From Recent Films

Shiraishi Hiromu

A survey of recent films summarizes plots involving murder, captivity, punishment, supernatural menace, and other sensational or cruel situations, with particular attention to films featuring eroticized violence and restraint.

A Consideration of Etsugyaku

Sugawara Haruo

This extended essay examines human cruelty, sadism, and the relationship between cruelty and morality, then considers how eroticized cruelty is represented in literature, visual art, photography, theater, and film. It concludes by proposing a…

From My Collection

Kadoma Sōkichi

A collection of reprinted and narrated materials ranges from a historical account of Japanese seppuku techniques to accounts of a snake-handling woman and a woman’s gradual descent into fox-possession imagery, combining punishment history, fetishistic…

The Slug

Ōtani Ayako

A serialized erotic novel following postwar characters moving between impoverished rural life and affluent urban society, where class tensions, gendered power, seduction, coercion, and restraint shape their relationships.

Gyokusei Gleanings

Editorial Department

An editorial feature soliciting and discussing reader-submitted manuscripts, including erotic fiction and bondage-related ideas, while explaining the editorial department’s selection and publication practices.

From Recent Bondage Films

Saga Miyako

A review and commentary section surveying recent Japanese bondage films, describing their staged restraint scenes and connecting the genre to sensational reportage, wartime violence, and postwar sexual culture.

Illustrated Reference on Compositions of Female Seppuku

An illustrated reference guide presents staged compositions of female seppuku across historical and modern settings, including female warriors, servants, courtesans, samurai daughters, theatrical swordswomen, and farm women, with detailed descriptions of clothing, posture, weapons,…

Introduction to New Foreign-Language Publications

Editorial Department

The editorial department introduces and advertises several foreign-language erotic publications, describing serialized scenarios of female-directed punishment, bondage, humiliation, captivity, and sadistic play while listing chapter counts, formats, and prices.

Tenseisha Publication Catalogue

Editorial Department

A Tenseisha publication catalogue advertises illustrated and photographic erotic works, including themed bondage and punishment portfolios, female-cutting imagery, body-focused scenes, and special photographic collections, with ordering information, prices, and agency notices.

Kitan Club Cumulative Contents Index

Editorial Department

A cumulative contents index lists the principal articles, features, photographs, fiction, and special issues published in earlier Kitan Club numbers.

Reader Communications and Editorial Correspondence

Editorial Department

An extended reader-correspondence section presents letters about the magazine’s erotic fiction, photography, bondage and fetish features, reader experiences, subscriptions, submissions, and requests for future editorial content.

October Collection: Fragile Prey

Kitahara Junko

An illustrated October feature presents a series of stylized scenes in which women are overpowered, restrained, or handled by men in domestic and intimate settings.

Reference Materials

Hara Tadamasa

A reference-materials page assembles reprinted erotic illustrations, foreign magazine imagery, and film stills, linking Japanese fetish culture to imported visual sources and cinema.

Procession

A photographic film-style scene titled “Procession” shows two women outdoors, with one apparently being bound or handled against a tree in a staged erotic tableau.

Bondage Photographs Seen in an American Magazine

A photographic feature reproduces a bondage image sourced from an American magazine, showing a person tightly restrained and presented as an example of imported bondage imagery.

New Euro-American Style, Part Three

La Bonda

La Bonda’s third installment of “New Euro-American Style” presents an erotic illustration of two women posed in elaborate rope restraints against a stark geometric backdrop.

Detailed Examination of Sadism Scenes: From Recent Films

Fujiki Senji

Fujiki Senji examines bondage and sadistic scenes in recent films, comparing their restraint devices, poses, violence, acting, visual composition, and emotional effects while discussing examples from Japanese cinema and contrasting sensational presentation with more…

Moxa Queen Contest

Iwase Shōichi

A sensational report describes a “Moxa Queen” contest in which seven women are judged on beauty and their ability to endure moxa burns while restrained in painful positions, accompanied by an erotic illustration of…

Heaven Knows

Takarazuka Fumio

This fictional account follows an eccentric young man whose fetishistic interest in restraint shapes his job interview, office relationships, and increasingly coercive encounters with a female colleague.

Through the Light, Part Three: A Patient’s Record

Kondō Kikuya

Part three presents a patient’s extended record of tuberculosis hospitalization, describing overcrowded and poorly maintained wards, inadequate nursing and medical care, welfare dependence, poverty, and the varied hardships of long-term patients. The accompanying illustrations…

Popular Magazines and Punishment Pictures

Aoyama Sanekichi

An essay examines the growing presence of punishment-themed pictures in postwar popular magazines, discussing their visual styles, reader appeal, and relationship to commercial editorial culture.

Abandoned Dog

Aoba Shin'ichi

A dark erotic story follows a young man drawn into encounters with rough male figures and increasingly coercive situations involving pursuit, captivity, physical punishment, humiliation, and sadistic control.

My Enema Play

Fukumura Mitsuharu

A first-person account describes the author’s enema fetish, including specialized irrigation equipment, large-volume enemas, repeated use, and the erotic sensations associated with the practice.

Memories of Prison Life

Fukumura Mitsuharu

A former prisoner recalls his years in Japanese prisons, describing institutional routines, forced labor, contraband tobacco, discipline, escape attempts, and the complex camaraderie and hardships of life among inmates.

Modern Masochism Art Review, Part Three

Hara Tadamasa

This installment reviews modern masochistic and related erotic representations in films, illustrated works, and international popular culture, discussing female domination, sadomasochistic imagery, violence, and the social meanings attached to such depictions.

Parasites, Part Two

Tamao Sumiko

A serialized grotesque erotic fantasy follows a couple whose lives become entangled with parasitic organisms, experimental drugs, bodily transformation, medical investigation, and increasingly disturbing forms of sexual and psychological domination.

I Do Not Know

Honda Yoshirō

A theatrical feature and plot synopsis for Honda Yoshirō’s Toho musical mystery “I Do Not Know,” depicting treasure-seeking intrigue, captivity, staged punishment, drowning, and elaborate underwater scenes.

In Sympathy with the Praise of Domestication Fiction

Asō Kazuo

Asō Kazuo’s extended open letter endorses and expands on Numa Shōzō’s domestication-fiction ideas, examining fantasies of treating humans as livestock through racial hierarchy, colonial and wartime violence, sexual domination, animal training, and representations in…

An Open Letter Concerning Domestication Fiction

Aoyama Sanekichi

A sensational crime report about a male domestic servant who adopted a feminine sexual role, formed a same-sex relationship with his employer, and became involved in a violent child-abduction and drowning case, framed through…

A Story of Being Bound by a Thief

Ikeda Shōichi

A sensational crime report recounts a teenage burglar’s invasion of a Tokyo home, where a sleeping girl was tied up and robbed before police pursued the offenders.

From the Notebook of a Dreamer

Numa Shōzō

This extended critical essay examines masochism, sadism, and shifting power within two- and three-person relationships, using literary works, fictional scenarios, and psychological interpretation to discuss dominance, submission, jealousy, and sexual fantasy.

Report Concerning Enemas

A report assembled from newspaper and educational sources discusses enemas through medical instruction, hospital and nursing contexts, and eroticized accounts involving intimate care and sexualized power relations.

Seiu Miscellany: Punishment Pictures, Past and Present

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu surveys historical and contemporary representations of women being bound, punished, or otherwise restrained, comparing ukiyo-e, illustrated erotica, film imagery, newspaper reports, and modern staged scenes. He discusses the visual construction of bodily…

New Studies in Detective Fiction

This essay surveys postwar Japanese detective-fiction magazines and their stories, tracing how sensational murders, grotesque erotic episodes, occult imagery, and elaborate illustrations shaped the genre. It also comments on representative writers and works, the…

Record of a Homosexual Man

A first-person confession by a homosexual man recounts his same-sex desires, fantasies, relationships, and struggles with social stigma and secrecy.

The Slug

Ōtani Ayako

This serialized erotic narrative follows 保 and the women around him through adultery, seduction, jealousy, and increasingly coercive sexual encounters involving marital and domestic power struggles.

Local Report

The local-report section surveys Sade’s literary and cultural significance, discusses translations and changing evaluations of his work, and includes reports and commentary on erotic films, performers, and fetish-oriented visual culture.

A Half-Life of Suspense

An autobiographical account traces the writer’s sadistic inclinations from childhood through family experiences, sexual development, and adult life in postwar Tokyo.

The Black Empress

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

This illustrated historical erotic fiction follows the Black Empress as she exercises violent authority over servants, soldiers, and captives amid court intrigue, warfare, punishment, and sexual domination.

Continuation: The Woman in Riding Breeches and Female Seppuku

Fujiyama Hide緒

A serialized erotic-historical narrative follows two women in riding breeches who are captured amid wartime conflict and subjected to elaborate coercion, humiliation, torture, and ultimately female seppuku imagery.

Female Seppuku Composition Reference

A textual and visual reference feature outlines compositions for erotic female-seppuku illustrations, describing staged scenes involving female warriors, domestic and modern women, weapons, restraint, blood, and ritualized bodily display.

