Tomoko Training Travel Record: The Flame-Bound Girl Who Burned in Naniwa

Shima Shikō

A photographic BDSM travelogue follows Tomoko from Tokyo to Osaka and Kyoto, documenting hotel-room scenes and the equipment, settings, and routines used during her training. The narrative describes escalating bondage, restraint, sensory stimulation, impact…

Reader Correspondence

A reader-correspondence section featuring letters from S&M enthusiasts across Japan. Contributors discuss bondage practice and photography, share personal experiences and requests for exchanges or advice, and participate in the magazine’s network of readers and…

Yuga Salon

A mixed reader-and-community feature presenting personal notices, requests for S&M partners, bondage photographs and illustrations, and reports on specialized rooms and equipment. The section also includes reader commentary and promotional material oriented toward exchanging…

Shūsei Saibun

Yamaguchi Akito

An editorial apologizes for production and editorial shortcomings in the previous issue, including improperly trimmed pages, and explains the launch of the special S&M issue as part of a broader rethinking of the magazine’s…

A Bound Model—In Seiu’s Studio

Watanabe Buichi

A full-page historical photograph introduces the Seiu feature through a posed bound model in the artist’s studio. The image establishes the issue’s concern with the relationship between erotic representation, studio practice, and visual documentation.

Gravure: Selected Masterworks by Seiu

A gravure sequence presents selected Seiu-related images and photographic material, establishing the artist’s recurring motifs of posed bodies, elaborate costume, hair, restraint, and theatrical composition.

The Forbidden Photo Album

This visual archive juxtaposes staged photographs of models, Seiu at work, private photographic records, drawings, and paintings. Its accompanying prose frames the photographs as records of artistic experiments and historical erotic imagery rather than…

An Autobiography in Self-Portraits

Itō Seiu

Seiu’s own autobiographical record traces his childhood, education, poverty, entry into newspaper work, artistic formation, marriage, professional struggles, binding practice, illness, and old age. Drawings, photographs, newspaper imagery, and studio scenes make the memoir…

About My Father, Seiu

Itō Kiku

Itō Kiku offers a daughter’s account of Seiu’s personality, household life, artistic work, marriage, and family tensions. The contribution shifts the feature from self-narration to domestic testimony and the preservation of a difficult artistic…

The True Character of Seiu, the Seme-e Artist

This visual and cultural-history section presents Seiu’s drawings and collected observations of peddlers, charms, superstitions, shop signs, lanterns, street life, erotic imagery, and sideshow culture. It portrays the artist as an observer of vernacular…

Seiu and Me

Mochizuki Meika

Mochizuki recounts discovering Seiu’s work in a secondhand bookstore and reflects on collecting, private looking, embarrassment, fascination, and the power of disturbing erotic images. Reproductions of Seiu-related works accompany the personal art-critical narrative.

Seiu’s One Hundred Ghost Stories

A largely visual portfolio of ghostly, grotesque, supernatural, and uncanny imagery associated with Seiu and related collections. It includes long-format paintings, ghost pictures, monsters, spirits, theatrical scenes, and a collection attributed to the rakugo…

My Investigation into Itō Seiu

Fukutomi Tarō

Fukutomi reconstructs Seiu’s career and afterlife through encounters with collectors, dealers, publishers, artists, and surviving works. The essay examines private archives, the circulation of erotic and supernatural imagery, and the effort to restore Seiu…

Guide to Upcoming Exhibitions, Recommended CDs, Books, Films, and More

A service-oriented page supplies references connected with the issue’s art-historical material and announces exhibitions and cultural offerings. It functions as documentary and community-facing editorial back matter rather than a single authored essay.

Super Artist: Yanase Masamu’s Busy Forty-Five Years

Yanase Masamu

This richly illustrated retrospective follows Yanase from childhood talent through avant-garde painting, proletarian art, graphic design, manga, stage work, political illustration, wartime activity, arrest, and repression. Reproduced paintings, posters, cartoons, stage designs, and photographs…

Come Back to Life! Okinawa’s Glittering Gold Figures

The feature introduces Ryūkyū royal portraiture and court culture, explaining Chinese-derived dress and rank systems, maritime exchange, wartime destruction, and the reconstruction of lost cultural heritage from surviving images and prewar records.

