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
    Summary

    A color photographic feature titled “Five-Colored Satan” presents a theatrically staged, rope-bound female figure suspended against a dark backdrop.

  2. A Mirror of Whipping
    Summary

    “A Mirror of Whipping” combines erotic illustrations and commentary depicting teachers, men, and women administering or receiving whipping, emphasizing the convergence of punitive cruelty and masochistic pleasure.

  3. Oda Toshimi Illustration Collection by Oda Toshimi
    Summary

    Oda Toshimi’s illustration collection presents dramatic erotic scenes of women subjected to bondage, restraint, punishment, captivity, and death-themed scenarios, including revenge, ordeal, and eroticized corpses.

  4. Bound Beauty
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presenting women in elaborate rope bondage, restrained in varied seated, kneeling, reclining, and standing positions, with emphasis on bodily display and staged erotic tableaux.

  5. Leather Belts, Rope, and Monkey Whips
    22
    Summary

    A photographic feature demonstrating staged restraint scenarios using leather belts, rope, and a monkey gag, including both standing and floor-bound configurations.

  6. Punishment for the Buttocks
    Summary

    A staged photographic feature depicting women restrained with belts and rope and subjected to spanking or whipping focused on the buttocks, including scenes involving a chair and other bondage arrangements.

  7. The White Fish
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a woman in a sequence of rope-bound and sexually posed positions, emphasizing varied restraints, exposure, and staged submission.

  8. The Psychology of Whipping by Uemura Kyūzō
    Summary

    Uemura Kyūzō examines the psychology of whipping, discussing sadistic and masochistic impulses, sexual arousal, exhibitionism, bodily focus, and the social meanings attached to punishment and pain.

  9. History of Whipping by Yamashita Seiichi
    Summary

    Yamashita Seiichi surveys whipping and corporal punishment across religious rites, fertility ceremonies, historical penalties, and modern sexual practices, linking ritualized violence with ideas of purification, sacrifice, discipline, and desire.

  10. The Tattoo of the Whipped Devil by Nishitō Isuke
    Summary

    An erotic reportage follows a visit to a secret room where a young woman is subjected to needlework, bodily marking, and whipping in a ritualized encounter involving an older woman and a tattooed “devil.” The account emphasizes the atmosphere of secrecy, pain, spectatorship, and fetishized bodily transformation.

  11. Love Born from Whipping by Masaki Shin’ichi
    Summary

    Presented as a psychological case narrative, this article describes a man’s use of free-association methods to select and test a prospective wife before progressively introducing bondage, whipping, and humiliating sexual discipline. The woman’s distress and eventual attachment are framed as an unsettling emotional bond produced through coercive erotic conditioning.

  12. The Ecstatic Death of the Burning Poker by Negishi Kō
    Summary

    Combining a discussion of algolagnia with a first-person-style case history, the article portrays sexual pleasure derived from inflicting and receiving severe pain, including whipping, restraint, branding with heated metal, and other punitive injuries within a marital relationship. Its sensational narrative presents escalating cruelty as a source of erotic excitement and psychological domination.

  13. Night Succubus by Toyoshima Susumu
    Summary

    A sensationalized account follows a sexually fixated young murderer whose assaults, killings, grave-robbing, and abuse of corpses lead to police investigation and arrest.

  14. Gallery of Famous Erotic and Bizarre Paintings
    Summary

    A six-part illustrated gallery surveys erotic and bizarre paintings, presenting stylized nude scenes—including heterosexual and same-sex encounters—alongside commentary on sexual desire, gendered bodies, and historical artistic conventions.

  15. The Woman of the Burning Stake by Kageura Keita
    Summary

    This serialized erotic fiction depicts a woman drawn into a coercive, religiously charged world of domination, ritual punishment, torture, and fire, conveyed through sensational narration, dialogue, and accompanying imagery.

  16. Intercourse Between Human and Snake by Sengoku Sentarō
    Summary

    A sensational account of alleged sexual encounters and emotional bonds between women and snakes, combining folklore, historical anecdotes, dreams, and reports of snake-related erotic fascination.

  17. The Sadomasochistic Couple in the Room of Passion by Takeuchi Ryūgo
    Summary

    A reportage-style feature follows a sadomasochistic couple at a lodging house, describing their bondage, whipping, restraint, sexual role-play, and the reporter’s observations of their private practices.

  18. The Hellish Nunnery by Kitahara Shigeki
    Summary

    A first-person sensational narrative describes a woman’s captivity in a clandestine nunnery, where forced confession, beatings, restraint, sexualized abuse, and eventual death expose the institution’s hellish violence.

