Frontispiece: The Suspended Woman (吊り下げられる女)

Kita Reiko

A frontispiece illustration by Kita Reiko presents an adult woman suspended in a restraint scene, using the elevated body and rope-supported pose as the central visual motif.

Color Frontispiece: Apostle of Love (愛の使徒)

Mukudori

A color frontispiece presents an allegorical or romanticized erotic figure under the title Apostle of Love, functioning primarily as decorative visual art rather than narrative prose.

Romantic Photography: Drawing a Bound Woman (縛った女を描く)

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A staged photographic sequence of a bound adult woman combines photographs with drawn studies of restrained poses, treating bondage simultaneously as an erotic subject and a problem of visual composition.

Love Slave (らぶ・すれいぶ)

Kiyama Yakusaku

A long first-person erotic narrative centers on submission, coercive fantasy, and changing relationships of control, using the language of servitude to explore dependence and erotic power.

The Fallen Man (脱落者)

Komorihara Hei

A short illustrated literary piece concerns a man's fall or loss of standing, framing personal decline through eroticism, transgression, and psychological drama.

Record of Tokugawa Bedchamber Passions (徳川閨門痴情録)

Matoba Tōru

A historical article surveys intimate and sexual episodes associated with the Tokugawa ruling household and its bedchamber culture, presenting elite sexuality as historical curiosity and anecdotal record.

Diary of a Wartime Woman (戦争処女の手記)

Fujiyasu Setsuko

A first-person wartime account describes a woman's experiences amid displacement, sexuality, survival, and exploitation, linking intimate biography to the upheavals produced by war.

Reflections on the Nagasaki Rashamen (長崎らしゃめん考)

Hanayama Kensaku

A historical reflection examines the Nagasaki rashamen, women associated with foreign men in the port city's history, placing sexual relationships within the broader setting of international contact and local social custom.

Strange Questions and Answers (変の字問答)

Ukiie Takazō

An extended question-and-answer feature treats unusual sexual subjects through a conversational format, combining curiosity, explanation, humor, and popular sexological discussion.

Lustful Fire (淫火)

Matsui Keiko

An erotic literary narrative organized around consuming desire uses the metaphor of fire to portray sexual passion as an obsessive and potentially destructive emotional force.

Selected Erotic Folk Songs (好色民謡選)

Shichijō Mikiko

A curated selection of sexually suggestive folk songs presents vernacular expressions of desire, courtship, bodily humor, and erotic double meaning as part of Japanese popular tradition.

A Wife's Confession: The Wife's Revenge (人妻告白記 妻の復讐)

Tsuji Kazuko

A confessional narrative presented from a married woman's perspective centers on revenge within an intimate relationship, joining marital grievance, jealousy, and sexuality in a melodramatic personal account.

Wrapped in a Pink Veil: I Tried Being Bound (桃色のベールに包まれて—縛られてみて)

Kawabata Tanako

A brief first-person account describes the experience of being bound, focusing on the emotional and bodily sensations produced by restraint rather than presenting bondage only as an external spectacle.

The End of the Masochist (マゾヒストの果て)

Fukuda Eiichi

An illustrated narrative examines an extreme trajectory of masochistic desire, presenting masochism as an identity and obsession capable of reshaping behavior and personal relationships.

Reader Roundtable: The Psychology of the Impulse to Inflict Pain During Sexual Pleasure (読者座談会 交悦に伴う責めの衝動心理)

Tsujimura Takashi

A reader roundtable examines the psychological impulse to inflict pain during sexual pleasure, with participants discussing sadistic desire, torment, marital sexuality, fantasy, and personal experience.

The Obsession with Paste (糊の執著)

Nagaoka Hen'ichirō

A fetish-oriented piece explores an unusual fixation on paste or adhesive material, treating an ordinary substance as the focus of persistent sensory and erotic fascination.

In Praise of the Nasal Cavity (鼻腔礼讃)

Masuoka Kinkichi

A short bodily-fetish feature celebrates the nasal cavity as an object of unusual attention, turning a normally mundane anatomical feature into a subject of erotic curiosity and fascination.

The Flower Path of Male Love (男色の花道)

Tsutsumi Yukifusa

A historical-cultural discussion of male love examines traditions of male same-sex desire and their representation within Japanese sexual culture.

Strange Short Piece: Three Windows of the Naked Woman (妖奇掌篇 裸女の三窓)

Mitomi Hiroo

A compact erotic literary vignette uses the image of three windows onto a naked adult woman to structure a scene of looking, bodily display, and imaginative spectatorship.

My Record (僕の記録)

Kuroi Chinpei

A first-person record presents personal experience and sexual self-observation in confessional form, documenting unconventional desire through individual testimony.

