Homosexual Mania and Masturbation

Murazato Eiichi

Murazato Eiichi presents an autobiographical account of same-sex desire and the development of self-binding fantasies and practices, linking them to adolescent experience and fetishistic compulsion.

Lesbos Correspondence

Sonomura Keiko

A conversational salon narrative follows women meeting in cafés, beauty salons, and private settings while discussing fashion, cosmetics, travel, romance, and relationships with other women. Through lively dialogue and illustrated scenes, it depicts lesbian…

The Secret of the Beautiful Boy

Yamaguchi Kōichi

A fictional account of a teacher’s obsessive fascination with a handsome male student develops into an episode of pursuit, stripping, physical control, and outdoor bondage.

The Sorrow of a Foot Fetishist

Haruyama Tadakazu

Presented as a fetishist’s appeal to the magazine, this piece discusses foot and body-part fetishism, high-heel imagery, Western fetish publications, and the desire for more specialized reader-submitted material.

Abnormal Escape

Miki Takeshi; illustrations by Kanzaki Isao

An illustrated pulp-fiction narrative follows Yoshida Senichi, a Japanese serviceman detained in postwar Saigon, as he repeatedly escapes confinement and moves through a dangerous landscape of military authorities, civilians, and clandestine shelters. His encounters…

Until Spring Withers

Matsui Raikō

An erotic melodrama follows Misako through a troubled relationship and marriage in which jealousy, coercion, humiliation, and escalating rope restraint threaten her emotional and physical autonomy.

The Distorted Affair

Takenō Tōsuke

A serialized, illustrated collection of comic and unsettling case narratives about distorted romantic and marital relationships. Through dialogues involving spouses, lovers, parents, and alleged sexual deviants, it explores abnormal desire, domestic conflict, gossip, deception,…

From a Masochist’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

A first-person masochistic narrative depicts a servant’s erotic submission to a dominant woman, combining scenes of domestic service, humiliation, and fur-clad mistress imagery with reflections on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs and its…

The Devil’s Gale

Muramatsu Rokurō; illustrations by Jinnō Shigeharu

A dramatized true-crime casebook feature centered on the murder of nineteen-year-old Fumiko during a typhoon, when floodwater and chaotic conditions help conceal an assault and strangulation. The narrative follows witnesses, police investigators, documentary evidence,…

Female Sexuality

Saji Kōsuke

An essay and illustrated feature examines female armpits, body hair, sweat, and odor as objects of erotic fascination, interweaving sexual-psychological commentary with personal anecdotes and sensational examples.

Song of the Shore

Mimura Haruo

This first-person erotic reminiscence recalls a rural childhood relationship with an older sister and the narrator’s developing fixation on her armpits, body odor, bathing, and bodily exposure.

The Shiga Highlands Murder Case

Hoshi Hideo

A reconstructed murder-case investigation set in the Shiga Highlands, presented through an extended dialogue between investigators, journalists, and medical experts. The article examines witness statements, the victim’s clothing and bodily injuries, bloodstain patterns, autopsy…

Illustrated Mandala of Abdominal Cutting

Hōya Shirō

An extensively illustrated serialized erotic narrative depicts a young woman and boy enacting ritualized abdominal cutting, bloodletting, suffering, and death in a stylized historical setting.

The Dancer’s Strange Death

Sekine Jun; illustrations by Tsukida Hiroshi

An illustrated detective mystery about a dancer found dead under suspicious circumstances. Police investigate the room, physical evidence, witness statements, and conflicting alibis while readers are invited to identify the murderer from the clues.

Tokyo’s Bluebeard

Ogihara Hideo; illustrations by Ikegawa Tomo

A documentary-style true-crime account of a suspected serial wife murderer, reconstructed from police records, witness testimony, interrogations, and forensic examination of a woman’s corpse discovered in the ruins of postwar Shibuya. The narrative follows…

Observations of the Navel, Part Three: My Bodily-Fetish Record

Sudō Ritsuo

This personal and reflective essay examines fascination with the navel and abdomen through bodily aesthetics, intimate experience, fetishistic imagery, and references to psychological and sexological interpretation.

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

A translated and annotated selection from a 1901 German work surveys historical examples and cultural interpretations of cruel women, linking female violence and domination to changing sexual and social attitudes.

Midsummer Tragedy

Somekawa Tatsuyuki; illustrations by Oda Akio

A young woman travels to Kagoshima to stay with her married sister, only to become entangled in a violent family mystery after the sister’s husband is found murdered and his body concealed. Detective questioning,…

The Humiliation of Bengal: A Secret History of Colonial Cruelty

Kawano Kyōsuke

A sensational historical account of British colonial rule in Bengal and India, emphasizing famine, mass death, punitive violence, and the humiliation of the colonized population.

