December 1960

The December 1960 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is organized around a major special feature devoted to the artist and bondage practitioner Ito Seiu. The issue opens with a formal contents page and an unusually large visual section combining color illustration, sketches, bondage photography, and reproductions of Seiu's historical punishment imagery. The opening gravure sequence moves through a succession of staged rope-bondage settings, including stone steps, interiors, a bath, ruins, patterned rooms, an office, a pine tree, and a garden. These photographs emphasize positional variation and environmental staging, while the accompanying short captions transform each location into a miniature bondage scenario. The Seiu feature then turns from contemporary photography to his artistic legacy. A sequence of reproduced drawings depicts historical punishments and restraints, followed by the Seiu Female-Body Bondage Photograph Collection, in which kimono-clad women are tied, suspended, beaten, or posed in explicitly theatricalized scenes of punishment. The editorial introduction Ito Seiu: The Man and His Works is followed by Ekoda Hachiro's biographical profile and Miyahara Shizuo's discussion of Seiu's photographic punishment work, placing the images within a broader assessment of his career and influence. The prose section broadens from Seiu to contemporary discussions of masochism, fetishism, voyeurism, bondage technique, sexual confession, and erotic fiction. Tani Kanta's sixth installment of Letters from a Masochist presents correspondence as evidence of individual masochistic experience. Hachibanba Takeo discusses voyeurism, while Kabiya Kazuhiko examines a European five-sided adult initiation ritual. Hattajima Suekichi considers olfactory fetishism, and Fujikawa Jun discusses wooden-horse punishment and pulley suspension. Fiction and quasi-reportage include The Faceless Foot Club, My Married Life, Torture of a Female Reporter, White Butterfly, Four Methods of Stimulating Games, The Man Who Seeks the Water of Enchantment, and Under the Beautiful Whip. The later pages continue the mixture of historical curiosity, erotic fantasy, confession, and reader culture. Fujitate Eikichi's Origin of Tateishi-sama treats a punishment-related historical or folkloric subject, Sugiura Saburo contributes Confession of a Panty Maniac, and Aoyama Miekichi's sadistic fiction The Terror of Tanbiso forms the last long narrative. The Reader Salon closes the editorial body with commentary and reader-oriented discussion. Subsequent pages advertise related publications and describe the newly established distribution department, while the colophon records the December 1, 1960 publication of the issue. Across its full span, the issue presents Fuzoku Kitan as an intersection of bondage documentation, erotic art history, fetish psychology, sensational fiction, and participatory reader culture.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
Nozarashi	Ito Seiu	unnumbered color insert	6
Punishment-Sketch Collection	Ito Seiu	unnumbered insert	7
Bound Nude Woman on the Stone Steps	Uncredited	2	8 –10
Blind Bird	Uncredited	4	11 –12
Before the Stone Wall	Uncredited	6	13 –14
With the Long Juban in Disarray	Uncredited	8	15 –16
Bound to a Pole	Uncredited	10	17 –18
White Skin on the Terrace	Uncredited	12	19 –20
A Secluded Pose in the Bath	Uncredited	14	21 –22
Captive in the Ruins	Uncredited	16	23 –24
Amid the Floral Pattern	Uncredited	18	25 –27
Outrage in the Office	Uncredited	20	28
Suspended from a Pine Tree	Uncredited	22	29 –30
Two Poses in the Garden	Uncredited	24	31
Made to Wear Shoes of Fire	Ito Seiu	—	32
Suruga Punishment	Ito Seiu	—	33
Shimoto Punishment	Ito Seiu	—	34 –35
Dragging Punishment	Ito Seiu	—	36
Corpse Punishment	Ito Seiu	—	37
Suribachi Punishment	Ito Seiu	—	38
Seiu Female-Body Bondage Photograph Collection	Uncredited	43	39 –47
Ito Seiu's Profile	Ekoda Hachiro	52	49 –51
Seiu's Photographic Punishments	Miyahara Shizuo	55	52 –54
Letters from a Masochist 6: Correspondence Between Masochists	Tani Kanta	58	55 –65
Voyeurism	Hachibanba Takeo	69	66
Secret Method 2: Adult Initiation Ritual Inside the Pentagon	Kabiya Kazuhiko	70	67 –71
On Olfactory Fetishism	Hattajima Suekichi	77	72
Wooden-Horse Punishment and Pulley Suspension	Fujikawa Jun	78	73 –78
The Faceless Foot Club	Shishimura Yutaka	84	79 –90
My Married Life	Hirai Yukiko	96	91 –97
Torture of a Female Reporter	Tomon	103	98 –108
White Butterfly	Tsuda Kozo	114	109 –116
Four Methods of Stimulating Games	Mano Rei	122	117 –121
The Man Who Seeks the Water of Enchantment	Matsui Kosui	127	122 –126
Under the Beautiful Whip	Toyama Kazuhiko	132	127 –132
Origin of Tateishi-sama	Fujitate Eikichi	138	133 –142
Confession of a Panty Maniac	Sugiura Saburo	148	143 –146
The Terror of Tanbiso	Aoyama Miekichi	152	147 –164
Reader Salon	Uncredited	170	165 –170

The issue contains extensive unnumbered or separately paginated visual inserts before the main numbered prose sequence. Several early gravure features span irregular numbers of PDF pages despite the even-numbered printed starting pages listed in the contents. The Ito Seiu masterpiece reproductions on PDF pages 32–38 are also inserted separately from the principal numbered text. Rare or pseudonymous personal names including Hachibanba Takeo, Hattajima Suekichi, Tomon, Shishimura Yutaka, Mano Rei, Matsui Kosui, Fujitate Eikichi, and Aoyama Miekichi should be checked against external authority records if standardized readings are required. The title Shimoto Punishment on PDF pages 34–35 also has an uncertain title reading. PDF pages 171–173 contain publication advertisements, distribution information, editorial notices, and the colophon rather than additional feature articles.