Kitan Club

October 1954

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Summary

The October 1954 issue is one of the largest Kitan Club issues in this sequence. Its opening visual portfolio combines diagrams of improvised restraint, historical punishment illustration, staged female domination, beach and outdoor bondage photography, gag studies, traditional-costume imagery, wrestling, foot worship, and female-on-female physical control. The prose section then expands into fiction, masochistic memoir, queer and gender-variant testimony, body-part fetish studies, literary criticism, seppuku narratives, reader correspondence, and extended serials.

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PDF page 5 presents a full-page catalogue of women positioned on chairs, stools, poles, frames, and other supports. The page treats household furniture as modular restraint equipment. Itō Seiu’s October illustration on PDF page 6 shifts into historical grotesquerie, depicting bodies and objects overturned within a crowded domestic scene.

The illustrated story on PDF pages 7–12 follows two men competing around a woman at a seaside or resort setting. Courtship, rivalry, bodily display, humiliation, confinement, and implied punishment unfold through a sequence resembling a compact comic strip.

PDF pages 13–14 show two women engaged in a “monkey game,” with one controlling the other through clothing, leverage, and floor positioning. PDF page 15 compares unusual hands-behind configurations, while pages 16–18 place a gagged and bound woman at the water’s edge. Sand, shallow water, and shoreline debris become elements of the composition.

The series titled The Queen’s Daily Routine, on PDF pages 19–22, presents a woman using a man as furniture, servant, footrest, and target of training. Domestic chores and personal grooming are recast as rituals of female authority. Pages 23–24 continue female-on-female control through outdoor wrestling and trampling.

The visual portfolio broadens further through historical and erotic prints, staged photography, traditional dress, warnings about violence, gag designs, high-heeled footwear, rope albums, bathhouse imagery, floor restraint, female seppuku photographs, foot fetishism, and the repeated use of bodies as platforms or seats.

The main prose section begins on PDF page 47 with Futamata Shizuko’s The Wisteria Woman. The story combines domestic secrecy, unstable identity, illness, obsession, and concealed desire. It is followed by Saji Kōsuke’s Collection, which uses the scrapbook or collection as a literary form for organizing memories, encounters, images, and erotic fragments.

Record of the Demon Insect, beginning on PDF page 61, blends supernatural imagery with bodily transformation and erotic threat. On Female Armpit Mania, beginning on PDF page 70, isolates the armpit as an object of aesthetic and sexual attention, demonstrating the magazine’s increasingly microscopic fetish taxonomy.

Numa Shōzō’s From a Masochist’s Notebook, beginning on PDF page 71, continues his attempt to construct a historical and psychological archive of masochism. Literature, medicine, famous cases, personal reflection, and foreign examples appear side by side.

On the Beauty of Boys, beginning on PDF page 79, by Yamaguchi Kōichi, discusses male youth, physical development, bodily aesthetics, and same-sex attraction through the period’s sexological vocabulary.

Itō Seiu’s Sexual Fluids, Part Nine, beginning on PDF page 83, again combines bodily custom, folklore, intimate anecdote, medicine, and historical observation. Joys and Sorrows of Being Tormented, resumed on PDF page 87, continues a first-person masochistic narrative involving illness, examination, restraint, treatment, and humiliation.

An Open Letter to Dr. Azuma, beginning on PDF page 95, directly engages another contributor and demonstrates how the magazine functioned as an active correspondence network. Morimoto Aizō’s translated Cruel Women, beginning on PDF page 98, continues the international history of female aggression and dominance.

The long story beginning on PDF page 103, approximately titled A Tale of Youth, Whips, and Bitter Winds, combines bodily punishment, historical melodrama, masculine conflict, and women placed within unstable hierarchies. Its illustrations emphasize whips, blades, exposed bodies, and dramatic confrontation.

A Masochistic Fantasy in the Style of Kōdan, beginning on PDF page 115, uses the cadence of popular oral storytelling to frame masochistic fantasy. Binding the Female Body in Japanese Dress and Cross-Dressing Restraint, beginning on PDF page 117, by Kishimoto Seiryū, combines text with outdoor photographs of a kimono-clad subject tied among trees and rocks.

