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The Spy’s Scattered Blossoms

By Fujimi Iku; art by Minomura Akira

A Cold War espionage melodrama set in colonial Hong Kong, the story follows merchant and intelligence operative Zhang Daocheng, who is seduced by nightclub dancer Hu Minghua into surrendering a fountain pen believed to contain military secrets. Minghua…

Magazine
Uramado
Issue
June 1958
PDF pages
129–137
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How I Was Tormented

By Hōzuka Mitsuo

A first-person erotic anecdote in which the narrator receives Hamae, the sheltered daughter of a university professor, during a New Year’s visit. What begins as flirtation under a kotatsu develops into restraint, foot-focused erotic play, the disordering of…

Magazine
Kitan Club
Issue
Kitan Club, February 1955 Special Enlarged Issue
PDF pages
105–114
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The Bride Has Arrived

By Shirogane Kōji

This illustrated comic-erotic story begins with a man and a café waitress, Kaoru, discussing a newspaper account of Chinese women allegedly kidnapped, confined in beer barrels, transported by ship, and sold in Canton. During a holiday visit to…

Magazine
Kitan Club
Issue
Kitan Club, February 1955 Special Enlarged Issue
Translator
Zetsu
PDF pages
49–56
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The Woman Who Awakened My Sadistic Nature

By Shima Shikō

Shima Shikō presents an autobiographical account of the woman he calls Chizuko, describing both her earlier sexual assault by a construction supervisor and the later dominant-submissive relationship she entered with the author. After learning part of her history,…

Magazine
Sun & Moon
Issue
November 1977
PDF pages
35–45
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When I Draw a Woman in Torment (女の責場を描く時の心境)

By Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu gives a compact autobiographical account of how his lifelong interest in depicting women under restraint began during adolescence. He recalls tracing newspaper illustrations, adding ropes to female figures, sketching his newlywed wife while bound, and later…

Magazine
Kitan Club
Issue
Kitan Club, January 1953 New Year Issue
Translator
Zetsu
PDF pages
140–141
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Body-Odor Diary

By Reisaku Karii

A short first-person fetish narrative centered on the smell of a woman’s worn underwear. The narrator receives a soiled pair of panties from his absent lover, Takako, whose bodily odor triggers nostalgia, jealousy, and fantasies of renewed domination.…

Magazine
Kitan Club
Issue
Kitan Club, May 1956: Masterpiece Fiction Special Issue
PDF pages
43–44
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