  19. The Sadist with a Pistol by Kanda Kimio
    Summary

    A sensational erotic crime account describes a sadistic man who uses a pistol to intimidate, capture, and restrain women, with police investigation and pursuit surrounding the incidents.

  20. The Blood-Bath of the Countess by Kawamura Sadao
    97
    Summary

    This historical account recounts the alleged blood-bath practices of Countess Elizabeth Báthory, focusing on aristocratic cruelty, the torture and killing of young women, and the enduring legend surrounding her crimes.

  21. The Loveliness of a Bound Woman by Katsurao Takao
    Summary

    A first-person marital SM narrative describes a husband’s obsessive bondage and punishment of his wife, accompanied by illustrations depicting her tied and restrained in domestic scenes.

  22. The Story of the Sacred Prostitute Fanny Hill by Iriya Daisuke
    Summary

    A serialized retelling of John Cleland’s Fanny Hill follows the orphaned Fanny’s entry into London’s erotic underworld, her encounters with lovers and patrons, and her eventual movement toward marriage and domestic happiness. The article is accompanied by erotic illustrations and presents the novel as a classic of sexual literature.

  23. Four Mysteries Concerning Body Hair by Tamamaru Kiyohiko
    Summary

    This pseudo-sexological article examines four supposed mysteries of human body hair, linking patterns of head, facial, pubic, and body hair to gender, sexual development, temperament, and social distinctions. It also discusses excessive hair and hair loss while framing hair as an object of erotic interest and classification.

  24. Curious Sexual History of the Meiji Era, Part 3
    114
    Summary

    A historical collection of Meiji-era sexual anecdotes recounts geisha and brothel life, including financial and contractual disputes, pregnancy, and the involvement of intermediaries, patrons, and authorities. The piece treats these episodes as curious documentary material from the period’s sexual culture.

  25. Double Suicide of the Separate Princesses
    115
    Summary

    A sensational historical account describes two separated young women, presented as princess-like figures, whose forbidden attachment culminates in a double suicide and is framed through themes of familial and erotic transgression.

  26. Games of Perverse Pleasure
    Summary

    This multi-page dossier collects lurid accounts of unusual sexual behavior and violent domestic or criminal incidents, accompanied by photographic and illustrated scenes of restraint, humiliation, assault, and other transgressive pleasures.

  27. Confession of a Woman: I Cannot Be Satisfied Without Unusual Methods by Taniatsu Chūji
    Summary

    In a first-person confession, a woman explains that ordinary sex cannot satisfy her and describes her arousal through being tied, physically overpowered, and subjected to unusual bondage by her husband or male partner.

  28. Intoxication Born from the Pain of a Leather Strap by Nakada Kimiyo
    Summary

    A first-person account describes a married woman’s growing erotic intoxication from leather-strap whipping, followed by her retaliatory use of physical punishment against her husband.

  29. The Pleasure of Treating a Man Like a Servant by Ōtaki Sayoko
    Summary

    A woman recounts the pleasure of dominating her husband as a servant through commands, grooming, teasing, and disciplined domestic submission within their marriage.

  30. The 168 Women Who Became My Prey by Asada Harukichi
    Summary

    This sensational historical account describes the capture, sexual violation, killing, and mutilation of women during a Sengoku-period castle assault, including graphic attention to their corpses and the eagles that feed on them.

  31. Beginning of Female Sumo by Toyoshima Susumu
    135
    Summary

    A historical account of the beginnings of female sumo, tracing its development as a public spectacle and describing its performers, contests, and reception in early modern Japan.

  32. The Jade Hairpin by Yatsu Chūji
    Summary

    A historical erotic tale centered on a jade hairpin, involving marriage, beauty, desire, social rank, deception, and the escalating humiliation and domination of its characters.

  33. Am I a Savage? by Matsui Hiroshi
    Summary

    A sexological advice column answering readers’ questions about sexual appetite, abstinence, marital dissatisfaction, gendered desire, sexual training, and the effects of sleep medication and other bodily conditions on sexuality.

  34. The Man Possessed by a Woman’s Corpse by Otoha Kiyoji
    Summary

    A grotesque erotic tale follows Genzo, a brothel worker who becomes obsessed with and sexually tormented by the corpse of a woman, blending hallucination, desire, guilt, and macabre violence. The illustrated narrative presents his escalating encounters with the dead woman and his eventual psychological collapse.

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: