Fuzoku Kitan

December 1960

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Summary

The December 1960 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is organized around a major special feature devoted to the artist and bondage practitioner Ito Seiu. The issue opens with a formal contents page and an unusually large visual section combining color illustration, sketches, bondage photography, and reproductions of Seiu’s historical punishment imagery. The opening gravure sequence moves through a succession of staged rope-bondage settings, including stone steps, interiors, a bath, ruins, patterned rooms, an office, a pine tree, and a garden. These photographs emphasize positional variation and environmental staging, while the accompanying short captions transform each location into a miniature bondage scenario.

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The Seiu feature then turns from contemporary photography to his artistic legacy. A sequence of reproduced drawings depicts historical punishments and restraints, followed by the Seiu Female-Body Bondage Photograph Collection, in which kimono-clad women are tied, suspended, beaten, or posed in explicitly theatricalized scenes of punishment. The editorial introduction Ito Seiu: The Man and His Works is followed by Ekoda Hachiro’s biographical profile and Miyahara Shizuo’s discussion of Seiu’s photographic punishment work, placing the images within a broader assessment of his career and influence.

The prose section broadens from Seiu to contemporary discussions of masochism, fetishism, voyeurism, bondage technique, sexual confession, and erotic fiction. Tani Kanta’s sixth installment of Letters from a Masochist presents correspondence as evidence of individual masochistic experience. Hachibanba Takeo discusses voyeurism, while Kabiya Kazuhiko examines a European five-sided adult initiation ritual. Hattajima Suekichi considers olfactory fetishism, and Fujikawa Jun discusses wooden-horse punishment and pulley suspension. Fiction and quasi-reportage include The Faceless Foot Club, My Married Life, Torture of a Female Reporter, White Butterfly, Four Methods of Stimulating Games, The Man Who Seeks the Water of Enchantment, and Under the Beautiful Whip.

The later pages continue the mixture of historical curiosity, erotic fantasy, confession, and reader culture. Fujitate Eikichi’s Origin of Tateishi-sama treats a punishment-related historical or folkloric subject, Sugiura Saburo contributes Confession of a Panty Maniac, and Aoyama Miekichi’s sadistic fiction The Terror of Tanbiso forms the last long narrative. The Reader Salon closes the editorial body with commentary and reader-oriented discussion. Subsequent pages advertise related publications and describe the newly established distribution department, while the colophon records the December 1, 1960 publication of the issue. Across its full span, the issue presents Fuzoku Kitan as an intersection of bondage documentation, erotic art history, fetish psychology, sensational fiction, and participatory reader culture.

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Table of Contents 39 items
  1. Nozarashi by Ito Seiu
    unnumbered color insert
    Summary

    A colored erotic illustration titled “Nozarashi” depicts a group of figures in a rural landscape, with exposed bodies, spectators, and theatrical rural activity creating a scene of public erotic display.

  2. Punishment-Sketch Collection by Ito Seiu
    unnumbered insert
    Summary

    A collection of Ito Seiu’s punishment sketches presents women in dramatically contorted and restrained positions, emphasizing ordeal, bodily discipline, and visualized erotic punishment.

  3. Bound Nude Woman on the Stone Steps
    2
    Summary

    A photographic feature depicts a nude woman bound with rope while posed on and around weathered stone steps in an outdoor setting. The staged images emphasize intricate rope placement, immobilized poses, and the contrast between the restrained body and the abandoned landscape.

  4. Blind Bird
    4
    Summary

    A short photographic and poetic feature presents a woman bound with rope and deprived of sight, using images of restrained poses and close views of the bound body. Its imagery frames blindness, lost freedom, and silent rope restraint as elements of erotic captivity.

  5. Before the Stone Wall
    6
    Summary

    A staged photographic feature depicting a woman bound with rope in varied poses before a traditional stone wall and surrounding vegetation. The accompanying poetic text and sequence emphasize outdoor atmosphere, bodily restraint, and visual display.