The Teacher, beginning on PDF page 121, is a first-person account of physical training, authority, punishment, school life, and bodily discipline. First-Sight Part-Time Job, beginning on PDF page 127, uses clothing, mirrors, work, and identity change to explore an unfamiliar social role.

Natsuko’s Copybook: Diary of a Guilty Woman, beginning on PDF page 133, is a substantial diary narrative covering marriage, desire, social life, bodily experimentation, shame, and shifting identity. The diary continues through PDF page 143.

The Smile of the Male Flower, beginning on PDF page 144, returns to male beauty, captivity, sexual humiliation, and same-sex experience. It continues into the material that the earlier preview would have omitted.

PDF page 149 begins an essay titled Dizism, followed on PDF page 152 by a discussion of Sadism Among Chinese Women. The latter mixes sexual anthropology, racialized assumptions, personal anecdotes, and historical generalization. Its language is heavily shaped by the prejudices of its period.

The Beauty of Women’s Noses, beginning on PDF page 155, resumes the magazine’s bodily-aesthetic studies. Photographs, facial profiles, proportion, race, character, and erotic attraction are treated as parts of one classificatory project.

Pleasurable Period Drama: Women Bound in Film, beginning on PDF page 159, examines images of restrained women in historical cinema. It treats costume drama as a reservoir of bondage imagery and discusses actresses, poses, clothing, and cinematic spectacle.

A New Discovery in the Art of Rope, beginning on PDF page 168, attempts to present tying as an aesthetic or creative practice. It discusses photographs, posture, body shape, visual composition, and the difference between ordinary restraint and deliberately arranged imagery.

Devoted to the Enema, beginning on PDF page 173, describes medical equipment, bodily preparation, anticipation, embarrassment, and fetish desire. Ear Cleaning and the Glass Rod: My Experience, beginning on PDF page 175, similarly gives a narrow bodily practice an extended autobiographical treatment.

Rainbow of Life, beginning on PDF page 179, is a prize-winning confession concerned with childhood, family life, femininity, emotional suffering, and identity. It continues through PDF page 187.

Abdominal Cutting Seen on Sōshi Paper, Part Two, beginning on PDF page 188, by Kawai Itsuko, examines illustrated women preparing for or performing seppuku. It connects printed imagery, fantasy, history, costume, and bodily identification.

Current Reflections on Female Genitalia, beginning on PDF page 192, combines anatomy, sexual response, cultural ideas, and personal observation. The language is medically unreliable by contemporary standards but historically revealing.

The illustrated narrative Dream, beginning on PDF page 195, occupies a long sequence of heavily illustrated pages. Its interiors, bedrooms, mirrors, restraints, women observing one another, and shifting points of view create a feverish visual novella.

At the Evening Window, beginning on PDF page 203, by Furukawa Yūko, is one of the issue’s longest prose works. It combines illness, isolation, clothing, caregiving, desire, observation, and emotional dependence. The window functions as a border between private fantasy and the outside world.

Marie Madeleine, beginning on PDF page 217, presents a female criminal or poisoner through a historical and psychological frame. The article discusses sexuality, criminality, manipulation, and the cultural construction of the dangerous woman.

Sorrow and Compassion for an Abused Boy, beginning on PDF page 223, follows a boy subjected to violence, social neglect, institutional judgment, and emotional exploitation. It broadens the issue’s treatment of victimization beyond adult erotic fantasy.

Fragments of My Masochism, beginning on PDF page 231, is another personal account of submission, humiliation, bodily memory, and self-classification.

Female Seppuku: Snow-Molded Ayukawa Osen, beginning on PDF page 236, is one of the issue’s major late works. It combines history, melodrama, snow imagery, ritual preparation, female honor, bodily exposure, and cutting. The story continues through PDF page 246.

A Strange Night Without Characters, beginning on PDF page 247, is an extended narrative dealing with disguise, gender ambiguity, relationships, and social identity. It continues through PDF page 260.

The issue then includes a sexuality-advice column, a glossary of women’s sumo terminology, several pages of publication listings, and On Long-Boot Fetishism, beginning on PDF page 270. This essay traces the attraction of tall boots through riding, military dress, fashion, performance, and restrictive footwear.

