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    "issue_title": "October 1960",
    "publication_month": "1960-10",
    "volume": null,
    "issue_number": "5",
    "summary": "The fifth collection of Gaho Fuzoku Kitan is organized as a densely illustrated survey of bondage photography, punishment imagery, erotic art, translated libertine literature, historical melodrama, crime reportage, and sensational foreign narratives. Its opening color portfolio places restrained women against weathered stone, shadowed interiors, garden architecture, and an outdoor veranda. The formal contents spread then divides the issue into three major gravure groups, illustrated portfolios, literary adaptations, documentary pieces, and historical fiction.\n\nThe first photographic sequence develops a visual vocabulary of quiet melancholy and constrained display. Models are posed on tatami, beside garden plants, at a bar counter, against a pillar, on a chair, and along a veranda. Rope is treated not only as restraint but as a compositional line that frames the torso, isolates limbs, and links the body to furniture or architecture. The second gravure becomes more elaborate and theatrical, introducing a cot-like platform, chains, trees, rocks, baskets, improvised wooden devices, and staged attacks. These images alternate between compact floor positions, upright restriction, backward arching, and deliberately unstable postures.\n\nAn illustrated interlude by Tagami Keiko and Ema Miku catalogues imagined torments involving steam, inverted hair suspension, wrist suspension, a pulley-driven device, and a woman threatened with rats. The third gravure returns to photography in modern interiors, notably a piano setting, tatami rooms, tiled bathing spaces, and dimly lit furniture. Its mood shifts from posed stillness toward implied interrogation and assault, with blindfolds, pressure devices, manual restraint, and exhausted aftermaths.\n\nThe middle section expands the magazine's historical and international scope. An abnormal or grotesque secret-picture exhibition reproduces scenes of whipping, colonial punishment, public execution, torture, humiliation, and comic cruelty. A further gallery of women in riding dress and fetish costume is followed by Sasamura Hiroshi's essay on cruelty created through tricks and stage illusion. The continuation of the Marquis de Sade's The Prosperities of Vice supplies the issue's principal literary treatment of libertinism and institutional cruelty.\n\nThe later prose section moves through massacre, urban and foreign danger, historical obsession, and crime spectacle. Articles describe mass killing, women in unusual or dangerous situations, arctic and desert ordeals, and a guillotine narrative illustrated by Ema Miku. A photographic crime feature presents staged murder scenes in outdoor and domestic locations. The issue closes with two illustrated period tales, “Love's Obsession Becomes a Serpent” and “The Torment of Kichiya's Mad Love,” whose ukiyo-e-inspired drawings connect erotic violence, jealousy, supernatural vengeance, and Edo-period theatricality. The final page functions as a pictorial coda, returning to the magazine's recurring hierarchy of domination and submission.",
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        "Chains, baskets, rocks, and improvised punishment devices",
        "Female melancholy, captivity, and eroticized vulnerability",
        "Illustrated catalogues of invented torments",
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        "Grotesque art and abnormal secret pictures",
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        "Massacre, war, and foreign-danger narratives",
        "Crime-scene photography and sensational reportage",
        "Edo-period jealousy, supernatural vengeance, and erotic violence",
        "Theatrical illusion and staged cruelty"
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            "title": "A Melancholy Moment",
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            "notes": "First gravure; Japanese title: 憂愁のひととき."
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        {
            "title": "Midday Is Quiet",
            "author": null,
            "printed_pages": "4",
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            "notes": "First gravure; Japanese title: まひるは静か."
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            "title": "White Fish at the Stand",
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            "printed_pages": "5",
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            "notes": "First gravure; Japanese title: スタンドの白魚."
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            "title": "Bound with Her Back to a Pillar",
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            "notes": "First gravure; Japanese title: 柱を背負わされて."
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            "title": "Chair-Top Cruelty",
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            "printed_pages": "9",
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            "notes": "First gravure; Japanese title: 椅子の上の残虐."
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            "title": "Receiving the Rope Marks",
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            "notes": "First gravure; Japanese title: 縄目を受けて."
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            "title": "Hanging-Neck Doll",
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            "printed_pages": "15",
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            "notes": "First gravure; Japanese title: 首つり人形."
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            "notes": "First gravure; Japanese title: 棒責め."
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            "title": "Prepared Alive on a Tray",
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            "printed_pages": "17",
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            "notes": "Second gravure; Japanese title: お膳の上の生きづくり."
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            "title": "Chain Bondage",
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            "printed_pages": "20",
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            "notes": "Second gravure; Japanese title: クサリしばり."
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            "title": "Melancholy Flower",
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            "notes": "Second gravure; Japanese title: 憂いの花."
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            "title": "A Cast-Aside Posture",
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            "printed_pages": "24",
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            "notes": "Second gravure; Japanese title: 投げだされた姿態."
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            "title": "An Unusual Wooden Horse",
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            "printed_pages": "26",
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            "notes": "Second gravure; Japanese title: 変わった木馬."
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            "title": "Rock Sliding",
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            "printed_pages": "28",
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            "notes": "Second gravure; Japanese title: 岩すべり."
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            "title": "Cargo in a Basket",
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            "printed_pages": "30",
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            "notes": "Second gravure; Japanese title: カゴの荷物."
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        {
            "title": "Attack of the Karasu-Tengu",
            "author": null,
            "printed_pages": "32",
            "pdf_page_start": 41,
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            "notes": "Second gravure; Japanese title: からす天狗の襲撃."
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            "title": "Steam Torment",
            "author": "Tagami Keiko",
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            "notes": "Illustrated punishment plate; Japanese title: 湯気むし."
