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A humorous, anecdotal account of postwar entertainment districts, describing performers, patrons, unusual attractions, and the changing atmosphere of popular amusements. The piece mixes observational reportage with sexualized stories and comic commentary on ur...

A miscellany of sensational stories about performers and popular spectacles, beginning with the origins and display of the “flower streetcar” and continuing with accounts of swallowing swords, unusual bodily feats, and eccentric entertainers. The article treat...

A framed, conversational erotic narrative recounts a series of illicit and sensational sexual episodes shared among acquaintances, including wartime memories, seduction, captivity, coercion, and punishment. Illustrated scenes reinforce the story’s themes of se...

A written-and-photographic reportage feature explores a Tokyo red-light “blue-line” district, documenting its streets, interiors, workers, customers, and the atmosphere of nightlife. The article combines observational captions and interviews or commentary abou...

A serialized collection of comic erotic anecdotes set across Japanese and Western contexts, presented through short narrative episodes, dialogue, and spot illustrations. The stories explore secret desire, voyeuristic situations, marital and domestic sexual sce...

A sensationalized account of a young woman’s murder during an autumn festival, beginning with the discovery of her strangled body in a cabbage field. The article follows the police investigation, forensic observations, witness interviews, reconstruction of the...

A sensational serialized crime narrative follows a fugitive “phantom thief” who enters a bedroom, threatens and overpowers women, and becomes connected to murder, robbery, and an attempted escape. Police investigators pursue clues across rural communities, whi...

A sensational reportage-style examination of actresses, doctors, directors, and studio personnel, portraying the film studio as a site where erotic desire, ambition, rivalry, and emotional vulnerability intersect. Through anecdotes and commentary on actresses’...

An illustrated crime-and-captivity fiction involving a brutal attack on women, military police investigations, and the pursuit of suspects through nighttime urban and rural settings. The narrative combines eroticized violence, restraint, interrogation, blood e...

This article examines Japanese name-based divination, arguing that surname and given-name kanji—and their stroke counts—can reveal personality, fortune, criminal tendencies, and even susceptibility to violent acts. It applies a numerological system of main, se...

A crime-mystery narrative follows the investigation of a bizarre riverside murder, with a pawn ticket providing the crucial clue. Police interrogation and the killer’s confession gradually reveal a story of betrayal, obsession, and revenge involving an older w...

A sensational account of the murder of a Dōgenzaka beautician, whose strangled body is discovered at home. Police interrogate associates and reconstruct a web of jealousy, concealed relationships, and forbidden desire surrounding the crime before identifying t...

This illustrated erotic-grotesque fiction follows a mysterious woman from the Demon Tower who arrives at a remote hot-spring inn and becomes entangled with a doctor, his associates, and other guests. Sexual obsession, jealousy, mental disturbance, violence, an...

Usami Masao deciphers the euphemisms, abbreviations, and coded vocabulary used for sexual behavior and relationships within the Imperial Japanese Navy. Drawing on naval life, wartime anecdotes, and illustrated examples, the article discusses prostitution, same...

A serialized erotic narrative in which a woman becomes the stake in a gambling contest among men. As the wagers escalate, she is subjected to coercive possession, humiliation, restraint, and sexual exploitation, with the story framed through melodramatic scene...

An illustrated serialized erotic crime narrative following Keijiro’s predatory encounters with women, marked by coercion, captivity, physical violence, and bloodshed. The story moves between eroticized assaults and their aftermath, including medical attention,...

A satirical mock program for an evening of “crime-prevention” films, presenting sensationalized scenes of sexual misconduct, assault, abduction, voyeurism, and fetishized encounters through pseudo-official narration, film captions, and cartoons. The feature co...

A first-person erotic mystery recounts the narrator’s voyeuristic peeping into a woman’s room and his growing fascination with her apparently beautiful yet uncanny, demon-like body. The narrative develops through investigation, testimony, and grotesque transfo...

Kojika Aiko examines several sensational cases in which women were accused or convicted of killing relatives, including the murder of a university student and alleged family-linked insurance crimes. The article reviews court testimony, evidence, family relatio...

An exclusive trial-record feature reconstructs a wife-murder case involving alleged arsenic poisoning, marital conflict, suspected infidelity, and the testimony of the accused and witnesses. Presented through police reports, courtroom questioning, and witness...

