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Sun & Moon · Tomoe / Egara Collection, Vol. 1: SUN & MOON Special Issue

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This special SUN & MOON publication presents itself as a commemorative volume marking the third anniversary of Nichigetsusha and as the first volume of the Tomoe / Egara Collection. Its editorial identity is strongly retrospective and photographic: the cover assembles numerous images from bondage and sadomasochistic photo sessions, while the contents page organizes the issue around named photographers, models, staged scenarios, and an extended sequence of color and black-and-white pictorial features. A short commemorative essay by Seta Kaiichi opens the volume, reflecting on the development of Nichigetsusha and SUN & MOON, followed by the formal contents.

The principal body is dominated by staged erotic photography rather than long-form prose. The contents identify early features such as Making the SUN & MOON Cover, Immersed in Pleasure, Hot Winds Swirled in the Scorching Room!!, Proxy Wife Misako, and Volunteering for Training: Kitajima Taeko. The largest sustained visual section is the special color graph titled Awareness of Innate Disposition and the Desire for Intoxication, photographed by Takamatsu Kosei. Across the surviving color sequence, domestic interiors become theatrical spaces for rope restraint, seated and reclining poses, floor arrangements, board-mounted compositions, and bathroom scenes. Everyday household surroundings are repeatedly transformed into carefully staged environments for bondage imagery.

Subsequent contents continue this photographic emphasis through Mrs. S, Pet Miko, Drawn to Utamaro, Practice: My Secret Notebook, Pregnant Beauty: Pleasure in the Bondage Cage, and Bewitching Flower in the Bath: Watanabe Yoshimi. Photographers including Seta Kaiichi, Onuki Koji, Nakamiya Sakae, and Arakawa Yasushi recur, giving the issue the character of a studio retrospective as much as a conventional magazine. The later pages shift from color to a stark black-and-white sequence headed The Underground Aesthete Surfaces, photographed by Shima Shiko. Numbered Roman images continue this feature through a sequence of restrained poses before the issue closes with promotional material for Nichigetsusha publications.

Taken as a whole, the issue functions as an anniversary portfolio of SUN & MOON's visual culture. Its recurring concerns are bondage as photographic composition, the transformation of ordinary interiors into erotic stages, the relationship between model and photographer, and the construction of recurring female personae through named pictorial series. The formal contents and photographer credits also make the publication useful for tracing the network of image-makers associated with Nichigetsusha at the end of the 1970s.

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