  6. With the Long Juban in Disarray
    8
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio showing a woman in a long juban undergoing elaborate rope restraint in an interior Japanese setting. The images focus on disordered clothing, immobilized poses, and the visual presentation of kinbaku.

  7. Bound to a Pole
    10
    Summary

    A photographic bondage sequence depicts a person restrained with bamboo poles and rope in several positions, including arm and leg binding and gagging. The accompanying text describes the tightening of the poles and the subject’s helpless, spread-limbed posture.

  8. White Skin on the Terrace
    12
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a nude or lightly clothed subject bound with rope on a rooftop terrace, shown in kneeling, crouched, and reclined positions. The accompanying poetic text emphasizes pale exposed skin, cold stone, rope, erotic anticipation, and possible punishment.

  9. A Secluded Pose in the Bath
    14
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a woman posed in and around a secluded bath, repeatedly wrapped or tied with rope in stylized reclining and seated positions. The images emphasize the contrast between intimate bathing surroundings, exposed skin, and carefully arranged restraint.

  10. Captive in the Ruins
    16
    Summary

    This photographic feature stages a bound woman among brick walls and ruin-like surroundings, showing several crouched, seated, and contorted poses secured with rope. The setting and imagery frame captivity and restraint as an outdoor or abandoned-place spectacle.

  11. Amid the Floral Pattern
    18
    Summary

    A photographic bondage feature depicting a woman bound with rope in a floral-patterned interior, shown in several seated, reclining, and floor-based positions. The imagery emphasizes the visual arrangement of rope, body, patterned furnishings, and restrained posture.

  12. Outrage in the Office
    20
    Summary

    A staged photographic scene titled “Outrage in the Office,” showing a woman rope-bound in an office-like setting, including restraint against furniture and a chair. The feature frames bondage as an acted workplace intrusion or captivity scenario.

  13. Suspended from a Pine Tree
    22
    Summary

    A photographic feature depicting a woman bound and suspended from a pine tree in an outdoor setting. The sequence emphasizes rope binding, elevated restraint, and dramatic bodily poses against the natural landscape.

  14. Two Poses in the Garden
    24
    Summary

    An erotic photographic feature presenting a woman in staged poses within a landscaped Japanese garden. The images contrast the model’s body and poses with rocks, plants, water, and other elements of garden design.

  15. Made to Wear Shoes of Fire by Ito Seiu
    32
    Summary

    An Ito Seiu illustration depicts a woman being subjected to the brutal “shoes of fire” punishment in a barren outdoor setting. The scene presents historical torment through a highly dramatized erotic image.

  16. Suruga Punishment by Ito Seiu
    33
    Summary

    Ito Seiu’s illustration of “Suruga punishment” shows a woman restrained with ropes in a stark interior while men observe or oversee the punishment. The image emphasizes ritualized restraint and historical penal violence.

  17. Shimoto Punishment by Ito Seiu
    Summary

    An illustrated feature presenting Ito Seiu’s depiction of shimoto punishment, showing bound figures subjected to ritualized corporal punishment in a stylized Japanese setting. The accompanying artwork emphasizes restraint, suffering, and the theatrical staging of punishment.

  18. Dragging Punishment by Ito Seiu
    36
    Summary

    An illustrated scene by Ito Seiu depicting dragging punishment, in which a restrained figure is pulled across an outdoor landscape. The composition focuses on physical coercion, public spectacle, and the dramatic visual staging of punishment.

  19. Corpse Punishment by Ito Seiu
    37
    Summary

    An Ito Seiu illustration depicting an eroticized punishment scene involving a corpse, presented as part of a series of his “masterpiece” torment images. The stark composition emphasizes death, bodily vulnerability, and sadistic spectacle.

  20. Suribachi Punishment by Ito Seiu
    38
    Summary

    An Ito Seiu illustration portraying a person subjected to “suribachi” punishment, involving immobilization and bodily distress around a large mortar-like vessel. The image presents stylized erotic torture through constrained positioning and sadistic spectacle.

  21. Seiu Female-Body Bondage Photograph Collection
    43
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio depicting women subjected to elaborate rope bondage in staged indoor and outdoor scenes. Captions emphasize varied restraint positions, rope tension, suspension-like arrangements, and the subjects’ visible discomfort or submission.

