Brief Film Review: The Mature Person

Higashitsuyama Murai Eishu

Fiction: Flower and Snake

Kyotaro Hanamaki

A creative captivity narrative centered on abduction, criminal power, rope binding, gagging, interrogation, punishment, confinement, and attempted rescue, with wealthy captives and pursuers moving through numbered episodes.

Dream Bondage Special Selection

A photographic portfolio presents women in elaborate rope bondage in forest and indoor settings, including tree bondage, tied limbs, blindfolding, gagging, and varied restrained positions.

The Smell of Leather

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration centers on a restrained woman and leather-associated imagery, emphasizing the sensory and fetishistic appeal of leather within a staged bondage scene.

The Willow Room

Kurokawa Fujio

An illustrated installment in the Kurokawa Fujio series depicts a woman bound and gagged in a confined room, combining captivity imagery with erotic restraint.

The Circus Girl

Kurokawa Fujio

An erotic illustration titled “The Circus Girl,” credited to Kurokawa Fujio, depicts a circus performer in an intimate and physically constrained encounter with a male figure.

At the End of the Lady Attendant’s Bloody Struggle

An erotic period-drama illustration shows a partially undressed woman seated with a sword across her lap, evoking a violent struggle involving a lady attendant.

Mourning After the Lord

An erotic historical illustration depicts a bare-breasted woman on a rooftop or balcony holding a sword, suggesting pursuit and devotion to a feudal lord.

The Husband Under Her Heel

An erotic illustration portrays a woman physically dominating a prone husband, who lies beneath her in a posture of submission.

Training the Human Horse

An illustrated scene depicts the training of a human “horse,” with a woman seated astride and controlling a man on all fours while another woman participates with a brush.

Women’s Combat Picture Scroll

This illustrated picture-scroll feature presents women engaged in stylized erotic combat and wrestling, including scenes of one woman pinning or straddling another.

Beautiful Restraint

A photographic portfolio depicts a woman in elaborate rope restraints, emphasizing varied bound poses, bodily display, and the visual aesthetics of kinbaku.

The Germination of Inversion

Katsuura Misao

Katsuura Misao’s autobiographical narrative traces the development of a gender-nonconforming and sexually “inverted” identity from childhood through family experience, theatrical performance, fetish interests, and adult relationships.

Desire to Become a Slave

Shishitsubo Akira

A masochistic erotic fiction follows a man who volunteers to become a woman’s slave and undergoes ritualized service, restraint, commands, and corporal punishment within a mistress-centered fantasy.

The Hidden Side of Human Nature

Tanimura Tetsugen

An essay examines the concealed impulses of human nature through readers’ erotic advertisements, confessions, fantasies, and accounts of bondage, punishment, fetishism, and voyeuristic curiosity.

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A long-form erotic narrative follows a group of women and men through elaborate scenes of captivity, restraint, punishment, humiliation, and shifting dominance in a stylized underworld setting.

Fantasy: On My Recent Work

Fujiyama Hide緒

The artist reflects on his recent erotic drawings, explaining his recurring fantasies of powerful women, horse-riding imagery, bodily display, restraint, violence, and dramatic encounters between male and female figures.

The Captured Girl

Sugaya Harumi

A poetic fantasy depicts a girl being captured, tightly bound, immobilized, and subjected to coercive treatment, with sustained attention to her restrained body and helplessness.

A Fantasy of Diapers

Tsuchimaru Mie

This first-person fantasy recounts an adult fascination with diapers, including imagined shopping, wearing floral diaper covers, bodily accidents, exposure, and the humiliation associated with wetness and dependence.

Hymn to Beloved Skin

Edogawa Maruo

A confessional narrative centers on an intense admiration for a brother’s male body and fundoshi loincloth, portraying intimate dressing, bathing, exercise, bodily discipline, and submissive fascination within a domestic relationship.

Three-Way Mirror

Shōji Mitsuhiko

An illustrated essay celebrates women’s abdomens and midsections, discussing the appeal of soft, rounded stomachs and presenting close-up erotic photographs in a documentary-style visual feature.

High-School Girls’ Sumo Championship

Yamagishi Misao

A personal erotic narrative describes fascination with women’s bodies and the use of a three-way mirror during intimate observation, alongside discussion of enemas and abdominal imagery.