Fifty Postwar Years Surveyed through Book Design

A retrospective exhibition surveys Japanese book covers, bindings, typography, materials, and publishing culture from 1946 to 1995. The feature treats book design as a visual record of changing social periods and cultural movements.

What a Curiosity! Sakai Hōitsu’s Rare Folding-Screen Masterpiece

Sakai Hōitsu

A visual presentation of a rare folding screen attributed to Sakai Hōitsu focuses on autumn grasses, flowers, vines, a rabbit, surface texture, and Rimpa atmosphere. Additional works and collection history place the screen within…

Do You Know the Kōshin Belief?

This illustrated cultural history explains Kōshin observance, the three worms that report human wrongdoing, longevity beliefs, communal night gatherings, temples, talismans, statues, and regional devotional practice. Historical images are set beside contemporary photographs of…

Stardust, World Art, and International Exhibition News

Various

A multi-item news department surveys exhibitions, design, fashion, photography, film, contemporary art, political art, collecting, and museum activity in Japan and abroad. It includes short notices on Meiji imperial holdings, Scandinavian design, contemporary Asian…

An Artist’s Happy Home, No. 47: Jim Dine

Minamikawa Sanjirō

Minamikawa profiles Jim Dine through photographs and commentary on his home, studio, furniture, books, ceramics, collections, and working environment. The domestic setting is presented as an extension of Dine’s artistic imagination and transatlantic cultural…

A Plainspoken History of Japanese Art, 21: Tōdai-ji’s Great South Gate

Hashimoto Osamu

Hashimoto revisits Tōdai-ji’s Nandaimon through personal memory and close observation of architecture, weathered materials, reconstruction, scale, and Buddhist guardian figures. The essay questions detached academic categorization in favor of embodied aesthetic experience.

Walking through the Autumn Fields—The Life of Aizu Yaichi, Part 3

Kudō Miyoko

Kudō traces Aizu Yaichi’s family origins, the Aizu inn and pleasure-quarter environment, Niigata’s urban history, education, literature, and cultural formation. Maps, ukiyo-e, family photographs, documents, and genealogy connect individual biography with late-Edo and Meiji…

Serial: Visiting Thousand-Year-Old Hot Springs, No. 11—The Kaga Hot-Spring District

Matsufuji Shōhei

This travel and photo essay moves through Awazu, Katayamazu, Yamanaka, and Yamashiro, combining hot springs, Buddhist monuments, sacred Mount Hakusan, historic inns, local streets, food, tourism, and Yamanaka lacquerware. It presents regional heritage as…

Abusive/Disciplinary Infirmary

A staged bondage-photography portfolio set in a school or infirmary-like environment, using chairs, desks, ropes, blindfolds, gags, stockings, and clinical props to construct a disciplinary visual scenario.

Kuninaka Misato

Sacred Prison of Love

A photographic bondage portfolio that shifts from rope restraint to elaborate suspension and inversion in a traditional Japanese room, emphasizing immobilization, exposed bodies, blindfolding, and staged helplessness.

Namio Harukawa Aesthetic Gallery: Pleasure Beneath the Buttocks

Namio Harukawa

A monochrome erotic illustration by Namio Harukawa, presented as a single-page aesthetic gallery item focused on explicit bodily display.

Osawa Yuka

The Wet Fleshly Marquis

Shirō Kasama

An illustrated fetish feature combining red-accented monochrome drawing, restrained female figures, animalistic fantasy, and monstrous or coercive attendants. The sequence is pictorial rather than conventionally essayistic.

Obedient Female Body Deepening Theory

A photographic portfolio presenting an obedient female body through rope restraint, fixed and suspended poses, wooden frames, candles, furniture, and assisted bondage tableaux.

Fura-chan's B-Class Sexy Illustrated Report, No. 19

Darkside of a Dream, No. 7

John Santerineross

After Becoming the Sexually Adventurous Couple's Pet Dog, I Was Not Permitted to Refuse

Internet SM World

An illustrated directory of international BDSM websites, image galleries, fetish communities, and commercial resources. It combines Japanese descriptions, URLs, screenshots, and sample images, documenting early-web circulation of SM imagery.

