Yomikiri Romance

A photographic feature celebrating youthful pleasure and bodily freedom through staged images of a young woman outdoors, including scenes beside and in the water. The accompanying text evokes spring, nature, sensuality, and the hopes associated with youth.

An illustrated, satirical look at employment guidance and job-seeking, presenting a series of comic scenes involving applicants, workplaces, and sexualized social interactions. The feature uses eroticized cartoon imagery to comment humorously on employment and everyday postwar life.

An illustrated discussion considers whether a person’s physical constitution or body type can reveal erotic or sexual proclivities. A series of humorous vignettes presents social, intimate, and observational situations to explore the limits of judging personality from appearance.

A short illustrated comic feature presents a series of humorous sexual and romantic misunderstandings, using domestic and voyeuristic situations for comic effect. The captions and scenes emphasize the absurdity of everyday erotic encounters.

An illustrated erotic comedy about a low-cost striptease performance, depicting the performer, spectators, and the awkwardly humorous reactions surrounding the show.

A sequence of humorous erotic cartoons portraying everyday street and domestic situations, including marriage, henpecked husbands, female authority, flirtation, and sexual embarrassment.

A sequential erotic comic follows a striptease performer through an entire day, depicting repeated performances, backstage interactions, spectators, photographers, and the commercial milieu surrounding her work. The exaggerated situations combine sexual display with comedy and theatrical spectacle.

A visual publishing feature presents a humor-oriented magazine through portrait photography and cartoon scenes of its editor, contributors, and readers. The page emphasizes the magazine’s playful editorial identity and its social circulation among an audience.

A humorous first-person monologue by Kasuga Saburō built around the speaker’s claim that he was born on April 1, prompting jokes about April Fool’s Day. The piece also recounts episodes from the magazine office, including caricature drawing, submissions to newspapers, and encounters with artists and entertainers.

Natsume Koshō’s essay reflects on the work of women serving in Japanese restaurants, whose duties extend from serving food and drink to entertaining male customers. Through an anecdote involving a politically prominent client and requests concerning relaxed or absent undergarments, it satirizes sexualized service, male expectations, and shifting postwar social manners.

A humorous, illustrated conversational essay about umbrella repairers, barbers, dress and shoe purchases, and the everyday power exercised by women over men. Its anecdotes repeatedly contrast male embarrassment and desire with women’s confidence, consumer choices, and control within marriage and social life.

An erotic short story centered on a woman encountered and observed at night, with pan-pan culture, rented rooms, money, deception, and unstable sexual relationships shaping the narrative. The story emphasizes voyeuristic curiosity and the precarious intimacy of postwar urban nightlife.

A police memoir-style narrative contrasting older and contemporary sexual attitudes, centered on anecdotes involving chastity, marriage, and the intimate lives of women encountered in urban and rural settings. The piece combines social commentary with humorous, sensational storytelling about sexual propriety and changing customs.

An erotic tale explaining the traditional “mizūage” custom associated with the geisha and pleasure quarters, depicting a young woman’s sexual initiation in the context of marriage, arranged relationships, and first-night expectations. The story uses bathhouse and domestic scenes to explore sexual custom, embarrassment, and male-female negotiation.

An article about the demands of performing eroticized bedroom and stage scenes, focusing on performers’ embarrassment, costumes, gestures, and the audience’s enthusiastic response. It contrasts ordinary theatrical acting with commercially staged scenes designed to provoke spectatorship and applause.

A humorous backstage-style account of dancing girls and revue performers, centered on revealing bloomers, costume mishaps, provocative choreography, and the reactions of audiences and fellow performers. The piece situates these anecdotes within Japan’s postwar revue and entertainment culture, including stage work associated with Asakusa and Shinjuku.

A scatological erotic narrative centered on night-soil collectors and their encounters with households, presenting bodily waste as an object of unusual fascination and desire. The piece combines occupational anecdotes, social observation, and fetishistic interest in excrement and urine.

