s fascination with pain, blood, bodily sensation,…

In Praise of Perversion, Part Two

Oniyama Kōsaku

The second part of Oniyama Kōsaku’s theoretical essay classifies diverse forms of “perversion,” including sadism, masochism, fetishism, scopophilia, exhibitionism, necrophilia, zoophilia, and same-sex desire. It considers their psychological mechanisms, social and ethical interpretations, and…

Strange Tales of Homosexual Love, Part Three

Takahashi Tetsu

A sensational, semi-documentary account of male same-sex desire, presenting anecdotes about relationships between men of different ages and social positions alongside commentary on sexual psychology. The article is accompanied by eroticized illustrations depicting its…

Memoirs of Dr. Yamikumo

Tsujimura Ryūsaku

A first-person memoir-style erotic narrative attributed to Dr. Yamikumo, recounting increasingly extreme encounters involving coercion, bondage, humiliation, sadistic violence, and medicalized sexual experimentation. The episodes move between fetishistic fantasy, captivity scenarios, and voyeuristic descriptions…

My Secret Record

Itō Seiu

An autobiographical confession by Itō Seiu describing his obsessive relationship with his wife, including episodes of illness, domestic restraint, sexual experimentation, and the production of photographs and drawings. The narrative presents bondage and marital…

Sexual Fluids, Part Three

Itō Seiu

The third installment of Itō Seiu’s essay examines sexual fluids, nude modeling, and the relationship between eroticized bodies and modern visual culture. It discusses artists, models, photography, painting, exploitation, and changing sexual attitudes while…

East-West Masochists Compared

Kiyama

An essay compares Japanese and Western forms of masochism through anecdotes about erotic performance, spectatorship, gender roles, and imagined or observed encounters. It considers differences in masochistic psychology, behavior, social setting, and cultural expression,…

Spiders and Butterflies, Final Installment

Hida Ryōji

The concluding installment of Hida Ryōji’s serialized SM fiction follows a woman who is abducted, restrained, humiliated, and prepared for staged photographic display. The narrative combines captivity, elaborate rope and apparatus bondage, sensory restriction,…

Cruel Women

Moriki Aizō

Moriki Aizō’s translated continuation of Das Grausame Weib presents historical and anecdotal accounts of women who exercise violent authority over enslaved or subordinated people, including whipping and other forms of corporal punishment. The piece…

Fūzoku Art Museum

A visual gallery presents historical and imported erotic illustrations and related imagery depicting sexualized restraint, domination, fetishistic attention to bodies and clothing, and theatrical erotic scenes. Captions frame the images as examples of changing…

Ecstatic Male Beauty

A photographic feature presenting nude male models in posed, physically expressive scenes, celebrating muscular bodies and masculine beauty for a sodomist-oriented readership.