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In the third installment of this interview with Yukimura Haruki, Yukimura recounts his transition from advertising and commercial photography into adult video production and SM filmmaking. He describes the frustrations of commercial erotic production, his enco...

A full-page historical photograph introduces the Seiu feature through a posed bound model in the artist’s studio. The image establishes the issue’s concern with the relationship between erotic representation, studio practice, and visual documentation.

A gravure sequence presents selected Seiu-related images and photographic material, establishing the artist’s recurring motifs of posed bodies, elaborate costume, hair, restraint, and theatrical composition.

This visual archive juxtaposes staged photographs of models, Seiu at work, private photographic records, drawings, and paintings. Its accompanying prose frames the photographs as records of artistic experiments and historical erotic imagery rather than ordinar...

Seiu’s own autobiographical record traces his childhood, education, poverty, entry into newspaper work, artistic formation, marriage, professional struggles, binding practice, illness, and old age. Drawings, photographs, newspaper imagery, and studio scenes ma...

Itō Kiku offers a daughter’s account of Seiu’s personality, household life, artistic work, marriage, and family tensions. The contribution shifts the feature from self-narration to domestic testimony and the preservation of a difficult artistic legacy.

This visual and cultural-history section presents Seiu’s drawings and collected observations of peddlers, charms, superstitions, shop signs, lanterns, street life, erotic imagery, and sideshow culture. It portrays the artist as an observer of vernacular custom...

Mochizuki recounts discovering Seiu’s work in a secondhand bookstore and reflects on collecting, private looking, embarrassment, fascination, and the power of disturbing erotic images. Reproductions of Seiu-related works accompany the personal art-critical nar...

A largely visual portfolio of ghostly, grotesque, supernatural, and uncanny imagery associated with Seiu and related collections. It includes long-format paintings, ghost pictures, monsters, spirits, theatrical scenes, and a collection attributed to the rakugo...

Fukutomi reconstructs Seiu’s career and afterlife through encounters with collectors, dealers, publishers, artists, and surviving works. The essay examines private archives, the circulation of erotic and supernatural imagery, and the effort to restore Seiu to...

A service-oriented page supplies references connected with the issue’s art-historical material and announces exhibitions and cultural offerings. It functions as documentary and community-facing editorial back matter rather than a single authored essay.

This richly illustrated retrospective follows Yanase from childhood talent through avant-garde painting, proletarian art, graphic design, manga, stage work, political illustration, wartime activity, arrest, and repression. Reproduced paintings, posters, cartoo...

The feature introduces Ryūkyū royal portraiture and court culture, explaining Chinese-derived dress and rank systems, maritime exchange, wartime destruction, and the reconstruction of lost cultural heritage from surviving images and prewar records.

A retrospective exhibition surveys Japanese book covers, bindings, typography, materials, and publishing culture from 1946 to 1995. The feature treats book design as a visual record of changing social periods and cultural movements.

A visual presentation of a rare folding screen attributed to Sakai Hōitsu focuses on autumn grasses, flowers, vines, a rabbit, surface texture, and Rimpa atmosphere. Additional works and collection history place the screen within the exhibition and preservatio...

This illustrated cultural history explains Kōshin observance, the three worms that report human wrongdoing, longevity beliefs, communal night gatherings, temples, talismans, statues, and regional devotional practice. Historical images are set beside contempora...

A multi-item news department surveys exhibitions, design, fashion, photography, film, contemporary art, political art, collecting, and museum activity in Japan and abroad. It includes short notices on Meiji imperial holdings, Scandinavian design, contemporary...

Minamikawa profiles Jim Dine through photographs and commentary on his home, studio, furniture, books, ceramics, collections, and working environment. The domestic setting is presented as an extension of Dine’s artistic imagination and transatlantic cultural r...

Hashimoto revisits Tōdai-ji’s Nandaimon through personal memory and close observation of architecture, weathered materials, reconstruction, scale, and Buddhist guardian figures. The essay questions detached academic categorization in favor of embodied aestheti...

Kudō traces Aizu Yaichi’s family origins, the Aizu inn and pleasure-quarter environment, Niigata’s urban history, education, literature, and cultural formation. Maps, ukiyo-e, family photographs, documents, and genealogy connect individual biography with late-...

This travel and photo essay moves through Awazu, Katayamazu, Yamanaka, and Yamashiro, combining hot springs, Buddhist monuments, sacred Mount Hakusan, historic inns, local streets, food, tourism, and Yamanaka lacquerware. It presents regional heritage as a liv...

A frontispiece or introductory visual page credited to the editorial department.

A long dialogue between Yoshino Mayumi and Tsujimura Takashi about travel, performance, photography, writing, friendship, and the social world of erotic publishing.

A recurring critical miscellany considering SM aesthetics, beauty, literature, erotic art, cruelty, voyeurism, censorship, and the publishing market surrounding fetish books and photographs.

A mythological fantasy reconstructing Greek and Egyptian materials through royal power, slavery, conquest, prophecy, astronomy, magic, and catastrophic upheaval.

An illustrated fetish essay on female seppuku imagery, anatomy, cutting, bodily exposure, and the photographic representation of abdominal violence.

A first-person memoir recalling the tying and photographing of women, their embarrassment and resistance, and the emotional and interpersonal dimensions of bondage photography.

The pagination-supported body is Yaezakura, a completed period narrative involving a feudal household, erotic art, secrecy, samurai retainers, and violence.

A serialized narrative about women entering sumo practice, learning holds, negotiating embarrassment and rivalry, and turning female athletic performance into a spectacle of strength and vulnerability.

A prison narrative involving women inmates, guards, searches, restraints, transport, punishment, attempted escape, humiliation, and institutional control.

The opening of a recurring photographic department presenting an SM-oriented camera hunt, urban encounters, and a prominent staged photograph.

A continuing narrative of youthful beauty, pursuit, travel, voyeurism, coercive sexual performance, bondage, and photographic display.

A coercive narrative involving elaborate frames, ropes, straps, suspension, punishment, bodily endurance, and the technical staging of a captive woman’s suffering.

A domestic fetish narrative of confinement, nose-related punishment, humiliating postures, staged cruelty, and the transformation of New Year customs into coercive ritual.

No distinct body section could be securely isolated in the supplied PDF evidence.

A coercive erotic narrative involving workplace hierarchy, contracts, money, fetish objects, restraint, staged photographs, and escalating male control over women.

An illustrated domestic account of Typhoon No. 23 that turns wind, rain, ropes, rubber clothing, household danger, and bodily vulnerability into an eroticized couple’s role-play.

A commentary on bondage gravure, model psychology, staged images, consent, embarrassment, and the boundary between voluntary photographic performance and coercion.

A travel-centered erotic narrative moving through Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara while exploring encounters, marriage, secrecy, affection, memory, and sexual experimentation.