The True Story of a Courtesan’s Life

Fujita Seiji

A literaryized “true story” follows the fortunes of a courtesan in the pleasure quarters, depicting her encounters with clients, shifting romantic attachments, and the emotional and social costs of her constrained life. The narrative…

The Port of Habu

Shimoyama Takeo

Set in the port town of Habu, this romantic narrative centers on a returning sailor who reconnects with a former beloved, now enmeshed in marriage and domestic obligations. Their renewed attraction develops amid drinking-house…

White Petals

Yumeno Ippei

An erotic story about a Japanese military doctor stationed in a remote mainland village who becomes fascinated by a beautiful woman attached to a women’s relief unit. Medical observation, wartime displacement, and successive intimate…

The Female Serpent

Matsui Yoriko

An erotic narrative centered on Ryūji’s growing fixation on the alluring Mitsue, whose appearance and behavior are repeatedly associated with a female serpent. His fantasies and encounters conflict with domestic relationships, while theatrical and…

Widow Killer

Yamagata Seiu

A sensationalized crime narrative about the brutal murder of a shopkeeping widow in a coastal fishing community, followed by the discovery of her mutilated body and the police investigation into the suspected killer. The…

Memoirs of a Non-Virgin

Ōjō Sumiko

A serialized first-person-style memoir of Sumiko, a young woman whose working life, financial hardship, and relationships lead her into sexual exploitation and a changing understanding of desire, intimacy, and independence. Episodes depict her encounters…

The Scroll of Punishments at the Shrine-Maiden Mansion

Okada Kanko

An erotic fiction narrative follows Nobuo and Kazue/Katsuko amid jealousy, betrayal, and coercive encounters in a shrine-maiden household. The story centers on confinement, punishment, bondage, and escalating sadomasochistic domination in an underground room.

Walking Through Kagoshima’s Entertainment Districts

Haruyama Mitsuko

A travel feature surveys Kagoshima’s lively commercial and entertainment quarters, describing shops, restaurants, nightlife, local residents, and encounters with visitors. It also presents regional speech, customs, scenery, hot springs, and postwar urban development as…

Erotic Picture-Scroll Tales

An Edo-period erotic mystery centers on a stolen or incriminating pillow picture and the murder of a woman. Through interrogations, suspicious behavior, physical clues, and discussion of the picture’s details, the investigator gradually reconstructs…

A Married Woman’s Longing

Izumi Haruki

A social-realist domestic tale follows the strained marriage of Heikichi and Sayo, a working-class couple facing poverty, jealousy, sexual tensions, and financial instability. Their household troubles are intensified by gambling, outside attractions, and the…

War and Sexual Desire Pictorial Collection

An opening visual portfolio combining harem imagery, scenes of wartime sexual violence, and photographs of a restrained and tormented woman, establishing the special issue's intersection of war, erotic spectacle, and domination.

The Balkan War

A lengthy illustrated feature treating the Balkan Wars as a setting for sexual disorder, coercion, violence, and military occupation, mixing historical framing with sensational erotic anecdote.

Moscow's Bewitching Flower

Fujita Seiji

A Russia-set narrative that uses Moscow and revolutionary or wartime imagery as the setting for erotic intrigue and sexual danger.

The Tragedy of Corpse Violation: Salome and Sadism

Takano Yasuke

A short sensational essay linking the Salome tradition with corpse violation, sadism, death, and eroticized violence.

Notes of a Woman Who Became a Chinese Soldier's Wife

Tajima Yumiko

A first-person memoir-style narrative describing a Japanese woman's relationship with a Chinese soldier amid the disruptions of wartime and postwar life.

The Chief Engineer's Madam: Siberian Sexual Landscape

Anabuki Takeshi

A Siberia-set wartime or captivity vignette focused on a senior engineer and a woman associated with his environment, using the setting to explore improvised sexual relations and desire.

The Tragedy of the Chastity Commando Unit

Sugiyama Kiyoshi

A sensational wartime narrative concerning a military group and the sexual vulnerability of women around it, framing war through violence, chastity, and coercive sexual danger.

