Execution by Firing Squad

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

An illustrated execution scene depicts a beautiful female spy calmly awaiting death by firing squad while a female officer photographs or observes her final moments. The presentation combines execution imagery with an explicitly staged,…

Burning at the Stake

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

This illustrated historical punishment feature portrays a woman bound to a stake and burned, with accompanying text referring to Joan of Arc, Japanese fire executions, and the treatment of condemned women. The imagery emphasizes…

Post-Mounted Restraint

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

An illustrated feature depicts a nude woman bound against a wooden post while a kimono-clad swordswoman stands nearby. The accompanying text presents binding as a historical form of disgrace or punishment associated with samurai…

The Construction of Tight Binding and Ideas for Torment

Tsujimura Takashi

A practical and aesthetic guide to constructing bondage photographs and developing ideas for torment scenes. It discusses rope arrangements, poses, props, models, body presentation, hair and clothing, indoor and outdoor settings, and the balance…

The Room of Evil, Final Installment

Futamata Shizuko

The concluding installment of Futamata Shizuko’s serialized erotic crime narrative follows a web of coercion, betrayal, and retaliation involving abducted and restrained women, violent men, and a dangerous household. Through shifting encounters in rooms,…

Tsuritobi: A Juvenile Reformatory Experience

Orihara Osamu, romanization uncertain

A first-person account of life in a juvenile reformatory, focusing on the systematic abuse inflicted by a guard through beatings, forced nudity, inspections, rope binding, and other humiliating punishments. Photographs and illustrations reinforce the…

ANUS Bullying

Numata Fusaji, romanization uncertain

An erotic narrative centered on “ANUS bullying,” in which a male subject is dominated and tormented by women through forced positions, spanking, foot pressure, restraint, and anal-focused humiliation. The accompanying illustrations depict the staged…

Diary of My Selfish Heart: A Masochistic Woman’s Journal

Furukawa Yūko

Furukawa Yūko presents a first-person diary of her masochistic desires, marital bondage, fantasies of restraint and punishment, and the tensions between private erotic life and respectable postwar society. The extended confession also reflects on…

The Beautiful Tyrant

Mazoku Tamotsu

An erotic first-person narrative about a man’s escalating fascination with Yuriko, a beautiful and imperious woman who subjects him to increasingly demanding acts of service, humiliation, and bodily submission. The story centers on her…

Overseas Sadism Notes: Uses of Clothing

Azuma Shin

Azuma Shin surveys the erotic and sadistic uses of women’s clothing, discussing hobble skirts, corsets, high heels, long boots, and other garments as means of emphasizing the body, restricting movement, or symbolizing discipline. The…

Infatuation

Oniyama Yakusaku, romanization uncertain

A serialized erotic fiction narrative in which the narrator leads the forty-year-old Miki into an obsessive labyrinth of jealousy, voyeurism, and sexual manipulation involving Kiyomi and her domestic relationship. The successive episodes depict escalating…

Sexual Fluids, Part Five

Itō Seiu

The fifth installment of Itō Seiu’s “Sexual Fluids” presents an erotic nonfiction-style account of travel, theatrical entertainment, lodging, meals, and encounters involving performers and patrons. The narrative emphasizes backstage and pleasure-district culture, sexualized performance,…

My Record of Perversity: Beheading and Strangulation in Strange Punishments

Uemura Etsuhisa, romanization uncertain

This autobiographical record of the author’s fascination with unusual punishments examines staged or magical representations of crucifixion, beheading, and strangulation. Illustrated scenes of women bound to crosses and subjected to execution-like restraint frame the…

My Honeymoon

Tominaga Kazuo

In this autobiographical account, a newly married man describes seeking a wife who could accommodate his sadistic and bondage-oriented desires. He recounts meeting and observing a young nurse, developing their relationship, introducing rope restraint…

The Man I Sought, Part Six

Matsui Raikō

The sixth installment of Matsui Raikō’s serialized SM narrative follows an emotionally volatile encounter involving Inoue and Ogata. The characters bind, restrain, and manipulate one another through rope, furniture, and bodily control, while jealousy,…

The Juvenile Reformatory’s Folding Bars

Nonomura Yukio

A first-person account set in a juvenile orphanage describes staff discipline and elaborate punishments, including tying children to beds or boards, striking them, and forcing uncomfortable positions. The illustrated feature presents these institutional correction…

Confession of an Effeminate Man

Shinohara Yukio

A male narrator confesses to adopting feminine dress, cosmetics, mannerisms, and domestic presentation, recounting how this gendered self-fashioning shapes his relationships and erotic encounters. The piece combines autobiographical testimony with reflections on effeminacy, sexual…

