Article Translations

An essay categorizes different kinds of women-haters, attributing them variously to sexual indifference, excessive sexual preoccupation, personal circumstances, intellectual theories, self-conceit, and related psychological or social causes. It supports the cl...

A melodramatic narrative set around the Coral bar follows Okinawan-born women, their romantic entanglements, jealousy, violence, and eventual personal reckonings. Alongside the fiction, it presents detailed descriptions of Ryukyuan women’s beauty, clothing, so...

Matoba Michi’s essay considers male and female beauty through the relationship between natural bodily form, physical maturation, heredity, health, and cultural ideals. It contrasts bodily and spiritual beauty, discusses historical and social variation in gende...

The second installment of Matsui Kōko’s erotic fiction follows Sayuri, a married woman whose recollections of childhood sexual games and bondage merge with her troubled adult desires. Encounters involving her husband, male acquaintances, and other household fi...

A humorous fictional tale follows Nakai, an enthusiastic radio-quiz participant whose prize from an Oriental Spinning quiz leads to a chain of awkward romantic misunderstandings with Michiko. The melodramatic confusion eventually resolves in domestic happiness...

An erotic literary narrative centered on Eikai, an older, cultured man, and his encounters with younger men in cafés, homes, and urban nightlife. Through shifting conversations and relationships, the story explores same-sex desire, social status, physical beau...

A multi-page illustrated social satire follows a husband and wife in an increasingly crowded household, depicting marital intimacy, repeated childbearing, infant care, and the exhaustion of supporting a large family. The sequence uses humorous exaggeration and...

A sensational illustrated sexological narrative about a woman who experiences pleasure through humiliation, physical punishment, and other forms of erotic cruelty. Combining fictionalized scenes, dialogue, and explanatory commentary, it follows her relationshi...

A serialized, illustrated popular-psychology feature examines the desires and frustrations of married women through sensationalized fictionalized case histories. Its vignettes portray extramarital attraction, sexual dissatisfaction, seduction, jealousy, and th...

An illustrated serialized erotic narrative about a married woman whose dissatisfaction and emotional restlessness lead to clandestine encounters with other men. Through dialogue, seduction, jealousy, and domestic deception, the story presents adultery as a for...

A sensational confession-style crime narrative in which a male offender recounts repeated sexual assaults against women, describing coercion, pursuit, concealment, and attempts to evade detection. Illustrated scenes and police-investigation passages frame the...

A sensational illustrated crime report reconstructing the assault of Japanese women by a razor-wielding foreign soldier and the ensuing efforts to identify, condemn, and apprehend him. Combining dramatized scenes, dialogue, and reportage, it emphasizes victims...

An illustrated historical-sexual feature examines the secluded women’s quarters of Edo Castle, portraying the strict prohibition on male contact and the resulting frustration, clandestine relationships, same-sex encounters, and use of sexual substitutes among...

A sensational pseudo-scientific feature presents a supposed machine for detecting women’s erogenous zones, using fictional demonstrations, measurements, electrical instruments, and dialogue between male investigators and female subjects. The accompanying claim...

An illustrated popular-sexology feature about a man who claims to distinguish women by their bodily scents. Through anecdotes, staged demonstrations, dialogue, and comic scenes, it discusses body odor, menstrual and other bodily smells, perfumes, sexual attrac...

A sensationalized question-and-answer study of contemporary sexual behavior examining rape, sexual sadism, and rape-murder through fictionalized or reported case scenarios. It discusses perpetrators’ motives and behavioral patterns alongside forensic examinati...

An illustrated sexological essay examines female masochism, arguing that some women may experience sexual arousal amid pain, humiliation, domination, or coercive-looking situations. It discusses psychological and physiological explanations, contrasts women’s a...

An illustrated erotic fiction serial about an adulterous relationship involving Shimazu, Yamasaki, and Shigeko. The story moves through seduction, secret sexual encounters, jealousy, deception, and a final confrontation as the affair destabilizes the character...

An illustrated serialized erotic narrative portraying household maids in flirtatious, adulterous, and coercive sexual encounters with employers and other men. Through melodramatic dialogue, comic panels, and recurring scenes of domestic service, the feature ex...

A humorous, episodic account of film-location work follows actors, actresses, directors, assistants, and local crews through chaotic shoots in rural and resort settings. The piece satirizes production logistics, mismatched expectations, romantic entanglements,...