Women of the Ports

Shimoyama Yu

A survey-style piece on women encountered in different ports, connecting maritime mobility with prostitution, sexual commerce, and changing local customs.

War and Masochism

Akasaka Tsuyoshi

A compact essay relating wartime experience and violence to masochistic psychology and erotic response.

The Lama's Erotic Buddha

Awagaoka Kikuo

An exoticized narrative linking Buddhist or lamaistic imagery with sexuality, religious taboo, and erotic fantasy in a non-Japanese setting.

How to Solve Chinese Chess Mating Problems

Ohashi Kyoshi

A short instructional and puzzle column explaining mating problems in Chinese chess and presenting example positions.

Napoleon's Soldiers

Matsutani Shigeji

A historical-sensational account of Napoleonic soldiers that focuses on army life, sexual behavior, women, and the effects of campaigning on ordinary morality.

Army Special Seventh Heaven

Manabe Ginkichi

A short wartime article describing a specially organized military sexual facility and the institutional management of soldiers' sexual needs.

Genghis Khan's Sexual Tactics

Nakazawa Kohei

A historical-erotic feature portraying Genghis Khan's campaigns through conquest, sexuality, women, and the organization of military and domestic life.

Pacific War: Erotic Reminiscences from the Dust of Battle

Takahara Junzo

A reminiscence-style piece connecting Pacific War experience with sexual encounters and memories of desire amid military life.

Letter from a Male Homosexual

Nanri Fumihiko

A letter or testimonial addressing male same-sex desire and the personal difficulties associated with homosexual identity and relationships.

Women's Combat Picture Scroll: The Origin of Minowa Inari

Masuda Shiro

An illustrated historical or legendary tale centered on conflict involving women, combining martial narrative with eroticized female combat imagery.

Women's Army Campaign Record

Kahara Daisuke

A wartime narrative concerning women's military participation and the experiences of female personnel within a campaign setting.

The Chastity of a Japanese Woman Taken in Manchuria at the End of the War

Ikeuchi Hakuyo

A wartime testimony-style account of a Japanese woman in Manchuria at the end of the war, emphasizing sexual danger, coercion, and the language of chastity.

The Volunteer Nurse of Love

Ito Chuzo

A story concerning a wartime or military nurse whose caregiving role becomes entangled with erotic attachment and sexual relations.

Bengawan Solo: A Tragic Romance Around the Java War

Imura Yukio

A Java-set wartime romance built around separation, danger, and erotic attachment, using the Bengawan Solo setting to frame a transnational tragic love story.

Breaking Through the Female-Body Patrol Line

Naniwa Saburo

A wartime comic-erotic narrative in which military surveillance and the female body become the basis for sexual humor, danger, and illicit movement.

Stories from the Southern Special Comfort Facilities

Mishima Shota

A documentary-style account of Japanese military comfort facilities in the south, describing their organization, the women associated with them, and the sexual lives of soldiers.

The Bewitching Dancing Princess

A short erotic entertainment vignette focused on an alluring dancer and the spectacle surrounding her performance.

Two Soldiers

Watanabe Sakuichi

A wartime narrative centered on two soldiers whose experiences are filtered through sexuality, human weakness, and the moral dislocations produced by military life.

Siberian Prisoner-of-War Record: Sketches of Telma Hospital

Hanamoto Shiro

A lengthy memoir-style sketch of life in a Siberian prisoner-of-war hospital, describing institutional routines, bathing, medical inspection, illness, staff, prisoners, and the intimate conditions of captivity.

The Female Spy Dances

A short sensational piece about a female spy subjected to coercion and interrogation while maintaining her refusal to confess.

War and Prostitutes: The Relationship Between War and Women

Tamori Hiroshi

An essay examining the recurring relationship between warfare, prostitution, women, and the sexual demands created around military populations.

Notes on Male Homosexuality

Asakura Fumiro

An explanatory essay on male homosexuality that discusses same-sex desire, sexual behavior, and contemporary understandings of homosexual men.