  22. Ito Seiu's Profile by Ekoda Hachiro
    52
    Summary

    A biographical profile of Ito Seiu examines his development as a specialist erotic artist, his interest in grotesque and unconventional female figures, and the influence of his personal relationships and artistic milieu. It also discusses his use of painted and photographic representations of punishment and male-oriented erotic imagery.

  23. Seiu's Photographic Punishments by Miyahara Shizuo
    55
    Summary

    An account of Ito Seiu’s punishment photography describes the staging and production of photographs depicting women in bound, exposed, and physically demanding punishment scenes, including outdoor sessions in snow and cold. The article emphasizes the endurance required of both models and photographer and treats the images as deliberately constructed records of eroticized punishment.

  24. Letters from a Masochist 6: Correspondence Between Masochists by Tani Kanta
    58
    Summary

    The sixth installment presents an extended exchange of letters between masochistic correspondents. The writers discuss female authority, punishment, bondage, fetishized clothing and footwear, sexual fantasy, and their personal experiences and desires in an intimate confessional format.

  25. Voyeurism by Hachibanba Takeo
    69
    Summary

    An essay on voyeurism (窃視症) explains the desire to secretly observe sexual or intimate behavior and considers its psychological and erotic dimensions in both men and women. The discussion is accompanied by a staged photographic scene depicting covert observation.

  26. Secret Method 2: Adult Initiation Ritual Inside the Pentagon by Kabiya Kazuhiko
    70
    Summary

    An erotic literary feature presenting an adult-initiation ritual set within the symbolic “pentagon,” centered on encounters among young people, twins, and adult figures. The narrative develops themes of seduction, sexual experimentation, same-sex desire, and the passage from youthful innocence into adult sexuality.

  27. On Olfactory Fetishism by Hattajima Suekichi
    77
    Summary

    An essay on olfactory fetishism examining sexual attraction to perfume, hair, clothing, bodily odor, and other smells. It considers fetishistic responses through psychological and sexological perspectives, while also discussing how scent shapes desire and interpersonal perception.

  28. Wooden-Horse Punishment and Pulley Suspension by Fujikawa Jun
    78
    Summary

    Fujikawa Jun provides practical descriptions of wooden-horse punishment and pulley suspension, explaining apparatus, binding arrangements, body positioning, and the sensations or risks produced by different setups. Illustrations depict a woman restrained on a triangular wooden horse and another suspended by ropes and a pulley, while the text also considers variations in force, posture, and duration.

  29. The Faceless Foot Club by Shishimura Yutaka
    84
    Summary

    A first-person erotic narrative follows an investigation into a clandestine fetish club devoted to women’s feet and legs. Through racetrack scenes, voyeuristic performances, conversations, and encounters with fetishistic spectators, the piece explores compulsive desire, sexual psychology, and the boundary between observation and participation.

  30. My Married Life by Hirai Yukiko
    96
    Summary

    Hirai Yukiko recounts her married life with a husband devoted to cross-dressing, describing his earlier experiences, their meeting and marriage, and the ways his feminine presentation becomes part of their domestic relationship. The autobiographical narrative presents her gradual understanding and acceptance of his desires, including shared outings, travel, and private dressing rituals.

  31. Torture of a Female Reporter by Tomon
    103
    Summary

    An erotic captivity narrative in which a female reporter is abducted, interrogated, stripped, restrained, and subjected to escalating torture by male captors. The illustrated story emphasizes coercion, helplessness, humiliation, and extended physical restraint, including gagging and immobilization.

  32. White Butterfly by Tsuda Kozo
    114
    Summary

    This erotic captivity story follows Satokichi’s encounter with a young woman in a rural waterwheel hut and his increasingly coercive treatment of her. The narrative escalates through rope binding, immobilization, physical punishment, and sadistic control, with the waterwheel setting serving as a recurring dramatic and erotic motif.