A Boy's Love (少年の恋)

Morita Yūji

A literary piece centers on youthful love and emotional attachment, treating formative affection and longing as a subject of personal and psychological reflection.

Introduction to World Erotic-Humor Literature: The Chastity-Belt Curiosity (世界艶笑文学紹介 貞操帯奇譚)

Georges Hercule

A short historical-literary introduction discusses European chastity belts as erotic curiosities and illustrates a metal restraint device, presenting sexual control through the language of foreign cultural history.

Beneath Your Whip (あなたのムチの下に)

Tsunoda Heihachi

A brief erotic literary piece uses submission beneath a whip as its governing image, associating flagellation with hierarchy, surrender, and the emotional appeal of domination.

When I Draw a Woman in Torment (女の責場を描く時の心境)

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu reflects autobiographically on his lifelong practice of depicting women in scenes of torment, discussing live models, theatrical performers, photography, anatomical observation, and artistic composition. He treats torment imagery as an aesthetic practice…

An Unusual Strategy (風変りな作戦)

Sasada Yutaka

A short fictional piece turns on an unconventional strategy or scheme, using calculated action and reversal as the mechanism for an unusual intimate or erotic situation.

Confession of a Condemned Prisoner: The Man Possessed by Red (或る死刑囚の告白 赤に憑かれた男)

Uemura Hideo

A long crime narrative framed as the confession of a condemned prisoner follows a man whose fixation on the color red becomes intertwined with criminal behavior, psychological obsession, and his eventual path toward execution.

A Woman Driven Mad by Rope

composition by Tsujimura Takashi; photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A staged photographic narrative follows a jealous young man who abducts, gags, and binds a woman believed to be leaving him for another man, subjecting her to violent punishment before wavering between resentment and…

Demon Flower

Hamura Kyōko

An erotic psychological tale follows a married woman whose affair with the narrator develops into an obsessive and increasingly violent relationship. Their encounters, her pregnancy and domestic unhappiness, and the narrator’s fantasies of bondage…

Letter from a Madman

Hamura Hiroshi

A distressed reader describes being sexually humiliated and exploited in domestic and medical-service settings, seeking guidance about his troubling desires and circumstances. The editorial response treats the letter as a problem of abnormal sexuality…

Scattering Young Leaves

Tozaki Heima

An illustrated historical erotic tale follows two beautiful male youths, Ukyo and Uname, whose mutual love develops within a samurai household but is obstructed by family obligations and social expectations. Their attempt to preserve…

Love Slave, Part Two

Kitō Kōichirō

Part two of Kitō Kōichirō’s serialized erotic narrative follows the narrator’s increasingly coercive and humiliating sexual encounters with Harumi and Ōtsuki, including beach sand play, physical domination, and voyeuristic games. The later chapters broaden…

Questions and Answers on Perversion, Part Three

Ukiya Takasaburō

The third installment of a conversational sexology feature examines changing sexual attitudes through an extended discussion among the participants. It considers erotic performance and popular entertainment, including stage and film depictions, audience reactions, fetishistic…

The Nun’s Awakening

Hisamatsu Shunsuke

A historical erotic fiction set around a Buddhist convent near Nara during the Great Buddha’s eye-opening ceremony. The story follows Kiku’s life among nuns, her encounters with men, and her gradual emotional and sexual…

Phosphorescence

Sasada Ei

A psychologically charged modern fiction centered on Yoshiko, a young woman working in an urban entertainment house and exposed to successive male customers, exploitation, illness, and coercive desires. Phosphorescent light and mirror imagery underscore…

Flower Light

An erotic psychological fiction follows Yoshiko through coercive bondage, sexual violence, and an unsettling transformation of fear into confused desire. The narrative moves between abusive encounters, dreamlike recollections, and domestic scenes, emphasizing the lasting…

Urine Worship and Totemism

Mise Seirō

Mise Seirō surveys the religious and folkloric veneration of urine, comparing sacred, medicinal, magical, and ritual uses across cultures including India, Egypt, and Japan. The essay relates urine worship to totemism, purification, fertility beliefs,…

In Reply to Kuroi Chinpei

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu responds to Kuroi Chinpei’s criticism of his paintings, defending artistic freedom and arguing that judgments of beauty should not be confined to conventional Japanese styles or contemporary taste. He discusses Japanese hairstyles,…

A History of Religious Inquisition

Urushijima Michihei

Urushijima Michihei surveys the historical relationship between virgin worship, priestesses, sacred sexuality, and religious prostitution across ancient and modern cultures. Using examples associated with Mary, Isis, Vestal Virgins, and other religious traditions, the article…

