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A marital-advice narrative about a husband who becomes alarmed by his wife’s changed behavior during their period of boredom and hires a private detective to investigate. The inquiry, misunderstandings, and emotional confrontation ultimately serve as a dramati...

A fictional domestic drama portraying the growing emotional and physical distance between husband and wife, Akiko and her husband. Suspicion, sexual frustration, wounded pride, and escalating quarrels expose the fragility of their marriage and drive Akiko towa...

A psychologically charged fiction about an adolescent girl whose fascination with romantic film scenes awakens confused desires and fantasies. The narrative moves between ordinary domestic life, cinematic imagery, and dreamlike experiences as she struggles wit...

A suspenseful family melodrama in which suspicion of an adulterous relationship spreads through a household and provokes jealousy, deception, and confrontation. The story escalates from secretive domestic encounters to physical violence, bloodshed, and a crimi...

A comic erotic tale about a man who hides beneath a bed while evading discovery in a volatile household, then attempts to escape when the danger seems to have passed. The story relies on deception, concealment, and the escalating panic of an illicit encounter.

A serialized collection of brief, humorous erotic anecdotes presented as “curious tales” of urban licentiousness. Through comic dialogue and exaggerated situations, the stories depict infidelity, sexual misadventure, marital conflict, flirtation, and other for...

A comic-erotic series of vignettes set among the residents of a postwar apartment building. Interwoven episodes depict flirtation, adultery, sexual misunderstandings, domestic quarrels, and the eccentric behavior of men and women living in close proximity, acc...

A first-person mountain adventure and curious tale about an encounter with a powerful ape in an isolated rural setting. The account develops into the sensational claim that the ape had sexual relations with a woman and fathered a human child, blending hunting...

The first installment of a comic erotic serial follows the sexually dissatisfied and adventurous Hisako, her husband Nobuo, and a series of rural male acquaintances, including the figure known as Bear Grandpa. Illustrated episodes emphasize marital frustration...

The second installment introduces the character Madame Skunk in a voyeuristic, grotesquely comic erotic episode. The narrative and accompanying illustration focus on sexualized bodily display, clandestine observation, and the character’s provocative behavior.

An Edo-period erotic adventure follows the resourceful 金平 as he pursues encounters with women connected to pleasure quarters, households, and theatrical or elite circles. The serialized narrative combines disguise, pursuit, jealousy, violence, and sexual int...

A collection of erotic stories depicting dancers, entertainers, mistresses, and other women whose intimate lives are shaped by money, contracts, patrons, infidelity, and exploitation. The episodes emphasize backstage and domestic encounters, sexual performance...

A mystery investigation centers on the completely naked, charred body of a young woman discovered after a lodging-house fire. Through witness questioning, scene reconstruction, and autopsy clues, investigators challenge the apparent suicide explanation and pur...

This comparative essay examines sexual modesty among brides, focusing on embarrassment, resistance, and expectations surrounding marriage and the wedding night. It surveys differing customs and attitudes toward female sexuality across communities, including ex...

Part four of a serialized illustrated pulp tale follows Maria and her husband through a volatile world of jealousy, sexual rivalry, cabaret entertainment, and suspected infidelity. The escalating quarrel becomes entangled with violence, a possible murder, miss...

An erotic comic story examines the meaning of a five-hundred-yen payment within a troubled marriage and its surrounding romantic entanglements. Money, jewelry, household finances, and sexual relationships become intertwined as the characters negotiate desire,...

A journalistic account of men who lure and exploit young women through employment offers, promises of secretarial or acting careers, and financial assistance. The cases portray sexual coercion, economic vulnerability, and the women’s descent into prostitution...

A brief cautionary vignette about a gambling-house game in which money is wagered and, when funds run out, a woman’s body becomes the stake. It presents gambling as a setting for humiliation, sexual commodification, and predatory male behavior.

A critical essay examines the gap between the public reputations of popular writers and their private conduct, working habits, ambitions, financial arrangements, and dependence on publishers and literary fame. It satirically contrasts celebrated literary perso...

A social-satirical story portrays impostors posing as police or detectives, stopping students, couples, travelers, and villagers while exploiting their supposed authority for money, food, and personal advantage. Through comic dialogue and illustrations, it exp...