Longing for Enema

Yamada Yoshie

Yamada Yoshie presents a personal confession about her growing fascination with enemas, recalling a hospitalized friend’s medical treatment and later persuading and administering an enema to another young woman. The account emphasizes bodily vulnerability,…

Sentimental Education

Azuma Shinsaku; illustrations by Kurihara Shin

A serialized erotic narrative follows the troubled marriage of Shōzaburō and Kyōko amid poverty, debt, jealousy, and manipulation. Their relationship becomes entangled with coercive sexual encounters, bondage, humiliation, violence, and shifting control between spouses…

The Portrait of Torture

Koshino Yoshio

A confessional narrative recounting the author’s impoverished childhood, his relationship with his mother, and episodes of suffering, coercion, and punishment. The text is accompanied by a photograph of his mother and an illustration dramatizing…

An Examination of the Navel: My Bodily-Fetish Record

Sudō Ritsuo

An autobiographical examination of the author’s intense fetishistic interest in women’s navels. It classifies navel shapes and appearances, recalls personal encounters and formative influences, and discusses the fetish’s representation in photographs, films, illustrations, and…

Bound and Rebound

Numata Masami, romanization uncertain

An editorial-style response to Takahashi Tetsu revisits arguments and terminology from the April issue, especially the definition and translation of “scatology.” The author disputes several dictionary, quotation, and bibliographic claims and criticizes careless editorial…

From a Masochist’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

A serialized masochist’s notebook presents confessional fantasies of male submission to aristocratic and financially powerful women, including servitude, humiliation, animalization, and the surrender of property and domestic authority. Chapters 54–56 combine narrative letters with…

The Buttocks Person

Kimura Michiko

A first-person erotic confession about a woman’s marriage and her husband’s intense fixation on buttocks. The narrative follows marital tensions, relationships with other people, and the eventual emergence of a man whose unusual buttocks…

On the Beauty of Women’s Noses and Nasal Cavities

Masago Jūroku

An illustrated essay on the aesthetic and erotic significance of women’s noses and nostrils, discussing admired examples and standards of facial beauty. It also recounts cosmetic efforts to reshape the nose and narrow the…

Rehabilitation of Former Juvenile Soldiers

Maeda Shinji

A narrative about a former child soldier advancing through military training and serving in a remote frontier environment. It depicts harsh discipline, hierarchy, camaraderie, and the protagonist’s efforts to adapt to postwar military life.

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

Morimoto Aizō translates and explains accounts of “cruel women” drawn from a 1901 German illustrated book, presenting historical anecdotes of women abusing servants, enslaved people, and other dependents. The article combines sensational descriptions of…

From Husband to Wife

Kurume Eizō

An exchange of letters between a separated husband and wife reflects on their marriage, jealousy, emotional dependence, and shared experiences of tying during their relationship. Framing bondage as a means of understanding rather than…

My Model

Tobita Ryōji

A first-person erotic narrative follows a model trainer who recruits and develops a young woman, shaping her appearance, clothing, poses, and professional presentation for fashion and fetish imagery. The story increasingly centers on staged…

My Favorite Way of Being Bound

Kawabata Tanako

Kawabata Tanako responds to readers by describing her preferred forms of bondage and recounting intimate experiences of being tied in different positions and with varied rope arrangements. The article is accompanied by erotic photographic…

The Ceremony of the Straw Doll

Segawa Yasuko

Segawa Yasuko introduces and discusses a rare historical erotic text, The Ceremony of Marriage, which presents ritualized marital bondage, abdominal cutting, and violent sexual play through narrative passages, procedural descriptions, and graphic illustrations. The…

Reader Correspondence

multiple contributors

A multi-page reader-correspondence section presents letters responding to the magazine’s fiction, illustrations, photographs, and editorial choices, alongside requests, critiques, and discussion of reader interests. It also reflects the participatory culture surrounding Kitan Club through…

Editorial and Publication Information

An editorial and publication-information page solicits manuscripts and artwork, explains submission and editorial policies, advertises subscriptions and back issues, and announces club or membership opportunities. It documents the magazine’s administrative and participatory infrastructure as…

Black Cat and Woman

André De Dienes

A staged photographic portrait by André De Dienes showing a nude woman reclining beside a large black cat. The composition emphasizes the contrast between the woman’s body and the animal’s watchful presence.

Western Pulp Cover and Illustration Collection

A visual collection of Western pulp-fiction covers and interior-style illustrations featuring imperiled, reclining, or restrained women, masked or armed men, and sensational adventure scenes. The pages prominently identify authors and titles including Leslie Charteris,…

The Latest Electric Chair

An illustrated report on modern execution technology, focusing on the electric chair and execution-chamber procedures. The feature presents the apparatus and stages of a condemned prisoner’s electrocution alongside related execution imagery.

