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Fuzoku Kitan

April 1960

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Cover of Fuzoku Kitan, April 1960

Issue Details

Issue
4
PDF pages
155

Summary

The April 1960 issue of Fūzoku Kitan is organized as a broad “pleasure in cruelty” special issue, with a particularly sustained thematic concentration on whipping, corporal punishment, bondage, and the psychological relationship between pain and erotic desire. Its opening sequence combines reproductions of historical Japanese and Western punishment imagery, a color illustration titled “Five-Colored Satan,” an illustrated portfolio by Oda Toshimi, and extensive photographic bondage layouts. These opening pages establish the magazine’s characteristic mixture of historical curiosity, visual sensationalism, quasi-ethnographic commentary, and staged erotic tableaux.

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The principal editorial feature, “The Psychology and Reality of Whipping,” begins with Uemura Kyūzō’s discussion of whipping as sexual expression, exhibitionism, domination, and fetishistic fixation. It is followed by Yamashita Seiichi’s historical survey, which ranges across religious penitence, ritual punishment, fertility customs, judicial discipline, and European flagellant traditions. Nishitō Isuke’s “The Tattoo of the Whipped Devil” and Masaki Shin’ichi’s reader-selected confession “Love Born from Whipping” move from analytical treatment into fictionalized or testimonial narratives in which punishment becomes a mechanism for erotic awakening and emotional attachment. Negishi Kō’s “The Ecstatic Death of the Burning Poker” extends the special issue into a grim historical case study of pain, masochism, mutilation, and fatal obsession.

The middle portion broadens into supernatural, historical, and sensational fiction. It includes “Night Succubus,” an illustrated gallery of erotic art, “The Woman of the Burning Stake,” “Intercourse Between Human and Snake,” “The Hellish Nunnery,” and accounts involving pistols, aristocratic women, restrained women, and the figure of Fanny Hill. These pieces alternate between narrative fiction, translated or adapted material, historical anecdote, and interpretive commentary. Recurring subjects include convent fantasy, occult seduction, punishment chambers, coercion, female dominance, clandestine couples, and the transformation of fear or shame into erotic excitement.

The later issue contains shorter essays and confession-like features on body hair, sexual superstitions, Meiji-period curiosities, unusual methods of arousal, leather-strap pain, women treating men as servants, mass captivity, female wrestling, jeweled hair ornaments, fantasies of savagery, and necrophilic fixation. The closing pages continue the magazine’s mixture of pseudo-scientific speculation, historical miscellany, fiction, reader-oriented discussion, and promotional matter. Taken as a whole, the issue presents sadomasochism not as a single practice but as a cultural system linking ritual, punishment, visual art, confession, folklore, history, fantasy, and modern sexual identity.

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Table of Contents 34 items
  1. Five-Colored Satan
    color frontispiece
  2. A Mirror of Whipping
    3–5
  3. Oda Toshimi Illustration Collection by Oda Toshimi
    8–11
  4. Bound Beauty
    12–21
  5. Leather Belts, Rope, and Monkey Whips
    22
  6. Punishment for the Buttocks
    23–24
  7. The White Fish
    25–27
  8. The Psychology of Whipping by Uemura Kyūzō
    32–35
  9. History of Whipping by Yamashita Seiichi
    36–39
  10. The Tattoo of the Whipped Devil by Nishitō Isuke
    40–42
  11. Love Born from Whipping by Masaki Shin’ichi
    43–47
  12. The Ecstatic Death of the Burning Poker by Negishi Kō
    48–54
  13. Night Succubus by Toyoshima Susumu
    55–57
  14. Gallery of Famous Erotic and Bizarre Paintings
    58–63
  15. The Woman of the Burning Stake by Kageura Keita
    64–71
  16. Intercourse Between Human and Snake by Sengoku Sentarō
    72–78
  17. The Sadomasochistic Couple in the Room of Passion by Takeuchi Ryūgo
    79–81
  18. The Hellish Nunnery by Kitahara Shigeki
    82–89
  19. The Sadist with a Pistol by Kanda Kimio
    90–96
  20. The Blood-Bath of the Countess by Kawamura Sadao
    97
  21. The Loveliness of a Bound Woman by Katsurao Takao
    98–100
  22. The Story of the Sacred Prostitute Fanny Hill by Iriya Daisuke
    101–108
  23. Four Mysteries Concerning Body Hair by Tamamaru Kiyohiko
    109–113
  24. Curious Sexual History of the Meiji Era, Part 3
    114
  25. Double Suicide of the Separate Princesses
    115
  26. Games of Perverse Pleasure
    116–121
  27. Confession of a Woman: I Cannot Be Satisfied Without Unusual Methods by Taniatsu Chūji
    122–124
  28. Intoxication Born from the Pain of a Leather Strap by Nakada Kimiyo
    125–126
  29. The Pleasure of Treating a Man Like a Servant by Ōtaki Sayoko
    127–129
  30. The 168 Women Who Became My Prey by Asada Harukichi
    130–134
  31. Beginning of Female Sumo by Toyoshima Susumu
    135
  32. The Jade Hairpin by Yatsu Chūji
    136–141
  33. Am I a Savage? by Matsui Hiroshi
    142–145
  34. The Man Possessed by a Woman’s Corpse by Otoha Kiyoji
    146–158

Highlights

  • A formal two-page table of contents establishes the issue as a special number devoted to pleasure in cruelty and identifies the central multi-author feature on the psychology and history of whipping. (PDF p. 4).
  • The opening visual sequence combines Japanese punishment prints, Western flagellation imagery, a color bondage illustration, and Oda Toshimi’s dramatic fantasy illustrations. (PDF pp. 2–11).
  • A long photographic section presents Japanese and imported bondage images, including rope restraint, leather straps, staged discipline, and explanatory captions about erotic pain. (PDF pp. 12–27).
  • Uemura Kyūzō’s “The Psychology of Whipping” treats whipping as a form of sexual expression connected to exhibitionism, fetishism, sadism, masochism, and fantasies of control. (PDF pp. 29–32).
  • Yamashita Seiichi’s “History of Whipping” surveys ritual, religious, judicial, and erotic flagellation in Europe and other cultural settings. (PDF pp. 33–36).
  • Masaki Shin’ichi’s reader-selected “Love Born from Whipping” presents a first-person account in which punishment and verbal suggestion create an erotic and emotional bond. (PDF pp. 40–44).
  • Negishi Kō’s “The Ecstatic Death of the Burning Poker” examines a historical account of mutilation and fatal masochistic fixation. (PDF pp. 45–51).
  • The middle issue shifts into occult and historical fiction through “Night Succubus,” “The Woman of the Burning Stake,” “Intercourse Between Human and Snake,” and “The Hellish Nunnery.” (PDF pp. 52–86).
  • Later contributions broaden the issue into essays and narratives about female dominance, leather punishment, sexual superstition, unusual arousal, female wrestling, savagery, and necrophilic obsession. (PDF pp. 106–154).
  • The final page supplies publication information and closes the issue after the concluding necrophilia-themed article. (PDF p. 155).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue:

Kinbaku Today is an independent online journal dedicated to the study, practice, and cultural history of Japanese rope bondage. Blending essays, translations, interviews, and archival research, it explores kinbaku not simply as technique, but as a living dialogue between history, performance, and human connection.
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