A sensational account of the Clayton/Applegate household describes a sexually transgressive family, the murder of the husband, and the police investigation that follows. The narrative combines crime reporting, interviews, medical commentary, and lurid depictio...

A narrative feature recounts a teacher’s sexually charged encounter with two young women, whose rivalry and shifting advances produce the article’s “three-way battle.” Dialogue, staged scenes, and illustrated erotic situations frame the episode as sensational...

A humorous essay on eroticism in postwar everyday life, using imagined conversations, domestic episodes, and commentary on marital behavior, sexual appeal, and changing social attitudes. The accompanying cartoons reinforce its satirical treatment of intimacy,...

A fictionalized diary-style narrative following the social and romantic entanglements of the Aoki household and its acquaintances. Through comic conversations and illustrations, it explores dating, generational differences, courtship, secrecy, and the tensions...

An illustrated historical erotic serial set in the Edo period, following Suruga Dainagon and the woman Yuki amid intrigue, captivity, and encounters with a mysterious white ape. The chapter combines feudal drama with scenes of bondage, coercion, humiliation, a...

A collection of eroticized tales set in different countries, including Sweden, Japan, Denmark, and South Africa. The stories depict seduction, sexual intrigue, fetishistic situations, and imagined encounters involving travelers, servants, historical figures, a...

Publication information and promotional notices for the issue, including book advertisements, subscription and pricing details, publisher information, and an invitation for readers to submit material.

An illustrated erotic crime mystery follows journalist Tsuruta as he investigates the elusive Pink Phantom Thief, whose nighttime attacks, disguises, a circus fire, and hidden clothing generate a trail of sensational clues. The investigation focuses on a suspe...

A photographic portfolio titled “Nude Masterpieces,” credited to Fujisawa Osamu, presents a nude female model in a series of carefully composed floor-based poses, stretches, and contortions against patterned and plain studio backdrops.

This installment of “From the Unsorted Shelf” presents the erotic fiction “Tattoo Mansion,” centered on an orphaned young woman employed in an elaborate household. Her encounters with the enigmatic master and the mansion’s secluded spaces develop into voyeuris...

A serialized historical erotic narrative about Lady Kasuga in the Tokugawa inner palace, portraying her jealous control over the shogun’s women and her use of attendants, physicians, confinement, and violent punishment to enforce her authority. Illustrated sce...

A serialized first-person erotic narrative follows a young factory worker whose encounters with employers, coworkers, and women become entangled with his intense fascination with black hair. The story combines workplace hardship, humiliation, coercive sexual d...

A serialized historical erotic tale set amid the secrecy, rivalries, and power struggles of the Edo-period Ōoku. The narrative follows palace women and retainers through abduction, pursuit, interrogation, and elaborate rope restraint, accompanied by staged ero...

A serialized supernatural SM story in which a woman adopts an ominous black cat linked to a graveyard, only to encounter its terrifying transformation and vengeful, sexually threatening powers. The narrative combines domestic unease, captivity, coercion, and o...

Nakayasu Hiromichi examines accounts and fictional representations of female seppuku, focusing on stories of women in the Edo-period inner palace and related sword-wielding heroines. The article compares historical records with novels, stage and visual adaptat...

A historical erotic adventure set in the Tokugawa Ōoku, this story follows intrigue surrounding Lady Gekkōin, Tamoo, and the succession after the death of Shogun Ienobu. Rumors of forbidden relations lead to espionage, nighttime infiltration, violent pursuit,...

A serialized SM mystery following detective Yamamoto as he investigates a woman’s suspicious relationships, disappearance, and secret encounters. The investigation develops into scenes of coercion, captivity, physical punishment, and pencil-based torture, acco...

An illustrated historical erotic tale set around a Buddhist temple, involving a beautiful page who conceals her gender amid intrigue, pursuit, and shifting power relations. The narrative features rope bondage, whipping, restraint, escape, and voyeuristic disco...

An Edo-period revenge tale centered on the women Kotoji and Yaえ, whose conflicts with Izumi-no-kami, Ogino, and other adversaries unfold through deception, coercion, captivity, and swordplay. The illustrated narrative combines eroticized restraint and punishm...

A richly illustrated historical erotic narrative set in the Tokugawa Ōoku, portraying rivalries, jealousies, coercive relationships, punishments, and sexual intrigue among palace women and their attendants. Dramatic episodes are accompanied by staged drawings...