Fuzoku Kitan

October 1960

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Summary

The October 1960 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is organized as a special number devoted to sadism, masochism, erotic restraint, punishment, and what the magazine calls erotic curses. Its opening establishes a strongly visual identity: color and monochrome portfolios present women bound in kimono, yukata, underwear, or partial dress, alongside compositions involving blindfolds, suspension, patterned rope harnesses, furniture, and architectural supports. A foldout-style illustration titled “The Ring of Female Wisdom” and a formal contents spread frame these images within an editorial program combining staged kinbaku photography, sensational reportage, confessional writing, fiction, sexual folklore, and imported curiosities.

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The issue’s central special feature, “A Gathering of Sadists,” begins with Nishio Toshimaru’s essay proposing a device for measuring sexual desire, then moves through accounts of cruel or criminal sadists. These include profiles of violent offenders, a purported confession by a sadistic yakuza, a necrophilia case, a first-person record of bondage, and a criminological discussion of sadism. The section repeatedly shifts between clinical language, criminal case history, voyeuristic sensationalism, and personal testimony. It is supplemented by “Now Is the Third Century of Thrills,” a pictorial survey of foreign magazines, horror films, theatrical spectacles, giants, monsters, wartime cruelty, imprisonment, and unusual erotic imagery.

The middle and later sections broaden the issue beyond the main sadism feature. The serialized novel “Revenge Demon” combines melodrama, punishment, confinement, and sexual danger. Historical and documentary articles examine sexual curiosities of the Meiji period, letters attributed to masochists, full-body tattooing, punishments inflicted on men, and a clandestine visit to the headquarters of the Japan Kōdō religious movement. “Torture by Hanging in a Basement” returns to a fictional or confessional underground setting, while “A Woman Burned Alive” uses extreme bodily peril as its central spectacle.

The closing portion includes guidance on erotic stimulation games, a reader salon, and the story “The Reckoning of Betrayal.” Reader material and editorial notices reinforce the publication’s identity as a participatory subculture rather than merely a fiction magazine. Across the issue, rope restraint is presented as visual art, erotic technique, criminal behavior, psychological symptom, and narrative device. The resulting editorial mixture is characteristic of late-1950s and early-1960s Japanese abnormal-culture magazines: documentary claims and medical vocabulary sit beside pulp fiction, imported imagery, staged photography, dark humor, and reader fantasy.

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Table of Contents 29 items
  1. Beautiful Prisoner
    3
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a woman in a white kimono seated and bound with rope in a traditional interior, emphasizing her composed posture, pale skin, and decorative surroundings.

  2. The Lamplight Also Fades
    4
    Summary

    A staged photographic scene shows a woman restrained on the floor beside a traditional paper lantern, with the fading lamplight and quiet room creating an atmosphere of secrecy and submission.

  3. Brilliant Binding
    6
    Summary

    A two-page photographic feature depicts elaborately rope-bound women in stylized kneeling and seated positions, highlighting decorative rope patterns, patterned garments, and carefully composed restraint tableaux.

  4. The Ring of Female Wisdom by Ueda Keiko
    foldout
    Summary

    An erotic illustration presents two nude women intertwined in a visually puzzling configuration, evoking the title’s “ring” motif and the question of how their bodies are entangled.

  5. The Woman in White
    16
    Summary

    A photographic feature depicts a woman in white subjected to rope bondage in a staged sequence, including seated and reclining positions, blindfolding, and progressively constrained poses.

  6. Cruel Picture on the Stone Floor
    19
    Summary

    This photographic feature stages a bound woman on a stone-patterned floor, showing varied reclining and contorted positions as the visual narrative develops around her restraint and vulnerability.

  7. The Couch and the Woman
    21
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a woman reclining and posing in various suggestive postures on a couch, accompanied by brief Japanese commentary.

  8. Her Yukata in Disarray
    23
    Summary

    Photographs depict a woman in a disheveled yukata undergoing rope restraint, with the garment repeatedly opened or displaced to emphasize the staged bondage scene.

  9. Bound in a Tortoiseshell Pattern
    25
    Summary

    A photographic sequence depicts a nude woman tightly bound in an elaborate tortoiseshell-pattern rope configuration, emphasizing intricate body restraint and immobilized poses.

  10. Suspended from the Transom
    27
    Summary

    A photographic feature depicts a woman tied by the wrists to a transom, presenting several overhead suspension positions and close views of the rope work.

  11. Long Cushion Restraint
    29
    Summary

    A multi-page photographic portfolio presents stylized bondage tableaux involving women and a man, including figures dressed in long robes or lingerie, seated or reclining in rope restraints, and scenes incorporating gagging and positional control.

  12. Now Is the Third Century of Thrills
    39
    Summary

    A sensational visual feature presenting staged photographs, imported magazine imagery, and illustrations of bizarre giants, crushing scenes, captivity, and other extreme thrill-oriented fantasies.

  13. A Device for Measuring Sex by Nishio Toshimaru
    55
    Summary

    Nishio Toshimaru discusses attempts to measure and classify sexual desire and behavior through bodily indicators and psychological observation, including the distinction between ordinary and excessive sexuality.

  14. Cruel Sadists by Ōtatsu Kinji
    56
    Summary

    A sensational account of cruel sadists describing violent sexual impulses, murder, torture, and related cases through historical and contemporary examples, photographs, and illustrations.

  15. Confession of a Sadistic Yakuza by Hongō Torao
    60
    Summary

    Hongō Torao presents a first-person confession of his life as a sadistic yakuza, recounting violent, coercive, and sexually charged encounters shaped by criminal underworld experience.

  16. The Necrophile by Arakawa Tarō
    70
    Summary

    Arakawa Tarō’s dark narrative follows a necrophilic man whose obsession with a dead woman develops into murder, corpse abuse, concealment, and eventual police investigation.

  17. Record of My Bondage by Satō Shigeo
    76
    Summary

    Satō Shigeo recounts his experiences tying and restraining a woman named Kinuko, describing their escalating bondage sessions, rope practices, bodily positioning, and the intimate dynamics surrounding them.

  18. Sadism Viewed Through Crime by Komori Hatsuo
    83
    Summary

    A criminological-style survey of sadism through reported crimes, recounting violent sexual assaults, mutilation, stabbing, and murder cases to discuss sadistic behavior and its motives.

  19. Revenge Demon by Aoyama Mieko
    86
    Summary

    A long-form serialized erotic fiction narrative in which a vengeful male figure subjects women to captivity, binding, beatings, humiliation, and other sadistic torments, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

  20. Meiji Sexual Curiosities, Part 9 by Mano Rokurō
    97
    Summary

    A historical survey of Meiji-era sexual curiosities drawn from sensational newspaper-like crime accounts, including sexual violence, sadistic assaults, murder, and unusual erotic behavior.

  21. From a Masochist’s Letters, Part 4 by Tani Kanta
    100
    Summary

    A serialized exchange of letters between male and female participants recounts masochistic fantasies and encounters involving humiliation, restraint, bodily ordeals, and shifting sexual authority.

  22. The Man Tattooed over His Entire Body by Sengoku Sentarō
    108
    Summary

    This illustrated account profiles a man tattooed across his entire body, describing his tattooing history, the social and erotic meanings of extensive Japanese tattooing, and related traditions and anecdotes.

  23. Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Men by Ashidate Eikichi
    112
    Summary

    A sensational historical survey describes unusual punishments and mutilations inflicted on male genitals, drawing on Chinese and Japanese examples, wartime stories, and accounts of castration and other bodily injuries.

  24. Torture by Hanging in a Basement by Washi Tōkei
    116
    Summary

    A serialized erotic captivity narrative in which a woman is confined in a basement and subjected to hanging restraint, humiliation, and escalating punishment amid themes of revenge, secrecy, and psychological torment.

  25. Infiltration Report from the Japan Kōdō Religious Headquarters by Kurosaka Shunji
    125
    Summary

    A sensational infiltration report on the Japan Kōdō religious headquarters, describing its initiation rituals, young devotees, authoritarian discipline, nudity, beatings, and coercive ceremonial practices.

  26. How to Play Stimulation Games by Mano Rei
    128
    Summary

    An instructional feature outlining stimulation games intended to enact tattoo fantasies, cross-dressing, sadomasochistic abuse, and regression to infantilized roles through staged play and improvised props.

  27. The Woman Burned Alive by Kurosaka Shunji
    132
    Summary

    A sensational narrative describes American visitors to a remote island who encounter brutal rituals in which women are captured, restrained, punished, and burned alive, accompanied by a graphic illustration of the execution.

  28. Reader Salon
    142
    Summary

    The supplied pages depict a dramatized continuation involving Tamami trapped in a cage or box while men subject her to confinement, insects, physical attacks, and escalating sadistic control.

  29. The Reckoning of Betrayal by Nozonomura Minoru
    146
    Summary

    This serialized sadomasochistic narrative follows Tamami and several men through betrayal, rivalry, and staged punishment involving ropes, cages, blows, humiliation, and shifting dominance.

Highlights

  • The opening color portfolio presents a sequence of women restrained with rope and cloth in domestic Japanese interiors, using kimono, yukata, tatami, lanterns, and patterned screens to produce a specifically Japanese kinbaku visual language. (PDF pp. 3–6).
  • The formal illustrated contents spread combines article listings with Western-style fetish cartoons, visually announcing the issue’s mixture of Japanese bondage photography and imported sadomasochistic imagery. (PDF p. 8).
  • “The Ring of Female Wisdom” is a color foldout-style illustration of two women bound together in an interlocking configuration, functioning as one of the issue’s most elaborate pictorial compositions. (PDF p. 10).
  • The extended monochrome bondage portfolio moves through named poses such as the woman in white, stone-floor scenes, couch restraint, disordered yukata, tortoiseshell binding, transom suspension, and long-cushion restraint. (PDF pp. 12–34).
  • “Now Is the Third Century of Thrills” surveys monsters, giants, horror makeup, wartime brutality, foreign theater, imprisonment, and bizarre erotic objects, revealing the magazine’s dependence on international pulp and spectacle culture. (PDF pp. 35–50).
  • The special feature “A Gathering of Sadists” combines a quasi-scientific essay on measuring sexual desire with accounts of violent offenders, a sadistic yakuza confession, necrophilia, personal bondage testimony, and criminological commentary. (PDF pp. 51–81).
  • “Meiji Sexual Curiosities, Part 9” uses historical anecdotes and period material to connect contemporary abnormal-culture publishing with earlier Japanese sexual folklore and scandal. (PDF pp. 93–95).
  • The sequence on masochistic correspondence, full-body tattooing, punishments inflicted on men, and underground hanging torture presents bodily suffering as testimony, ethnography, and pulp narrative. (PDF pp. 96–120).
  • The clandestine report on the Japan Kōdō religious headquarters adds investigative and sectarian material to an issue otherwise dominated by sexology, crime, and fiction. (PDF pp. 121–123).
  • The issue closes with extreme-peril fiction, erotic game instructions, reader correspondence, and “The Reckoning of Betrayal,” sustaining its mix of practical fantasy, community participation, and melodrama through the final pages. (PDF pp. 124–146).

Contributors

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