Highlight 1 Remove Text The opening portfolio juxtaposes staged Japanese bondage photography, American fetish photographs, historical punishment illustrations, Christian martyrdom scenes, and images of legendary women, establishing the issue’s transnational visual vocabulary. PDF pages Category
Highlight 2 Remove Text The formal contents spread is itself an elaborate two-page design with playing-card, dagger, candle, and pin-up motifs, organizing the issue into fiction, medical commentary, social observation, historical material, and illustrated features. PDF pages Category
Highlight 3 Remove Text “The Color Quarter of Akegarasu” is a long illustrated period tale of sexual exploitation, rivalry, humiliation, and revenge in a pleasure-quarter milieu. PDF pages Category
Highlight 4 Remove Text The final installment of “The Lustful Rain Does Not Cease” uses hotels, cabarets, theatrical performers, jealousy, bondage, and betrayal to construct a distinctly modern urban erotic drama. PDF pages Category
Highlight 5 Remove Text Ōta Tenrei’s “Psychiatric Evaluation of the Sexually Abnormal” reflects the issue’s recurring attempt to place sensational sexual material within a medical and criminological framework. PDF pages Category
Highlight 6 Remove Text “The Female Party Member Gasping Beneath the Bloodstained Whip” combines political persecution, criminal investigation, torture, and sensational illustration. PDF pages Category
Highlight 7 Remove Text The special feature “Twelve Chapters Concerning Abnormality” forms the issue’s largest quasi-encyclopedic section, presenting illustrated discussions of sexual behavior, fetishism, gender, prostitution, reproduction, and bodily difference. PDF pages Category
Highlight 8 Remove Text “Oda Nobunaga and Male Love” treats male homosexuality through historical biography and illustrated period narrative. PDF pages Category
Highlight 9 Remove Text The late-issue sequence includes writing on breast tattooing, troubled youth, competitive public spaces, summer desire, medical correspondence, and women imagined as slaves or social outsiders. PDF pages Category
Highlight 10 Remove Text Ryūtanji Yū’s “Rainbow of the Enchantress” provides a literary closing feature before the final columns and publication notices. PDF pages Category