A regional strange tale follows a troubled married couple whose childlessness, infidelity, and hopes for a child become entangled with a stone Jizō and other uncanny events. The story blends domestic sexual anxiety with folk religious belief and supernatural a...

An illustrated miscellany on erotic culture discusses provocative sexual situations and imagery, including department-store encounters, erotic curiosities, and modern sexual behavior. It then turns to shunga and related erotic pictures, considering their artis...

A comic-erotic supernatural tale follows the hapless 留吉 and his encounters with 菊三, women, and fox- or badger-like apparitions. Across episodes involving grotesque bodily transformations, illicit desire, deception, and a climactic “fox dance,” the story bl...

A first-person confession recounts an illicit romantic relationship that develops amid domestic and family tensions, culminating in an attempted lovers’ suicide and its emotional consequences. The piece is framed as melodramatic testimony about forbidden desir...

A sensational first-person account of a troubled love affair unfolds through clandestine meetings, jealousy, separation, and escalating violence involving a woman and a firearm. The piece presents romantic desire and betrayal in a dramatic, confessional style.

A sensational “true story” recounts the arrival of a woman hired to cook at a remote laborers’ construction camp, where the male workers’ attention turns into coercive sexual pursuit and violence. The narrative depicts the camp as an isolated, rough environmen...

A suspense fiction piece framed as the statement of a suspicious man questioned at a police station. His account of a night involving jealousy, confrontations, violence, and a mysterious death gradually reveals the disturbing circumstances behind the investiga...

An illustrated feature describing the stage performance and physical presentation of the nude dancer Arabesque. It focuses on striptease-style spectacle, the dancer’s movements and costume exposure, and the reactions of viewers to her erotic performance.

A literary vignette from Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book reflects on the dawn and morning-after encounter following a night spent with a woman. The passage dwells on clothing, appearance, atmosphere, and the emotional uncertainty surrounding intimate courtly relati...

A humorous erotic tale set in a modest bathhouse follows the bathhouse attendant’s daughter as she secretly peeks into the men’s bathing area and becomes entangled in the resulting flirtation and sexual intrigue. Its comic illustrations and dialogue emphasize...

An erotic adventure narrative follows a female wanderer moving through a succession of encounters with men, including deception, coercion, sexual bargaining, and episodes of captivity or rescue. The story combines chivalric-travel conventions with sensational...

A collection of humorous and sensational erotic anecdotes presents unconventional sexual behavior through short narrative episodes, editorial dialogue, and accompanying cartoon illustrations. The feature ranges across fetishistic interests, voyeuristic situati...

A sensational serialized crime narrative about nurse Aozora Haruko, whose relationships and movements become entangled in a murder investigation involving a hospital, conflicting testimony, and forensic clues. The story unfolds through interrogation-style dial...

A historical-romantic account of Townsend Harris’s role in the opening of Japan and his relationship with Okichi, presented as a dramatic secret history. The narrative emphasizes diplomatic tensions, cultural encounter, sexual politics, and the tragic fate of...

An erotic narrative about a female university student whose sexual experimentation unfolds among classmates, dormitory acquaintances, and men in urban leisure spaces. The story emphasizes voyeurism, same-sex encounters, coercive sexual play, humiliation, and t...

An erotic urban adventure following the drifter Kame through Osaka’s entertainment districts, lodging houses, and marginal work settings from evening into the following morning. His encounters with women, including O-Kinu and other entertainers, combine sexual...

An erotic episodic fiction follows a male narrator through Osaka on an autumn night as he encounters several women in cafés, entertainment districts, and temporary lodgings. Its successive episodes portray seduction, sexual negotiation, commercial sexuality, a...

This narrative recounts the clandestine voyage of Korean man Li Hyeon-yang and fellow travelers who attempt to enter postwar Japan by boat, evade detection, and find shelter among sympathizers. Their eventual capture and interrogation frame the story around il...

The third installment of a comic erotic serial follows Dora, Ari, Musukita, and their associates through jealous confrontations, disguises, stolen jewelry, and attempted escapes. Its episodic dialogue and illustrations mix sexual intrigue with farcical crimina...

A photographic and illustrated survey of Japan’s urban pleasure districts, following streets lined with cafés, bars, lodging houses, bathhouses, and other establishments associated with commercial nightlife and sexual entertainment. Maps, storefront photograph...