Interruption of Female Sexuality

Hayashi Yumio

An extended essay on the repression and reshaping of women’s sexuality under Japanese patriarchal family and marriage systems, connecting domestic subordination with wartime and postwar experiences and changing ideas of female autonomy.

Autopsy of a Rape-Murder Corpse

Mitani Shōsuke; illustrations by Tsunakawa Gōji

A forensic crime report describing the examination of a woman’s corpse after rape and murder. The narrative explains how autopsy findings, bodily evidence, witness accounts, and investigative reasoning are used to reconstruct the assault…

Blue Firefly

Kawada Susumu

A serialized erotic fiction featuring a married couple who develop increasingly elaborate nighttime bondage games, with the wife restrained, tied, and displayed in domestic settings amid fetishistic imagery and voyeuristic narration.

The Captured Wife

Onda Ichirō; illustrations by Oda Akio

An illustrated true-crime account of a married woman who is abducted and later found dead, followed by the police investigation into her movements, associates, and killer. Physical traces, witness testimony, and interrogation gradually expose…

Practice

Sunagawa Sakae

An illustrated erotic fiction narrative set within a touring theater troupe, where rehearsals, backstage rivalries, and performances become entangled with sexual manipulation and coercive relationships. The story follows the narrator’s interactions with actress Mikiko,…

The Mask of the Sadistic Woman

Yamada Masami, romanization uncertain

An essay on the “mask” of the sadistic woman explores female dominance, sadistic self-presentation, and the erotic significance of facial features—especially the nose—through discussion, staged scenarios, photographs, and illustrations. It presents concealment, disguise, and…

A Masochistic Man’s Secret Letter

Yanagisaki Kenji, credit reading uncertain

A first-person secret letter from a masochistic man describes his long-standing fantasies of female control, rope restraint, nudity, punishment, and staged bondage, accompanied by editorial commentary and erotic illustrations. The piece frames these desires…

Regarding a Certain Letter

Kawabata Tanako

This correspondence feature presents and answers a reader’s letter concerning erotic photographs, bondage fantasies, discreet meetings, and the emotional complications of exchanging intimate material. The editorial reply treats the exchange as part of the…

Sentimental Education, Part Ten

Kurihara Shin; text credit reading uncertain

This serialized erotic narrative follows the married Shōzō and Yuki as literary ambitions, financial pressures, jealousy, and encounters with the enigmatic S lead into increasingly coercive sexual games involving domination, submission, and bondage.

International Spy Headquarters

Nonaka Aizō

A sensational spy-prison narrative traces the persecution and captivity of women connected with Shanghai and wartime China, depicting interrogation, torture, sexualized humiliation, executions, and the harsh operations of an international espionage organization.

Seme in Contemporary Literature

Murata Seiichi

A literary-critical essay examines depictions of coercion, domination, violence, and disciplinary sexuality in modern Japanese fiction, connecting these motifs to military experience, gender relations, and readers’ emotional responses.

In Beautiful May

Furukawa Hiroko, credit reading uncertain

An extended first-person erotic narrative presents a woman’s fantasies and experiences of sadistic and masochistic sexuality, including bondage, humiliation, marital conflict, punishment, and the tension between sexual desire and social respectability, accompanied by erotic…

Regarding It

Forty-Six

A recurring personal essay or reader contribution reflects on erotic fascination with women’s noses and responds to the magazine’s earlier discussion and imagery of this body-part fetish.

Three Forms of the Female Nose

contributor credit unclear

A nose-focused aesthetic and fetishistic essay compares three forms of the female nose, using photographic examples and discussing beauty standards, cosmetic presentation, and attempts to emphasize or alter the nose’s appearance.

Reader Correspondence, Editorial Material, Binding Diagrams, and Publication Notices

multiple contributors

A mixed reader-and-editorial section presents correspondence, forthcoming issue announcements, subscription and ordering information, manuscript guidelines, and illustrated instructions for tying or binding garments.

Three Scenes by Itō Kōzō: Jealousy, Cruelty, and Exposure

Itō Kōzō

A sequence of erotic illustrations dramatizes a husband’s jealousy and desire for revenge after his wife elopes, presenting scenes of marital betrayal, punishment, and exposure.

The White Queen of the Ruined City

Suzuki Gyosui

An erotic illustration from “The White Queen of the Ruined City” depicts a dominant woman physically controlling and restraining a submissive man in a stylized fantasy scene.

Women’s Wrestling

Taki Reiko

An illustrated feature depicting women engaged in dramatic wrestling holds and falls, emphasizing physical struggle and eroticized competition.