The Human-Toilet Fantasist

Ninomiya Chuichi

An extended fetish narrative framed as an unusual documentary account of a man obsessed with fantasies involving the human body as a toilet, combining confession, voyeurism, bodily functions, and sexual fixation.

Demonic Private Punishment

Machi Keisuke

The second installment of an adult mystery series, presenting a sensational narrative in which punishment, violence, sexual coercion, and criminal intrigue are central dramatic devices.

The Physiology of Female Pubic Hair: Are Hairy Women More Lustful?

Tanaka Yoshio

A sexological discussion of female pubic hair that considers bodily variation and the popular belief that greater body hair indicates stronger sexual desire.

Old-Time Frontline Erotic Gleanings, Part Three

Shimode Shoichi

A collection of short wartime erotic anecdotes concerning soldiers, camp life, women, and improvised sexual arrangements at the front.

Screen Star Novel: Machiko Kyo

Natsume Chiyo

A fictionalized or semi-fictionalized popular-culture feature centered on actress Machiko Kyo, presenting her public image and imagined private or romantic life through prose and star imagery.

Lewd Kabuki Illustrated Tales

Midori Takehiko

An illustrated historical-erotic feature recounting sexual anecdotes and scandals associated with Kabuki actors, theaters, and pleasure culture, linking theatrical history with erotic folklore.

Strange Picture Collection

An opening portfolio of erotic drawings and staged photographs depicting nude bodies, bondage, restraint, and power reversal.

Ten Talents of the Nude Woman

Reiko (reading uncertain)

A full-page illustrated study of multiple nude female figures in varied poses, emphasizing eroticized bodily display.

Portraits of Female Slaves and Masochists

Takatō Tatsumō

The issue’s central feature presents female domination, male submission, fetishism, flagellation, masochism, and mythological arguments for female authority. Internal headings and case narratives remain part of this single article-level container.

The Reality of Sexually Promiscuous Women

Fujisaki Yō

An illustrated sensational narrative follows sexual pursuit, coercion, humiliation, violence, and shifting power relations between its principal characters.

A Tale of Desire: The Female Parlor Striptease

Kiyama Kinu

A comic and violent narrative set in the ozashiki entertainment world, where performance, sexual commerce, money, and bodily display produce repeated reversals of power.

Reader Communications

A reader letter and editorial response discuss excessive sexual desire, sexual education, and the magazine’s role as an advice forum.

Aoi Was a Precocious Sheltered Girl

Tsuji Mamako

A first-person confessional narrative describes a sheltered girl’s early sexual curiosity, clandestine initiation, emotional attachment, and later reflections on desire and respectability.

The Diseased Chicken

A grotesque domestic narrative uses a diseased chicken, family scarcity, illness, secrecy, and sibling conflict to create a comic-horrific account of bodily disorder and household trauma.

A Sexual History of Slavery throughout the World

Nobuchi Sō

A historical survey of Roman and medieval slavery discusses ownership, sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, punishment, prostitution, and class hierarchy.

Erotic Fragments from the Front: Anecdotes Concerning the Nikolayevsk Incident

Shimoide Takuichi

Wartime and military anecdotes concerning the Nikolayevsk Incident combine purported testimony with sexualized violence, captivity, punishment, foreignness, and racialized sensationalism.

The Erotic Riddle of the Artificial Phallus

Ōshō Sumiko

An illustrated sexological account of the harigata discusses its materials, historical use, manufacture, and relation to marital and female sexual pleasure.

International Correspondence: Erotic Judgments

International letters and replies discuss photographs, body hair, masturbation, sexual preferences, relationships, and cross-border erotic communication.

The Death of a Certain Perverted Couple

Hiromi Fujisaki

A purported true-crime narrative reconstructs a couple’s sexual pathology, domestic life, deaths, forensic clues, and the subsequent investigation.

A Guide to Ishigami and Stone Gods

An illustrated folklore and travel guide surveys Japanese phallic stones, fertility deities, shrine traditions, reproductive beliefs, and folk medicine.