A humorous erotic tale in which chicken eggs, believed to promote health and sexual vitality, bring a poultry farmer into contact with a family and ultimately facilitate a romantic or marriage connection. The story links rural poultry keeping and reproductive ideas with courtship and domestic relationships.

An illustrated erotic comic centered on a shadow-theatre performance, in which silhouettes, costumes, stage effects, and performers create suggestive scenes. Conversational commentary about entertainers and changing popular tastes frames the playful spectacle.

An illustrated comic portrait of Kawagishi, a bold and unconventional female painter known for her forceful, masculine-coded manner and provocative artistic world. Studio conversations and scenes involving bodies, modeling, display, and sexual reputation satirize gender expectations surrounding women artists.

A humorous erotic tale in which the scientist Mita recounts his youthful relationship with a German woman and a later reunion that overturns his idealized memories of her. The narrative dwells on bodily allure, aging, hair, and the psychological gap between fantasy and reality.

A comic erotic story about Ono, a pharmaceutical-company representative, and K子, a hospital head nurse, whose clandestine courtship involves nighttime visits to the nurses’ quarters and develops into a more permanent relationship. The story emphasizes workplace hierarchy, illicit desire, and unconventional romantic behavior.

An erotic reportage-style feature follows a visit to a striptease venue, describing its performers, audience, backstage atmosphere, and staged undressing routines. The narrator presents the venue as a site of spectacle, sexual curiosity, and commercialized postwar entertainment.

A fictional erotic account centers on a woman recounting how a man stripped her of her clothing and control during a drinking encounter. The narrative develops themes of coercion, humiliation, and unequal sexual power through dialogue and suggestive illustration.

An erotic travel anecdote about a Japanese diplomatic official whose sexual prowess becomes a source of fascination and comparison in Parisian nightlife. The narrative contrasts Japanese and foreign sexual attitudes through stories involving European women, prostitution, and masculine reputation.

A comic erotic story about a respectable gentleman with a collecting obsession who recruits a bathhouse attendant to obtain discarded personal hair and other intimate remnants from female patrons. The narrative treats this fetishistic practice through negotiations, voyeuristic fantasy, and illustrated scenes of women’s bodies.

A humorous salon-style dialogue explores supposedly meaningful differences between the right and left sides of the body, especially in hair parting, hairstyling, dress, and everyday behavior. The discussion extends these observations into playful gender stereotypes and claims about masculine and feminine psychology.

A first-person relationship story centers on an unmarried woman connected with the film and stage world, discussing social pressure to marry, romantic attachment, and the complications that arise when intimate relationships become unstable. The narrative presents personal emotional conflict and unconventional romantic arrangements in a confessional, anecdotal form.

An illustrated erotic narrative set in the licensed quarter follows an oiran and the men around her through betrayal, suspicion, and coercive encounters. The story combines period courtesan-house atmosphere with scenes of restraint, pursuit, and eroticized submission.

A discursive feature asks whether women should prioritize financial security or a romantic partner, using contrasting male and female perspectives to discuss marriage, economic dependence, attraction, and changing postwar gender expectations. Its conversational, advice-like treatment frames intimate choice as a social and psychological question.

A humorous illustrated essay about men’s fascination with women’s nude bodies, including the voyeuristic pleasures and awkward social dynamics surrounding nude modeling and photography. It satirizes gender relations and the supposed inconvenience of women despite claims of sexual equality.

A comic essay devoted to the erotic and aesthetic significance of women’s waists, buttocks, and related body contours. Drawing on comparisons with food, animals, Western beauty ideals, and popular imagery, it treats “waist meat” as both a bodily fetish and a subject of cultural debate.

An illustrated erotic narrative follows a woman working in a beauty or service establishment as she deals with an insistent male customer who ignores boundaries and presses his advances. The dialogue and staged scenes emphasize male forcefulness, female vulnerability, and the customer’s pursuit of forbidden intimacy.

A first-person-style account from the world of geisha and entertainment describes the difficulties of dealing with drunken and sexually aggressive male customers. Through humorous anecdotes and dialogue, it considers professional composure, unwanted advances, and the practical handling of unruly patrons.

A humorous erotic feature about striptease performers and the men who become fascinated with them, including speculation about their personalities, relationships, and suitability as wives. Illustrated scenes and conversational commentary place striptease within postwar popular entertainment and domestic sexual culture.

A supernatural erotic story centered on nude photography, a photographer or studio setting, and strange encounters involving women, images, and apparent ghostly manifestations. The narrative combines comic horror with voyeuristic interest in the nude female body and the culture of erotic photographic production.

A chef recounts an allegedly true restaurant episode involving a widowed proprietress, her female staff, customers, and a drunken man whose late-night behavior creates an increasingly sexual and coercive situation. The narrative blends workplace gossip, erotic anecdote, and comic observation of restaurant life.

An essay examines the appeal and credibility of sensational “true stories” in contemporary erotic magazines, contrasting police suppression and commercial publishing with readers’ appetite for scandalous material. It then presents a humorous erotic anecdote involving a newly married couple, family expectations, and the intrusive perspective of a researcher of sexual customs.

A fictionalized account of yobai, the traditional nocturnal visiting custom, in which Yūtarō secretly approaches a young woman in a rural village. The story frames the encounter through remembered village practices, clandestine desire, and the risks of discovery.

An erotic narrative built around overheard conversations and uncertainty about a child’s paternity. A narrator observes the emotional and sexual complications involving a married couple, an outside relationship, and the question of whether the child is the husband’s.

A conversational essay about the sexual tensions that can arise during medical examinations, especially for young patients and medical workers who routinely encounter the opposite sex. It discusses embarrassment, arousal, and the psychological adjustment required to treat the body professionally.

A humorous, dialogue-driven account of a physician practicing near the pleasure quarter, where he treats women for urinary, dermatological, and venereal complaints. The story also depicts the sexual customs and “water-drawing” initiation of a young woman, combining clinical encounters with brothel-district anecdotes.

An illustrated historical survey of rustic marriage customs, focusing on betrothal, bridal transfer, wedding-night practices, consummation, chastity, and the community’s role in regulating married sexuality. The article compares regional traditions and older customs with changing modern expectations, including rituals, taboos, and punitive responses to perceived violations.

A comparative account of wedding and courtship customs in different Japanese regions, including trial marriages, arranged relationships, household authority, gift exchange, and local expectations surrounding brides and grooms. The article also discusses how regional marriage practices shape domestic and sexual relationships.

A richly illustrated treasure-hunting feature recounts legends and reported discoveries of buried gold associated with historical figures, castles, temples, and wartime upheavals. It follows competing searches, disputed evidence, maps, excavations, and rumors surrounding hidden caches across Japan.

A seven-panel illustrated comic follows a man dealing with objects that have been dropped or misplaced in the street, using visual gags and misunderstandings to build its humor.

Ōba Gorō’s illustrated column presents humorous, sensational anecdotes about film actors and actresses, focusing on their supposed sexual energy, romantic behavior, and physical stamina both on and off the set.

A humorous, anecdotal account of postwar entertainment districts, describing performers, patrons, unusual attractions, and the changing atmosphere of popular amusements. The piece mixes observational reportage with sexualized stories and comic commentary on urban leisure culture.

A miscellany of sensational stories about performers and popular spectacles, beginning with the origins and display of the “flower streetcar” and continuing with accounts of swallowing swords, unusual bodily feats, and eccentric entertainers. The article treats these attractions as changing forms of public amusement, linking historical anecdotes with contemporary show culture.

A framed, conversational erotic narrative recounts a series of illicit and sensational sexual episodes shared among acquaintances, including wartime memories, seduction, captivity, coercion, and punishment. Illustrated scenes reinforce the story’s themes of secrecy, erotic danger, and bondage.

A written-and-photographic reportage feature explores a Tokyo red-light “blue-line” district, documenting its streets, interiors, workers, customers, and the atmosphere of nightlife. The article combines observational captions and interviews or commentary about rural women who came to Tokyo seeking new lives and found themselves in the district’s commercial-sexual world.