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A staged photographic feature presenting a woman in a series of elaborate rope restraints, reclining and kneeling poses, and theatrical settings. The images emphasize eroticized immobilization, bodily display, dramatic composition, and performance.

A short photographic sequence titled “Midnight Banquet,” depicting a woman bound with ropes amid draped fabrics and a dimly lit interior. The imagery combines erotic restraint with nocturnal, staged tableau and dramatic mood.

A photographic feature depicting nude or partly nude figures arranged in unusual, sculptural poses and group formations. The images emphasize bodily transformation, contortion, and the boundary between human bodies and abstract visual forms.

A visual feature titled “Lewd Trees,” combining nude figure photography with suggestive arrangements and a related line drawing. The presentation treats the human body and branching or intertwined forms as provocative natural imagery.

A two-page photographic feature presenting posed nude studies of women in domestic or studio-like settings. The images emphasize the female nude as an erotic and aesthetic photographic subject.

An illustrated contents spread listing the issue’s stories, essays, humorous pieces, and other features, accompanied by a stylized nude female study. The page combines magazine navigation and promotional erotic imagery in a decorative layout.

An erotic illustrated feature presenting a masked nude performer as a celebrated “queen of sex.” The central image emphasizes her stage persona, dramatic pose, costume accessories, and striptease glamour.

An erotic illustrated feature following an ultra-postwar young woman through scenes of flirtation, kissing, group socializing, and nude intimacy. The imagery frames youthful sexual experimentation and unconventional relationships in a voyeuristic, report-like...

An erotic illustrated fantasy centered on a “caress machine,” depicting intertwined bodies within a surreal, mechanical and urban setting. The feature treats technology as a vehicle for imagined intimate pleasure.

A multi-page visual feature built around the voyeuristic image of a “peeping glass,” combining erotic drawings or photographic collage with nocturnal scenes of nude figures and lovers. Its imagery emphasizes looking, concealment, and erotic spectatorship in an...

A comic erotic narrative built around a Sunday morning in bed, romantic encounters, and the recollection or anticipation of rendezvous. Informal dialogue and playful misunderstandings give the story its conversational humor.

A satirical story about the Kawahara couple’s childlessness and their consultation about artificial insemination. The narrative explores marital anxiety, donor selection, secrecy, and the comic implications of applying modern reproductive medicine to sexual an...

An erotic comic tale about a man whose desire and assumptions lead him into an amorous misunderstanding. The narrative uses awkward encounters, overheard conversations, and embarrassed reactions for sexual humor.

A bawdy domestic comedy in which a wife becomes entangled in an unauthorized or improper arrangement involving another man, with jealousy, suspicion, and mistaken interpretations driving the plot. The story emphasizes marital intimacy and the complications of...

A serialized erotic melodrama follows Namiko, an ambitious stripper who rises through Osaka’s nightclub and theater world while navigating male exploitation, rivalry, jealousy, and romantic entanglements. Her pursuit of recognition as a “queen” of sex culminat...

A short fictional study contrasts a woman whose love is expressed through physical desire with one whose attachment is emotional and devoted, using marital and romantic tensions to explore competing ideas of feminine love and intimacy.

An erotic comic tale centers on ear-cleaning as an intimate pretext for flirtation, seduction, and sexual intrigue. The episodic narrative combines salon and domestic encounters with humorous illustrations and exaggerated bodily situations.

A serialized erotic farce explores women’s desire, jealousy, and sexual resourcefulness through a series of encounters involving teachers, shopkeepers, and other men. The story uses comic misunderstandings, seduction, and changing romantic pairings to dramatiz...

A detective true-crime account of a multiple murder investigated through witness testimony, physical clues, suspect questioning, and police pursuit. The narrative emphasizes the killer’s disturbing one-eyed appearance and the gradual reconstruction of the crim...

An erotic fiction feature presenting two intertwined love stories marked by adult desire, seduction, jealousy, and emotional conflict. The episodes depict intimate encounters in domestic and bathing settings, with relationships complicated by age, marriage, an...