A Female Prisoner’s Prison Diary

Komachi Ukon

A first-person prison memoir recounting a woman’s incarceration, forced labor, hunger, illness, bodily punishments, strict surveillance, and degrading living conditions. The account also describes prison routines, fellow inmates, guards, and the psychological effects of…

The Torments of Sadism

Moriyama Miyaka

An essay on sadism that combines personal erotic narrative with reflections on sexual desire, beauty, art, appetite, and cultural life. It presents scenes of consensual erotic domination, restraint, humiliation, and role-play before arguing that…

Glass Toilet

Hano Mayumi

An erotic-grotesque first-person fantasy follows a man whose encounter with a mysterious woman at a railway-station lavatory develops into an obsessive journey through voyeurism, bodily functions, and dreamlike distortions of reality. The recurring glass…

The Pleasure of Being Oppressed

Hayashida Sumiko

A first-person narrative combines postwar rural life and grassroots political organizing with an increasingly explicit account of male sexual submission. The narrator describes ideological disputes, village elections, marriage, and escalating humiliation, bondage, and physical…

History of Christian Persecution

Urushijima Michihei

A historical account of Christian persecution, emphasizing the harsh suppression of missionaries and converts through imprisonment, torture, execution, and forced renunciation. The narrative describes major episodes of persecution in Japan, including mass punishment and…

Film and Sadism

Yoshii Kagehiro

An essay examining how cinema produces sadistic and erotic fascination through images of female vulnerability, restraint, bodily exposure, and physical punishment. It discusses the visual and dramatic techniques used in films to create sensual…

Strange Tales of Executions

Mogi Yoshihisa

An illustrated historical essay surveys capital punishment in Japan, contrasting Edo-period executions with modern procedures and discussing prison routines, death-row inmates, execution methods, and the legal and social rationale for the death penalty. It…

A Warrior’s Sorrowful History

Kumoi Kawayō

A serialized wartime narrative follows Japanese military personnel during an overseas operation, focusing on their movement through a South Pacific setting, military hierarchy, encounters with local women, and the disquieting emotional and erotic tensions…

The Torn Diary

Kawabata Tana

A reflective diary narrative about revisiting and tearing up an old diary, prompted by embarrassment, painful memories, and the wish to distance oneself from an earlier self. Subsequent entries recount ordinary domestic routines, travel,…

Various Types of Woman-Haters

Hayashida Sumiko

An essay categorizes different kinds of women-haters, attributing them variously to sexual indifference, excessive sexual preoccupation, personal circumstances, intellectual theories, self-conceit, and related psychological or social causes. It supports the classifications with examples from…

The Women of Ryūkyū

Kinoshita Hakuran

A melodramatic narrative set around the Coral bar follows Okinawan-born women, their romantic entanglements, jealousy, violence, and eventual personal reckonings. Alongside the fiction, it presents detailed descriptions of Ryukyuan women’s beauty, clothing, social experience,…

Eternal Male Beauty and Female Beauty

Matoba Michi

Matoba Michi’s essay considers male and female beauty through the relationship between natural bodily form, physical maturation, heredity, health, and cultural ideals. It contrasts bodily and spiritual beauty, discusses historical and social variation in…

Fire, Part Two

Matsui Kōko

The second installment of Matsui Kōko’s erotic fiction follows Sayuri, a married woman whose recollections of childhood sexual games and bondage merge with her troubled adult desires. Encounters involving her husband, male acquaintances, and…

Alexina’s Diary

Torigami Ryōichi

A humorous fictional tale follows Nakai, an enthusiastic radio-quiz participant whose prize from an Oriental Spinning quiz leads to a chain of awkward romantic misunderstandings with Michiko. The melodramatic confusion eventually resolves in domestic…

The Island That Opens at Night

Okada Satsuko

An erotic literary narrative centered on Eikai, an older, cultured man, and his encounters with younger men in cafés, homes, and urban nightlife. Through shifting conversations and relationships, the story explores same-sex desire, social…

A Comparison of Eastern and Western Torture

A historical illustrated comparison of Eastern and Western torture, focusing on four interrogation punishments used under the Edo shogunate: beating, stone-holding, water torture, and suspension. The text describes the procedures, equipment, bodily effects, and…

The Essence of Sadism

Azuma Minoru

An extended essay examining sadism as a psychological and erotic disposition, contrasting bodily pain, humiliation, fear, and domination with masochistic pleasure. It discusses marital and domestic scenarios, restraint devices, whipping, blindfolding, and other methods…

