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Fuzoku Kitan

January 1961

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Cover of Fuzoku Kitan, January 1961

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Summary

The January 1961 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is built around a major special feature titled Sodomy and Lesbianism, but its editorial range extends well beyond homosexuality. The issue opens with Western erotic and punishment illustrations, followed by a formal contents spread and a long visual sequence devoted to bondage, restraint, fetish clothing, sadistic tableaux, and staged humiliation. The monochrome gravure material presents women in kimono and underwear bound in domestic interiors, with recurring motifs of suspension, blindfolding, breast bondage, cruciform restraint, inversion, floor bondage, chains, beds, and other positional variations. This is followed by a more playful two-person domination portfolio and a Leather Fetishism sequence emphasizing boots, gloves, leather garments, and female authority. A group of full-page illustrations develops related fantasies involving suspension from buildings, snow punishment, candles, chains, and railway tracks.

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The principal prose feature begins with Okumura Sekio’s On Urning, an essay addressing homosexuality, sexual desire, pederasty, and the terminology surrounding same-sex behavior. Shishimura Yutaka’s Beauty Beauty then shifts into lesbian-themed fiction. Other contributions approach same-sex sexuality from biographical, criminological, and cultural directions: The Season of Rime Ice by Arikawa Masako, The Entire Art of Love by Kabiya Kazuhiko, Famous Sodomites, and Portraits of Famous Lesbians. These pieces mix literary narrative with popular sexology, celebrity biography, sensationalism, and historical anecdote, illustrating the magazine’s characteristic refusal to maintain a firm boundary between sexual research and entertainment.

The later issue moves away from the central homosexual theme toward a broader catalogue of fetish, masochistic, and sadistic interests. The novella The Flower Rocking Horse is followed by shorter pieces on unusual erotic behavior, earrings as fetish objects, bodily practices, and erotic curiosities. The recurring Masochist’s Letters section includes The Shame of a Woman Being Tormented and other essays examining humiliation, demonstrative sadism, female bodily sensation, and memories of mistreating women. Shinoda Fujimi’s Crabs Crawling on a Woman’s Skin transforms an unusual tactile fantasy into an extended erotic essay.

The substantial closing fiction, The Woman of the Etsugyaku Club by Aoyama Miekichi, returns the issue to organized erotic cruelty and club culture. It is followed by Reader Salon, whose letters and editorial responses show that the magazine functioned as a participatory sexual subculture as well as a venue for fiction and illustration. Final pages include editorial notices, publication information, and advertisements for related erotic and abnormal-culture publications. Taken as a whole, the issue combines kinbaku photography, fetish fashion, homosexuality, lesbianism, sadomasochistic fantasy, sexual folklore, correspondence, fiction, and popular sexological commentary in a deliberately heterogeneous editorial package.

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Table of Contents 32 items
  1. Alluring Suspension
    6–7
  2. Bondage in Formal Dress
    8
  3. The Mysterious Visitor
    9–11
  4. Four Forms of Alluring Bondage
    12
  5. The Crouching Little Bird
    13–15
  6. Pose of Resentment
    16
  7. Rolling Torment
    17–19
  8. Suspension Variations
    20
  9. Crucifixion and Handstand
    21–22
  10. The Blindfolded Woman
    23–25
  11. Bound on the Bed
    26
  12. Two-Person Play on Parade
    35
  13. Leather Fetishism
    42
  14. Punishment Picture Collection
    34–38
  15. On Urning by Okumura Sekio
    51–53
  16. Beauty Beauty by Shishimura Yutaka
    54–66
  17. The Season of Rime Ice by Arikawa Masako
    67
  18. The Male Homosexual Murder Case: An Investigation by Umyōin Kazuta
    68–71
  19. The Entire Art of Love by Kabiya Kazuhiko
    72–79
  20. Famous Sodomites by Hai Geitei
    80–84
  21. Portraits of Famous Lesbians by Mano Rei
    85–88
  22. The Flower Rocking Horse by Kita Jun
    108–117
  23. Why Does the Rope Tighten?
    118–119
  24. Swaying by Abe Kitayoshi
    120
  25. Earrings by Banba Takeo
    121–123
  26. Reconciliation of the Intestines by Udō Megumi
    124–133
  27. The Shame of a Woman Being Tormented by Miyahara Shizuo
    134–138
  28. On Demonstrative Sadism by Fujikawa Jun
    139–140
  29. Crabs Crawling on a Woman's Skin by Shinoda Fujimi
    141–146
  30. Memories of Tormenting Women by Fujikawa Jun
    147–149
  31. The Woman of the Etsugyaku Club by Aoyama Miekichi
    157–169
  32. Reader Salon
    170–175

Highlights

  • The opening gravure sequence presents an extensive vocabulary of staged Japanese bondage, including kimono restraint, breast bondage, blindfolding, inversion, cruciform poses, bed restraint, chains, and suspension. (PDF pp. 6–26).
  • Two-person domination scenes and the Leather Fetishism portfolio shift the visual emphasis from rope bondage toward boots, gloves, leather garments, whipping, and female authority. (PDF pp. 27–33).
  • A run of full-page punishment illustrations depicts aerial bondage, snow torment, candle torment, chain restraint, and a woman bound across railway tracks. (PDF pp. 34–38).
  • On Urning by Okumura Sekio opens the Sodomy and Lesbianism special feature with a discussion of homosexuality, sexual desire, pederasty, terminology, and same-sex behavior. (PDF pp. 39–41).
  • Beauty Beauty by Shishimura Yutaka is an extended lesbian-themed illustrated narrative and one of the central literary works in the special feature. (PDF pp. 42–54).
  • The issue's homosexuality feature includes profiles of famous male homosexuals and famous lesbians, combining historical anecdote, biography, popular sexology, and contemporary celebrity material. (PDF pp. 68–76).
  • The Masochist's Letters material turns from broad sexual classification toward humiliation, fetish objects, submission, and the subjective experience of being tormented. (PDF pp. 89–109).
  • Crabs Crawling on a Woman's Skin by Shinoda Fujimi develops an unusual tactile fetish into a sustained erotic essay. (PDF pp. 110–115).
  • The Woman of the Etsugyaku Club by Aoyama Miekichi is a substantial late-issue narrative centered on an organized club devoted to erotic cruelty. (PDF pp. 119–131).
  • Reader Salon closes the substantive editorial portion with reader letters and discussion, documenting the participatory community surrounding Fuzoku Kitan. (PDF pp. 132–137).

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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