A Woman Weeping at the Shackles of Fate and the Championship

Omatsu Hiyoshi

A detailed report on a high-school girls’ sumo championship records the competitors, bouts, techniques, rules, spectators, and dramatic match outcomes, framing female athletic combat as spectacle.

A Woman’s Encounter with the Fate of the Pillory

Fukuda Hideo

A first-person account follows a woman born to a poor unmarried mother, adopted into a harsh household, and subjected to exploitation, humiliation, and punitive abuse that shape her later life.

A Woman’s Tears at the Entrance to the Rubber Club

Baba Mamoru

A woman describes being introduced to a rubber-fetish club, where initiation, club rules, rubber garments and masks, staged demonstrations, and degrading bodily practices define the group’s erotic culture.

The Rubber Maniac’s Play

Umekawa Sachiko

An illustrated fetish narrative celebrates rubber clothing and equipment through scenes of a woman wearing a complete waterproof outfit, mask, gloves, and belt while moving through heavy rain and savoring the sensations of enclosure…

Female Slave Story

Saji Mazō

A serialized SM narrative follows a woman’s arrest and imprisonment as she is interrogated, restrained, transported, subjected to corporal punishment and forced labor, and repeatedly humiliated by guards and fellow prisoners.

The Girls’ Dormitory’s Secret Initiation Game

Takagi Kie

A fictional girls’ dormitory initiation game develops into a series of wrestling matches in which the defeated participants are forced into humiliating “surrender” play, accompanied by illustrations of female restraint and physical domination.

Another Invitation to Suspension

Nakada Akira

An essay invites renewed interest in suspension bondage, discussing the visual and emotional appeal of hanging restraint and presenting suspension as a dramatic form of SM performance and erotic imagery.

The Mire of the Mad Banquet

Katsura Makujirō

A serialized crime-and-captivity fantasy follows a narrator drawn into a night of theft, abduction, and sadistic bondage involving a deceased man’s household and a young woman, blending grotesque suspense with erotic coercion.

Thirty-Nine Nights: Eighteenth Night

Tsujimura Takashi

A serialized SM fiction narrative depicts women being held in an underground setting and subjected to bondage, invasive medical procedures, drugs, and bodily punishment, presented through sensational dialogue and illustrations.

Become My Tyrant

Izumi Keiko

A fictional account follows a woman who asks an older man to become her tyrant, leading to scenes of domestic restraint, discipline, and willing submission illustrated as an erotic power exchange.

Cutting the Abdomen

Kawaguchi Tomiyoshi

A sensational fictionalized narrative centers on a Japanese military officer’s seppuku or harakiri, detailing ritual preparation, abdominal cutting, bloodshed, and the observers’ reactions.

Journey to Sardinia

Aruma Mataji

A travelogue describing the author’s journey through Sardinia, where encounters with an affluent household and bathhouse culture lead to elaborate scenes of female servitude, restraint, punishment, and captivity.

Obese-Body Ecstasy

Kawaba Zōnosuke

A first-person essay exploring an intense erotic fascination with obese bodies through personal memories, imagined encounters, dreams, and scenes of sensual submission and bodily admiration.

Recent Bondage Films

Higashiyama Fuminosuke

A short review of recent Japanese films featuring bondage, abduction, punishment, and tied female characters, with commentary on their staging and sensational appeal.

The Feel of a Flannel Waistcloth

Fukuda Chitoki

Fukuda Chitoki recalls developing an erotic fascination with the texture, color, smell, and intimate associations of women’s flannel waistcloths, tracing the fetish from childhood memories through later attempts to acquire and wear them.

From S to M

Yamada Natsuko

Yamada Natsuko presents a confessional account of moving from an earlier sadistic orientation toward masochistic self-conception, describing desires for restraint, humiliation, male control, and eventual submission.

Nostalgia for the Toilet

Kimura Sadakichi

Kimura Sadakichi’s confession explores an erotic fixation on diarrhea, defecation, toilets, and the loss of bodily control, recounting laxative use, enemas, accidents, shame, and the tension between private gratification and ordinary social life.

Biographies of Courageous Contemporary Women

Morooka Katao

A biographical feature on physically formidable contemporary women, especially female martial-arts practitioners, presenting their training, competitive achievements, and ability to challenge conventional assumptions about women’s strength.

Drama Classroom

Okamoto Masaharu

An account of a school drama classroom in which a teacher guides children through rehearsals, role-playing, costumes, and performances while reflecting on student creativity and changing educational culture.

A Splendid Punishment

Ōnaka Masatada

An erotic narrative about women subjected to elaborate rope-tying and punitive training, with extended scenes of restraint, physical vulnerability, humiliation, and endurance illustrated through staged drawings.

First Gravure Portfolio: The Composition of a Certain Moment

A photographic gravure portfolio presenting staged bondage tableaux in which women are tied, gagged, posed, and subjected to varied forms of positional restraint.

Illustration Portfolio: Interrogation, Seppuku, Restraint, Foot Worship, and Branding

An illustration portfolio depicting eroticized interrogation and punishment scenes, including restrained women, seppuku imagery, foot-focused submission, and branding motifs.

Second Gravure Portfolio: Sketches of Bondage Scenes

A second photographic portfolio showing staged bondage sketches in domestic, outdoor, and seated settings, with rope restraint, gagging, and immobilized poses as recurring motifs.

The Inn of Pleasure and Cruelty

Shibari Toshikichi

A fictional narrative set around an inn follows a couple whose encounters with female staff and guests develop into elaborate scenes of rope bondage, coercion, humiliation, and sexual domination.

Notes of a Gun and Bondage Maniac: Conversations at My Bar

Yoshino Mayumi

A hybrid feature combines barroom conversations and personal notes about bondage interests with an account of photographer and model Mizumoto Shigemi, including staged restraint scenes and reflections on bondage aesthetics and technique.

Temptation of the White Nape

Kakinuma Kōjirō

This erotic narrative and visual feature centers on the binding and sexualized humiliation of a woman, presenting both imagined domestic scenes and photographic or illustrative representations of rope restraint.

Film Report: The Bondage Acting of an Actress

Minamikata Yoshio

A film report examines how actresses perform bondage roles, discussing the physical and emotional demands of restraint scenes, cinematic realism, direction, and the distinctive acting styles of several Japanese actresses.

Woman and Snake, Part 2

Hanamaki Sōtarō

The second installment of this serialized erotic captivity narrative follows a married couple subjected to abduction, rope restraint, financial coercion, voyeuristic humiliation, and escalating sadistic abuse by a criminal group.

Chronology of Blind Love

Edosei Sakio

This erotic life chronicle follows the troubled development of a blind man whose wartime loss, poverty, resentment, dependency, and encounters with women lead to coercive and destructive intimate relationships.

A Bondage Confession Between Brothers

Sekine Teruo

A confessional erotic narrative follows two brothers whose shared domestic life develops into intimate bondage and fetish play, including ritualized clothing, restraint, and submission.

Experimental-Room Report: A Diaper-Cover Maniac’s Prototype

Sanjō Takushi

This experimental-room report gives illustrated, practical instructions for making and wearing a rubber diaper cover, discussing materials, measurements, sewing, elastic fittings, comfort, and its fetish appeal.

New Women’s Underwear Usable in S-Play

Arutame Mataji

An illustrated design feature presents unconventional women’s underwear and S-play devices made from items such as rubber, bottle caps, shells, cans, and belts, with directions for construction, fastening, and use.

Exploring a Slave Nation: A Visit to Sardinia

Arutame Mataji

A fictionalized visit to Sardinia depicts a male observer encountering women subjected to elaborate bondage, discipline, punishment, and service under female authority, including cages, chains, gags, riding restraints, and other specialized apparatus.

A Certain Crystal Fantasist’s Reverie

Saji Mazō

A first-person reverie describes an intense fetishistic fantasy centered on observing women’s legs, stockings, skirts, shoes, and bodily movement, blending voyeuristic attention with imagined erotic pursuit.