A humorous illustrated glossary of erotic and vulgar slang used in Japan’s motion-picture industry, explaining terms, their meanings, usage, and supposed origins. The article presents backstage anecdotes and conversations involving actors, actresses, studio wo...

A sensational illustrated exposé portraying the supposed “red erotic offensive” as a communist strategy of sexual corruption, social infiltration, and political subversion. Presented through dramatized conversations, case narratives, and cartoons, it links ero...

An illustrated erotic-comic fiction in which ambitious men and women pursue romance, money, status, and sexual advantage through flirtation, deception, and social maneuvering. The episodes follow characters including 好太 and 澄江 through encounters involving...

A journalistic tour of Osaka’s Shinsekai and Janjan Yokocho, documenting its food stalls, inexpensive eateries, pachinko parlors, cafés, bathhouses, and surrounding street life. The feature combines social observation with illustrated scenes of working-class l...

A comic serialized fiction follows a mysterious, physically imposing man whose strange behavior and encounters with women, employers, and military figures produce farcical complications. The narrative expands into an eccentric wartime and secret-mission advent...

A reportage-style account describes a group of Korean women and children secretly crossing by boat to Tsushima, portraying their poverty, fear, concealment, and efforts to survive amid postwar border surveillance. It also follows the police response and the br...

An erotic narrative set during a newlywed couple’s first night at a hot-spring inn. Through conversations, observation, and sexual encounters, it explores honeymoon expectations, marital intimacy, and the atmosphere of commercial hot-spring travel.

An erotic melodrama centered on Oden and Sakichi in a hot-spring village, where desire, seduction, deception, and social vulnerability lead to jealousy and violent conflict. The story combines explicit bathhouse and lodging scenes with pursuit, betrayal, and r...

An essay examines cases of lovers who died together or attempted suicide, discussing romantic attachment, despair, social circumstances, and the varied forms of “love death.” It also considers how such incidents were reported and interpreted in relation to gen...

A long illustrated satirical serial built around colloquial conversations among shopkeepers, workers, couples, and other urban characters. Through comic scenes of shopping, entertainment, romance, domestic life, popular amusements, and references to military e...

An erotic serialized narrative following a company employee on business travels between Japanese cities, where workplace relationships, money, and personal ambitions intersect with romantic and sexual encounters. The story combines travelogue-like episodes wit...

An erotic essay and anecdotal tale centered on the term “remarkable thing” (逸物), discussing its suggestive etymology and its association with exceptional male sexual endowment. A historical or legendary episode involving a sexually charged encounter is accom...

A humorous collection of erotic anecdotes attributed to wartime military life, describing soldiers’ encounters, barracks culture, and sexual adventures around the battlefront. The piece uses comic reminiscence and anecdotal storytelling to portray masculine ca...

An erotic grotesque fiction set around the remote Heike Valley, following encounters among men and women whose desires, deceptions, and bodily transformations unfold in rural and hot-spring environments. The narrative combines supernatural or fairy-like motifs...

A serialized erotic fiction centered on Masako and Kotaro, whose marriage is unsettled by jealousy, emotional conflict, and suspected or actual infidelity. The narrative develops through tense domestic confrontations and scenes of sexual domination and coercio...

An illustrated erotic narrative portraying Mrs. Sumire as a married woman whose beauty and sexuality attract male attention and lead to seduction, adultery, and confrontations involving her husband and other men. The feature also includes prominent erotic illu...

A surreal erotic fiction in which a drifting man encounters strange women, rooms, paintings, and episodes that blur waking experience with dream and fantasy. The narrative emphasizes voyeuristic observation, pursuit, shifting identities, and unsettling urban e...

A collection of anecdotal discussions and purported case histories concerning the sexual conduct of contemporary university students. The episodes portray student encounters with older married women, domestic servants, young women, and other partners, framed t...

A literaryized “true story” follows the fortunes of a courtesan in the pleasure quarters, depicting her encounters with clients, shifting romantic attachments, and the emotional and social costs of her constrained life. The narrative emphasizes the glamour, er...

Set in the port town of Habu, this romantic narrative centers on a returning sailor who reconnects with a former beloved, now enmeshed in marriage and domestic obligations. Their renewed attraction develops amid drinking-house and restaurant culture, gossip, f...