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    "magazine": {
        "id": 4,
        "title": "Fuzoku Soshi",
        "slug": null
    },
    "issue": {
        "id": 14,
        "title": "September 1953",
        "slug": null,
        "issue_date": "1953-09-01T00:00:00.000000Z",
        "original_filename": "Fuzoku-1953-9.pdf",
        "pdf_page_count": 174
    },
    "article": {
        "id": 882,
        "toc_entry_id": 229,
        "sort_order": 16,
        "title": "Reiko’s Twelve Months: Part One, Moon",
        "author": "Kita Reiko",
        "printed_page_label": null,
        "pdf_page_start": 92,
        "pdf_page_end": 93,
        "original_language": "Japanese",
        "original_text": "玲子十二ヶ月　其の一　「月」\n\nお吉は丁海の濁った眼が淫らな光を帯びて来るのを悟った。\n熟柿くさい息を吐きながら丁海はニタリニタリといやらしい笑いを口元に浮べているのである。\n\n「そ、それじゃあ、伊之さんが怪我をしたってえのは、あたしをこんなところへ連れ出す為の罠だったんだねッ」\n\n「えへえへッ。今頃それに気が付いたのらやな、伊之助でのうて気の毒ちゃが、振られ続けたこの儂の煩悩の火はお前でのうては消えぬのちゃ。お吉、今夜は帰さぬぞよ」\n\n「ち、ちくしょう！。あたしの身体にちょっとでも触れたら、そのいやらしい眼の玉をえぐり出してやるからッ！」\n\n裾を踏まれて転がったお吉の手には、いつの間にか簪が逆手に握られている。\n\n「うふふ。そのようにピンシャンするところが儂にはたまらぬのちゃ、今のうちにうんと毒付いておくがよいぞ、もう直ぐその同じ唇から極楽往生の泣き声を出させて墓場の無縁佛の回向にしてやる、うふふッ。」\n\n丁海の懐から落ちた麻縄が蛇のように破れ畳を這って一瞬のうちにお吉のからだに巻き付いてきた。\n\n「あッ！」\n\n叩き落された簪が月の光に蒼白く光る。\n\n「くやしいッ！」\n\n丁海の膝かしらで背を押しつけられ、お吉は必死になって身をくねらせもがいた。\nずるずると引き剥がれてゆく胸元から、夜目にも白い素肌が匂って、丁海の好きごころをかき立てる。ひしひしと肌に喰い込む縄目には、その一巻き一巻きに丁海のかなわぬ恋の恨みが籠っているのだ。\n\n――ああッ伊之さんッ――\n\n自由を奪われてゆく口惜しさのなかで、お吉は伊之助の名を呼んだ。\n\n「こうしてしまえば急ぐこともあるまい、えへへッ、ゆっくり般若湯でも飲みながら生きた月見と洒落ようかい」\n\n丁海が意地の悪い言葉をのこして酒を取りに立ったあと、裸に剥かれて柱に縛られたお吉は、蒼白い月の光りの中に人魚のように身をくねらせていた。羞恥と悩乱の脂汗をうろこのようにキラキラと光らせながら――。\n\n画と文・喜多玲子",
        "translation_draft": "Reiko’s Twelve Months\nPart One: Moon\n\nOkichi realized that a lewd light was beginning to gleam in Chōkai’s clouded eyes.\nBreathing out the smell of overripe persimmons, Chōkai wore a filthy, smirking grin.\n\n“S-so when you said Ino-san had been hurt, that was just a trap to lure me out to a place like this!”\n\n“Heh-heh-heh. So you’ve finally figured it out. Too bad it isn’t Inosuke, but the fire of worldly desire in this old man, after being rejected again and again, can’t be put out by anyone but you. Okichi, you’re not going home tonight.”\n\n“Y-you bastard! If you so much as touch my body, I’ll gouge those filthy eyes right out of your head!”\n\nHer hem had been stepped on and she had fallen, but somehow a hairpin was already clenched in Okichi’s hand in a reverse grip.\n\n“Heh-heh. That spirited way you carry on is exactly what I can’t resist. Curse me as much as you like while you still can. Before long, I’ll make those same lips cry out as though you were entering paradise, enough to serve as a memorial offering for the forsaken dead in the graveyard. Heh-heh!”\n\nA hemp rope dropped from inside Chōkai’s robe. Like a snake, it crawled across the torn tatami and in an instant wound itself around Okichi’s body.\n\n“Ah!”\n\nThe hairpin knocked from her hand shone deathly pale in the moonlight.\n\n“Damn you!”\n\nChōkai pressed her back down with his knee, and Okichi desperately twisted and struggled.\nAs the front of her clothing was gradually pulled apart, her white bare skin seemed almost fragrant even in the darkness, inflaming Chōkai’s lust. The rope marks bit tightly into her flesh, and every single turn of rope seemed filled with the resentment of Chōkai’s unrequited love.\n\n“Ah, Ino-san!”\n\nIn the bitter frustration of having her freedom taken from her, Okichi called Inosuke’s name.\n\n“Now that I’ve got you like this, there’s no need to hurry. Heh-heh. I think I’ll enjoy some sake and indulge in a little moon-viewing with a living woman.”\n\nAfter leaving those spiteful words behind, Chōkai got up to fetch the sake. Stripped naked and tied to a pillar, Okichi writhed like a mermaid in the pale blue moonlight, the oily sweat of shame and anguish glittering over her like scales.\n\nArt and text by Kita Reiko",