The Woman Anchin: Dōjōji Legend

Itō Seiu

An erotic illustration reimagines the Dōjōji legend of Anchin and the woman who becomes a serpent, emphasizing supernatural transformation, bondage, and fatal passion.

A Delightful Western Dominatrix

A Western-style erotic illustration portrays a confident dominatrix in corsetry, stockings, high heels, and holding a whip.

The Latest American Women’s Beauty Exercises

A photographic feature presenting American women performing purported beauty and body-shaping exercises, including partner-assisted poses and strenuous floor exercises. The accompanying text frames these routines as an imported form of indoor recreation and physical…

Pet Training: The Cat and the Whip

A photographic feature presents Miss Beck in fetish attire using a whip while staging a circus-like pet-training performance involving a human figure presented as a cat.

Bull Politics, Second Generation

Hida Yoshiro; illustrations by Yutani Toshiaki

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows the troubled relationships and violent entanglements of the characters Masajirō and Masakichi, combining jealousy, coercion, captivity, and domestic sexual conflict. The accompanying illustrations dramatize the story’s intimate and…

Crucifixion

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

An erotic illustration depicts a woman bound spread-eagled to an ornate cross, framing crucifixion as both a brutal historical punishment and a visually seductive spectacle.

Ox Splitting

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

An erotic historical-punishment illustration shows a woman bound to a powerful ox in a scene evoking the execution method of ox-splitting, accompanied by a condemnation of wartime brutality.

Water Punishment

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

A submerged woman is bound to an anchor and helplessly dragged underwater, presenting water punishment as a fatal scene of captivity and restraint.

Leopard

Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

An erotic illustration depicts a woman amid leopards, chains, and bones, accompanied by a dramatic caption suggesting captivity and peril.

Murder in the Night Fog

An illustrated visual sequence titled “Murder in the Night Fog” depicts a nocturnal encounter that develops into violence, pursuit, and apparent murder. Its sequential panels function as a dramatized erotic-crime scene rather than documentary…

Disordered Hair

photographed by Itō Seiu

A staged monochrome photograph presents a kimono-clad woman in a distressed, inwardly folded pose, emphasizing her elaborate disordered hair and costume.

Island of Tsubushi

photographed by Itō Seiu

A monochrome photograph features a kimono-clad woman posed low to the ground while displaying the traditional flattened Shimada hairstyle known as tsubushi shimada.

Street of the Great Torrent

Ogata Itsuma; illustrations by Sano Hiroshi

A serialized crime-and-erotic suspense story follows a male narrator investigating a mysterious woman linked to gangsters, a murder, and a series of threatening encounters. The illustrated narrative features abduction, physical restraint, pursuit, rescue attempts,…

While I Count to One Hundred

model Haruhi Rumi; tormentor Itabuki Makiko

A photographic bondage scene shows model Haruhi Rumi restrained with rope while tormentor Itabuki Makiko counts to one hundred, emphasizing sustained restraint and endurance.

Until the Binding Is Complete: Photographic Explanation

demonstration by Tsujimura Takashi; model Itabuki Makiko

A step-by-step photographic explanation demonstrates how to bind a model’s wrists, arms, torso, and legs with rope, including wrapping the rope across the chest and securing the body in a completed restraint.

Do Not Hurt Me Too Much

model Itabuki Makiko; tormentor Haruhi Rumi

A staged photographic scene depicts Haruhi Rumi physically restraining Itabuki Makiko in a wrestling-like hold while the captive protests against excessive pain.

My Lady! A Rope-Free Torment Game

model Itabuki Makiko; tormentor Haruhi Rumi

A photo sequence demonstrates a rope-free torment game in which a dominant woman physically restrains and overpowers a pleading male participant through positional control.

Awaiting the Captive Model

Haruhi Rumi

A staged portrait presents model Kasuga Rumi in a characteristic pose, holding a long cane while awaiting the appearance of a captive or subjected model.

The Threatening Pose

Haruhi Rumi

A tense staged photograph shows Kasuga Rumi poised to swing a whip, emphasizing the anticipation and threat of imminent corporal punishment.

Humiliation Toward a Human Husband

Haruhi Rumi and Itabuki Makiko

A photographic scene depicts a dominant woman disciplining and humiliating a male “human dog” who has failed to learn his tricks.

A Bloody History of American Gangsters

Kuroki Tetsuyuki; illustrations by Yamashita Shūhei

An illustrated historical account of American gang culture, tracing the rise of organized crime from nineteenth-century urban gangs through Prohibition-era bootlegging and later gang conflicts. It profiles notorious figures and episodes involving violence, robbery,…

Triumphant Song

Haruhi Rumi and Itabuki Makiko

A photographic scene shows a woman taunting and triumphing over a bound male submissive while contemplating his further punishment.