Shanghai’s Huang Xiaofu: The Savage Tribe

Nonaka Aizō

A social-reportage feature describes Shanghai prostitution, nightlife districts, street solicitation, foreign commerce, clothing, performance, poverty, and sexual labor.

World Tour, Part 2: Sexual Techniques of Freedom and Love—Monaco

Miura Yoshiko

A travel essay presents Monaco and Monte Carlo through casinos, tourism, luxury, gambling, seaside spectacle, class, and the international fantasy of freedom.

The Legend of the Mandarin Ducks

Yamamoto Kajō

A short eroticized legend uses birds, secrecy, dreams, captivity, and uncanny transformation to frame inherited sexual folklore.

Sexual Acts Without Intercourse

A sexological essay examines abstinence, cruelty, unconscious masturbation, displaced desire, fetishism, sadism, masochism, and ritualized bodily imagery outside conventional intercourse.

The Mystery of the Horigata

An illustrated cultural history of 張形 treats the phallic substitute as a sexual implement, ritual object, manufactured commodity, and subject of clandestine folklore.

A History of Foreign Mistresses

Fukumori Kōji

A historical-social essay examines foreign women, treaty ports, sailors, merchants, entertainment houses, mixed-race children, clothing, and intercultural intimacy in Japan.

At the Crossroads of Moral Fall

Ōshō Sumiko

A serialized urban erotic fiction follows seduction, jealousy, voyeurism, financial dependence, deception, illness, and sexual relationships among characters in hotels, restaurants, and lodging houses.

Secrets of the Female Body: Pubic and Armpit Hair

Akada Tanaka

A period sexological essay discusses pubic and axillary hair, sexual maturation, grooming, bodily variation, racialized comparison, and erotic visual preference.

Letters from Male Homosexuals

A letter and editorial response address male same-sex desire, loneliness, social pressure, work, marriage, health, and self-control.

Tracking Down a Counterfeiter of One-Thousand-Yen Notes

Miyagawa Rikizō

A counterfeit-money investigation combines rural reportage, domestic suspicion, adultery, jealousy, interrogation, concealment, and murder.

Sexual Feelings Appearing in Cities and Countryside

Abe Ukō

An essay reads popular verse as evidence of longing, jealousy, separation, marriage, sexual desire, and changing social feeling.

A Woman’s Sexual Memoir: From Office Girl to an Executive’s Mistress

Izawa Ranko

A first-person memoir links office work, economic dependence, adultery, hotels, consumer culture, secrecy, and the narrator’s changing understanding of desire.

Letters from a Sexual Deviant

A confessional letter describes compulsive fetishistic and coercive practices, shame, bodily detail, medical authority, punishment, and the possibility of treatment.

The Soles of Women’s Feet: Enchantment

Akasaka Gō

A historical and psychological essay treats feet, shoes, stockings, exposure, beauty, and foot fetishism across Japanese and foreign examples.

The Queen of the Female Sword-Drama Is Still Going Strong

Fujiyama Yoshi

An illustrated theatrical feature eroticizes a female sword-play performer through backstage scenes, costume, spectatorship, youthful fascination, jealousy, and physical combat.

Does Love Exist among Animals?

Kinushima Tanfū

A popular natural-history essay compares animal mating, attachment, jealousy, breeding, and sexual competition with human love and desire.

Summer and Sexual Crime

Kanbe Shin

A seasonal essay connects heat, clothing, bathing, public exposure, voyeurism, harassment, and sexual crime through moralizing pseudo-medical commentary.

The Mole on the Inner Thigh

Sasada Yutaka

Comic dialogue and erotic anecdotes address bodily marks, marriage, pregnancy, sexual expectations, reputation, and domestic relationships.

Sex and Cruelty: Cruelty, Pain, and Desire

Tō Hihito

A wide-ranging sexological essay links erotic desire to pain, violence, domination, gender hierarchy, historical examples, and supposedly anthropological accounts of cruelty.