A comic, dialogue-driven comparison of women “then and now,” contrasting older ideals of femininity and marriage with modern women’s independence, romantic expectations, and changing social behavior. The narrative follows several men and women through discussi...

A collection of humorous and erotic vignettes centered on women connected with sewing, garment work, urban entertainment districts, and domestic life. Its episodes portray flirtation, marriage, infidelity, sexual negotiation, and the tensions between respectab...

An erotic-humorous tale about a man who becomes entangled with a woman and ends up paying an exorbitant sum for only two kisses. The story satirizes romantic desire, male vulnerability, and the commodification of intimacy in postwar Japan.

A fictionalized erotic feature contrasting the secrets and sexual conduct of a prewar mother with those of her postwar daughter. Through encounters, confessions, and suggestive situations, it explores changing female sexuality, generational attitudes, and the...

A humorous erotic anecdote depicting an unexpectedly physical sexual encounter between a man and a woman, told in a lively, comic style. The accompanying illustration emphasizes the bodily comedy and theatricality of the episode.

A fictional first-person investigation follows a reporter pursuing accounts of exceptionally beautiful women through postwar urban nightlife, including bars, clubs, and private rooms. Interviews, disguises, flirtation, drinking, and successive erotic encounter...

An erotic fiction about Yamooka, an Osaka businessman, and a young woman whose relationship develops through attraction, sexual desire, jealousy, and possessiveness. Their affair becomes increasingly troubled as emotional dependence and violent impulses underm...

A lurid folkloric tale framed as the confession of a sick old monk visiting a remote mountain watchman’s hut. Recalling events from decades earlier, the narrator describes sexual entanglement, murder, and the remorse and karmic consequences that follow.

A comic illustrated miscellany built from absurd lies, misunderstandings, and brief dialogue scenes. Its jokes satirize marriage, romance, domestic life, work, illness, bureaucracy, and everyday social behavior.

An erotic fictional narrative tracing a prostitute’s emotional and sexual entanglements, including seduction, economic hardship, deception, and unstable attachments. The story emphasizes the conflict between commercial sexuality and genuine romantic feeling.

An erotic short story about a man whose encounter with a woman carrying bedding develops into an intense and complicated sexual relationship. The narrative explores clandestine intimacy, emotional attachment, jealousy, and the disruption of ordinary domestic l...

An erotic story centered on a strikingly assertive woman and her encounters with men, including a stripper-like female performer whose confidence and sexual agency unsettle those around her. The narrative follows attraction, seduction, and shifting power withi...

A humorous classroom-style miscellany presenting witty observations, questions, and answers about sex, marriage, bodily concerns, fashion, and everyday social behavior. The page also incorporates light puzzles and other recreational material.

An illustrated collection of comic gag topics built around brief exchanges between men and women, spouses, lovers, and acquaintances. The jokes focus on courtship, marriage, infidelity, sexual anxieties, and domestic misunderstandings.

An erotic supernatural tale set in an isolated fishing community, where a young man encounters a beautiful female ghost associated with the village water gate. Their attraction develops through nocturnal meetings, village gossip, and increasingly uncanny event...

A melancholy erotic romance presented through intimate confession and correspondence. A woman describes her marriage to a physically incapacitated husband, her frustrated longing and emotional attachment to another man, and the conflict between social duty, se...

An erotic comic tale centered on a widow who becomes the target of voracious sexual pursuit. The episode uses humorous dialogue and exaggerated situations to explore widowhood, seduction, and sexual appetite.

A long-form Edo-period erotic romance following Shinhachiro through clandestine encounters, seductions, jealous entanglements, and confrontations involving women of different social positions. The serialized fiction is accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrati...

An erotic narrative centered on a female-sumo performance and the intense encounter between the wrestler Miyako and male observers or participants. The story combines staged wrestling, physical dominance, voyeuristic excitement, and shifting sexual power betwe...

An episodic erotic romance following Miyako and Haruhiko through flirtation, emotional conflict, physical intimacy, and the consequences of their growing attachment. The narrative emphasizes seduction, bodily sensation, jealousy, vulnerability, and unequal exp...