Kitan Club

A journalistic tour of Osaka’s Shinsekai and Janjan Yokocho, documenting its food stalls, inexpensive eateries, pachinko parlors, cafés, bathhouses, and surrounding street life. The feature combines social observation with illustrated scenes of working-class leisure, poverty, nightlife, itinerant performers, and the neighborhood’s distinctive smells and atmosphere.

A comic serialized fiction follows a mysterious, physically imposing man whose strange behavior and encounters with women, employers, and military figures produce farcical complications. The narrative expands into an eccentric wartime and secret-mission adventure marked by grotesque humor and social satire.

A reportage-style account describes a group of Korean women and children secretly crossing by boat to Tsushima, portraying their poverty, fear, concealment, and efforts to survive amid postwar border surveillance. It also follows the police response and the broader conditions surrounding clandestine migration between Korea and Japan.

An erotic narrative set during a newlywed couple’s first night at a hot-spring inn. Through conversations, observation, and sexual encounters, it explores honeymoon expectations, marital intimacy, and the atmosphere of commercial hot-spring travel.

An erotic melodrama centered on Oden and Sakichi in a hot-spring village, where desire, seduction, deception, and social vulnerability lead to jealousy and violent conflict. The story combines explicit bathhouse and lodging scenes with pursuit, betrayal, and revenge.

An essay examines cases of lovers who died together or attempted suicide, discussing romantic attachment, despair, social circumstances, and the varied forms of “love death.” It also considers how such incidents were reported and interpreted in relation to gender, sexuality, marriage, and contemporary social life.

A long illustrated satirical serial built around colloquial conversations among shopkeepers, workers, couples, and other urban characters. Through comic scenes of shopping, entertainment, romance, domestic life, popular amusements, and references to military equipment and rearmament, it lampoons postwar commercial culture and social anxieties.

An erotic serialized narrative following a company employee on business travels between Japanese cities, where workplace relationships, money, and personal ambitions intersect with romantic and sexual encounters. The story combines travelogue-like episodes with illustrated scenes of seduction, infidelity, and transactional intimacy.

An erotic essay and anecdotal tale centered on the term “remarkable thing” (逸物), discussing its suggestive etymology and its association with exceptional male sexual endowment. A historical or legendary episode involving a sexually charged encounter is accompanied by an explicit illustration.

A humorous collection of erotic anecdotes attributed to wartime military life, describing soldiers’ encounters, barracks culture, and sexual adventures around the battlefront. The piece uses comic reminiscence and anecdotal storytelling to portray masculine camaraderie and sexual opportunism during military service.

An erotic grotesque fiction set around the remote Heike Valley, following encounters among men and women whose desires, deceptions, and bodily transformations unfold in rural and hot-spring environments. The narrative combines supernatural or fairy-like motifs with seduction, mystery, and sensational sexual episodes.

A serialized erotic fiction centered on Masako and Kotaro, whose marriage is unsettled by jealousy, emotional conflict, and suspected or actual infidelity. The narrative develops through tense domestic confrontations and scenes of sexual domination and coercion.

An illustrated erotic narrative portraying Mrs. Sumire as a married woman whose beauty and sexuality attract male attention and lead to seduction, adultery, and confrontations involving her husband and other men. The feature also includes prominent erotic illustrations and a historical explanatory panel on ornate chastity belts and sexual restraint.

A surreal erotic fiction in which a drifting man encounters strange women, rooms, paintings, and episodes that blur waking experience with dream and fantasy. The narrative emphasizes voyeuristic observation, pursuit, shifting identities, and unsettling urban encounters.

A collection of anecdotal discussions and purported case histories concerning the sexual conduct of contemporary university students. The episodes portray student encounters with older married women, domestic servants, young women, and other partners, framed through comic, voyeuristic, and socially observant commentary, with accompanying illustrations.

A literaryized “true story” follows the fortunes of a courtesan in the pleasure quarters, depicting her encounters with clients, shifting romantic attachments, and the emotional and social costs of her constrained life. The narrative emphasizes the glamour, erotic negotiations, jealousy, vulnerability, and eventual decline associated with the courtesan world.

Set in the port town of Habu, this romantic narrative centers on a returning sailor who reconnects with a former beloved, now enmeshed in marriage and domestic obligations. Their renewed attraction develops amid drinking-house and restaurant culture, gossip, family pressures, and the consequences of an illicit relationship.

An erotic story about a Japanese military doctor stationed in a remote mainland village who becomes fascinated by a beautiful woman attached to a women’s relief unit. Medical observation, wartime displacement, and successive intimate encounters turn the doctor’s professional setting into a scene of sexual pursuit and fantasy.

An erotic narrative centered on Ryūji’s growing fixation on the alluring Mitsue, whose appearance and behavior are repeatedly associated with a female serpent. His fantasies and encounters conflict with domestic relationships, while theatrical and broadcast-world settings heighten the story’s atmosphere of performance, jealousy, and sexual intrigue.

A sensationalized crime narrative about the brutal murder of a shopkeeping widow in a coastal fishing community, followed by the discovery of her mutilated body and the police investigation into the suspected killer. The account emphasizes the victim’s vulnerable domestic circumstances, the shocking violence, and the eventual pursuit of evidence and confession.

A serialized first-person-style memoir of Sumiko, a young woman whose working life, financial hardship, and relationships lead her into sexual exploitation and a changing understanding of desire, intimacy, and independence. Episodes depict her encounters with men, nude modeling and artistic circles, domestic and commercial sexual relations, and the emotional consequences of precarious urban life.

An erotic fiction narrative follows Nobuo and Kazue/Katsuko amid jealousy, betrayal, and coercive encounters in a shrine-maiden household. The story centers on confinement, punishment, bondage, and escalating sadomasochistic domination in an underground room.

A travel feature surveys Kagoshima’s lively commercial and entertainment quarters, describing shops, restaurants, nightlife, local residents, and encounters with visitors. It also presents regional speech, customs, scenery, hot springs, and postwar urban development as attractions for travelers.

An Edo-period erotic mystery centers on a stolen or incriminating pillow picture and the murder of a woman. Through interrogations, suspicious behavior, physical clues, and discussion of the picture’s details, the investigator gradually reconstructs the crime and identifies the culprit.

A social-realist domestic tale follows the strained marriage of Heikichi and Sayo, a working-class couple facing poverty, jealousy, sexual tensions, and financial instability. Their household troubles are intensified by gambling, outside attractions, and the unequal burdens of earning and maintaining family life.