Highlight 1 Remove Text “The Vanished Tattooed Nude” opens the issue with a densely illustrated crime narrative involving pursuit, captivity, tattooing, and the circulation of sensational images. PDF pages Category
Highlight 2 Remove Text Fujisawa Osamu’s “Nude Masterpieces” presents a sustained monochrome studio portfolio built around dramatic shadow, isolated bodies, and sculptural posing. PDF pages Category
Highlight 3 Remove Text “Secret Tales of Obscene Cults Abroad” surveys devil worship, secret rites, ritual sexuality, and Western occult fiction, establishing the intellectual and sensational framework of the special issue. PDF pages Category
Highlight 4 Remove Text “Tickling Kannon” is an extended Edo-period narrative in which family debt, deception, religious imagery, and the exploitation of a young woman converge. PDF pages Category
Highlight 5 Remove Text “The Burning Women’s Cave” follows travelers into a mysterious mountain and hot-spring community, gradually revealing a concealed female society and underground chambers. PDF pages Category
Highlight 6 Remove Text “The Cult of Female Bodily Suffering” develops one of the issue’s most explicit invented religious systems, organizing female suffering and bodily discipline as doctrine and ritual. PDF pages Category
Highlight 7 Remove Text “The Golden-Cat Cult of Female Desire” combines animal symbolism, occult authority, sexuality, and religious secrecy within the issue’s central cult motif. PDF pages Category
Highlight 8 Remove Text “The Sorceress of Yasaka” draws on shrine and folk-magical imagery to depict a dangerous female ritual specialist and a world governed by secrecy and supernatural power. PDF pages Category
Highlight 9 Remove Text “Black-Hair Binding” and “Hair Lantern” form a late pairing centered on hair as fetish, magical instrument, bodily trace, and source of supernatural danger. PDF pages Category
Highlight 10 Remove Text “Her Mass” adapts Christian ceremonial vocabulary and imagery to a transgressive narrative immediately before the issue’s closing samurai fantasy. PDF pages Category