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Gaho Fuzoku Kitan

July 1960

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Cover of Gaho Fuzoku Kitan, July 1960

Issue Details

Issue
2
PDF pages
127

Summary

This second collection of Gaho Fuzoku Kitan is organized as an unusually image-dominant survey of erotic restraint, punishment imagery, fetish costume, and sensational fiction. After a cover announcing a visual compendium of abnormal customs, the opening leaves combine historical prints and photographs before a formal contents spread introduces three long photographic groupings, illustrated galleries, foreign and historical material, and several fictional or documentary narratives.

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The first half is dominated by staged photographic sequences. Women are posed with rope, cloth, furniture, architectural fittings, garden rocks, water, ladders, chairs, bedding, and tiled bathing spaces. The layouts repeatedly convert domestic rooms and landscaped gardens into theatrical sites of captivity. Short captions assign each configuration a dramatic title, moving from suspension and compact body-folding to chair bondage, outdoor exposure, bath scenes, blindfolding, gagging, and poses framed as human cargo or living ornaments. A separate eight-view portfolio emphasizes intoxication, languor, and costume, while later blue-toned and sepia sequences study increasingly varied knots and restraints.

The middle section shifts from photography to historical and international visual culture. An “Abnormal Secret Picture Exhibition” reproduces images of whipping, corporal punishment, executions, public humiliation, and grotesque caricature. The following gallery surveys women in riding clothes, trousers, boots, masculine dress, same-sex dominance, and self-punishment imagery. A substantial illustrated essay on women wearing trousers links fashion, cross-dressing, performance, and gendered spectacle.

The final third returns to prose and illustrated narrative. It includes a sensational account of eccentric and unusual customs, the supernatural tale “A Single Thought of Love Becomes a Snake,” lurid overseas stories such as “Human Steak,” “Journey Through the Desert of Death,” and “The Ice Field Crazed by Desire,” an illustrated guillotine feature, a documentary-style survey of gruesome murder scenes, and the period melodrama “The Torment of Kichiya in Mad Love.” Together these sections give the issue an encyclopedic yet theatrical identity, combining staged bondage photography, historical punishment iconography, gender transgression, crime reporting, exoticized foreign settings, and illustrated erotic melodrama. The closing page contains publication data and notices.

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Table of Contents 45 items
  1. Pleasure by the Pond
    2
  2. Foot Fetishism
    3
  3. Hanging from the Transom
    4–6
  4. A Woman as an Ornament
    7–8
  5. Human Luggage
    9–10
  6. Shrimp Torment
    11–12
  7. Struck by Water
    13–14
  8. Glossy Bound Pose
    15–16
  9. Stepladder Torment
    17–18
  10. Quiet Ecstasy of Torment
    19
  11. Bound to a Chair
    20–21
  12. Six Poses of a Beautiful Prisoner
    22
  13. The White Mermaid's Struggle
    23–24
  14. Beautiful Human Pillar
    25–26
  15. Cruelty on the Bed
    27–28
  16. Tortoise-Shell Binding
    29–31
  17. Four Bewitching Flowers
    32
  18. Pleasure of the Bath
    33–34
  19. Merciless by the Water
    35
  20. Eight Views of Intoxicated Female Bodies
    36–43
  21. Pleasure in the Darkness
    44–45
  22. Become a Dog
    46
  23. Bound to a Tree
    47–48
  24. Cushions Are Also Instruments of Torment
    49–50
  25. Upside-Down Shrimp Suspension
    51–53
  26. A Pose Awaiting Torment
    54–55
  27. The Subtle Mystery of the Female Body
    56–57
  28. Lingering Sensuality
    58
  29. Cold Tile
    59
  30. People Being Whipped
    60–68
  31. Cruel Punishments
    69–72
  32. Strange People
    73–75
  33. Women in Riding Dress
    76–79
  34. Women Drawn by Masochists
    80
  35. Same-Sex Sadism
    81
  36. Pictures of Self-Torment
    82
  37. Women Wearing Trousers by Alfred Holtmont
    83–91
  38. Man's Eccentric and Curious Tales by Tonomura Shichirō
    92–96
  39. A Single Thought of Love Becomes a Snake by Oda Toshimi
    97–100
  40. Human Steak
    101–102
  41. Journey Through the Desert of Death by Kitahara Yūzō
    103–104
  42. The Ice Field Crazed by Desire by Kunieda Yūgo
    105–106
  43. The Beauty of the Guillotine Platform
    108–112
  44. Gruesome Murder Scenes That Make One Cover One's Eyes
    113–116
  45. The Torment of Kichiya in Mad Love by Dan Reitarō
    117–122

Highlights

  • A formal two-page-style contents design printed on a single PDF spread organizes the issue into three photographic groupings, art galleries, overseas stories, illustrated fiction, and documentary features. (PDF p. 4).
  • The opening photographic portfolio develops a sequence of compact suspension, body-folding, furniture bondage, outdoor water imagery, and staged domestic captivity. (PDF pp. 8–23).
  • The second photographic grouping uses chairs, beds, bathing spaces, garden rocks, and rope to create a catalogue of poses with individually titled tableaux. (PDF pp. 24–39).
  • “Eight Views of Intoxicated Female Bodies” presents a concentrated black-and-white sequence of bound women, each image captioned with the name of an alcoholic drink. (PDF pp. 40–47).
  • The third photographic grouping shifts into blue-toned printing and emphasizes blindfolding, bed restraint, outdoor tree bondage, inverted shrimp positions, and tiled-room tableaux. (PDF pp. 48–63).
  • The “Abnormal Secret Picture Exhibition” reproduces historical and foreign imagery of whipping, corporal punishment, executions, public humiliation, and grotesque figures. (PDF pp. 64–79).
  • The illustrated gallery on riding women, trousered women, boots, same-sex domination, and self-punishment documents the magazine’s interest in gender variance and fetish clothing. (PDF pp. 80–95).
  • “A Single Thought of Love Becomes a Snake” combines prose, ukiyo-e-derived imagery, and modern illustration in a supernatural tale of erotic fixation. (PDF pp. 101–104).
  • The closing narrative cluster combines exoticized overseas violence, guillotine imagery, murder-scene photography, and an illustrated Edo-period tale of obsessive love. (PDF pp. 105–126).

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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