Love Slave, Part Three

Kitō Kōichirō

The third installment of Kito Koichiro’s serialized erotic narrative follows the narrator’s increasingly obsessive relationship with Harumi, a married woman whose confidence and sexual authority reshape his domestic life. Their affair develops through jealousy,…

Inside the Prison Bars

Kosaka Tamie

Kosaka Tamie’s extended account of life inside a women’s prison describes inmate hierarchies, surveillance, routines, and disciplinary practices. It focuses especially on corporal punishment, forced undressing and exposure, humiliation, sexualized abuse, and the harsh…

Meiji Historical Tales

Nakayasu Kōdō

A historical survey of Japanese seppuku, explaining its ritual forms, techniques, and changing social meaning through anecdotes from the samurai era. The article recounts cases involving battlefield defeat, loyalty, punishment, family duty, and demonstrations…

The Mystery of Male Homosexual Love

Yanagida Kōgen

A historical and sexological survey of male same-sex desire, tracing terminology, changing social attitudes, literary and medical discussions, and examples from Japan and other cultures. The article also considers related concepts such as boy-love,…

Erotic Correspondence

Takano Sumiko

A reader-correspondence feature presenting erotic letters and requests concerning imagined encounters, erotic illustrations, and bondage scenarios. The exchange demonstrates the magazine’s participatory community function and readers’ use of correspondence to seek erotic material and…

Sadistic Tendencies in Literature and History

Nibiyama Hitoshi

An essay tracing sadistic impulses through Western and Japanese literature, theater, legend, and history. It discusses figures and episodes including Salome, Judith, Japanese ghost and demon tales, violent historical rulers, executions, cruelty, and the…

Pain and Pleasure

Hatano Shin

An extended essay examines the psychological and physiological relationship between pain and pleasure, contrasting sadistic and masochistic responses and discussing how stimulation, restraint, punishment, religious ritual, hypnosis, and social conditioning can transform suffering into…

A Dream of the Seventh Heaven

Umei Shinji

A reader-style appreciation of selected works from recent Kitan Club issues reflects on erotic images, films, illustrations, and imagined scenes involving female power, bodily display, punishment, and fetishistic suggestion. The writer discusses how unusual…

An Answer to Itō Seiu

Kuroi Chinpei

Kuroi Chinpei replies to Itō Seiu in a debate over erotic art, beauty, and the representation of the nude. He defends the artistic and emotional value of frank depictions of the body while criticizing…

My Memories of Military Service

Morihara Taichi

Morihara Taichi recounts memories of his military-service years, including barracks life, fellow soldiers, discipline, training, wartime routines, and postwar recollections. The memoir combines humorous anecdotes with reflections on military masculinity, hardship, hierarchy, and changing…

Miscellaneous Thoughts on the Grotesque

Yoshino Yōzaburō

An essay on grotesque erotic experience, illustrated through a disturbing first-person account of workplace relations, sexual manipulation, and a woman’s control over men. The narrative emphasizes fetishistic attention to the female body, especially the…

The Value of Erotic Curiosity

Tsunoda Heihachi

A concluding reflection on the destructive value and consequences of erotic curiosity, in which the narrator recognizes that his desires led him to exploit and harm a woman. The piece links sexual obsession with…

Fantasy of a White Toilet

Wada Natsue

The supplied pages present an illustrated-text feature on actresses portrayed bound in Japanese films and stage productions. It surveys named performers and describes scenes involving rope restraint, suspension, gagging, and other forms of staged…

Reading Itō Seiu’s Answer

Takano Sumiko

The continuation catalogs additional actresses and dramatic scenarios involving capture, tying, punishment, and forced posing, emphasizing the visual and theatrical conventions of bound-woman scenes. The feature concludes with further examples drawn from period cinema…

The Torn Diary

Kawabata Tanako

A diary-style erotic narrative recounting an encounter that develops into forced undressing, immobilization, pain, and humiliation between partners. The first-person account emphasizes conflicted desire, vulnerability, and the psychological tension of restraint.

Unusual Psychology Centered on the Eyes

Nanajō Miki

An illustrated physiognomic essay claiming that the shape, color, position, and movement of the eyes and eyebrows reveal sexual temperament, emotional character, and relationship tendencies. It presents eye diagrams and categories as a form…

Thoughts on Double Suicide

Sasajima Seiko

An essay reflecting on double suicide through romantic relationships, omens, bodily signs, and the social pressures surrounding illicit or desperate love. It combines observations on sexual psychology with commentary on changing modern attitudes toward…

Bound Actresses

Niuoka Kinkichi

A historical supernatural erotic tale set amid warfare and rural religious life, in which a woman associated with theft and sexual transgression is captured, bound, abused, and ultimately subjected to grotesque postmortem transformations. The…