Reflections on Western Torture

Yanome Gen’ichi

An illustrated survey of torture, punishment, and execution in Western history, discussing legal and religious justifications, interrogation methods, penal devices, and the treatment of accused people. The article compares historical practices with modern attitudes…

Berlin Night Tales

Hachigishi Giichi

A travelogue-style account of Berlin nightlife and erotic entertainment, combining observations of cabarets, performers, sexual spectacle, and postwar urban culture. It emphasizes the transnational circulation of erotic performance and the contrast between European nightlife…

Portraits of Women

Fujiyasu Setsuko

A social-realist portrait of women employed in a small printing factory, describing poverty, low wages, harsh working conditions, sexual exploitation, and the limited prospects available to working-class women in postwar Japan. The article also…

The Overturned Street

Shima Yukio

A serialized erotic narrative follows 洋 and his encounters with 柳沢, 高野, and other figures amid conversations, social gatherings, romantic tensions, and shifting power relations. The story develops an atmosphere of sexual intrigue, humiliation,…

Abnormal Play

Goku Osamu

A first-person fetish autobiography recounting the author’s discovery and practice of masochistic play with a male partner, including negotiated imprisonment fantasies, rope bondage, gagging, whipping, and other forms of physical restraint. The narrative emphasizes…

The Agonized Nude

Fukuda Eiichi

An erotic horror narrative about Noda Saburō’s obsessive fascination with an agonized nude female figure. His voyeuristic fixation develops into pursuit, restraint, and lethal violence, blending sadistic fantasy with imagery of bodily suffering and…

The Rope and Whip That Bit into Her

Takeno Tōsuke

An essay drawn from personal-advice cases about an unconventional marital relationship and an affair involving a wife’s younger sister. The account centers on eroticized restraint, whipping, jealousy, secrecy, and the psychological dynamics of coercion…

Female Seppuku and Examples of Women’s Ritual Suicide

Taya Takao

A historical and forensic study of women’s ritual suicide by abdominal cutting, examining four cases alongside male seppuku. The article compares wounds, weapons, clothing, body positions, blood loss, and contemporary accounts to assess gendered…

Acrobat of the Flesh

Hara Junko

An illustrated series of sensational erotic vignettes presenting the body as a circus-like spectacle of contortion, restraint, discipline, and physical endurance. The episodes depict performers subjected to elaborate bindings, difficult positions, whipping, and other…

Nudity and Tight Binding as an Expression of Marital Love

Nishizawa Yoshizō

Nishizawa Yoshizō discusses nude rope binding as a possible expression of marital intimacy, combining psychological reflections on mutual arousal, trust, and sexual roles with descriptions of a husband binding his wife. The article also…

A Secret History of the Torture of Christian Women

Fukada Tōru

A sensational historical account of the persecution, torture, and execution of Christian women in early-modern Japan, presented through dramatic anecdotes involving Kirishitan believers, officials, informers, and prison authorities. The article is accompanied by eroticized…

From a Masochist’s Notebook, Part Three

Numa Shōzō

A first-person notebook-style narrative recounts the narrator’s masochistic fantasies and humiliating encounters with dominant women, including scenes of public and domestic submission, foot and shoe fixation, and enforced service. The later sections extend these…

The Town of Masochists

Fukioka Seijirō

A first-person erotic memoir follows a shoe-shop clerk whose longstanding fascination with women’s footwear develops into an intense obsession with a beautiful customer. The narrative depicts foot worship, shoe-focused desire, and fantasies of female…

Expressions of a Woman Being Tormented

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu discusses and depicts the facial expressions of women undergoing erotic torment, drawing on staged bondage scenes and photographic observation. The accompanying illustrations emphasize tied, restrained, suspended, and otherwise physically constrained women, with…

Secret Notes of Cruel Pleasure

Shida Yōko

A first-person erotic confession by Shida Yōko exploring her fascination with bodily exposure, voyeuristic spectatorship, sadistic and masochistic fantasies, and the emotional intensity of being observed or physically controlled. The piece blends autobiographical reflection…