American Photo

This photographic feature presents staged American bondage scenes in which a woman is chained or strapped to beds, tables, and chairs in varied restrained positions.

September Field Scene

Itō Seiu

A September-themed illustrated scene presents women wrestling outdoors in a stylized, eroticized composition accompanied by seasonal literary text.

Pasture Story

Kaiji Kazuhisa, credit reading uncertain

A serialized erotic narrative follows Susan at a rural pasture as conflicts with her employers and their associates lead to coercion, captivity, bondage, humiliation, attempted escape, and violent sexual domination.

The Martyrdom of Saint Concordia

Nakagawa Ayako

An illustration and accompanying note depict the martyrdom of Saint Concordia, emphasizing her public stripping, whipping, killing, and sacred suffering.

The Miracle of Saint Agnes

Nakagawa Ayako

An illustrated account of Saint Agnes recounts her refusal of a Roman prefect’s marriage proposal, her threatened sexual violence and execution, and her miraculous survival at the stake before being killed by the sword.

Flower and Flower

This erotic illustration titled “Flower and Flower” portrays two nude women in an intimate reclining embrace.

From History

Nakagawa Ayako

A historical illustrated feature surveys scenes of captivity, confinement, torture, and punishment, drawing on religious, classical, and legendary sources and emphasizing the spectacle of restrained bodies.

The Color Quarter of Akegarasu

Muramatsu Rokuryō

A serialized historical erotic narrative follows the courtesan Sayoye and the men around her through episodes of seduction, jealousy, coercion, bondage, punishment, and sexualized power struggles in an early-modern pleasure-quarter setting.

Woman Cast into a Rocky Stream

A photographic scene depicts a woman lying among rocks in a rushing mountain stream, with a caption describing her being tied supine to a log spanning the water.

Record of Outdoor Binding: Sun-Drying on a Pine Trunk

Tsujimura Takashi; model Itō Masako

This photographic record presents a woman bound against the trunk of a pine tree in an outdoor setting, emphasizing public exposure and rope restraint.

Please Do Not Torment Me Too Much, My Lady

Haruhi Rumi and Itō Masako

A staged photographic feature presents rope-play scenes involving two women, including close physical handling and a suggested upside-down suspension pose, framed as a playful appeal not to be tormented too much.

Tightening the Hands Behind the Back

Haruhi Rumi and Itabuki Makiko

A staged photograph shows one woman using her leg for leverage while tightening another woman’s wrists behind her back in a carefully secured rope restraint.

Newlywed Autumn Game: Nut Gathering

Taki Reiko

This staged outdoor bondage photograph presents a “newlywed” in a nylon raincoat restrained with her hands behind her back amid autumn garden grasses and flowers.

Newlywed Autumn Game: Continuing Rain

Taki Reiko

A continuation of the autumn newlywed vignette depicts the restrained woman seated in falling rain with her raincoat hood pulled deeply over her eyes and her waist cord tied behind her.

Single-Leg Suspension and Chest Restraint

Murata Tamiko

A photographic feature demonstrating a woman bound across the chest and suspended by one leg, presented as a rope-restraint pose by Murata Tamiko.

Shrimp Binding and Hands-Behind Binding

Nakafuji Tamiko and Itō Mieko

A photographic feature presenting two rope-binding configurations: shrimp binding and a hands-behind-the-back binding in which the rope is visually concealed.

The Lustful Rain Does Not Cease

Matsui Raiko

A serialized erotic narrative follows Chikako and other characters through jealousy, coercion, captivity, and escalating bondage and punishment, accompanied by dramatic illustrations and dialogue.

Trampling

Haruhi Rumi and Koike Masami

A staged photographic scene of a woman trampling a prone male model, accompanied by text describing female domination, male submission, and the possibility of distress during the ordeal.

Punishment of a Male Servant

Haruhi Rumi and supporting model

A staged photograph and caption depict a male servant bound and subjected to corrective beating as punishment for perceived disobedience or failure.

Fantasy of a Deformed Old Man

Sugihara Nijiko

Sugihara Nijiko’s illustration presents an eroticized fantasy involving a deformed elderly man, nude women, chains, and an atmosphere of coercion and grotesquerie.

I Accuse: As a Victim of Sadistic Punishment

Azuma Shin

This extended polemical essay examines sadism, sexual crime, juvenile delinquency, pornography, and postwar sexual repression through psychological theories, sexological writing, crime statistics, social case material, and literary and visual examples. It argues that such…

Crawling in Summer

Toba Eiko

This erotic narrative depicts a summer encounter that develops into coercive sexual domination, confinement, physical punishment, and fetishistic attention to the bound body, with accompanying illustrated scenes.