Newlywed Game: Dance

Taki Reiko

An illustrated domestic scene presents a newlywed quarrel in which the wife is tied up and threatened with being made to drink salt water as her husband reacts to her appearance.

Newlywed Game: Cat

Taki Reiko

An erotic illustration shows a newlywed dressed for housework bound upright while a household cat plays around her feet in the morning light.

Binding with a Folding Ladder

Taki Reiko

A sequence of erotic illustrations presents nude figures tied into varied positions on and around a folding ladder, emphasizing the ladder as a bondage apparatus.

Fantastic Dream

Sugihara Nijiko

A surreal erotic dream illustration depicts a nude woman amid candle wax, a knife, a snake, and chain-like restraint imagery, creating an atmosphere of danger and fantasy.

Romantic Sadism: Notes of a Woman Who Loves to Be Tormented

Furumi Kaoru

A first-person essay reflects on romantic sadism through observations of couples, jealousy, literary and cinematic images, and the author’s own attraction to eroticized domination and suffering.

Mask Theatre

Miyamoto Mikiya

An illustrated serialized erotic drama set in a Tokyo striptease theater, following backstage encounters among performers, managers, and visitors. The narrative develops through seduction, jealousy, coercive sexual situations, and staged displays of bodily control…

Scattered Flowers of the Crotch-Rope Split

Tayama Akira

This historical erotic tale set in the Tokugawa period follows intrigue within a samurai household, forbidden desire, abduction, interrogation, and escalating restraint and corporal punishment culminating in violent sexualized retribution.

The Blood Festival of Akiba

Iwasaki Sakae; illustrations by Nozaki Kōsaku

A serialized historical erotic narrative depicting a violent confrontation among rival gangs and swordsmen at Akiba. The story combines combat, murder, abduction, captivity, and coercive sexualized domination, accompanied by dramatic illustrations of the battles…

Blindfolds and Masks

Kishii Yōsaku

An illustrated essay examines blindfolds and masks as devices of sensory restriction and erotic stimulation, discussing their psychological and aesthetic effects through photographic examples and a reader contribution.

Confession of a Certain Masochistic Man

Saishōgo, romanization uncertain

A personal confession traces a man's masochistic development from adolescent fantasies through adult relationships, describing his attraction to female control, bondage, humiliation, and sadomasochistic domestic encounters.

The Ace of Spades

A first-person male narrator recounts a series of encounters with vulnerable or intoxicated women, escalating into coercion, bodily violence, apparent killings, and attempts to evade discovery. The episodic illustrated narrative combines sexualized domination with…

The Secret of the Beautiful Boy

Yamaguchi Kōichi

An erotic narrative follows a beautiful adolescent whose unusual appearance and vulnerability make him the object of classmates' curiosity, coercive undressing, physical inspection, and voyeuristic fascination.

American Police Interrogation

A. G. Hopkins; translated by Itō Shizuo

A translated exposé of American police interrogation practices, focusing on the coercive “third degree,” physical abuse, electric shocks, intimidation, and forced confessions. It also recounts case examples involving murder investigations, suspicious deaths, and police…

From Husband to Wife

Kurume Eizō

Presented as an exchange between husband and wife, this erotic correspondence reflects on marital intimacy, mutual bondage, role reversal, and the couple's effort to incorporate restraint into everyday married life.

Confession of a Woman Mad About Young Women’s Feet

Sakai Mahō

A first-person confession traces the author’s lifelong fixation on young women’s feet, including collecting, smelling, stealing, and seeking opportunities for intimate contact with footwear and feet.

Japanese Master Thief Legends, Part One: Nippon Saemon

Iwaki Taizō

The first installment of a historical erotic crime narrative about the master thief Nippon Saemon and his associates, including Shōbei and Akiko. Set amid Edo-period households and robberies, the story combines theft, seduction, coercion,…

My Seppuku Game

Kawai Itsuko

A woman recounts a marital erotic role-play centered on seppuku, involving ritualized violence, knife play, restraint, and the dangerously blurred boundary between staged fantasy and real injury.

Infatuation

Oniyama Yakusaku, romanization uncertain

This extended erotic narrative follows Miki’s obsessive relationship with Kiyomi through jealousy, domination, sexual coercion, punishment, restraint, and recurring fascination with her feet and body.

Rebel Dillinger, Part One

Kaneko Ryūji

The first installment of a sensationalized account of American gangster John Dillinger, tracing his troubled youth, turn to robbery, prison escapes, armed bank raids, relationships with women, and escalating confrontations with police and the…