Highlight 1 Remove Text The April 1966 issue is identified as volume 20, issue 4, whole-number issue 213, with a formal contents page listing fiction, essays, correspondence, and photographic features. PDF pages Category
Highlight 2 Remove Text The opening editorial addresses women as readers and potential contributors, while adjacent correspondence documents the magazine’s active reader and image-submission community. PDF pages Category
Highlight 3 Remove Text A dialogue between Yoshino Mayumi and Tsujimura Takashi discusses SM, performance, photography, writing, friendship, and the social world around the magazine. PDF pages Category
Highlight 4 Remove Text Chigusa Tadao’s commentary examines beauty in SM and reviews Eros no Namida through questions of cruelty, voyeurism, morality, censorship, and erotic publishing. PDF pages Category
Highlight 5 Remove Text Ariadne reconstructs Greek and Egyptian mythology through catastrophe, empire, slavery, astronomy, magic, and political intrigue, with maps and diagrams supporting its invented world. PDF pages Category
Highlight 6 Remove Text Accompanying My Wife’s Photograph presents a personal memoir of tying and photographing women, illustrated with photographs of restrained bodies. PDF pages Category
Highlight 7 Remove Text The Female Sumo Story and A Painful Journey of the Heart develop recurring motifs of female athleticism, imprisonment, discipline, bodily vulnerability, and resistance. PDF pages Category
Highlight 8 Remove Text Masochism Heaven links beauty standards, Westernization, mixed-race identity, celebrity culture, labor exploitation, and gendered spectatorship. PDF pages Category
Highlight 9 Remove Text The closing narrative Drenched and Soaked travels through Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara while combining erotic encounters, marriage, memory, and travel. PDF pages Category