Two-Sided Mirror of the Painted Soul

Kawai Itsuko

A historical erotic fiction piece drawn from kusazōshi imagery, depicting a woman’s ritualized abdominal cutting amid melodramatic conflict, secrecy, and impending violence.

Psychiatric Evaluation of the Sexually Abnormal

Ōta Tenrei

A sexological essay examines sexually atypical desire and behavior, distinguishing abnormality from ordinary variation while discussing psychological factors, criminality, treatment, and social judgment.

On Female Beauty, Especially the Buttocks

Kari Rei, romanization uncertain

An illustrated essay examines ideals of female beauty with particular emphasis on the buttocks, comparing bodily proportions, posing, clothing, and aesthetic preferences while presenting a sequence of nude photographs.

The Female Party Member Gasping Beneath the Bloodstained Whip

Mitani Shōsuke

A sensational account of a female Communist Party member implicated in a brutal murder, tracing the police investigation, her escape and armed resistance, and her eventual capture and punishment.

Department-Store Mannequin

Shirogane Tanjirō

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows a department-store mannequin and the people drawn into its orbit, combining commercial display culture with voyeurism, captivity, rope restraint, and the discovery of a bound or murdered woman.

How Much I Have Changed in Ten Years

Naka Masao

An autobiographical memoir recounts the author’s decade-long transformation from fearing moxibustion to pursuing its intense heat and pain as erotic pleasure, including repeated treatments, bodily scars, and intimate encounters with a fellow enthusiast.

Curious Meditations

Sudō Ritsuo

An essay reflecting on the discovery, circulation, and cultural value of unusual erotic books, while considering how readers’ interests and psychological types relate to occupations, publishing, and literary taste.

Distorted Affairs

Takemura Fujisuke

A sequence of fictionalized episodes presents adulterous and emotionally distorted encounters involving married couples, widows, lovers, jealousy, secrecy, and erotic manipulation, framed through literary storytelling and commentary.

Sexual Fluids

Itō Seiu

A historically framed erotic narrative set around performers and entertainment districts, depicting gender ambiguity, sexual encounters, and the binding and restraint of a woman in a staged domestic setting.

Desire to Be Crushed

Aoba Fūichi, romanization uncertain

A first-person erotic confession describes an intense desire to be crushed or killed, with scenes of restraint, humiliation, sadistic control, and escalating fantasies of bodily danger and death.

The Female Animal Trainer

Ogata Itsuma

This serialized erotic adventure follows Julia, a female animal trainer caught among criminals and captors, as coercion, confinement, whipping, and forced performances with wild animals shape her ordeal and eventual transformation into a spectacle.…

Yumi Woman, Continued

Saji Kōsuke

The author describes recreating an erotic pose from a French film with his wife, detailing the tied and suspended positions, staging, and bodily responses involved in the scene.

Confession of a Girl with Exhibitionist Desires

Shibazaki Riko

A young woman confesses her growing desire to expose her body, recounting exhibitionist fantasies and experiences in public places, on trains, and during encounters with men who observe or approach her.

Twelve Chapters Concerning Abnormality

A twelve-part pseudo-sexological survey of “abnormality” presents case histories, dialogues, historical anecdotes, and illustrations concerning fetishism, sadism, masochism, exhibitionism, gender variance, same-sex desire, sexual violence, and other taboo practices. Its sensational medical and criminological…

The Secret of the Beautiful Boy, Part Three

Yamaguchi Kōichi

This serialized erotic narrative follows the beautiful boy Yukio as older men manipulate, train, restrain, and sexually exploit him in domestic, athletic, and outdoor settings while his secret life remains hidden from others.

Joys and Sorrows of Being Tormented

Magane Kanjirō

A first-person account of the pleasures and suffering associated with being bound, beaten, disciplined, and otherwise subjected to torment, reflecting on the narrator’s physical sensations and emotional responses.

Seppuku Research Night Talk, Part Six: Its History and Influence on Literature

Nakayasu Hiromichi

A historical study of seppuku that traces its ritual and social development and examines how suicide, execution, and related scenes influenced Meiji and earlier Japanese fiction, drama, and illustration.

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

A translated and contextualized selection from a 1901 German illustrated work portraying cruel women who punish, torture, humiliate, and sometimes kill men and enslaved or subordinate figures.

Oda Nobunaga and Male Love

Kawakami Yatarō

A fictionalized historical narrative about Oda Nobunaga’s relationships with male attendants, especially the young Mori Ranmaru, blending battlefield history, courtly intrigue, and eroticized male love.