Looking at the Beauty of Models, beginning on PDF page 274, discusses posing, photography, commercial models, bodily display, and the difference between professional and amateur representation. Photographs show women posed outdoors in staged restraint.

The serialized Night-Light Island, beginning on PDF page 278, runs through PDF page 290. It combines travel, sexuality, social observation, jealousy, interpersonal manipulation, and modern urban life.

The final major work, The Fruits of Abuse, begins on PDF page 291 and continues through PDF page 305. Written as the second-prize winner in the issue’s fifth-anniversary fiction contest, it follows a woman’s experience of victimization, punishment, emotional dependency, and social judgment. Its continuation through the final pages makes it the issue’s true conclusion.

The complete October issue reveals Kitan Club operating as an unusually capacious hybrid: part visual portfolio, sexological cabinet, literary journal, reader forum, research society, and fetish archive. Its ethical assumptions and medical claims are often deeply dated, but the issue records a readership attempting to classify and narrate desires that mainstream culture refused to name.

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Table of Contents 68 items
  1. mprovised Restraint Positions Using Furniture and Frames
    5
    Summary

    A visual feature presents women placed in improvised restraint positions using chairs, frames, poles, carts, and other household or outdoor structures, with brief Japanese labels identifying the setups.

  2. October Punishment Scene by Itō Seiu
    6
    Summary

    Itō Seiu’s October illustration depicts a crowded historical marketplace or fairground scene centered on a bound and punished woman, combining spectatorship, public display, and institutionalized violence.

  3. The Two Men Pursuing Her by illustrated by Hanayama Kazuhisa, credit reading uncertain
    Summary

    This twelve-part illustrated erotic narrative follows a woman pursued by three men through encounters at the seaside, on a train, and in domestic or theatrical settings, escalating into deception, captivity, binding, and threatened punishment before a final confrontation or removal of the woman.

  4. Monkey Game by Tsujimura Takashi
    Summary

    A staged bondage sequence titled “Monkey Game” depicts women restraining one another and using a cloth gag in an intimate role-play scenario.

  5. Variant Hands-Behind Binding
    15
    Summary

    A photographic practical feature demonstrates a variant hands-behind binding, using rope arrangements that secure the arms and body in a modified rear-restraint position.

  6. Scattered Blossoms at the Water’s Edge by Tsujimura Takashi; model Nakafuji Tamiko
    Summary

    This photographic portfolio stages rope-bound scenes with model Nakafuji Tamiko on a beach, showing several outdoor restraint positions at the water’s edge and on the shore.

  7. The Queen’s Daily Routine: Washing Her Face by Haruhi Rumi and Koike Masami
    19
    Summary

    In this staged episode of the Queen’s morning routine, a subordinate must remain behind her while she washes, taking care not to spill the cup of water and facing punishment for even a minor failure.

  8. The Queen’s Daily Routine: Foot Service and Release by Haruhi Rumi and Koike Masami
    20
    Summary

    A kneeling male servant greets the smoking Queen by attending to and kissing her feet, after which the routine culminates in his release from service.

  9. Footstool by Haruhi Rumi and Koike Masami
    21
    Summary

    The male subordinate is used as the Queen’s footstool and must continue supporting her feet while she finishes reading the letters delivered to her.

  10. Dog Training by Haruhi Rumi and Koike Masami
    22
    Summary

    A staged photographic feature depicts a woman training another person as an obedient “dog” through collaring, handling, and command-oriented physical discipline.

  11. Outdoor Female Wrestling by Haruhi Rumi and Itabuki Makiko
    Summary

    A photographic sequence presents outdoor wrestling and grappling between women, framed as playful but coercive domination and punishment without ropes.

  12. Erotic-Print Fantasies by Miyako Mineko
    Summary

    This illustrated feature surveys erotic ukiyo-e-inspired fantasies, including scenes of sexual submission, supernatural snake imagery, and imaginative encounters drawn from historical Japanese print culture.

  13. Commemorative Photography
    27
    Summary

    A staged photograph depicts a man preparing to tie his newlywed wife to a chair outdoors for a deliberately strange commemorative portrait.

