Fuzoku Soshi

An erotic-grotesque tale follows several women whose intimate encounters escalate into ritualized domination involving restraint, burning, wounds, and blood. The narrative also plays with same-sex desire and ambiguity surrounding the characters’ sex and bodies.

This illustrated fiction traces an ostracized woman’s pursuit of pleasure through the domination and brutalization of men, including binding, biting, burning, and bloodletting. Her cruelty is presented alongside bodily stigma, jealousy, and struggles for erotic control.

Framed as a sensational case history, the story concerns a tuberculosis patient whose obsession with menstrual blood leads to voyeurism around women’s toilets, fantasies of healing through blood, and increasingly predatory and hallucinatory behavior. Illness, desire, and delusion merge into an erotic-horror narrative of psychological collapse.

An erotic-horror tale follows an aging master tattooist who marks a young woman’s body with elaborate snake designs, using the pain of repeated needles to awaken desire and memories of an earlier woman. Tattooing, bodily transformation, and entwined serpents culminate in a feverish union of pain, obsession, and sexuality.

A Japanese traveler’s memoir of Paris recounts encounters with nude models, artists, and sexually candid women, contrasting French social and erotic customs with those of Japan and other countries. Its observations blend bohemian studio life with exoticizing commentary on women’s bodies and sexuality.

This sprawling entertainment miscellany recounts the romantic and sexual scandals of prominent musicians and public figures, then devotes substantial attention to the marriage, family conflict, and political careers of Sonoda Sunao and Matsutani Tenkōkō. It closes with international anecdotes and satirical cartoons that continue its sensational treatment of sexuality and celebrity.

A satirical episodic story follows the eccentric residents of a fashionable postwar apartment building, including a painter obsessed with scientific theories of sex and marriage, an aspiring novelist, and three attractive sisters. Their domestic experiments, matchmaking schemes, parties, and romantic complications create a comic portrait of changing urban manners.

This illustrated, humorous literary commentary retells and interprets the Suetsumuhana episode from The Tale of Genji, especially its treatment of courtship, physical appearance, and the famously red-nosed princess. Extended digressions examine mirrors in Japanese and Chinese history, folklore, literature, and women's beauty practices.

An illustrated, comic handbook presents anecdotes, jokes, folk beliefs, and purported practical advice about courtship, sexual behavior, bodies, and relations between men and women. Its short entries range across Japanese and foreign customs, using caricature and satire rather than systematic instruction.

This illustrated erotic fiction follows a Ginza striptease performer celebrated for her unusually large breasts, whose public sexualization, financial troubles, and troubled marriage culminate in coercive and sadistic abuse. The narrative treats voyeuristic spectacle and bodily exploitation as intertwined with desperation and tragedy.

A satirical survey imagines the difficulties of being married to a famous actress, emphasizing studio control, intrusive managers, financial dependence, jealousy, gossip, and the pressures of maintaining a star’s public image. Anecdotes about Japanese and foreign performers portray celebrity marriage as a precarious negotiation between intimacy and show business.

This dark erotic fiction follows a young man whose developing same-sex desires lead him into male prostitution, exploitation, bondage, and increasingly violent sadomasochistic encounters. The narrative presents his sexuality through a sensationalized trajectory of coercion, bodily suffering, and compulsive desire.

A reader-correspondence and advice feature answers questions about unconventional erotic fixations and sexual behavior, including attraction to adolescents, body odors, statues, feet, and elderly partners. The responses mix popular sexology, anecdote, and cultural examples in an attempt to explain or classify these desires.

A sensationally illustrated survey of corporal punishment and execution in Japanese history, describing crucifixion, suspension, mutilation, and other methods through anecdotes involving both male and female victims. The article repeatedly frames bondage and bodily suffering through an eroticized sadomasochistic lens.

An illustrated erotic-grotesque story centered on a man's compulsive pursuit of kissing, which turns encounters in entertainment and nightlife settings into acts of coercion, struggle, and injury. Its exaggerated violence and sexual obsession are treated with dark, sensational humor.

A women-only roundtable presents candid personal accounts of masochistic desire, bondage, pain, needle play, self-abuse, and encounters with dominant or submissive partners. The participants also discuss how marriage, beauty, social respectability, and sexual psychology shape their experiences.

This erotic fiction follows a man drawn into male same-sex encounters centered on public toilets, domination, beatings, humiliation, and drinking urine. His increasingly extreme submission brings intense pleasure but ultimately ends in physical collapse and death.

An illustrated historical survey examines depictions of unconventional desire in Japanese erotic books and prints, including voyeurism, clandestine sex, grotesque transformations, necrophilia, and erotic dolls. It connects these motifs to Edo-period censorship, fantasy, and the visual conventions of shunga and popular erotic literature.

An illustrated sensational miscellany combines grotesque fiction with commentary on sexual fixations, moving through episodes of bodily mutilation and cannibalism, a survey of voyeuristic behavior, graveyard horror, and a violent sadomasochistic encounter. Recurring images of blood, decay, corpses, and demonic transformation create a macabre erotic atmosphere.