September 1954

The September 1954 issue of Fuzoku Soshi is a large, densely packed postwar popular-culture magazine combining erotic illustration, sensational fiction, sexual psychology, historical curiosities, crime narratives, social observation, and reader-oriented features. Its visual identity is established immediately by a surreal painted cover and a varied front-matter portfolio that places Japanese staged bondage photography beside European punishment imagery, American fetish photographs, historical martyrdom scenes, and illustrations of legendary women. A formal illustrated contents spread then presents the issue as a broad survey of abnormality, desire, violence, and marginal social worlds. The main body opens with Muramatsu Rokuryō’s historical erotic fiction “The Color Quarter of Akegarasu,” illustrated in an ukiyo-e-derived manner and centered on sexual rivalry, coercion, and revenge in a pleasure-quarter setting. Matsui Raiko’s concluding installment of “The Lustful Rain Does Not Cease” shifts to a modern urban world of hotels, bars, theatrical performers, jealousy, captivity, and erotic betrayal. This is followed by medical and criminological material, notably Ōta Tenrei’s discussion of the psychiatric evaluation of people labeled sexually abnormal and Mitani Shōsuke’s political-crime narrative “The Female Party Member Gasping Beneath the Bloodstained Whip.” Across the middle of the issue, the tone alternates between documentary explanation and sensational narrative. The special feature “Twelve Chapters Concerning Abnormality” surveys forms of sexual behavior, fetishism, gender variance, prostitution, reproductive customs, and related social questions through short illustrated essays. Other contributions examine women associated with bicycle-racing venues, historical male homosexuality through Oda Nobunaga, breast tattooing, youthful despair, and women described as animal trainers, servants, or social outsiders. The fiction and reportage repeatedly use confinement, whipping, disguise, bodily marking, jealousy, and sexual commerce as narrative engines. The later portion remains substantial rather than dissolving into incidental back matter. It includes stories about women in competitive or exploitative environments, summer-themed erotic tales, correspondence from a young obstetrician-gynecologist, a feature on a woman who sleeps on nails, accounts of distorted relationships and enslavement, Ryūtanji Yū’s literary tale “Rainbow of the Enchantress,” and closing columns and notices. The issue’s editorial character lies in its restless movement between pulp drama, pseudo-clinical authority, historical anecdote, subcultural reportage, and illustrated fantasy. It treats sexuality as at once spectacle, pathology, commerce, crime, folklore, and a lens on the transformations of postwar society.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Three Scenes by Itō Kōzō: Jealousy, Cruelty, and Exposure	Itō Kōzō	—	3 –4
The White Queen of the Ruined City	Suzuki Gyosui	—	5
American Photo	Uncredited	—	6 –7
The Martyrdom of Saint Concordia	Nakagawa Ayako	—	8
The Miracle of Saint Agnes	Nakagawa Ayako	—	9
Flower and Flower	Uncredited	—	10
From History	Nakagawa Ayako	—	11 –13
The Color Quarter of Akegarasu	Muramatsu Rokuryō	20–31	15 –26
The Lustful Rain Does Not Cease	Matsui Raiko	32–43	27 –38
Crawling in Summer	Toba Eiko	44–52	39 –47
Psychiatric Evaluation of the Sexually Abnormal	Ōta Tenrei	53	48
The Female Party Member Gasping Beneath the Bloodstained Whip	Mitani Shōsuke	54–60	49 –55
How Much I Have Changed in Ten Years	Naka Masao	61–69	56 –64
Distorted Affairs	Takemura Fujisuke	70–75	65 –70
The Female Animal Trainer	Ogata Itsuma	76–85	71 –80
Twelve Chapters Concerning Abnormality	Uncredited	86–113	81 –108
Oda Nobunaga and Male Love	Kawakami Yatarō	114–125	109 –120
The Woman with Tattooed Breasts	Kayama Fūtarō	126–135	121 –130
Youth Crying Out	Takatsuki Daizō	136–146	131 –141
Women of the Bicycle Racetrack	Tajima Toshiko	147–154	142 –149
Two Women of Summer	Aoyagi Keizō	155–161	150 –156
The Woman Who Sleeps on Nails	Takano Saburō	162–167	157 –162
Letters from a Young Obstetrician-Gynecologist	Minamida Fumio	168–175	163 –170
A Woman in Slavery	Takamatsu Asako	176–185	171 –180
Rainbow of the Enchantress	Ryūtanji Yū	186–194	181 –189

The formal illustrated contents appears on PDF page 12. Main printed pagination begins five pages ahead of the corresponding PDF viewer number, so printed page 20 is PDF page 15 and the same five-page offset continues through the final numbered page. Several small contributor names and some short titles on the densely designed contents spread are difficult to distinguish; provisional romanizations and translations are identified in the relevant notes. The scan includes a cover spread, unnumbered frontispieces, and early pictorial material before the regular printed pagination begins.