  14. Newlywed Autumn Game by Taki Reiko
    28
    Summary

    An illustrated erotic scenario presents a newlywed woman in autumn dress and traditional settings undergoing playful restraint and display, accompanied by dialogue and changing poses.

  15. Traditional-Costume Play by illustrated by Hanayama Kazuhisa
    Summary

    A multi-page illustrated feature portrays women in elaborate traditional Japanese costumes being tied, posed, and restrained in theatrical indoor and outdoor scenes.

  16. Warning Against Violence
    31
    Summary

    A cautionary illustrated feature depicts a woman bound and urges women to learn judo as a means of protecting themselves from violent attack.

  17. Gags and New Women’s Shoes
    32
    Summary

    A visual feature presents a gagging device for a “talkative woman” alongside photographs of a new style of women’s shoe.

  18. Secret Photographic Album: Rope Poses, Part One by multiple models
    Summary

    A photographic album presents staged rope-binding poses of women, including standing, seated, and floor positions, as the first installment of a bondage portfolio.

  19. Secret Photographic Album: Rope Poses, Part Two by multiple models
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presents multiple models in rope-bound poses, including blindfolded and tightly restrained configurations, as a continuation of a secret album.

  20. Fantasy of Rope and Whips by Sugihara Nijiko
    37
    Summary

    A staged erotic photograph depicts a woman subjected to rope restraint amid whip imagery, presenting bondage as a fantasy tableau.

  21. Nightmare by Sugihara Nijiko
    38
    Summary

    An illustrated scene from the picture story “Nightmare” portrays a distressed woman in a threatening restraint scenario, framing coercion and fear through erotic narrative imagery.

  22. Male Beauty and Abused-Masochist Poses
    39
    Summary

    A visual feature juxtaposes an idealized portrait of youthful male beauty with a photograph of a consensual bondage scene in which a male participant is tied by the hands and ankles and subjected to an endurance-oriented prop-based pose.

  23. After the Bath and Women’s Bathhouse Imagery by Kawabata Tanako and historical artist
    40
    Summary

    This feature presents a woman relaxing in a yukata after bathing alongside eroticized bathhouse and moxibustion-room imagery drawn from historical visual culture.

  24. Illustrated Floor Restraint Studies
    Summary

    An illustrated “Reiko tying-method classroom” experiments with floor-bound female figures in varied costumes and poses, presenting multiple rope-binding arrangements as stylized restraint studies.

  25. Female Seppuku Studies by Kawai Kazuhito and others
    43
    Summary

    A staged photographic study of female seppuku presents a woman posing with a blade at her abdomen, including scenes of simulated cutting and blood for an extreme erotic death fantasy.

  26. A Feminist’s Page: Feet and Clothing by Kagawa Toshiko
    44
    Summary

    This illustrated fetish feature focuses on the erotic display and handling of women’s feet, hands, and clothing, including images of a woman wiping a foot.

  27. Submission and Overthrow by Haruhi Rumi and Koike Masami
    45
    Summary

    A staged photographic sequence depicts a woman physically overpowering and subduing a prone man in a scene centered on domination and submission.

  28. The Wisteria Woman by Futamata Shizuko
    Summary

    A serialized erotic narrative follows a woman whose life is marked by wartime displacement, exploitation, captivity, and coercive sexual encounters, combining personal tragedy with bondage imagery.

  29. Collection: From My Scrapbook by Saji Kōsuke
    Summary

    A scrapbook-style collection presents and comments on erotic clippings and illustrations involving bondage, sexual scenarios, and an intense fascination with particular bodily features such as hair, mouths, and armpits.

  30. Record of the Demon Insect by Hōno Mayumi, romanization uncertain
    Summary

    This supernatural erotic narrative depicts the intertwined exploits of Madame, Ruri, and other characters amid transformation, domination, restraint, sexual violence, and grotesque insect imagery.

  31. On Female Armpit Mania by Mori Takuji
    70
    Summary

    An essay examines erotic fascination with women’s armpits, discussing the visual and tactile qualities attributed to the body part and its place within fetishistic desire.

  32. From a Masochist’s Notebook by Numa Shōzō
    Summary

    A first-person masochist’s notebook presents fantasies and episodes of female authority, humiliation, bondage, domestic submission, and eroticized discipline, accompanied by staged illustrations.

  33. On the Beauty of Boys by Yamaguchi Kōichi
    Summary

    An essay explores the beauty and erotic appeal of boys through historical and modern examples, discussing youthful bodies, clothing, physical training, artistic representation, and changing cultural ideals of masculine appearance.

  34. Sexual Fluids, Part Nine by Itō Seiu
    Summary

    A serialized erotic-psychological essay by Itō Seiu combines conversational anecdotes about sexually unconventional women and artistic or entertainment circles with illustrated scenes of erotic observation and bodily experience.

  35. Joys and Sorrows of Being Tormented, Continued by Magane Kanjirō
    Summary

    A long illustrated first-person account describes the pleasures and suffering of repeated bondage, beatings, humiliation, exposure, and other punitive ordeals, including restraint in domestic and outdoor settings and increasingly elaborate rope techniques.

  36. An Open Letter to Dr. Azuma by Hamura Kyōko
    Summary

    Hamura Kyōko’s open letter to Dr. Azuma is a personal confession about her masochistic and bondage-related desires, marital and domestic circumstances, and uncertainty about how to understand or manage her sexual inclinations.

  37. Cruel Women by translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō
    Summary

    A translated and explanatory account drawn from a 1901 German work describes violent domination, whipping, captivity, and racialized colonial encounters involving women and African servants. The piece frames these episodes as sensational historical testimony while dwelling on cruelty and bodily punishment.

  38. A Tale of Youth, Whips, and Bitter Winds by Iwahiroshi, author reading uncertain
    Summary

    This kōdan-style historical erotic narrative follows a woman subjected to escalating coercion, restraint, whipping, tattooing, humiliation, and bodily violence amid a theatrical world of criminals, servants, and domineering figures. Its accompanying illustrations stage scenes of captivity and punishment as sensational erotic spectacle.

  39. A Masochistic Fantasy in the Style of Kōdan by Tamura Minoru
    Summary

    A kōdan-style masochistic fantasy imagines a powerful woman binding, restraining, humiliating, and physically punishing a male submissive through elaborate postures and repeated discipline. The piece presents these scenarios as an imaginative design for male masochistic submission rather than factual reportage.

  40. Binding the Female Body in Japanese Dress and Cross-Dressing Restraint by Kishimoto Seiryū
    Summary

    An illustrated discussion of binding women in traditional Japanese dress and binding cross-dressed subjects, combining commentary on rope arrangements with photographic examples.

  41. The Teacher by Aoba Shin’ichi
    Summary

    A fictional account of a physical-education teacher who subjects a male student to coercive examinations, forced undressing, physical control, and humiliating restraint.

  42. First-Sight Part-Time Job by Shirogane Kōji
    Summary

    An erotic serial narrative about a woman taking a part-time job that draws her into increasingly coercive encounters involving customer observation, costume changes, exposure, and restraint.

  43. Natsuko’s Copybook: Diary of a Guilty Woman by Sakurai Kyōichirō
    Summary

    A diary-style fictional confession follows a woman’s secret relationships, jealousy, emotional instability, and self-destructive responses as she struggles between illicit desire, social expectations, and marriage.

  44. The Smile of the Male Flower: Captivity Record by Mikihara Jirō
    Summary

    A captivity narrative recounts the abduction and confinement of a woman amid erotic coercion, physical restraint, humiliation, and escalating sadistic control, illustrated by staged scenes of bondage.

  45. Dizism by Maru Megumi, romanization uncertain
    151
    Summary

    This illustrated sensational account presents and interprets “Dizism” as a supposed form of sadism among Chinese women, combining eroticized cross-cultural description with visual depictions of sexualized dominance and violence.

  46. Sadism Among Chinese Women by contributor credit uncertain
    Summary

    A sensationalized cross-cultural essay presents alleged examples of sadistic behavior among Chinese women, including female control, physical punishment, and sexualized domination of men, while comparing these practices with Japanese sexual attitudes.