Somewhere in the Universe

Izumi Tatsunosuke

A long-form first-person SM fiction follows a household maid subjected to confinement, bondage, humiliating punishments, coercive service, and repeated attempts to escape or resist, including episodes involving a secret erotic show, police intervention, and…

The Woman on the Auction Block

Izumi Tatsunosuke

A serialized erotic captivity narrative follows a white woman who is seized, displayed on an auction block, sold to rough men, and subjected to escalating coercion, humiliation, and restraint before her resistance and fate…

The Punishment Corset

Kobayashi Norio

A first-person experiential account describes the design, fitting, and use of a restrictive punishment corset, illustrated with construction diagrams and scenes of prolonged bodily restraint and disciplinary control.

The Innocent Devil

Odake Norio

A serialized erotic fantasy follows a young man whose encounters around a river, a mysterious girl, and an uncanny older figure blur desire, voyeurism, coercion, and supernatural menace.

I Want to Become a Wife: An Eternal Wish

A first-person confession describes a male narrator’s enduring wish to become a wife, including cross-dressing, feminine self-fashioning, and fantasies of marriage, domesticity, and acceptance by a male partner.

Conceptions of Female Seppuku: Wives of the Loyalists

Tsujimura Takashi

This sensational historical-erotic piece imagines the wives of loyalist warriors undertaking female seppuku, combining samurai-era sacrifice with graphic, ritualized descriptions of abdominal cutting and death.

Thirty-Nine Nights: Nineteenth Night

Tsujimura Takashi

A serialized erotic fantasy follows Yoshimura’s encounters with Reihō, a Taiwanese woman whose bound feet become the focus of his fascination, leading to coercive sexual encounters involving foot fetishism, rope bondage, gagging, punishment, and…

Play with You

Nakada Akira

This reader-oriented visual commentary discusses staged bondage photographs and fantasies of restraint, including suspension and forced display, while reflecting on how such images affect their viewers and the magazine’s audience.

Confessional Thoughts

A confessional essay explores the author’s intense fascination with women’s armpits and body contours, combining fetishistic observation, imagined scenes, and reflections on the appeal of photographing or viewing the body.

Various Forms of Punishment Around the World

Aramori Jūsuke

A comparative historical survey of corporal and capital punishments practiced in Japan, China, Europe, and elsewhere, describing methods such as execution, torture, mutilation, suspension, burning, drowning, and other forms of bodily and public punishment,…

First Gravure: Rope-Bondage Studies

A photographic portfolio presents rope-bondage studies of models in varied seated, kneeling, standing, and floor-bound positions, often incorporating blindfolds, gags, and elaborate body wrapping.

The Kokeshi Cage

Shima Takashi

Shima Takashi’s illustration depicts a woman bound and gagged on a bed within a confined domestic setting, emphasizing elaborate restraint and captivity.

Human-Ginseng Gag

Shima Takashi

Shima Takashi’s illustration portrays a woman immobilized with her wrists and ankles tied and a carrot-shaped gag secured to a chain in a domestic interior.

Suspension Punishment

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a man suspended and restrained on a wooden apparatus as part of a punishment scene, with a woman assisting or overseeing the ordeal.

The Female Bandit’s Seppuku

Taki Reiko

An eroticized historical illustration presents a tattooed female bandit beside a sword in a seppuku scene, combining Japanese criminal imagery with death and execution.

Punishment of the Soles

Taki Reiko

An erotic illustration depicts a woman imposing punishment on a prone man through pressure involving the soles of the feet.

Enema and Diaper

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a diapered woman restrained on the floor beside enema equipment, combining infantilized presentation with an enema scene.

Water from a Rubber Boot

Shima Takashi

An illustration shows a woman bound to a chair while a man uses a rubber boot to pour or administer water to her, emphasizing coercive restraint and boot-centered fetish imagery.

Baby Car

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a woman restrained in a baby carriage or chair while an older man feeds her, surrounded by baby-related objects and presenting a childlike dependency scenario.

Second Gravure: Kneeling and Floor-Bondage Studies

A photographic gravure presents models in varied kneeling, seated, and floor-bound positions, using ropes, blindfolds, and gags to study the visual composition of restrained bodies.

The Conception and Ideas of Cigarette Torture

Arai Tamotsu

A prose-and-illustration feature develops staged scenarios of cigarette-based punishment involving restrained women, emphasizing dramatic poses, smoke, and the visual conception of bondage scenes.