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Fuzoku Kitan

August 1961

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Summary

The August 1961 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is a large and unusually varied issue combining extensive bondage photography, punishment imagery, fetish-oriented essays, autobiographical testimony, homosexuality and cross-dressing columns, sensational historical material, serialized fiction, and reader correspondence. Its central editorial feature, Fetishists, examines people whose erotic interests are organized around clothing, underwear, buttocks, fundoshi, leather, neckties, and other objects or bodily fixations. The issue treats fetishism alternately as personal confession, sexual psychology, eccentric collecting, subcultural identity, and a potential source of socially disruptive behavior.

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The front third is dominated by visual material. A long gravure sequence titled Women’s Bondage, Men’s Bondage presents women and men restrained with rope in tatami rooms, beside pillars, outdoors, on rocks, and in deliberately cramped positions. Individual captions emphasize bodily pain, facial expression, spatial confinement, rope pressure, and differences between male and female bondage. This is followed by Tagami Keiko’s selected female-torment illustrations, a photographic sequence of severe sadistic tableaux, and an illustrated survey of medieval European torture instruments. Together these sections establish punishment and restraint as both erotic spectacle and historical curiosity.

The fetishism feature begins with an editorial introduction by Okumura Sekio and continues through Shishimura Yutaka’s portrait of an eccentric collector, Ichinose Etsuko’s discussion of women attracted to leather, Nonaka Kimi’s autobiographical fixation on an older woman’s buttocks, Wake Hisashi’s account of a woman obsessed with fundoshi, Kuga Ryohei’s pursuit of women’s buttocks, and Tani Kanta’s masochistic necktie fantasy. Later essays shift toward lesbian life, homosexuality, and the relation between male homosexuality and women. A sensational illustrated piece about Ingeborg in Hamburg introduces European sadistic imagery, while Homo Window and related columns provide shorter observations on homosexual subculture.

The latter half returns repeatedly to punishment and confession. Mano Rei’s Mass Killing Order continues a wartime atrocity serial; Ashidate Eikichi’s Flame Emperor Temple supplies historical erotic fiction; Banba Takeo’s A Young Lady Who Lives by the Whip presents a female sadist; Natsukawa Kinuko’s Enema, Moxa, and Bondage combines several bodily fetishes in a first-person account; and Oikawa Kon’s Full-Nude Beauty’s Gruesome Seppuku Illustrated explores eroticized female suicide imagery. Ezaki Kyoko’s A Day with My Fiancé and the Cross-Dressing Enthusiasts’ Room shift toward intimate testimony and gender presentation before Aoyama Miekichi’s Wandering in Ecstatic Torment: The Hair-Torment Room occupies much of the closing fiction section. Reader Salon, advertisements, mail-order notices, back-issue listings, and editorial information conclude an issue whose identity rests on the intersection of fetish documentation, erotic fantasy, reader community, and visual cultures of bondage and punishment.