  47. The Beauty of Women’s Noses by Masago Jūroku
    Summary

    Masago Jūroku examines the aesthetic and erotic significance attributed to women’s noses, discussing facial proportions, individual beauty, cultural standards, and the ways photographs and visual media shape judgments of feminine attractiveness.

  48. Pleasurable Period Drama: Women Bound in Film by Fujiki Senji
    Summary

    Fujiki Senji surveys bondage scenes involving women in period films, discussing rope restraint, theatrical staging, actresses’ performances, audience response, and recurring images of captives, punishments, and eroticized historical violence in Japanese cinema.

  49. A New Discovery in the Art of Rope by Tsukihisa Takeshi, credit reading uncertain
    Summary

    This essay presents acupuncture as a historically rooted form of painful discipline and examines its continued therapeutic and psychological appeal through case examples involving pain, nerves, and masochistic sensation.

  50. Devoted to the Enema by Hamura Kyōko
    Summary

    A first-person account of enema practices describes bodily sensations, erotic pleasure, and their incorporation into married sexual life, accompanied by discussion of equipment and methods.

  51. Ear Cleaning and the Glass Rod: My Experience by Tsunozaki Takako
    Summary

    This autobiographical fetish narrative recounts erotic experiences centered on ear cleaning and the use of a glass rod, combining intimate confession with illustrated scenes of sensory stimulation.

  52. Rainbow of Life by Taketani Jūzō
    Summary

    A serialized first-person erotic narrative follows a troubled marriage and its entanglement with jealousy, coercion, bondage, bodily punishment, and eventual police intervention. The story presents abusive marital and interpersonal power relations as dramatic SM fantasy.

  53. Abdominal Cutting Seen on Sōshi Paper, Part Two by Kawai Itsuko
    Summary

    This illustrated cultural-historical essay examines depictions of female abdominal cutting and seppuku in kusazōshi, combining literary anecdotes, family and revenge narratives, and commentary on the sexualized presentation of punishment and bodily violence.

  54. Current Reflections on Female Genitalia by Dokushi Yotsuya, credit reading uncertain
    Summary

    An illustrated essay reflects on contemporary ideals of female beauty by comparing breasts, hips, genital appearance, pubic hair, skin coloration, and body proportions, relating physical features to erotic attraction and changing cultural standards.

  55. Dream: An Illustrated Story by Matsui Raikō, credit reading uncertain
    Summary

    A nightmare-like erotic fantasy follows a man’s pursuit and capture of a woman, escalating through coercion, physical restraint, captivity, and sexual violence in a heavily illustrated narrative.

  56. At the Evening Window by Furukawa Yūko
    Summary

    A first-person account traces Yūko’s troubled and obsessive relationship with T through travel, domestic encounters, bondage, sexual coercion, masochistic submission, and reflections on desire, marriage, and loss.

  57. Marie Madeleine: The Poisoning Maniac Recorded in Women’s Criminal History by Samukawa Midori
    Summary

    A sensationalized account of Marie Madeleine, presented as a notorious female poisoner whose crimes and eroticized personality are situated within women’s criminal history.

  58. Sorrow and Compassion for an Abused Boy by Mikata Kōji
    Summary

    A compassionate but melodramatic narrative follows an abused boy through institutional confinement, exploitation, and encounters with adults, emphasizing the emotional consequences of violence and neglect.

  59. Fragments of My Masochism by Kawada Tashirō, credit reading uncertain
    Summary

    A first-person series of masochistic recollections describes fantasies and experiences involving punishment, restraint, humiliation, and bodily control, accompanied by erotic illustrations and a reader-submission notice.

  60. Female Seppuku: Snow-Molded Ayukawa Osen by Segawa Yasuko
    Summary

    A serialized historical erotic narrative follows Ayukawa Osen and related figures through betrayal, sword violence, captivity, and ultimately female seppuku, accompanied by dramatic illustrations of the confrontations and ritual death.

  61. A Strange Night Without Characters by Ukishima Genji, romanization uncertain
    Summary

    A serialized erotic narrative follows encounters involving desire, deception, captivity, police pursuit, imprisonment, and changing power relations between men and women, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

  62. Sexuality Advice Column by contributor and readers
    Summary

    An advice column answers readers’ questions about sexual desire, marriage, gendered behavior, bodily appearance, fetishistic interests, and anxieties about relationships through a sexological and psychological lens.