        "translation_final": "Reiko’s Twelve Months\nPart One: Moon\n\nOkichi realized that a lewd light was beginning to gleam in Chōkai’s clouded eyes.\nBreathing out the smell of overripe persimmons, Chōkai wore a filthy, smirking grin.\n\n“S-so when you said Ino-san had been hurt, that was just a trap to lure me out to a place like this!”\n\n“Heh-heh-heh. So you’ve finally figured it out. Too bad it isn’t Inosuke, but the fire of worldly desire in this old man, after being rejected again and again, can’t be put out by anyone but you. Okichi, you’re not going home tonight.”\n\n“Y-you bastard! If you so much as touch my body, I’ll gouge those filthy eyes right out of your head!”\n\nHer hem had been stepped on and she had fallen, but somehow a hairpin was already clenched in Okichi’s hand in a reverse grip.\n\n“Heh-heh. That spirited way you carry on is exactly what I can’t resist. Curse me as much as you like while you still can. Before long, I’ll make those same lips cry out as though you were entering paradise, enough to serve as a memorial offering for the forsaken dead in the graveyard. Heh-heh!”\n\nA hemp rope dropped from inside Chōkai’s robe. Like a snake, it crawled across the torn tatami and in an instant wound itself around Okichi’s body.\n\n“Ah!”\n\nThe hairpin knocked from her hand shone deathly pale in the moonlight.\n\n“Damn you!”\n\nChōkai pressed her back down with his knee, and Okichi desperately twisted and struggled.\nAs the front of her clothing was gradually pulled apart, her white bare skin seemed almost fragrant even in the darkness, inflaming Chōkai’s lust. The rope marks bit tightly into her flesh, and every single turn of rope seemed filled with the resentment of Chōkai’s unrequited love.\n\n“Ah, Ino-san!”\n\nIn the bitter frustration of having her freedom taken from her, Okichi called Inosuke’s name.\n\n“Now that I’ve got you like this, there’s no need to hurry. Heh-heh. I think I’ll enjoy some sake and indulge in a little moon-viewing with a living woman.”\n\nAfter leaving those spiteful words behind, Chōkai got up to fetch the sake. Stripped naked and tied to a pillar, Okichi writhed like a mermaid in the pale blue moonlight, the oily sweat of shame and anguish glittering over her like scales.\n\nArt and text by Kita Reiko",
        "translator_credit": "KRP",
        "article_summary": "This two-page illustrated episode is the first installment of Kita Reiko’s Reiko’s Twelve Months, organized around the theme of the moon. Okichi is lured to an isolated place by the false report that Inosuke has been injured. Chōkai reveals that the deception was intended to put her in his power after repeated romantic rejection. Okichi resists with a hairpin, but Chōkai uses hemp rope to restrain her, strips her, and ties her to a pillar before leaving momentarily to fetch sake. The accompanying illustrations visualize the progression from struggle to bondage under moonlight. The piece combines short-form erotic fiction with sequential illustration, colloquial dialogue, religious wordplay, and explicit attention to hemp-rope restraint, making it a notable example of the illustrated bondage material appearing in early-1950s Fuzoku Soshi.",
        "research_notes": null,
        "translation_notes": "The page heading reads 玲子十二ヶ月, 其の一, 「月」, literally Reiko’s Twelve Months, Part One, Moon. Kita Reiko is explicitly credited at the conclusion with 画と文, meaning both art and text. 麻縄 is specifically hemp rope, not merely rope. 丁海 is rendered provisionally as Chōkai; the pronunciation of the name is not supplied on these pages. 伊之さん is a familiar shortened form of 伊之助, rendered Ino-san in dialogue and Inosuke when the full name appears in narration. 熟柿くさい literally means smelling like an overripe persimmon and characterizes Chōkai’s breath. 般若湯, literally prajna water, is a traditional jocular euphemism for sake associated with Buddhist clerical speech. 極楽往生 literally means rebirth in the Pure Land or attaining paradise; here it is used as sexual and religious wordplay. 無縁佛の回向 refers to prayers or merit dedicated to the repose of dead people who have no relatives to perform memorial rites. The dialectal expression 今頃それに気が付いたのらやな is visually clear in most of the line but its exact dialectal form is unusual and has been translated by sense.\n\nUncertain readings:\n- 丁海 is clearly printed as the male character’s name, but its pronunciation is not given; Chōkai is a provisional romanization.\n- The dialectal phrase 今頃それに気が付いたのらやな is unusual; the visible text supports this reading, but the precise dialectal morphology may merit human review.",
        "research_status": "published",
        "translation_status": "approved",
        "translation_updated_at": "2026-08-14T00:34:22+00:00",
        "translation_reviewed_at": "2026-08-14T00:34:22+00:00",
        "translation_reviewed_by": "Zetsu",
        "translation_approved_at": "2026-08-14T00:34:22+00:00",
        "translation_approved_by": "Zetsu",
        "created_at": "2026-08-01T06:02:59+00:00",
        "updated_at": "2026-09-03T20:22:36+00:00"
    }
}