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
    Summary

    An erotic photograph depicts a woman tied with rope and posed among rocks and foliage beside a pond.

  2. Foot Fetishism
    3
    Summary

    A visual feature devoted to foot fetishism presents erotic imagery emphasizing the feet as objects of fascination and display.

  3. Hanging from the Transom
    Summary

    A photographic sequence shows a woman folded and suspended from a transom, with her hands and feet bound, accompanied by captions describing the precarious “human drying” pose.

  4. A Woman as an Ornament
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a woman bound with rope to a chair or shelving unit as a decorative human object, emphasizing restrained poses and visual display.

  5. Human Luggage
    Summary

    A sequence of photographs depicts a woman tightly secured in cloth restraints and arranged in different standing and kneeling configurations as “human luggage.”

  6. Shrimp Torment
    Summary

    This photographic feature demonstrates the “shrimp torment” position, folding and binding the woman’s body into compact, physically demanding poses.

  7. Struck by Water
    Summary

    A photographic rope-bondage scene shows a woman restrained outdoors among rocks and subjected to immersion or splashing in water, with close views of the bindings and her posed body.

  8. Glossy Bound Pose
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a woman in several indoor rope-bound poses, including partially undressed and gagged positions, emphasizing the visual display of elaborate bindings and constrained posture.

  9. Stepladder Torment
    Summary

    A photographic sequence titled “Stepladder Torment” depicts a woman bound to a stepladder in varied positions, including bent-over and inverted arrangements, with restraints applied to her limbs and mouth.

  10. Quiet Ecstasy of Torment
    19
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a woman wrapped and roped in plaid fabric in a series of composed scenes emphasizing quiet, restrained sensuality and suffering.

  11. Bound to a Chair
    Summary

    This visual feature depicts a woman bound to a wicker chair with rope, shown in several strained and contemplative poses that frame chair bondage as an erotic tableau of confinement.

  12. Six Poses of a Beautiful Prisoner
    22
    Summary

    Six photographic variations show a bound woman reclining and contorting in a chair, presenting different postures of the “beautiful prisoner” motif.

  13. The White Mermaid's Struggle
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a woman bound in elaborate rope positions, visually evoking a white mermaid struggling against restraint.

  14. Beautiful Human Pillar
    Summary

    A staged photographic feature depicts a woman posed and restrained as a “beautiful human pillar,” accompanied by imagery and text emphasizing bodily immobilization and display.

  15. Cruelty on the Bed
    Summary

    A photographic sequence depicts a woman blindfolded and tightly rope-bound on a bed in a series of deliberately cruel and immobilizing poses.

  16. Tortoise-Shell Binding
    Summary

    A photographic instructional feature demonstrates “tortoise-shell” rope binding, showing a woman secured by her hands and feet in several compact, highly restrictive positions.

  17. Four Bewitching Flowers
    32
    Summary

    A four-part erotic photographic feature presents a model in varied rope-bound poses, emphasizing stylized bodily display and the visual transformation of restraint.

  18. Pleasure of the Bath
    Summary

    A photographic feature stages rope bondage in and around a bath, presenting several restrained poses and framing bathing as an eroticized setting of sensual repose and confinement.

  19. Merciless by the Water
    35
    Summary

    A photographic tableau presents a woman bound among rocks and vegetation beside water, with her wrists and ankles secured to branches and stones in an outdoor scene of precarious restraint.

  20. Eight Views of Intoxicated Female Bodies
    Summary

    This eight-part photographic portfolio depicts women in stylized states of erotic intoxication and vulnerability, using rope restraint, blindfolds, gags, unusual postures, and carefully staged indoor and garden settings.

  21. Pleasure in the Darkness
    Summary

    A dark, intimate photographic sequence explores erotic pleasure through sensory restriction, showing a woman blindfolded and tightly rope-bound in several seated and reclining poses.

  22. Become a Dog
    46
    Summary

    A photographic fantasy presents a woman bound with rope and collar, instructed to become a dog and perform as a pet for male pleasure, framing animalization as an ambivalent mixture of cruelty, erotic submission, and the mysterious sexual interplay between men and women.

  23. Bound to a Tree
    Summary

    This outdoor photographic feature depicts a woman stripped and tightly bound to trees in several poses, using spread limbs, rope, and the surrounding garden as elements of a staged erotic tableau.

  24. Cushions Are Also Instruments of Torment
    Summary

    The feature demonstrates how stacked cushions can become a device of torment: a bound woman is arranged across them in uncomfortable, arched positions, with additional photographs showing restrained limbs and deliberate bodily exposure.

  25. Upside-Down Shrimp Suspension
    Summary

    A photographic instructional feature demonstrates an inverted “shrimp” suspension, showing how rope restraint positions the bound woman upside down in several stages and poses.

  26. A Pose Awaiting Torment
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presents a bound woman in poses framed as awaiting sadistic torment, emphasizing submission, restraint, and the anticipation of punishment.

  27. The Subtle Mystery of the Female Body
    Summary

    This illustrated essay reflects on the physical and psychological mystery of the female body, especially the way pain, breast torment, restraint, and expressions of suffering can acquire an unsettling aesthetic quality.

  28. Lingering Sensuality
    58
    Summary

    An erotic photographic feature presents a woman reclining after bondage and punishment, emphasizing the lingering sensual aftereffects of restraint and pain.

  29. Cold Tile
    59
    Summary

    A photographic vignette depicts a woman undergoing a cold-tile bathing or washing scene, framing bodily discomfort and exposure as erotic spectacle.

  30. People Being Whipped
    Summary

    A visual survey assembles photographs, drawings, and historical or literary illustrations of people being whipped, including punishment scenes involving women, children, students, and captives.

  31. Cruel Punishments
    Summary

    A visual and historical survey of cruel punishments, depicting executions, torture, corporal violence, and penal practices from China and Europe through graphic illustrations and captions.

  32. Strange People
    Summary

    An illustrated feature on bizarre erotic figures and unusual sexual behavior, combining grotesque drawings, animal-human fantasies, fetishistic scenes, and photographic examples of unconventional people.

  33. Women in Riding Dress
    Summary

    A visual portfolio devoted to women in riding attire, presenting erotic illustrations and photographs that emphasize riding crops, equestrian clothing, female authority, and staged scenes of discipline.

  34. Women Drawn by Masochists
    80
    Summary

    An illustrated feature presents women in riding attire as imagined and drawn by masochist artists, linking fetishized clothing to the expression of submissive desire.

  35. Same-Sex Sadism
    81
    Summary

    A series of erotic drawings depicts same-sex sadistic scenarios involving female dominance, restraint, and physical torment.

  36. Pictures of Self-Torment
    82
    Summary

    Illustrations of self-torment use dog- and horse-like human-animal transformations to visualize masochistic fantasy and bodily subjugation.

  37. Women Wearing Trousers by Alfred Holtmont
    Summary

    An illustrated historical essay traces women’s adoption of trousers and masculine dress from earlier societies and theatrical traditions to modern sports, film, and everyday life, interpreting gendered clothing as a site of social change, erotic attraction, and psychological projection.

  38. Man's Eccentric and Curious Tales by Tonomura Shichirō
    Summary

    A visual essay surveys eccentric erotic scenarios and the production of fetish imagery through photographs, illustrations, performers, models, and studio staging, emphasizing unusual costumes, poses, restraint, and the imaginative appeal of transgressive scenes.

  39. A Single Thought of Love Becomes a Snake by Oda Toshimi
    Summary

    This illustrated historical tale retells the tragic legend of Kiyohime and Anchin, in which frustrated desire and betrayal lead a woman to transform into a serpent, pursue her lover, and destroy them both.

  40. Human Steak
    Summary

    An illustrated historical erotic fiction episode set against the North African theater of World War II, in which soldiers, local inhabitants, and captured women become entangled in violent flight, pursuit, and sexualized brutality.

  41. Journey Through the Desert of Death by Kitahara Yūzō
    Summary

    This illustrated adventure narrative follows women imprisoned amid colonial warfare in southern Africa who endure forced marches, desert exposure, assault, and a dangerous escape from military custody.

  42. The Ice Field Crazed by Desire by Kunieda Yūgo
    Summary

    Set in Alaska’s harsh frontier of fur hunting and snowfields, this illustrated fiction centers on an obsessive and coercive struggle involving a father, his daughter, and an exploitative outsider.

  43. The Beauty of the Guillotine Platform
    Summary

    An illustrated crime-and-captivity fantasy follows a woman who is abducted, restrained, sexually threatened, and ultimately subjected to murderous violence involving knives and a guillotine-like execution platform.

  44. Gruesome Murder Scenes That Make One Cover One's Eyes
    Summary

    A sensational visual report presents photographs and descriptions of gruesome murder scenes, displaying dead or injured bodies and emphasizing the shock and horror of criminal violence.

  45. The Torment of Kichiya in Mad Love by Dan Reitarō
    Summary

    Set in Edo-period Japan, this illustrated erotic historical fiction depicts the handsome page Kichiya becoming the object of intense desire and progressively coercive sexual torment by women in a samurai household.

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

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