The Secret of the Communal Toilet

Munakata Ayako

A first-person erotic narrative recounts encounters and voyeuristic observations in a communal toilet, where secrecy, bodily exposure, and illicit sexual conduct generate tension and excitement. Illustrated scenes reinforce the setting’s hidden, theatrical, and transgressive…

The Sufferings of Christine, Part Two

translated by Azuma Minoru

The concluding installment of a translated serialized SM narrative follows Christine as she is captured, repeatedly bound, whipped, humiliated, and subjected to escalating punishments by her husband and Jules. After sustained captivity, coercion, and…

The Male Guardhouse

Matsuo Akira

A fictional military-barracks narrative follows soldiers whose hierarchical discipline, intimidation, and personal rivalries become entangled with coercive same-sex encounters. The story emphasizes male submission, domination, humiliation, and the eroticized secrecy of life in the…

Expressions of Female Agony from Drowning and Hanging

Hagiwara Hideo

An illustrated forensic-style study examines the facial and bodily signs associated with female drowning and hanging deaths. It discusses postmortem appearance, physiological mechanisms, and visual representations of suffering, presenting death imagery through a sensationalized…

Reader Correspondence and Notices

A contents and notices page listing recent and forthcoming issue features, including reader-oriented material and publication announcements.

The Six Women I Tormented

Hayashi Jōsuke

A first-person erotic account describing six women whom the narrator subjects to rope bondage, whipping, gagging, humiliation, and other forms of sexualized domination. The women are presented in successive case-like vignettes, emphasizing their bodies,…

A Study of the Bound Female Body

composition by Tsujimura Takashi; photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A photographic study of model Namiko Murata bound with rope in staged domestic settings. The accompanying essay discusses the visual appeal, composition, and constraints of photographing the bound female body, while the images emphasize…

Reader Exchange and Notices

A contents and notices page listing recent and forthcoming magazine material, including reader-oriented features and publication information. It reflects the magazine’s role in organizing an ongoing readership and circulating specialist content.

Punishment Through a Thousand Nights

Ōtsuka Ruri

An erotic punishment narrative centered on women confined in and subjected to harsh discipline within a reform-school or institutional setting. The scenes depict forced labor, restraint, beatings, gagging, deprivation, and collective humiliation, reinforced by…

The Duchess’s Revenge

translated and adapted by Numa Shōzō

A serialized historical erotic narrative, translated and adapted by Numa Shōzō, recounting Princess Olga’s revenge after the murder of her husband Igor by the Drevlyans. The story combines courtly marriage, female authority, captivity, punitive…

Wounds and Weapons

Ida Takao

A practical medical and forensic discussion of wounds caused by knives, scissors, glass, and other weapons. It distinguishes cuts, punctures, lacerations, and blunt-force injuries, considering bleeding, tissue damage, shock, and fatal outcomes.

Lewd Fingers

Toba Tamako

A serialized erotic-horror narrative set around a hospital, where nurses, patients, a corpse, and mysterious nighttime visitors become entangled in unsettling encounters. The story combines sexual tension, voyeuristic observation, death, hallucination, and supernatural ambiguity.

Masochistic Affection

Wakabayashi Keiko

An autobiographical erotic confession recounting a woman’s difficult upbringing, her work in entertainment, and her obsessive relationship with Ōmura, who repeatedly binds, beats, humiliates, and sexually dominates her. Although she attempts to resist and…

On Women’s Trousers

Azuma Minoru

An essay tracing women’s adoption of trousers from European fashion and wartime utility to modern Japanese society. It examines trousers as practical clothing, a sign of changing gender roles and women’s independence, and an…

Tormenting Soft Skin

Kita Reiko

A first-person erotic confession about a relationship in which a woman’s responses to harsh caresses, torment, and discipline reveal deeply rooted masochistic desire. The narrative also reflects on secrecy, intimate correspondence, and the psychology…

From the Notebook of a Masochistic Lover

Amadore Seiei

A first-person masochistic account centered on encounters with an authoritative woman in military or riding attire who subjects the narrator to commands, restraint, exposure, and corporal punishment. The narrative combines confession-like testimony with highly…

Juvenile Prison

Yasuno Yōji

A first-person juvenile-prison record describing confinement, surveillance, forced labor, deprivation, disciplinary punishment, and attempts to escape or resist institutional control. Illustrations emphasize chained prisoners, bodily restraint, and the coercive material environment of the prison.