Reader Documents and Editorial Communications

Editorial Department

A lengthy reader-correspondence and editorial section presents letters about the magazine’s erotic fiction, illustrations, photography, bondage themes, and production, alongside publication notices, film and literature recommendations, reader requests, and editorial responses.

East-West Uramado Erotic Anecdotes

Hara Hiroshi

A serialized collection of comic erotic anecdotes set across Japanese and Western contexts, presented through short narrative episodes, dialogue, and spot illustrations. The stories explore secret desire, voyeuristic situations, marital and domestic sexual scenarios,…

The Autumn Festival That Was Toyed With

Hagihara Hideo

A sensationalized account of a young woman’s murder during an autumn festival, beginning with the discovery of her strangled body in a cabbage field. The article follows the police investigation, forensic observations, witness interviews,…

The Bedroom Phantom Thief

Setoguchi Torao

A sensational serialized crime narrative follows a fugitive “phantom thief” who enters a bedroom, threatens and overpowers women, and becomes connected to murder, robbery, and an attempted escape. Police investigators pursue clues across rural…

The Lady Doctor Is Frightening! A Film Studio Cut Open by an Actress’s Scalpel

Ōtaka Gorō

A sensational reportage-style examination of actresses, doctors, directors, and studio personnel, portraying the film studio as a site where erotic desire, ambition, rivalry, and emotional vulnerability intersect. Through anecdotes and commentary on actresses’ careers,…

The Demon’s Tentacles

Hisaki Takashi

An illustrated crime-and-captivity fiction involving a brutal attack on women, military police investigations, and the pursuit of suspects through nighttime urban and rural settings. The narrative combines eroticized violence, restraint, interrogation, blood evidence, and…

Could Your Name Cause You to Kill?

Kinsudōjin

This article examines Japanese name-based divination, arguing that surname and given-name kanji—and their stroke counts—can reveal personality, fortune, criminal tendencies, and even susceptibility to violent acts. It applies a numerological system of main, secondary,…

The Mystery of the Pawn Ticket

Segi Toshirō

A crime-mystery narrative follows the investigation of a bizarre riverside murder, with a pawn ticket providing the crucial clue. Police interrogation and the killer’s confession gradually reveal a story of betrayal, obsession, and revenge…

The Dōgenzaka Beautician Murder

Tobe Harumitsu

A sensational account of the murder of a Dōgenzaka beautician, whose strangled body is discovered at home. Police interrogate associates and reconstruct a web of jealousy, concealed relationships, and forbidden desire surrounding the crime…

The Woman Who Came from the Demon Tower

Sugiyama Kiyoshi

This illustrated erotic-grotesque fiction follows a mysterious woman from the Demon Tower who arrives at a remote hot-spring inn and becomes entangled with a doctor, his associates, and other guests. Sexual obsession, jealousy, mental…

Decoding the Imperial Navy’s Erotic Cipher

Usami Masao

Usami Masao deciphers the euphemisms, abbreviations, and coded vocabulary used for sexual behavior and relationships within the Imperial Japanese Navy. Drawing on naval life, wartime anecdotes, and illustrated examples, the article discusses prostitution, same-sex…

The Woman Used as a Gambling Stake

Tominaga Yōsuke

A serialized erotic narrative in which a woman becomes the stake in a gambling contest among men. As the wagers escalate, she is subjected to coercive possession, humiliation, restraint, and sexual exploitation, with the…

The Blood-Soaked Lust Demon

Miyashita Bunsaku

An illustrated serialized erotic crime narrative following Keijiro’s predatory encounters with women, marked by coercion, captivity, physical violence, and bloodshed. The story moves between eroticized assaults and their aftermath, including medical attention, police involvement,…

An Evening of Crime-Prevention Films

Editorial Department

A satirical mock program for an evening of “crime-prevention” films, presenting sensationalized scenes of sexual misconduct, assault, abduction, voyeurism, and fetishized encounters through pseudo-official narration, film captions, and cartoons. The feature combines moralistic public-safety…

The Woman Demon I Peeped At

Maeda Isamu

A first-person erotic mystery recounts the narrator’s voyeuristic peeping into a woman’s room and his growing fascination with her apparently beautiful yet uncanny, demon-like body. The narrative develops through investigation, testimony, and grotesque transformations,…

Why Did These Women Kill Their Own Relatives?

