Fuzoku Soshi

A six-scene illustrated feature depicting women restrained with rope in stylized domestic and theatrical settings. The sequence emphasizes the visual arrangement of bodies, bindings, furnishings, and costume as part of staged bondage imagery.

A photographic feature presenting “beautiful binding” as an aesthetic practice, with models shown in carefully composed rope-restraint scenes and poses. The accompanying text discusses visual appeal, model presentation, settings, and examples such as punishment and dressing-table arrangements.

A crime-scene photograph shows the nude body of an unidentified murder victim discovered on the grounds of Yasukuni Shrine. The accompanying commentary interprets lividity, the absence of clothing, and bindings as evidence that the victim was strangled elsewhere and transported before being abandoned; the case remained unsolved.

Ōya Reiko’s illustrated feature depicts women subjected to restraint and corporal punishment, including binding to a chair and other forms of physical discipline. The presentation treats punishment as a visual motif through sequential, highly stylized drawings.

A fictional first-person account by a young woman who is drawn into degrading encounters with domineering men. The narrative focuses on sexual coercion, humiliation, class and gender power, and the protagonist’s lasting psychological distress and conflicted memories.

An illustrated instructional article by Itō Seiu describing fifteen methods of restraining a woman with rope. Across detailed text and sequential drawings, it explains bindings involving the wrists, ankles, torso, thighs, and suspension, while discussing their practical effects and risks.

An erotic fiction narrative follows Yumiko, a young stage performer, as encounters with men in theaters, entertainment districts, and private rooms expose her to escalating sexualized scrutiny, coercion, and humiliation. The story emphasizes the transformation of public performance and male spectatorship into intimate domination.

A fictional first-person narrative in which a woman recounts escalating encounters involving bondage, coercive sexual dominance, and the use of insects as instruments of fear and sensation. Illustrated scenes emphasize restraint, bodily vulnerability, humiliation, and the psychological dynamics between the narrator and Kazuko.

An illustrated erotic confession follows a young office worker whose intense relationship with her female colleague Sumiko develops from attraction and companionship into possessiveness, sexual jealousy, and coercive experimentation. The accompanying images depict intimate encounters and women subjected to elaborate restraint and bondage.

This illustrated first-person erotic narrative portrays a woman drawn into a destructive cycle of sexual domination, infidelity, financial dependence, and emotional manipulation involving several partners. Its scenes and dialogue emphasize restraint, humiliation, coercive sexuality, and the entanglement of pleasure with abuse.

A fictionalized criminal-investigation narrative depicts police interrogations in which suspects and witnesses are pressured, threatened, and physically abused while officers pursue murder and robbery cases. The article critiques coercive policing, unreliable confessions, and the institutional use of violence in criminal investigations.

A historical and literary examination of shudō reconstructs male-male erotic customs through classical and Edo-period writings, discussing terminology, courtship, sexual practices, relationships, and social conventions. The essay also considers how male same-sex culture was represented in popular literature and visual imagery.

A fictional first-person crime narrative follows a repeat burglar who abducts and binds women during break-ins, reflecting on his motives, encounters with victims, and escalating violence. The story presents his eventual apprehension, imprisonment, release, and further offenses in a grim portrait of criminal psychology and predatory behavior.

An illustrated erotic fiction serial set in a Ginza apartment inhabited by men whose relationships, dress, mannerisms, and sexual identities challenge conventional gender roles. The newcomer Jiro is drawn into the apartment’s theatrical, sexually charged social world, encountering performers, effeminate residents, cross-dressing imagery, seduction, jealousy, and same-sex desire.

A psychologically charged erotic fiction piece about a painter whose troubled marriage is complicated by jealousy, infidelity, sexual dissatisfaction, and his wife’s relationships with other men. The narrative uses confession, confrontation, and shifting emotional perspectives to explore marital resentment and possessiveness.

The opening installment of Reiko’s twelve-month erotic series, centered on a moon-themed encounter in which Reiko is placed in a vulnerable, restrained setting and subjected to sexualized attention. The illustrated feature combines seasonal imagery, traditional dress, and bondage-oriented erotic fantasy.

A biographical and critical account of the Edo-period kabuki playwright Tsuruya Nanboku IV, focusing on his career, theatrical works, and reputation for grotesque, uncanny, and sensational dramatic effects. Anecdotes and illustrations contextualize Nanboku’s distinctive style within the history of kabuki.

An illustrated forensic study of corpses found at execution or violent-crime scenes, combining case descriptions, photographs, and discussion of wounds, body position, blood, clothing, and other physical evidence. It also explains postmortem phenomena such as rigor mortis, drying, decomposition, and insect activity as aids to determining cause and timing of death.

A first-person erotic narrative portrays a woman’s degrading encounters in a household or workplace where foul odors, dirty clothing, bodily fluids, and forced bathing-room chores become instruments of sexual humiliation. The accompanying illustrations reinforce themes of nudity, coercive sexuality, and fetishized bodily disgust.

A Lesbos correspondence feature presents a woman’s account of developing same-sex desires amid a troubled family background and socially constrained romantic life. The exchange treats female homosexuality as a private but communicative community concern, inviting advice and connection through the magazine.

An illustrated sexological discussion of “grabbing” and beating the buttocks as erotic practices. It describes purported physiological and psychological effects, variations in technique, and anecdotal examples involving couples, with photographic and illustrative demonstrations.

A narrative case-style account of two women whose relationship involves gendered clothing, disguise, intimate contact, and developing same-sex desire. The article frames such concealed relationships as “cryptogamic plants,” emphasizing secrecy, social concealment, and the tension between private desire and public gender norms.

An illustrated memoir and case-style account of a young woman’s masochistic sexual fantasies, including recurrent desires for restraint, humiliation, and imagined violent encounters with men. The article combines narrative testimony with staged photographs and drawings depicting bondage and self-binding, framed through the period’s language of sexual pathology.

A richly illustrated, dramatic account of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake follows the moment of the shock, the spread of fires across Tokyo and Yokohama, collapsing buildings, and the experiences of survivors. It combines disaster reportage with scenes of panic, separation, rescue, death, displacement, and the difficult relief and recovery that followed.

A fictional period tale follows a princess and her attendants traveling through the rain-soaked Kiso mountains, where they encounter a roadside teahouse, villagers, and a gang of mountain bandits. The ensuing confrontation emphasizes coercion, violence, sexual vulnerability, and the precarious position of women and dependents in a rigidly hierarchical society, with a nenbutsu gathering forming part of the story’s setting and motif.

This historical customs essay surveys practices surrounding infanticide, abortion, child abandonment, and attempts to prevent or terminate pregnancy, drawing on older Japanese examples and changing social attitudes. It discusses methods involving exposure, drowning, drugs, and folk practice while contrasting customary behavior with ethical, religious, and legal condemnation.