December 1960

The December 1960 issue of Gaho Fuzoku Kitan is organized as an extended visual and literary survey of bondage, physical restraint, punishment imagery, and fantasies of captivity. Its editorial identity is established by a stained-glass-style cover illustration, followed by color bondage photographs, reproductions of European punishment and erotic art, and a formal contents spread. The issue then unfolds through several large photographic portfolios, illustrated fantasy sequences, short fiction, reader correspondence, publication notices, and a final group of newly acquired photographs and drawings. The opening half is dominated by staged photographic tableaux. Women are bound aboard a boat, against bamboo and fencing, on shelves and benches, beside the sea, and in domestic interiors. The layouts emphasize changing rope configurations, body positions, facial expression, and the contrast between the restrained figure and settings such as tatami rooms, rocky coastlines, bamboo groves, warehouse furniture, and maritime equipment. Captions give individual poses evocative names, including being buried in rope, bound to a shelf, tied to a pillar, stretched, chained by the neck, and subjected to mock moxibustion. These sequences function partly as pictorial narratives and partly as catalogs of restraint positions. A central illustrated portfolio, presented as seven scenes of female torment, shifts from photography to reddish monochrome drawings. It depicts suspension, whipping, needle torture, constricting belts, one-leg suspension, pole carrying, and a roller-coaster fantasy. This is followed by further photographic and drawn material associated with Ito Seiu, including reproductions of bondage sketches and photographs of women tied in historical dress. The issue repeatedly combines contemporary studio photography with imagery derived from theatrical punishment, historical spectacle, pulp adventure, and foreign fetish iconography. The principal fiction contribution is The Tormented Female Ninja, written by Umehara Seiichiro and illustrated by Ema Miku. It uses the conventions of historical adventure fiction, presenting capture, interrogation, restraint, and torture as an episodic narrative accompanied by full-page illustrations. The reader forum that follows contains correspondence, questions, reactions, and discussion of erotic preferences, reinforcing the magazine's character as a participatory subculture rather than merely a picture publication. The closing portion includes house advertisements, notices about related publications and special photograph sales, editorial material, newly acquired restraint photographs, foreign-inspired bondage illustrations, and the portfolio Seven Scenes of Women Being Tormented. The final pages return to dramatic photographic punishment scenes involving chairs, beams, suspension, inversion, and multiple captives. Across the issue, the recurring concern is the transformation of restraint into a visual vocabulary: rope, chains, furniture, architectural supports, natural landscapes, and historical costume are all treated as expressive instruments of erotic drama.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Woman Tormented with Ebi-zeme	Uncredited	2	3
Woman Bound to a Fence	Uncredited	3	4
Woman Bound to Bamboo	Uncredited	4	5
Old-Fashioned Bound Woman	Uncredited	5	6
Woman Buried in Rope	Uncredited	9-11	10 –12
Leather-Strap Cross	Uncredited	12-14	13 –15
Bound to a Shelf	Uncredited	14-15	15 –16
Covered by the Waves	Uncredited	16-17	17 –18
Ushiro Hokei Rope	Uncredited	18-19	19 –20
Folded Pose	Uncredited	20-21	21 –22
Chained to a Collar	Uncredited	22-23	23 –24
Front and Back	Uncredited	24-25	25 –26
A Person of Rope-Sorrow	Uncredited	26-27	27 –28
Four Bondage-Torture Poses	Uncredited	28-29	29 –30
Bamboo-Grove Torment	Uncredited	30-31	31 –32
The Space Between the Boards Is Cold	Uncredited	32-33	33 –34
Pitiful Captive	Uncredited	34-35	35 –36
Made to Lie on Pebbles	Uncredited	36-37	37 –38
Chair Binding	Uncredited	38-39	39 –40
Bound by the Neck to a Pillar	Uncredited	40	41
Seven Scenes of Female Torment	Uncredited	41-48	42 –49
Six Ebi-zeme Poses	Uncredited	49-51	50 –52
Kubi-hishi Rope, Rear View	Uncredited	52	53
Kubi-hishi Rope, Front View	Uncredited	53	54
Chon-na-wa	Uncredited	54-56	55 –57
Hikkuri Rope, Rear and Front Views	Uncredited	57-59	58 –60
Rough-Rope Binding	Uncredited	60-61	61 –62
Split-Leg Binding	Uncredited	62-63	63 –64
Tormented with Moxibustion	Uncredited	64	65
Bondage Drawings by Ito Seiu	Ito Seiu	65-69	66 –70
Photographs of Female Torment by Ito Seiu	Ito Seiu	70-80	71 –81
The Tormented Female Ninja	Umehara Seiichiro	100-105	82 –87
Readers' Forum	Uncredited	106-109	88 –91
Newly Released Bondage Photographs and Restraint Illustrations	Uncredited	—	97 –105
Seven Scenes of Women Being Tormented	Uncredited	—	106 –112

The issue contains a formal printed table of contents on PDF page 8. The scan omits a block corresponding approximately to printed pages 81-99; PDF page 81 is followed by material beginning on printed page 100 at PDF page 82. Several pages in the historical photograph section, especially PDF pages 74-81, have torn or missing outer margins, but their principal images remain identifiable. Some compact Japanese titles and contributor names on the contents spread are faint; provisional romanizations are identified in individual notes. The closing photograph and illustration supplements after printed page 114 appear without continuous printed pagination.