Sun & Moon
January 1980
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Issue Details
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Summary
This special SUN & MOON publication presents itself as a commemorative volume marking the third anniversary of Nichigetsusha and as the first volume of the Tomoe / Egara Collection. Its editorial identity is strongly retrospective and photographic: the cover assembles numerous images from bondage and sadomasochistic photo sessions, while the contents page organizes the issue around named photographers, models, staged scenarios, and an extended sequence of color and black-and-white pictorial features. A short commemorative essay by Seta Kaiichi opens the volume, reflecting on the development of Nichigetsusha and SUN & MOON, followed by the formal contents.
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Table of Contents 17 items
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Commemorating Three Years of Nichigetsusha: A Winding Course
Summary
Seta Kaiichi reflects on the three-year development of Nichigetsusha and the magazine’s changing editorial direction. He discusses the “Tomoe/Egara” project, the relationship between photography and performance, and the contributions of SUN & MOON participants and supporters.
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Greetings
Summary
The supplied page is a table of contents that identifies Hayashi Munehiro as the author of the issue’s “Greetings” item, but it does not reproduce the greeting text itself.
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Special Feature: Making the SUN & MOON Cover
Summary
A special feature documenting the production of the SUN & MOON cover, presented through staged bondage photography and cover-design credits. The feature emphasizes the visual construction of the magazine’s anniversary cover.
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Immersed in Pleasure
Summary
The contents page lists “Immersed in Pleasure” as one of the issue’s photographic or literary features, but provides no substantive article text or imagery beyond its title and placement in the table of contents.
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Hot Winds Swirled in the Scorching Room!!
Summary
A dramatic feature presented as an episode of oppressive heat and intense sensation, described in the contents as taking place in a scorching room with hot winds swirling.
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Proxy Wife Misako
Summary
A feature about Misako, portrayed through the idea of a “proxy wife,” suggesting an intimate or erotic narrative focused on substituted marital roles and relationships.
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Volunteering for Training: Kitajima Taeko
Summary
A profile or account of Kitajima Taeko, presented as someone who volunteers for BDSM training and discipline.
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Special Color Graph: Awareness of Innate Disposition and the Desire for Intoxication
Summary
A special color photographic feature documenting staged BDSM scenes involving rope bondage, immobilization, sensory restriction, gagging, and other forms of erotic discipline.
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Mrs. S
Summary
A photographic feature centered on Mrs. S in a series of posed rope-bondage scenarios, showing full-body and close-up views of restraint and handling.
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Pet Miko
Summary
A photographic feature on Pet Miko depicting a bound model in staged floor-based restraint scenes, including hands-on rope manipulation and constrained postures.
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Drawn to Utamaro
Summary
A photographic feature presenting elaborate rope-bound poses inspired by the erotic imagery associated with Utamaro. The staged indoor tableaux emphasize composition, restraint, sensual display, and the visual relationship between the bound body and surrounding objects.
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Color My Album: Practice, My Secret Notebook
Summary
A photographic practice album documenting a model’s progressive bondage scenes, including spread-eagle positions, rope suspension or securing, clothespin adornments, and controlled sensory play. The sequence has the feel of a private visual notebook recording techniques and variations rather than a conventional narrative.
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Pregnant Beauty: Pleasure in the Bondage Cage
Summary
A photographic bondage feature presenting a pregnant woman posed in a domestic “cage” and restrained with rope while moving through crouched and kneeling positions. The images emphasize staged erotic submission, bodily vulnerability, and the visual spectacle of pregnancy.
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Bewitching Flower in the Bath: Watanabe Yoshimi
Summary
A photographic feature on Watanabe Yoshimi set in a bath and shower environment, depicting nude and partially restrained poses amid running water, bathing fixtures, and tactile close-ups. Its imagery combines water, physical exposure, and theatrical bondage role-play.
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The Underground Aesthete Surfaces
Summary
A photographic feature presenting an underground aesthetic through staged images of a masked woman posed in elaborate rope bondage and provocative domestic tableaux. The sequence emphasizes costume, restraint, body display, and carefully composed black-and-white fetish imagery.
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Making the Yume Photo Record
Summary
A photographic record showing a woman being positioned and photographed in varied rope-bondage configurations, with a male photographer or partner directing the session. The images document the process, poses, and visual presentation of the bondage scene rather than offering a conventional narrative.
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Editorial Postscript and InformationEnd matter
Summary
A Sun & Moon PR page advertises THE KIKI, a limited-edition publication from 日月舎, with sample cover imagery, a ¥1,700 mail-order price, and publisher/contact information. The page functions primarily as a promotional and ordering notice rather than an editorial text.
Highlights
- The wraparound cover identifies the publication as a Nichigetsusha third-anniversary special issue, the first Tomoe / Egara collection, and a SUN & MOON supplementary publication, using a dense collage of bondage photographs to establish its retrospective character. (PDF p. 1).
- Seta Kaiichi's opening essay commemorates Nichigetsusha's third anniversary and reflects on the development of SUN & MOON. (PDF p. 2).
- The formal printed contents page lists a wide range of photographic features and identifies photographers including Seta Kaiichi, Arakawa Yasushi, Takamatsu Kosei, Onuki Koji, Nakamiya Sakae, Shima Shiko, and others. (PDF p. 3).
- The extended color feature Awareness of Innate Disposition and the Desire for Intoxication opens with a titled color page and develops through a long sequence of rope-based studio and domestic-interior compositions. (PDF pp. 4–11).
- The middle color sequences vary the staging through chairs, floor arrangements, furniture-bound poses, and board-mounted compositions, emphasizing photographic arrangement as much as narrative scenario. (PDF pp. 12–27).
- Later color photography shifts into bent-over and bathroom settings, expanding the issue's recurring use of ordinary domestic spaces as constructed erotic environments. (PDF pp. 28–35).
- The Underground Aesthete Surfaces introduces a distinct black-and-white photographic sequence marked Roman 1 through Roman 9, creating a tonal and stylistic break from the preceding color material. (PDF pp. 36–42).
- The final page is a Nichigetsusha promotional page advertising another erotic publication, situating the special issue within the publisher's broader catalog. (PDF p. 43).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