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            "title": "Inverted Hair Suspension",
            "author": "Tagami Keiko",
            "printed_pages": "35",
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            "notes": "Illustrated punishment plate; Japanese title: さかさ髪づり."
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        {
            "title": "Wrist Suspension",
            "author": "Tagami Keiko",
            "printed_pages": "36",
            "pdf_page_start": 44,
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            "notes": "Illustrated punishment plate; Japanese title: 手首宙づり."
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        {
            "title": "Flower-Wheel Torment Device",
            "author": "Ema Miku",
            "printed_pages": "37",
            "pdf_page_start": 45,
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            "notes": "Illustrated punishment plate; Japanese title: ハナ輪責め器."
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        {
            "title": "Eat the Rats",
            "author": "Ema Miku",
            "printed_pages": "38",
            "pdf_page_start": 46,
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            "notes": "Illustrated punishment plate; Japanese title: ネズミをお食べ."
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        {
            "title": "Rear-Hand Suspension",
            "author": "Tagami Keiko",
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            "notes": "Illustrated punishment plate; Japanese title: うしろ手づり."
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            "title": "A Scene with a Piano",
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            "printed_pages": "40",
            "pdf_page_start": 48,
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            "notes": "Third gravure; Japanese title: ピアノのある風景."
        },
        {
            "title": "A Delicate Mystery of the Female Body",
            "author": null,
            "printed_pages": "45",
            "pdf_page_start": 51,
            "pdf_page_end": 54,
            "notes": "Third gravure; Japanese title: 女体の微妙なナゾ."
        },
        {
            "title": "Inverted Shrimp Suspension",
            "author": null,
            "printed_pages": "49",
            "pdf_page_start": 55,
            "pdf_page_end": 56,
            "notes": "Third gravure; Japanese title: さかさ海老づり."
        },
        {
            "title": "A Pose Awaiting Cruelty",
            "author": null,
            "printed_pages": "51",
            "pdf_page_start": 57,
            "pdf_page_end": 59,
            "notes": "Third gravure; Japanese title: 嗜虐を待つポーズ."
        },
        {
            "title": "A Delicate Mystery of the Female Body",
            "author": null,
            "printed_pages": "54",
            "pdf_page_start": 60,
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            "notes": "Additional third-gravure sequence using floor restraint and pressure."
        },
        {
            "title": "Cold Tile",
            "author": null,
            "printed_pages": "57",
            "pdf_page_start": 63,
            "pdf_page_end": 63,
            "notes": "Third gravure; Japanese title: 冷たいタイル."
        },
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            "title": "Abnormal Secret-Picture Exhibition",
            "author": null,
            "printed_pages": "58–73",
            "pdf_page_start": 64,
            "pdf_page_end": 79,
            "notes": "International and historical gallery of whipping, punishment, execution, fetish costume, humiliation, and grotesque imagery; Japanese heading: アブノーマル秘画展."
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            "title": "Cruelty Created Through Tricks",
            "author": "Sasamura Hiroshi",
            "printed_pages": "83–85",
            "pdf_page_start": 80,
            "pdf_page_end": 82,
            "notes": "Illustrated essay on theatrical and cinematic illusion; Japanese title: トリックによる残虐."
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        {
            "title": "The Prosperities of Vice, Continued",
            "author": "Marquis de Sade",
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            "pdf_page_start": 83,
            "pdf_page_end": 88,
            "notes": "Japanese title: 続・悪徳の栄え."
        },
        {
            "title": "The Massacre of Five Hundred Thousand",
            "author": "Isobe Otohiko",
            "printed_pages": "92–93",
            "pdf_page_start": 89,
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            "notes": "Japanese title: 五十万人の大虐殺; author reading requires confirmation."
        },
        {
            "title": "Women of Strange Customs",
            "author": null,
            "printed_pages": "99–101",
            "pdf_page_start": 96,
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            "notes": "Illustrated cultural feature; Japanese title: マンの女たち偏奇荘奇譚. Exact first word and full title require confirmation."
        },
        {
            "title": "Love's Obsession Becomes a Serpent",
            "author": "Oda Toshimi",
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            "notes": "Historical illustrated tale; Japanese title: 恋の一念、蛇となる."
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            "title": "Human Steak",
            "author": null,
            "printed_pages": "108–109",
            "pdf_page_start": 105,
            "pdf_page_end": 106,
            "notes": "Foreign sensational narrative; Japanese title: 人間ステーキ."
        },
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            "title": "Journey Through the Desert of Death",
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            "printed_pages": "110–111",
            "pdf_page_start": 107,
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            "notes": "Foreign ordeal narrative; Japanese title: 死の砂漠行."
        },
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            "title": "The Ice Field Crazed by Lust",
            "author": null,
            "printed_pages": "112–113",
            "pdf_page_start": 109,
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            "notes": "Foreign ordeal narrative; Japanese title: 愛欲に狂う氷原."
        },
        {
            "title": "The Beauty on the Guillotine",
            "author": "Shigeyama Norio",
            "printed_pages": "115–119",
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            "notes": "Illustrations by Ema Miku; Japanese title: ギロチン台の美女. Author reading requires confirmation."
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            "title": "Gruesome Murder Scenes That Make One Cover the Eyes",
            "author": null,
            "printed_pages": "120–123",
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            "notes": "Photographic crime feature; Japanese title: 凄惨 目を覆う殺人現場."
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            "notes": "Historical illustrated tale; Japanese title: 狂恋吉弥責め. The character name reading requires confirmation."
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