Obsessive Icons, No. 3

Betty Blind

Hinako Hina: Slightly Different

The Flight of the Sensual Beasts

A continuing illustrated erotic sequence featuring staged bondage, group participation, domestic and social settings, and sequential visual storytelling with red and pink accents.

Days of Roses

Shura no Bisōka

A serialized erotic narrative involving a student, a teacher, and an older domestic figure, developing from voyeurism and stolen clothing into filming, restraint, exposure, humiliation, and shifting control within family and school relationships.

Portrait of a Self-Harming M, No. 8

Kobayashi Kasumi

mira:mandara, No. 8

Extremely Wicked Correspondence, No. 28

Tokyo Kinbaku, No. 16

Araki Nobuyoshi

Female Undercover Investigator Lady Dog, No. 32

Unrestrained Flesh

Kaiyō Kuride

A long erotic story about a reunion with an old friend’s wife that develops into adultery, voyeuristic fantasy, marital manipulation, bondage, filming, humiliation, and sadomasochistic escalation, accompanied by monochrome illustrations.

The Beast’s Trial of Love

A serialized narrative in which Mutsuki is forced into a household marriage and trained as a so-called beast’s wife through collars, ropes, animal metaphors, domestic servitude, humiliation, and coercive sexual control.

Selected Reader Confession Photographs, No. 36

An Extremely Private M Time, No. 60

Rina's Truth

British SM Correspondence

Omolia Gabriel Coco & Harukichi

Debauchery Like an Arrow

Maki Kaori and Yamazaki Muhei

A serialized psychological erotic narrative set partly in hospitals and psychiatric institutions, involving sexual exploitation, surveillance, medication, humiliation, memory loss, confinement, and uncertainty about the boundary between trauma, fantasy, and reality.

Abu Life, No. 45

The Happiness of Flesh for Sale

A long illustrated narrative in which financial debt is used to pressure a university student into staged sexual encounters organized by a married couple. The story emphasizes commodification, spectatorship, restraint, humiliation, and scripted abuse.

Saffron’s Feminine Scent

Hanakage Wataru and Sakihata Yūji

A continuing erotic narrative centered on Suiko and several men who watch, restrain, display, and sexually possess her. Jewelry, rings, ropes, clothing, bodily adornment, marriage, and artistic objectification structure the story’s recurring fetish imagery.

The Solitary Tormentor Chiba: The Truth of Commissioned Training

Degenerate Video Delivery

Marron and Ecureuil, No. 37

A Deviant's Full-Contact Essays, No. 236

Fetish News Express

True Manual for the Dissection of the Sexual Girl

Dirty Conversation: The Mad Age of Kinbaku: Yukimura Haruki, Women, Rope, and the Life of a Bakushi! Part Three

Yukimura Haruki

The Age of Kinbaku, No. 3

Modified Girl REIKA 8

Rope-Loving Kikkō Bondage

Hajime Watanabe

A photographic portfolio of kikkō-style rope bondage, including rear binding, suspension, inverted and spread positions, gagging, restraint furniture, outdoor scenes, and a cage. Promotional captions frame the sequence as an escalating bondage performance.

Declaration of World SM Revolutionary War, No. 36

Memories of Eroticism, No. 52

Little Box of Love, No. 241

This Month’s Pleasure/Torment Angels

A three-model photographic profile featuring Natsumi Izumida, Kiyomi Matsuura, and Minana Kinoshita, with portraits, measurements, biographical data, and eroticized descriptions linked to the issue’s color portfolios.

SM Mania Reader Presents

A reader-giveaway page offering bondage equipment, gels, vibrating devices, and adult videos while soliciting readers’ opinions about the issue’s stories and desired future features.

Sniper Forum

Childhood Sex-Mania Syndrome

Kazuki Mikawa

A serialized hospital- and school-centered fiction about coercion, abuse of authority, voyeurism, blackmail, sexual exploitation, and the destructive consequences of unequal relationships. Later chapters connect private abuse with political influence, money, and corruption.

Show Time

Noguchi Kaho: Twinkle, Twinkle

Our Ailing Neighbors

Amida Camera

The Resting Place of the Stud Dog

A continuing erotic novel involving Yukie and several men, structured around coercion, bondage, humiliation, jealousy, revenge, tattooing, forced nudity, and economic or social power. Its illustrations reinforce the narrative’s themes of captivity and ownership.