Kojika Aiko

Kojika Aiko examines several sensational cases in which women were accused or convicted of killing relatives, including the murder of a university student and alleged family-linked insurance crimes. The article reviews court testimony, evidence,…

The Uramado Wife Murder Case: Exclusive Trial Record

Editorial Department

An exclusive trial-record feature reconstructs a wife-murder case involving alleged arsenic poisoning, marital conflict, suspected infidelity, and the testimony of the accused and witnesses. Presented through police reports, courtroom questioning, and witness statements, the…

The Interfering Man Is Eliminated

Yūki Sō

A sensational account of the Clayton/Applegate household describes a sexually transgressive family, the murder of the husband, and the police investigation that follows. The narrative combines crime reporting, interviews, medical commentary, and lurid depictions…

Three-Way Battle

Isogai Jun

A narrative feature recounts a teacher’s sexually charged encounter with two young women, whose rivalry and shifting advances produce the article’s “three-way battle.” Dialogue, staged scenes, and illustrated erotic situations frame the episode as…

A Glimpse of Eroticism

Saijō Bonji

A humorous essay on eroticism in postwar everyday life, using imagined conversations, domestic episodes, and commentary on marital behavior, sexual appeal, and changing social attitudes. The accompanying cartoons reinforce its satirical treatment of intimacy,…

Aoki Residence Diary

Hirano Imao

A fictionalized diary-style narrative following the social and romantic entanglements of the Aoki household and its acquaintances. Through comic conversations and illustrations, it explores dating, generational differences, courtship, secrecy, and the tensions between conventional…

The Secret Chronicle of Suruga Dainagon: The Chapter of His Origins

Iwahori Taizō

An illustrated historical erotic serial set in the Edo period, following Suruga Dainagon and the woman Yuki amid intrigue, captivity, and encounters with a mysterious white ape. The chapter combines feudal drama with scenes…

Worldly Night Tales

Toyama Kazuhiko

A collection of eroticized tales set in different countries, including Sweden, Japan, Denmark, and South Africa. The stories depict seduction, sexual intrigue, fetishistic situations, and imagined encounters involving travelers, servants, historical figures, and wartime…

Publication Information

Publication information and promotional notices for the issue, including book advertisements, subscription and pricing details, publisher information, and an invitation for readers to submit material.

New Photograph Introduction, Part One

A photographic portfolio presenting staged images of a woman in rope restraints and constrained poses.

Ideyu

Kitahara Junko

An illustrated bondage fantasy by Kitahara Junko, credited as adapted from work by Yoshiaki Izumi, depicting women restrained with rope in domestic and architectural settings.

Restrictive Clothing and Masks

Kumoi Hisako

A visual feature displaying restrictive clothing, masks, and other staged forms of bodily concealment and restraint, including a masked figure attended by another person.

Modern Masochism Art Review, Reprint Series No. 12

A reprint-series visual review of modern masochism, illustrated with photographs of women performing in close contact with tigers before an audience.

Takireiko Sketch Collection

Takireiko

A two-page sketch portfolio by Takireiko presenting nude female figures in varied, suggestive poses and arrangements.

New Euro-American Style, Part Four

La Bonda

The fourth installment of “New Euro-American Style,” a La Bonda illustration depicting a stylized group restraint pose involving several women.

Depictions of Torment in Literature

Fujimi Iku

This literary essay surveys depictions of torment, coercion, restraint, and punishment in Japanese narrative works, using historical erotic fiction and accompanying illustrations to examine how scenes of female captivity and suffering are constructed.

Newspaper and Magazine Communications: Homosexuality Among American Soldiers in Shimbashi

Yagiri Jūhachi

A sensational news-style report describes two American soldiers in Shimbashi whose same-sex relationship culminates in a joint suicide attempt, with one soldier found dead and the incident reported to the police.

My Loincloth, Part Two

Matsubara Michiyo

In this autobiographical continuation, the author discusses a personal fascination with wearing a fundoshi and related underwear, describing bodily sensations, appearance, domestic experiences, and changing clothing practices through text and illustrations.

Interest in the Same Sex Rather Than the Opposite Sex

Hatamura Hajime

A sexological advice essay considers a seventeen-year-old boy’s stronger interest in male friends than in women, attributing his feelings to developmental and environmental factors while discussing the possibility of same-sex desire.

The House of Silence

Koyama Takeo

A serialized, heavily illustrated crime-and-captivity narrative follows a couple and prison authorities through abduction, interrogation, confinement, bondage, corporal punishment, and eventual execution, emphasizing elaborate scenes of coercion and suffering.

Corset Mambo

Hayashi Yasuhiko

A first-person erotic account centers on a woman being tightly laced into a corset and subjected to prolonged restraint, physical discomfort, and enforced movement while the narrator reflects on the garment’s sensory and fetish…