Highlight 1 Remove Text The opening portfolio juxtaposes Western bondage photography, Japanese illustrations of women restrained in domestic settings, drawings from Takireiko’s notebooks, and La Bonda’s European-style imagery. PDF pages Category
Highlight 2 Remove Text Fujimi Iku’s “Depictions of Torment in Literature” surveys scenes of coercion, execution, sexual violence, and female suffering in historical and popular writing. PDF pages Category
Highlight 3 Remove Text The newspaper and magazine communications section addresses American soldiers, homosexuality, clothing, and same-sex attraction as contemporary social questions. PDF pages Category
Highlight 4 Remove Text Koyama Takeo’s “The House of Silence” is an extended institutional melodrama involving imprisonment, religious discipline, interrogation, corporal punishment, and execution. PDF pages Category
Highlight 5 Remove Text “Adolescence: Letters Between Mother and Child” offers a detailed account of youth sumo training, ritual clothing, practice, public competition, and the emotional relationship between a young wrestler and his mother. PDF pages Category
Highlight 6 Remove Text Naruyama Nōhei’s play “The Bride of the Prison” treats confinement, loyalty, marriage, and authority through a formal theatrical structure. PDF pages Category
Highlight 7 Remove Text The paired essays on exhibitions of bound women in Japanese dress and ideas for images of beautiful women document the magazine’s interest in costume, posing, staging, and the production of fetish art. PDF pages Category
Highlight 8 Remove Text Numa Shōzō’s later contributions connect fantasy, discipline, domestication, transformation, and the symbolic reduction of human beings to controlled or animalized roles. PDF pages Category
Highlight 9 Remove Text The late issue includes testimony and discussion concerning feminization, female hormones, cross-gender identity, and embodied transformation. PDF pages Category
Highlight 10 Remove Text The closing news, criticism, and correspondence sections cover bondage films, restraint-related fatalities, club organization, foreign publications, reader experiences, and editorial community-building. PDF pages Category