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Table of Contents 39 items
  1. Women's Bondage, Men's Bondage
    8–31
  2. Pain of the Nude Body
    8–10
  3. Two Bound by the Seashore
    11–12
  4. In a Corner
    13–14
  5. The Cruelty of the Chair
    15–16
  6. In the Woods
    17–18
  7. Even the Tokonoma Is a Place of Torment
    19–20
  8. In a Narrow Place
    21–22
  9. Inside the Lodge
    23–24
  10. Expressions of Bondage
    25–26
  11. Do Whatever You Want
    27–30
  12. Tormenting the Legs
    31
  13. Selected Female-Torment Illustrations by Tagami Keiko
    32–38
  14. Cruel Sadistic Scenes by Colon Bro
    99–106
  15. Various Medieval Torture Instruments
    43–47
  16. Fetishists by Okumura Sekio
    51
  17. The Master of the Curiosity Collection by Shishimura Yutaka
    52–62
  18. Women with a Leather Fetish by Ichinose Etsuko
    63–68
  19. My Maman by Nonaka Kimi
    69–75
  20. The Woman with a Fundoshi Mania by Wake Hisashi
    76–79
  21. Today Again I Chase Women's Buttocks by Kuga Ryohei
    80–85
  22. The Man with a Necktie Desire by Tani Kanta
    86–91
  23. I Stake My Life on Lesbos by Ashida Naga
    92–98
  24. Ingeborg, Mad with Blood in Hamburg
    99–106
  25. Male Homosexuals and Their Relations with Women by Kabiya Kazuhiko
    107–115
  26. Homo Window
    116–117
  27. Mass Killing Order: The Situation of Mass Slaughter by Mano Rei
    118–125
  28. Salon Masochistica
    126–127
  29. Homo Masochistica
    126–127
  30. Flame Emperor Temple: Azure Dragon Chapter by Ashidate Eikichi
    128–138
  31. A Young Lady Who Lives by the Whip by Banba Takeo
    139–146
  32. Enema, Moxa, and Bondage by Natsukawa Kinuko
    147–153
  33. Full-Nude Beauty's Gruesome Seppuku Illustrated by Oikawa Kon
    154–163
  34. A Day with My Fiancé by Ezaki Kyoko
    164–169
  35. The Cross-Dressing Enthusiasts' Room
    170–171
  36. Beauty Course for Cross-Dressing: Making the Eyes Beautiful by Okuma Sanae
    170–171
  37. Wandering in Ecstatic Torment: The Hair-Torment Room by Aoyama Miekichi
    172–183
  38. Reader Salon
    184–187
  39. From the Editorial Office
    194

Highlights

  • The extensive Women's Bondage, Men's Bondage gravure contrasts female and male rope restraint across domestic, outdoor, architectural, and deliberately cramped settings, with captions focusing on pain, posture, expression, and the bodily effects of bondage. (PDF pp. 8–31).
  • Tagami Keiko's Selected Female-Torment Illustrations and the succeeding sadistic photographic material shift the issue from documentary-style bondage photography toward explicitly theatrical punishment imagery. (PDF pp. 32–42).
  • An illustrated survey of medieval torture instruments reproduces chairs, racks, suspension devices, weights, fire punishments, and other mechanisms while explaining their historical functions. (PDF pp. 43–47).
  • The Fetishists special feature assembles essays and confessions about eccentric collecting, leather fetishism, fixation on women's buttocks, fundoshi enthusiasm, necktie desire, and the psychology and social implications of fetishistic behavior. (PDF pp. 48–88).
  • I Stake My Life on Lesbos and Male Homosexuals and Their Relations with Women provide sustained first-person and observational treatments of lesbian and male homosexual life within the magazine's broader sexual-subculture coverage. (PDF pp. 89–95, 104–112).
  • Ingeborg, Mad with Blood in Hamburg combines illustrated European sadistic material with sensational accounts of domination and punishment, forming one of the issue's most visually distinctive foreign-oriented features. (PDF pp. 96–103).
  • A Young Lady Who Lives by the Whip presents a female sadist through an illustrated narrative that places whipping, domination, and female authority at the center of the erotic scenario. (PDF pp. 136–143).
  • Enema, Moxa, and Bondage combines enema fetishism, moxibustion, restraint, bodily discomfort, and erotic submission in a confession-style article by Natsukawa Kinuko. (PDF pp. 144–150).
  • Full-Nude Beauty's Gruesome Seppuku Illustrated presents a long illustrated treatment of female seppuku, intertwining historical punishment motifs, the female body, knives, blood, and eroticized suffering. (PDF pp. 151–160).
  • The closing fiction sequence Wandering in Ecstatic Torment: The Hair-Torment Room develops an extended scenario of coercion, sexual humiliation, hair-focused torment, and sadomasochistic relationships before the issue moves into Reader Salon and commercial back matter. (PDF pp. 169–180).

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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