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Fuzoku Kitan

May 1961

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Cover of Fuzoku Kitan, May 1961

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Summary

The May 1961 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is built around the special feature Men and Women Possessed by the Whip, using whipping as a point of intersection between sadism, masochism, punishment, sexual desire, fantasy, and popular visual culture. The issue opens with historical and humorous images of corporal punishment, followed by an extensive bondage gravure. Its staged photographs move between woodland and rural settings, tatami rooms, and domestic interiors, presenting women bound back-to-back, gagged, restrained in school-style clothing, tied among straw and timber, and posed in increasingly elaborate forms of rope restraint. A subsequent illustrated portfolio, Six Women in Torment, imagines ordeals involving heat, cold water, sharp devices, exposure, whipping, and other forms of punishment.

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The principal textual feature begins with Ōtatsu Kinji’s discussion of the widespread human fascination with whipping and continues with Okumura Sekio’s The Fascination of Whipping. Abe Sadayoshi’s The Whip Is Alive develops the symbolic and erotic significance of the whip through references to riding, sexuality, punishment, religion, and historical practice. First-person and quasi-confessional pieces then shift the feature toward individual erotic experience: Whip and Leather Strap for a Night, My Whipping Prey, and A Whip for the Buttocks of a Plump Young Woman describe attraction to corporal punishment as desire, ritual, and fetish. The feature also includes fictionalized and illustrated treatments of women trained or disciplined by the whip, as well as reproductions and descriptions of European implements associated with flagellation and sadomasochism.

Later material broadens the issue beyond the principal feature. The Nootrix section presents translated or adapted foreign bondage and discipline imagery, including Women’s Equestrian Forced-Training School, with drawings of women restrained in apparatus and subjected to riding-themed discipline. The serial Cat-Torment Hell returns to Japanese illustrated erotic fiction. Two substantial closing serials, Aoyama Miekichi’s Wandering in Pleasurable Torment: The Abused Woman and Ashidate Eikichi’s Flame Emperor Temple: White Tiger Chapter, combine melodrama, cruelty, bondage, and sexualized danger.

Reader Salon occupies the closing literary-community portion of the issue, followed by notices about previous issues, books, photographs, agency merchandise, subscriptions, and contributions. The final editorial page solicits fiction, confessions, news, illustrations, photographs, and reader ideas. Taken as a whole, the issue demonstrates Fuzoku Kitan’s distinctive combination of documentary rhetoric, erotic photography, translated Western material, sadomasochistic theory, confession, sensational fiction, and active reader participation.

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Table of Contents 26 items
  1. Gravure: Whip Scenes
    6–26
  2. Six Women in Torment
    35–61
  3. The Widespread Fascination with Whipping by Ōtatsu Kinji
    62
  4. The Fascination of Whipping by Okumura Sekio
    63–65
  5. The Whip Is Alive by Abe Sadayoshi
    66–69
  6. Whip and Leather Strap for a Night by Satō Eisaku
    70–73
  7. My Whipping Prey by Terao Natsuhiko
    74–77
  8. Whip, Love Me! by Ōōmura Hiroshi
    78–83
  9. A Whip for the Buttocks of a Plump Young Woman by Tamaru Ryūichi
    84–87
  10. The Woman Trained by the Whip by Kashiwa Masahiko
    99–106
  11. Object of Mad Worship by Kabiya Kazuhiko
    107
  12. Conversation with a Homosexual Masochist by Tani Kanta
    128
  13. Thousand-Ryō Chest Torment
  14. Women's Equestrian Forced-Training School by Tani Kanta
    139–142
  15. Nootrix Gallery
    143–146
  16. I Became a Woman Even in Body by Hamano Chizuru
    147
  17. Horse-Riding Maniacs: Nine Women by Kurahito Narito
    154
  18. Window on Homosexuality
    154
  19. Room for Cross-Dressing Enthusiasts
    155
  20. Salon Masochistica
    156
  21. Cat-Torment Hell by Shinoda Fujimi
    162–169
  22. Wandering in Pleasurable Torment, Part 1: The Abused Woman by Aoyama Miekichi
    170–175
  23. Flame Emperor Temple, Part 1: White Tiger Chapter by Ashidate Eikichi
    176–181
  24. Reader Salon
    182–187
  25. Agency and Publication Information
    188–193
  26. From the Editorial Office
    194

Highlights

  • The formal contents page identifies the issue's central special feature as Men and Women Possessed by the Whip and places whipping alongside bondage, confession, sexual subcultures, translated foreign material, fiction, and reader departments. (PDF p. 4).
  • A long opening bondage gravure presents women restrained in forests, tatami rooms, domestic interiors, and rural settings, with individual captions emphasizing exposure, shame, anticipation, and helplessness. (PDF pp. 6–26).
  • Six Women in Torment is an illustrated portfolio imagining a succession of ordeals involving heat, cold water, rope, sharp devices, suspension, and corporal punishment. (PDF pp. 27–41).
  • The issue's principal feature opens with a short statement on the widespread fascination with whipping followed by Okumura Sekio's essay The Fascination of Whipping, which treats flagellation as both punishment and erotic stimulus. (PDF pp. 42–45).
  • Abe Sadayoshi's The Whip Is Alive examines the whip as an erotic symbol through riding imagery, sexual excitement, historical punishment, religious flagellation, and the physical sensation of being struck. (PDF pp. 46–49).
  • A sequence of first-person and confessional pieces explores whipping through fantasy and personal experience, including Whip and Leather Strap for a Night, My Whipping Prey, and A Whip for the Buttocks of a Plump Young Woman. (PDF pp. 50–67).
  • The foreign-oriented Nootrix material includes Women's Equestrian Forced-Training School and several pages of bondage and disciplinary illustrations involving riding equipment and restraint apparatus. (PDF pp. 76–83).
  • Cat-Torment Hell is a sustained illustrated erotic narrative in the later part of the issue, combining confinement, bondage, cruelty, and melodramatic storytelling. (PDF pp. 84–91).
  • The closing fiction sequence contains Aoyama Miekichi's Wandering in Pleasurable Torment: The Abused Woman and Ashidate Eikichi's Flame Emperor Temple: White Tiger Chapter. (PDF pp. 92–103).
  • Reader Salon, publication notices, merchandise and subscription information, and the final call for reader manuscripts show the magazine functioning as a participatory community as well as an erotic periodical. (PDF pp. 104–116).

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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