  63. New Women’s Sumo Terminology by Katō Sanpei
    265
    Summary

    An illustrated feature introduces and explains terminology for women’s sumo wrestling, using diagrams of grips, throws, holds, and winning or losing positions.

  64. Publication Listings and Notices
    Summary

    A contents-and-notices section lists articles, illustrations, photographs, and other features from the issue, alongside subscription, ordering, and publication information for readers.

  65. On Long-Boot Fetishism by Amaike Seibi, romanization uncertain
    Summary

    This illustrated essay examines the author’s fascination with women’s long boots, discussing the fetish’s psychological and historical associations, styles and materials, and its representation in imported fashion and erotic imagery.

  66. Looking at the Beauty of Models by Nakamura Yasushi, credit reading uncertain
    Summary

    A first-person illustrated feature describes photographing female models in posed bondage and outdoor settings, focusing on their reactions, willingness to repeat the sessions, and the photographer’s interpretation of their masochistic interest.

  67. Night-Light Island by Kurihara Mugi; illustrated by Shinjō
    Summary

    This serialized erotic suspense story follows Kenjiro and other characters whose fantasies of escape lead toward an isolated island, where loneliness, coercive power, captivity, and violent desire become intertwined. The narrative also reflects on alienation from modern urban life and the imagined freedom—and danger—of withdrawal from society.

  68. The Fruits of Abuse by Hosokawa Nobuko
    Summary

    A dramatic first-person account portrays a woman subjected to escalating domestic abuse and elaborate restraint, including rope binding, suspension, gagging, whipping, forced nudity, and other forms of corporal punishment, with the resulting psychological collapse leading to medical hospitalization and eventual separation. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the article’s staged scenes of victimization and bodily control.

Highlights

  • The opening catalogue turns chairs, poles, frames, and household structures into a visual grammar of restraint (PDF p. 5).
  • The Two Men Pursuing Her uses a twelve-part illustrated sequence to combine courtship, rivalry, rescue, confinement, and punishment (PDF pp. 7–12).
  • Scattered Blossoms at the Water’s Edge places a gagged and bound woman directly in surf and wet sand, making the shoreline part of the photographic staging (PDF pp. 16–18).
  • The Queen’s Daily Routine transforms grooming and household service into rituals of female command (PDF pp. 19–22).
  • The early portfolio includes one of the issue’s densest combinations of rope, wrestling, foot worship, traditional dress, gags, female seppuku, and bathhouse imagery (PDF pp. 23–45).
  • Collection uses a scrapbook structure to organize erotic memory, personal encounters, and cultural fragments (PDF pp. 55–60).
  • On Female Armpit Mania demonstrates the magazine’s ability to build an entire autobiographical category around a narrowly defined body part (PDF p. 70).
  • On the Beauty of Boys gives male youth and same-sex attraction a sustained sexological and aesthetic discussion (PDF pp. 79–82).
  • Binding the Female Body in Japanese Dress and Cross-Dressing Restraint combines field photography, traditional clothing, gender transformation, and rope (PDF pp. 117–120).
  • Natsuko’s Copybook is a substantial diary narrative in which marriage, desire, guilt, fashion, and social identity unfold over eleven pages (PDF pp. 133–143).
  • The Beauty of Women’s Noses continues the magazine’s extraordinary project of classifying individual body parts through photography, proportion, character, and erotic meaning (PDF pp. 155–158).
  • A New Discovery in the Art of Rope explicitly presents tying as an aesthetic practice involving posture, composition, and bodily form (PDF pp. 168–172).
  • Female Seppuku: Snow-Molded Ayukawa Osen is one of the issue’s largest historical-erotic narratives and occupies eleven pages in the previously omitted late section (PDF pp. 236–246).
  • On Long-Boot Fetishism traces tall boots through riding, military clothing, theatrical performance, fashion, and bodily restriction (PDF pp. 270–273).
  • The Fruits of Abuse is the true final work, continuing from PDF page 291 through the issue’s last page (PDF pp. 291–305).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue: