Gags, Part 3

Shinkawa Hiroo

The third installment of an extended examination of gags, discussing different gagging methods, materials, applications, and bodily effects through instructional commentary, erotic scenarios, illustrations, and references to historical and literary examples.

My Confession: A History of Abu-Love

Konno Kakiharu

A first-person confession traces the author’s erotic experimentation, including enemas, bodily pain, nudity, and other masochistic experiences.

In Takayama, Hida

Saijō Noriyo

An autobiographical erotic narrative recounts seduction, betrayal, and encounters involving captivity and bondage, accompanied by photographic illustrations.

The Gate of Purple Orchids, Part 41

Fūryū Gokudōken

Part 41 of a historical erotic serial follows Edo-period revenge and intrigue through scenes of women being captured, punished, tied, and suspended, with accompanying erotic illustrations.

The Aesthetics of Tightness

Roman-ha Sei

An illustrated essay on the aesthetics of kinbaku, comparing rope patterns, tension, posture, bodily presentation, and practical effectiveness through a sequence of photographed binding demonstrations.

Confession: Feminine Onanism

Huang Yosaburō

A first-person erotic confession presents female-centered sexual fetishism through scenes of humiliation, bodily control, fetishized odors and bodily functions, and masochistic submission, alongside an extended narrative of domestic and institutional domination.

My Long, Long Day

Shimizu Toshiaki

An illustrated reportage on performers in traditional Japanese dress explores the discomfort, endurance, and visual appeal of tight obi bindings, long sleeves, and staged bridal or geisha-like restraint scenes.

A Girl of Today: About Keiko

Takahashi Hideki

Presented as a first-person account of “Keiko,” this article describes workplace sexual interrogation, escalating verbal humiliation, and the narrator’s voyeuristic interest in a young woman’s sexual history and vulnerability, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

Naked Portent of a Wicked Prank

Inoue Kōtarō

A commentary on a photograph of a woman tightly bound at the neck, torso, thighs, ankles, and wrists, with her raised feet and restrained posture suggesting suspension and complete immobility. The writer interprets her…

Everything About the Woman Who Gave Herself Up, Kikuko

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A long-form erotic photo-report follows Kikuko, a woman preparing for marriage, through staged scenes of rope bondage, exposure, immobilization, humiliation, and escalating submission, accompanied by an explicitly subjective narrator’s commentary on her body and…

My Encounter with Youth and the Strange

Mizue Shin

A first-person reminiscence recounts the author’s early fascination with erotic bondage imagery and subsequent encounters with women, rope restraint, punishment, humiliation, and other SM experiences.

The Proposition of Rope: The Intersection of S and M

Kashiwagi Hajime

An essayistic and illustrated exploration of rope as the medium through which sadistic and masochistic roles intersect, describing techniques, restraint scenes, bodily control, and the psychological dynamics of bondage.

The Great Eruption, Part 76

Chiba Seiki

Part 76 of a serialized erotic fantasy follows the return and renewed adventures of the powerful figure Amei/Akiko amid royal courts, military retainers, female soldiers, sexual display, captivity, and elaborate coercive bondage.

Scarlet Peony Passion

Hitomi Yōtarō

An erotic first-person account follows a married couple and their companions through elaborate SM encounters involving bathing, role-play, rope restraints, blindfolding, humiliation, and staged photographic scenes.

An Unusual Wakame-Sake Incident

Tachibana Uchio

A confessional account describes a man’s fascination with feminine beauty, his use of female hormones to develop breasts and alter his appearance, and the narcissistic and sexual feelings produced by the transformation.

Woman: The Mysterious Part

Tonegawa Gorō

This essay recounts the narrator’s intense fixation on model Maeda Machiko, moving from magazine photographs and voyeuristic fascination to imagined bondage, coercion, and the tension between erotic fantasy and everyday reality.

The Aesthetics of Questioning, Continued

Funabashi Ichirō

A continuation of Funabashi Ichirō’s essay examining voyeurism as an aesthetic and psychological practice, using public toilets, peeping devices, films, bodily functions, and illustrated scenarios to explore spectatorship, secrecy, and the tension between ordinary…

An Experience of Seppuku

Yoshiya Kazuko

A sensational first-person account describing two women’s ritualized seppuku fantasy and enactment, including the preparation, bodily exposure, abdominal cutting, blood, pain, and aftermath, accompanied by graphic erotic illustrations.

The Female Prisoner, Part 12

Saji Asazō

A serialized captivity fantasy follows a female prisoner subjected to harsh surveillance, restraint, punishment, humiliating treatment, and repeated attempts to secure release or legal intervention.

A Sonnet for the Three Beautiful Flowers

Shuchi Yoshiharu

An illustrated erotic-literary feature presents imaginative tributes to three women, combining floral symbolism, animal imagery, nudity, bondage, and fantasies of female beauty, dominance, and display.

Gag, Part 4

Shinkawa Hiroo

A serialized essay on gagging examines historical Chinese and Japanese gag forms, their terminology and construction, and their erotic and disciplinary effects, illustrated with staged bondage scenes and practical variations.

The Aesthetics of Binding, Final Installment

Roman-ha Sei

The concluding installment considers binding as an aesthetic practice, discussing rope arrangement, posture, bodily display, restraint techniques, and the visual composition of photographic bondage scenes.

An SM Affair with an Older Woman

Aoyama Ken'ichi

A first-person erotic confession recounts a young man’s increasingly intimate SM affair with an older woman, combining workplace and domestic encounters with voyeuristic observation, submission, and bondage episodes.

The Gate of Shiran

Fūryū Gokudōken

A serialized Edo-period erotic SM tale follows a criminal and his associates through abduction, interrogation, elaborate rope bondage, suspension, humiliation, and coercive sexual encounters involving the characters 千登世, 豊香, and 新五郎. The installment emphasizes…

The Alluring Rubber Raincoat

Umekawa Sachiko

An essay on the erotic appeal of rubber rainwear surveys rubberized raincoats, capes, masks, gloves, boots, and related garments, combining fetish commentary with practical suggestions for wearing them in indoor, outdoor, water, and role-play…

Nostril Photography Meeting

Satō Mitsuyasu

Satō Mitsuyasu reports on a specialized nostril-photography gathering, describing the selection and posing of female models, close-up camera and lighting techniques, participants’ fetishistic fascination with noses, and several staged bondage-style photo sessions.

Image Gallery

An illustrated essay reflects on the enduring male fantasy of women willingly surrendering themselves to bondage, pairing that meditation with a staged photograph of a bound female model. The text presents the image as…

Melancholy Amid Splendor

Hayashi Shigezō

A lengthy illustrated erotic reportage follows Yamaguchi Ryōko through a staged “white sow” training scenario in which she is repeatedly bound with rope, restrained in varied positions, humiliated, and subjected to escalating sensory and…

The Sensual Sow’s Education

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

An extended historical and practical essay examines gags, discussing their literary and cultural representations, varieties, materials, techniques, and use within scenes of restraint, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

Gags

Shinkawa Hiroo

An SM couple presents a first-person account of their bondage and enema-oriented practices, including staged scenarios and bodily discipline, and appeals to readers to submit related experiences for publication.

Report and Appeal from an SM Couple

Murasaki Shiki

A serialized Edo-period erotic adventure follows abducted and restrained women, with scenes of rope bondage, captivity, coercion, humiliation, and struggle among gamblers, entertainers, and rescuers.

The Gate of Purple Orchids

Fūryū Gokudōken

This illustrated historical essay surveys women’s sumo from Edo-period references through regional folk traditions, examining its terminology, performance customs, gendered symbolism, and eroticized representations in print and popular culture.

Notes on Women’s Sumo, Part 3

Omatsu Hirahiko

A reportage-style account traces Machiko’s progression into an M-oriented lifestyle, describing her marriage, rigorous physical and sexual training, enemas and anal procedures, and staged photographic demonstrations of restraint and discipline.

The Path Machiko Followed Toward M

Haseda Kameji

An illustrated erotic narrative depicts women drawn into the “Dog Castle,” where a male master subjects them to captivity, humiliation, sexualized display, and coercive disciplinary scenes.

Captive of the Dog Castle

Mizue Shin

A practical illustrated feature discusses the design, fitting, fastening, cleaning, and use of rubber raincoats, masks, and full-body garments for restrictive, sensory, and erotic purposes.

The Tormenting Rubber Raincoat

Umekawa Sachiko

A serialized SM narrative follows Mochizuki Reiko as she is drawn into a militarized regime of command, discipline, confinement, and elaborate bondage, culminating in harsh punishments and staged restraint scenarios.

Great Eruption

Chiba Seiki

A mixed reportage and photographic feature documents Yuki’s relationship with an SM partner through interviews and an extended sequence of staged rope-bondage sessions involving varied positions, restraints, sensory control, and photographic display.

Yuki’s Sensitive Parts

Sakaki Masao

An illustrated instructional essay presents protocols and scenarios for sex-slave service, emphasizing obedience, discipline, restraint, grooming, deferential speech, humiliation, and the cultivation of a submissive role within a master–slave relationship.

Mariko’s Memo: Sex-Slave Handbook

Kitagawa Mariko

An illustrated M-faction social record follows the narrator’s European travels, casino encounters, and relationships with dominant women and submissive men, depicting staged scenes of bondage, humiliation, and sexual discipline.

M-Faction Social Record: Queen of the Casino

Onizan Kensaku

A personal letter and photographic feature recounts the writer’s long-standing desire for bondage and enemas, presenting intimate memories, fantasies, and posed scenes of restraint and enema play.

A Letter from Noriyo: I Longed for Bondage and Enemas

Saijō Noriyo

An illustrated erotic narrative follows a married man drawn into an increasingly coercive hotel encounter involving female dominance, restraint, corporal punishment, humiliation, and marital betrayal, with the apparent sexual trap also tied to financial…

Sweet Trap

Morimoto Aizō

An illustrated erotic narrative follows a married man drawn into an increasingly coercive hotel encounter involving female dominance, restraint, corporal punishment, humiliation, and marital betrayal, with the apparent sexual trap also tied to financial…

Camera Hunt: Ecstatic Inverted Suspension

Roppongi Kaoru

A photographic portfolio documents a bound woman being maneuvered through dramatic inverted suspension and other rope-restraint positions, emphasizing the spectacle of the staged scene.

Pleasure Is Right There

A sequence of staged erotic photographs depicts a woman restrained in domestic and bedroom settings, including sensory restriction and tightly bound poses presented as scenes of erotic pleasure.

Inaugural Editorial: Like the Sun and Moon

Editorial Department

The inaugural editorial introduces Sun & Moon as a specialist magazine devoted to unconventional sexuality, erotic imagination, SM culture, and perspectives excluded from mainstream society, while inviting readers and contributors to help develop its…

The Lifestyle of the Aesthetic Type: Practicalists’ Roundtable

A roundtable of experienced SM practitioners discusses their lifestyles, relationships, experimentation, and practical techniques, including bondage, needle play, photography, and the role of specialist magazines. The participants also reflect on marriage, secrecy, and balancing…

Confession of a Buttocks-Whipping Enthusiast

Kasai Rokurō

An autobiographical confession by Kasai Rokurō describing his strong interest in whipping and other forms of corporal punishment, including encounters involving restraint, role-play, and the direction of a female partner, accompanied by staged erotic…

Two Years of SM with My Sister-in-Law

Ōno Seiya

Ōno Seiya recounts two years of SM involvement with his sister-in-law, presenting a secret and emotionally complicated relationship centered on erotic experimentation, restraint, and changing sexual roles.

Relay Camera Hunt: A Red Ripe Persimmon Left on One Branch

Seta Kaiichi

A photo-reportage follows an editor’s staged bondage sessions with a married couple, combining interviews, role-play dialogue, and extensive images of rope restraint, humiliation, and changing SM dynamics.

Barbarian Girls: 8mm Home-Movie Introduction

This feature reviews and introduces the 8mm erotic home movie The Barbarian Girls, presenting its fetishized bondage, punishment, and sensational imagery as an imported film attraction.

Rope-Tying Classroom

Roppongi Kaoru

A practical lesson demonstrates the “behind-the-back A-form” tie, explaining rope placement and tension while illustrating the completed restraint on a model.

Confessional Memoir: My Wife’s Past

Tashiro Masashi

A confessional memoir recounts the narrator’s wife’s past in the nightlife business and his subsequent use of rope bondage, punishment, and staged photographs in their relationship, ending with a return to their present domestic…

Overseas SM Photo Introduction, Part One

The first installment presents overseas SM photographs, chiefly depicting Black women in fetish clothing and staged scenes of bondage, domination, and sadistic display.

Overseas SM Photo Introduction, Part Two

The second installment continues the overseas SM photo feature with additional images from a specialist Bizarre magazine, emphasizing Black female subjects in posed bondage and sadomasochistic scenes.

Pregnant-Woman Bondage

Nakamiya Sakae

An erotic reportage by Nakamiya Sakae describes a married couple’s escalating bondage photography centered on the wife’s pregnancy, including rope restraint, blindfolding, gagging, and staged domestic scenes. The accompanying photographs document varied kinbaku positions…

Pregnant Beauty

A photographic portfolio presents a pregnant model in a series of rope-bound, blindfolded, seated, standing, and floor-based poses, emphasizing the visual display of pregnancy through staged restraint.

Female Slave

Y.Y.

This photographic feature portrays a woman as a female slave through a sequence of staged rope-bondage scenes, including restrained floor and seated positions overseen by a male participant.

The M-Woman Awaiting Torment

A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman restrained in a succession of seated, standing, and floor positions, emphasizing her anticipation of torment, physical helplessness, and shame.

Training a Young Wife into an M-Woman

N.

A staged photographic sequence presents the discipline and transformation of a young wife into an M-woman through elaborate rope restraint and controlled submissive poses.

A Rope Doll in a Straitjacket

Murai

This photographic portfolio shows a rope-bound woman posed like a doll, including tightly wrapped torso and limb configurations, blindfolding, and other forms of immobilization.

Illustrated Bondage of a Voluptuous Female Body

Kawasaki R.

A photographic feature presents a woman in a series of tightly rope-bound poses, documenting Japanese kinbaku techniques and the visual aesthetics of immobilized bodies.

The Inclinations of a Masochistic Woman

Shinozaki Keiko

In a first-person erotic reportage, a woman recounts how encounters with older authority figures and later partners deepened her masochistic desires, submissive role, and interest in bondage and discipline.

Special Project: Collection of Works

Taga Kin

This special illustrated portfolio presents ten staged erotic scenes involving bondage, restraints, suspension, coercion, and sexualized punishment.

Bamboo Torment Image

Taga Kin

An illustrated feature presents bamboo-based restraint devices and positions, combining practical explanations with staged photographs of their use in bondage scenes.

Pregnant-Woman Bondage

Nakamiya Sakae

A camera-report feature follows a staged bondage photography session involving a pregnant model, including editorial dialogue, specialized restraints, posing, and the production of images for an SM publication.

The Pillar and Us

Uraga Mieko

A confessional narrative by a married woman describes incorporating a structural pillar and household settings into the couple’s consensual bondage and marital SM practices.

New Year Reflections: Seeking Better Material

Kawamoto Ryūji

Kawamoto Ryūji’s New Year editorial reflects on the difficulty of obtaining fresh, compelling material, discusses changing SM readership and publishing conditions, and calls for more distinctive contributions and participation.

Dream-Filled Nightlife

Oka Jun

An extended personal and instructional feature on domestic and marital SM presents bondage scenarios, handmade restraint equipment, role-play, and staged photographic scenes as ways for couples to explore erotic fantasy and everyday sexual life.

Sun & Moon Correspondence

The magazine’s correspondence and community pages combine editorial notices, reader and contributor communications, group introductions, submission requests, publication information, and previews of forthcoming material.

Inverted Suspension: Tormenting a Woman Like a Bagworm

A photographic feature depicts a woman bound in rope and suspended upside down from a frame, with successive views emphasizing the inverted posture, immobilization, and staged ordeal.

The Secretly Delighted Wife and the Husband’s Position: Practicalists’ Roundtable

A practicalists’ roundtable in which couples and the moderator discuss domestic restraint, including rope and belt techniques, bondage positions, sensory restriction, equipment, household staging, and the negotiation of marital roles and pleasure.

Confessional Memoir: My Wife’s Past

Hasegawa Tadao

Hasegawa Tadao’s confessional memoir reflects on his wife’s sexual past, the narrator’s changing desires and anxieties, and the ways secrecy, marriage, and fetishistic imagination shape their relationship.

A Hot Wind Swirled Through the Blazing Room

Kasai Rokurō

A first-person erotic reportage recounts a series of elaborately staged bondage sessions involving suspension, restraint, spanking, humiliation, and photographic performance, presented through extended illustrated scenes.

My First SM Photographs

Ōoka Mitsuo

A photographer describes making his first SM photographs, including recruiting a model, arranging restraints and poses, managing the shoot, and reflecting on the practical and commercial aspects of erotic image-making.

Captivated by a Chastity Belt

Segawa Toshio

This extended erotic reportage follows Rie’s sexual and relational history, her encounters with SM and bondage, and the author’s development of chastity-belt concepts and other restraint apparatus inspired by her body and behavior.

Miscellaneous Impressions of SM Play

Seki Mineo

A reflective essay considers the writer’s experiences of SM, the changing representation of bondage and sexual desire in specialist magazines, and the psychological differences between ordinary sexual relationships and SM encounters.