  33. Four Methods of Stimulating Games by Mano Rei
    122
    Summary

    An instructional discussion of four forms of “stimulating play,” using scenarios involving voyeuristic observation, doctor–patient role-play, self-directed masochistic practices, and fetal-position play. The article frames these activities as ways couples may dramatize unusual desires and intensify sexual excitement.

  34. The Man Who Seeks the Water of Enchantment by Matsui Kosui
    127
    Summary

    A first-person case history of a man whose erotic fixation centers on drinking his wife’s urine, presented through memories, marital scenes, and an accompanying illustration. The concluding medical commentary treats the fetish as a psychological and marital-sexual problem while discussing its bodily and social implications.

  35. Under the Beautiful Whip by Toyama Kazuhiko
    132
    Summary

    A fictional SM narrative in which a male employee is summoned into the secret world of a beautiful female dominatrix and subjected to ritualized commands, display, physical training, and servile treatment. The story emphasizes the contrast between respectable professional life and hidden fantasies of female authority, discipline, humiliation, and submission.

  36. Origin of Tateishi-sama by Fujitate Eikichi
    138
    Summary

    Fujitate Eikichi investigates the origins of Tateishi-sama, combining a folklorist’s visit to a rural shrine with local traditions about its deity and sacred objects. The account then recounts an Edo-period legend involving adultery, accusation, sexualized humiliation, brutal punishment, and the transformation of these events into shrine lore, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

  37. Confession of a Panty Maniac by Sugiura Saburo
    148
    Summary

    A first-person confession by a young office worker describing his intense fetishistic fixation on women’s panties. He recounts buying and seeking out underwear, observing women and lingerie-shop customers, and developing private fantasies around the garments and their wearers.

  38. The Terror of Tanbiso by Aoyama Miekichi
    152
    Summary

    A serialized erotic-horror narrative set around a remote mountain villa, where a young woman becomes entangled in a cycle of deception, captivity, and violent revenge. The story depicts the victim’s restraint, torture, staged bondage photography, and eventual fatal confrontation with her captors.

  39. Reader Salon
    170
    Summary

    A reader-correspondence section featuring letters and editorial replies about erotic magazines, fetish interests, bondage and rope practice, gendered and marital sexuality, and bodily practices including enemas. It also reflects readers’ requests for information, photographs, fiction, and continued participation in the magazine’s specialist publishing community.

Highlights

  • A large opening gravure portfolio stages female bondage in a sequence of indoor and outdoor environments, treating architectural and natural settings as integral components of the restraint scenarios. (PDF pp. 8–31).
  • The special Ito Seiu feature reproduces punishment and restraint drawings, including historical-style scenes of dragging, suspension, corpse punishment, and suribachi punishment. (PDF pp. 32–38).
  • The Seiu Female-Body Bondage Photograph Collection presents an extended series of staged punishment photographs using rope, suspension, beating implements, kimono, and theatrical poses. (PDF pp. 39–47).
  • Ito Seiu: The Man and His Works introduces the issue's central special feature and frames Seiu as an important figure in erotic and punishment art. (PDF p. 48).
  • Ekoda Hachiro's profile of Ito Seiu provides biographical recollections and contextualizes his career as a painter and researcher of customs and punishment imagery. (PDF pp. 49–51).
  • Letters from a Masochist, installment six, treats private correspondence as material for discussing individual histories and expressions of masochistic desire. (PDF pp. 55–65).
  • The middle of the issue contains a concentrated run of essays on voyeurism, European initiation customs, olfactory fetishism, wooden-horse punishment, and pulley suspension. (PDF pp. 66–78).
  • The Faceless Foot Club is a substantial illustrated erotic narrative centered on anonymous or depersonalized fascination with women's feet. (PDF pp. 79–90).
  • The later prose section moves between women's testimony, reporter-torture fantasy, bondage fiction, historical punishment lore, and confessional fetish writing. (PDF pp. 91–164).
  • Reader Salon and the final publication pages reinforce the magazine's identity as a continuing reader community, followed by notices for related publications, distribution information, and the issue colophon. (PDF pp. 165–173).

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