The One-Eared Legend, Part Two

Hamura Hiroshi

The second installment of an Edo-period erotic adventure tale in which conflicts among samurai, entertainers, and women escalate into pursuit, abduction, coercion, torture, and mutilation. The recurring one-eared figure, violence directed at the body,…

The Tyrant of the Seashore

Takeoka Kyōhei

An erotic fantasy about a seaside tyrant who dominates and forcibly restrains several women, combining captivity, humiliation, and coercive sexual control in a coastal setting.

Wooden-Horse Torment and Pulley Torment

Ueda Seishirō

A mixed historical and practical feature on wooden-horse and pulley torment. It traces the wooden horse through punishment records, presents staged photographs of women subjected to apparatus-based restraint, and offers detailed instructions and safety…

Lesbos Correspondence

Sonomura Keiko

A reader-correspondence column devoted to women’s same-sex desire, featuring personal letters, relationship concerns, requests for introductions, and discussion of exchanging photographs or meeting discreetly. The editor responds to readers while sustaining a private community…

To Hamura Kyōko

Kawabata Tanako

A reader letter addressed to Furukawa Yuko reflects on her published bondage-themed stories, especially the relationship between physical sensation, psychological masochism, and the reader’s imaginative response. It also comments on the expectations created by…

Love Slave, Part Eight

Kitō Kōichirō

Part eight of a serialized erotic novel in which Harumi’s husband, Otsuki, and the sadistic Noro engage in escalating coercion, beating, restraint, and humiliation while Harumi is forced into degrading spectacles and physical submission.…

The Stench of Corrupted Sexuality

Nakayama Reiko

A sensational prison-centered account describing female inmates, sexual deprivation, coercive treatment of newcomers, bullying, and oppressive nightly routines inside the cells. The article emphasizes captivity, institutional abuse, humiliation, and the degrading bodily conditions of…

My Wife Will Not Let Me Tie Her, Part Two

Okada Keisuke

In this first-person confession, Okada Keisuke describes his obsessive pursuit of the beauty of the bound female body and the increasingly elaborate ways he ropes his wife, Yasuko, including domestic scenes involving nudity, rear…

The Sweet Surrender of Alice, Part One

translated by Samukawa Midori

The first installment of a translated erotic serial follows Alice as she engineers a calculated revenge and draws her target into an elaborately equipped private room. The narrative emphasizes psychological manipulation, female control, captivity,…

Publication Notices and Advertisements

A closing notices and advertising section promotes Kitan Club subscriptions, back issues, direct sales, illustrated books, and related publications. It also solicits manuscripts and reader participation while outlining editorial and submission policies.

Bondage and Punishment Images from Earlier Issues

composition by Tsujimura Takashi

A retrospective collage reproduces bondage and punishment illustrations from earlier issues, including erotic scenes of women restrained, disciplined, or placed in submissive positions. The page identifies selected source issues and artists while presenting the…

Training Illustrations: Six Scenes

A six-scene illustrated feature depicting women restrained with rope in stylized domestic and theatrical settings. The sequence emphasizes the visual arrangement of bodies, bindings, furnishings, and costume as part of staged bondage imagery.

Illustrated Scenes of Female Punishment and Restraint

This illustrated feature presents a sequence of erotic drawings depicting women subjected to restraint, binding, and coercive sexual encounters, often involving male partners or captors. The scenes combine explicit domination imagery with period Japanese…

Beautiful Binding

A photographic feature presenting “beautiful binding” as an aesthetic practice, with models shown in carefully composed rope-restraint scenes and poses. The accompanying text discusses visual appeal, model presentation, settings, and examples such as punishment…

The Beauty of a Bound Woman

composition by Tsujimura Takashi; photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A photographic feature presenting posed scenes of a woman bound with rope, accompanied by commentary on the visual appeal, staging, and methods of female bondage. The sequence emphasizes restrained poses, enforced submission, and the…

Photograph of a Corpse at an Execution Site

A crime-scene photograph shows the nude body of an unidentified murder victim discovered on the grounds of Yasukuni Shrine. The accompanying commentary interprets lividity, the absence of clothing, and bindings as evidence that the…

Punishment Illustrations

Ōya Reiko

Ōya Reiko’s illustrated feature depicts women subjected to restraint and corporal punishment, including binding to a chair and other forms of physical discipline. The presentation treats punishment as a visual motif through sequential, highly…

Whipped Foreign Girls

translated by Azuma Minoru

A translated, letter-based feature discussing corporal punishment of girls and women in foreign—especially European—domestic, educational, and workplace settings. Anecdotes, commentary, and historical illustrations frame whipping as a form of discipline while emphasizing humiliation, pain,…

The Humiliated Young Lady

Kanazawa Mikiko

A fictional first-person account by a young woman who is drawn into degrading encounters with domineering men. The narrative focuses on sexual coercion, humiliation, class and gender power, and the protagonist’s lasting psychological distress…

Blood and Other Matters

Miyauchi Yoshio

An essay on the depiction and staging of bloodletting and abdominal disembowelment in kabuki, discussing famous scenes, theatrical techniques, props, simulated blood, and the audience’s response to these grisly effects.

Black High Heels

Sudō Tsuneo

A psychologically charged erotic fiction about a troubled adolescent whose encounter with a woman’s black high heels develops into an obsessive, dreamlike fixation. The story blends sexual awakening, fantasy, and disturbing encounters with women…

Fifteen Ways to Tie the Female Body

Itō Seiu

An illustrated instructional article by Itō Seiu describing fifteen methods of restraining a woman with rope. Across detailed text and sequential drawings, it explains bindings involving the wrists, ankles, torso, thighs, and suspension, while…

Bloom of Humiliation

Hinatsu Yukio

An erotic fiction narrative follows Yumiko, a young stage performer, as encounters with men in theaters, entertainment districts, and private rooms expose her to escalating sexualized scrutiny, coercion, and humiliation. The story emphasizes the…

Seppuku Desire and Female Psychology

Nakayasu Kōdō

This essay examines women’s alleged desire for or fascination with seppuku and abdominal wounding through a strongly psychoanalytic account of female sexuality. It connects womb and abdominal symbolism with masochism, self-injury, inferiority, and gendered…

Long Sentence: A Prostitute’s Confession

Furukawa Yūko; illustrations by Sanjō Haruhiko

A first-person confession by a woman serving a long prison sentence recounts how her husband subjected her to increasingly severe bondage, sexual coercion, humiliation, and bodily punishment. Presented as an illustrated episodic narrative, the…

Insect Torture and Women

Shikada Yoshio

A fictional first-person narrative in which a woman recounts escalating encounters involving bondage, coercive sexual dominance, and the use of insects as instruments of fear and sensation. Illustrated scenes emphasize restraint, bodily vulnerability, humiliation,…

Festering Skin

Wada Natsue

An illustrated erotic confession follows a young office worker whose intense relationship with her female colleague Sumiko develops from attraction and companionship into possessiveness, sexual jealousy, and coercive experimentation. The accompanying images depict intimate…

To Kawabata Tanako

Hamura Kyōko

A first-person erotic confession describes a marriage organized around the wife’s authority, with the narrator embracing domestic service, strict commands, humiliation, punishment, and ritualized female dominance. The account presents masochistic submission and fetishized household…

The Song of the Painted Signboard

Itō Seiu

An illustrated essay surveys painted signboards used to advertise kabuki, popular theater, and cinema in Meiji- and early Shōwa-era Japan. It contrasts Tokyo and Osaka traditions, discusses signboard painters and their techniques, and laments…

The Quagmire of Pleasurable Abuse

Kita Reiko

This illustrated first-person erotic narrative portrays a woman drawn into a destructive cycle of sexual domination, infidelity, financial dependence, and emotional manipulation involving several partners. Its scenes and dialogue emphasize restraint, humiliation, coercive sexuality,…

My Confession: The Severed Chapter, Part Four

Sudō Tsuneo

An autobiographical confession about bodily anxiety, self-administered treatments, erotic obsessions, and the pursuit of unusual forms of sexual pleasure. The later pages develop a sadistic and masochistic fantasy of sexual control, pain, and staged…

Interrogation in the Criminal Investigation Room

Mitani Yōsuke

A fictionalized criminal-investigation narrative depicts police interrogations in which suspects and witnesses are pressured, threatened, and physically abused while officers pursue murder and robbery cases. The article critiques coercive policing, unreliable confessions, and the…

The Self-Portrait of Punishment

Himenomiya Shirō

A memoir of Japanese women in wartime Shanghai, describing terrorism, insecurity, military and police surveillance, and the vulnerability of expatriate civilians. It recounts separate cases involving a Japanese waitress and a married woman, emphasizing…

Secret Manual of Shudō

Chiaki Katsumi

A historical and literary examination of shudō reconstructs male-male erotic customs through classical and Edo-period writings, discussing terminology, courtship, sexual practices, relationships, and social conventions. The essay also considers how male same-sex culture was…

Women’s Ordeal

Koshino Yoshio

A detailed account of Japanese women subjected to abduction, confinement, intimidation, and sexual violence in Shanghai. Presented through survivor testimony, the article follows several women’s encounters with groups of men, their attempts to resist…

The Woman I Tied

Masutomi Jihei

A fictional first-person crime narrative follows a repeat burglar who abducts and binds women during break-ins, reflecting on his motives, encounters with victims, and escalating violence. The story presents his eventual apprehension, imprisonment, release,…

Amphibious Animal, Part One: A Tale of Male Love

Okada Mashirō; illustrations by Kiuchi Kōji

The first part of a literary tale follows Mukoyama, a married company employee whose concealed attraction to men leads him into relationships marked by secrecy, longing, jealousy, and social risk. Set amid urban parks,…

Male-Colored Apartment

Shima Yukio

An illustrated erotic fiction serial set in a Ginza apartment inhabited by men whose relationships, dress, mannerisms, and sexual identities challenge conventional gender roles. The newcomer Jiro is drawn into the apartment’s theatrical, sexually…

Why Do I Draw Punishment Pictures?

Minamikawa Kazuko

In this autobiographical essay, Minamikawa Kazuko recounts wartime experiences in North Borneo, including military occupation, imprisonment, invasive examinations, and sexualized violence, and connects these memories to her practice of drawing punishment and torture scenes.…

From a Masochist’s Notebook, Part Four

Numa Shōzō

An essayistic installment examining masochism through female authority, erotic punishment, bondage, whipping, and related fantasies. It combines personal and literary examples with discussion of Japanese and foreign terminology, the history of corporal punishment, and…

The Distorted Bedroom

Takeno Tōsuke

A psychologically charged erotic fiction piece about a painter whose troubled marriage is complicated by jealousy, infidelity, sexual dissatisfaction, and his wife’s relationships with other men. The narrative uses confession, confrontation, and shifting emotional…

Reiko’s Twelve Months

Kita Reiko

The opening installment of Reiko’s twelve-month erotic series, centered on a moon-themed encounter in which Reiko is placed in a vulnerable, restrained setting and subjected to sexualized attention. The illustrated feature combines seasonal imagery,…

Tsuruya Nanboku

Masaoka Iruru

A biographical and critical account of the Edo-period kabuki playwright Tsuruya Nanboku IV, focusing on his career, theatrical works, and reputation for grotesque, uncanny, and sensational dramatic effects. Anecdotes and illustrations contextualize Nanboku’s distinctive…

A Woman’s Experience in an Orphanage

Nonomura Yukio

A first-person autobiographical account tracing the author’s masochistic imagination to childhood experiences of poverty, parental violence, humiliation, and bodily restraint. Recollections of beatings, binding, forced exposure, and later eroticized memories are accompanied by visual…

Kyōko’s Life and Opinions

Hamura Kyōko

An autobiographical essay in which Kyōko reflects on her marriage, sexuality, bodily experiences, pregnancy, and changing self-image. She discusses unconventional sexual practices, bodily control and experimentation, artistic and literary representations of women, and the…