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A reprint-series visual review of modern masochism, illustrated with photographs of women performing in close contact with tigers before an audience.

A two-page sketch portfolio by Takireiko presenting nude female figures in varied, suggestive poses and arrangements.

The fourth installment of “New Euro-American Style,” a La Bonda illustration depicting a stylized group restraint pose involving several women.

An illustrated October feature presents a series of stylized scenes in which women are overpowered, restrained, or handled by men in domestic and intimate settings.

A reference-materials page assembles reprinted erotic illustrations, foreign magazine imagery, and film stills, linking Japanese fetish culture to imported visual sources and cinema.

A photographic film-style scene titled “Procession” shows two women outdoors, with one apparently being bound or handled against a tree in a staged erotic tableau.

A photographic feature reproduces a bondage image sourced from an American magazine, showing a person tightly restrained and presented as an example of imported bondage imagery.

La Bonda’s third installment of “New Euro-American Style” presents an erotic illustration of two women posed in elaborate rope restraints against a stark geometric backdrop.

Fujiki Senji examines bondage and sadistic scenes in recent films, comparing their restraint devices, poses, violence, acting, visual composition, and emotional effects while discussing examples from Japanese cinema and contrasting sensational presentation wit...

A sensational report describes a “Moxa Queen” contest in which seven women are judged on beauty and their ability to endure moxa burns while restrained in painful positions, accompanied by an erotic illustration of the contestants tied to rails.

This fictional account follows an eccentric young man whose fetishistic interest in restraint shapes his job interview, office relationships, and increasingly coercive encounters with a female colleague.

Part three presents a patient’s extended record of tuberculosis hospitalization, describing overcrowded and poorly maintained wards, inadequate nursing and medical care, welfare dependence, poverty, and the varied hardships of long-term patients. The accompany...

An essay examines the growing presence of punishment-themed pictures in postwar popular magazines, discussing their visual styles, reader appeal, and relationship to commercial editorial culture.

A dark erotic story follows a young man drawn into encounters with rough male figures and increasingly coercive situations involving pursuit, captivity, physical punishment, humiliation, and sadistic control.

A first-person account describes the author’s enema fetish, including specialized irrigation equipment, large-volume enemas, repeated use, and the erotic sensations associated with the practice.

A former prisoner recalls his years in Japanese prisons, describing institutional routines, forced labor, contraband tobacco, discipline, escape attempts, and the complex camaraderie and hardships of life among inmates.

This installment reviews modern masochistic and related erotic representations in films, illustrated works, and international popular culture, discussing female domination, sadomasochistic imagery, violence, and the social meanings attached to such depictions.

A serialized grotesque erotic fantasy follows a couple whose lives become entangled with parasitic organisms, experimental drugs, bodily transformation, medical investigation, and increasingly disturbing forms of sexual and psychological domination.

A theatrical feature and plot synopsis for Honda Yoshirō’s Toho musical mystery “I Do Not Know,” depicting treasure-seeking intrigue, captivity, staged punishment, drowning, and elaborate underwater scenes.

Asō Kazuo’s extended open letter endorses and expands on Numa Shōzō’s domestication-fiction ideas, examining fantasies of treating humans as livestock through racial hierarchy, colonial and wartime violence, sexual domination, animal training, and representati...

A sensational crime report about a male domestic servant who adopted a feminine sexual role, formed a same-sex relationship with his employer, and became involved in a violent child-abduction and drowning case, framed through contemporary psychiatric and moral...

A sensational crime report recounts a teenage burglar’s invasion of a Tokyo home, where a sleeping girl was tied up and robbed before police pursued the offenders.

This extended critical essay examines masochism, sadism, and shifting power within two- and three-person relationships, using literary works, fictional scenarios, and psychological interpretation to discuss dominance, submission, jealousy, and sexual fantasy.

A report assembled from newspaper and educational sources discusses enemas through medical instruction, hospital and nursing contexts, and eroticized accounts involving intimate care and sexualized power relations.

Itō Seiu surveys historical and contemporary representations of women being bound, punished, or otherwise restrained, comparing ukiyo-e, illustrated erotica, film imagery, newspaper reports, and modern staged scenes. He discusses the visual construction of bod...

This essay surveys postwar Japanese detective-fiction magazines and their stories, tracing how sensational murders, grotesque erotic episodes, occult imagery, and elaborate illustrations shaped the genre. It also comments on representative writers and works, t...

A first-person confession by a homosexual man recounts his same-sex desires, fantasies, relationships, and struggles with social stigma and secrecy.

This serialized erotic narrative follows 保 and the women around him through adultery, seduction, jealousy, and increasingly coercive sexual encounters involving marital and domestic power struggles.

The local-report section surveys Sade’s literary and cultural significance, discusses translations and changing evaluations of his work, and includes reports and commentary on erotic films, performers, and fetish-oriented visual culture.

An autobiographical account traces the writer’s sadistic inclinations from childhood through family experiences, sexual development, and adult life in postwar Tokyo.

This illustrated historical erotic fiction follows the Black Empress as she exercises violent authority over servants, soldiers, and captives amid court intrigue, warfare, punishment, and sexual domination.

A serialized erotic-historical narrative follows two women in riding breeches who are captured amid wartime conflict and subjected to elaborate coercion, humiliation, torture, and ultimately female seppuku imagery.

A textual and visual reference feature outlines compositions for erotic female-seppuku illustrations, describing staged scenes involving female warriors, domestic and modern women, weapons, restraint, blood, and ritualized bodily display.

A lengthy reader-correspondence and editorial section presents letters about the magazine’s erotic fiction, illustrations, photography, bondage themes, and production, alongside publication notices, film and literature recommendations, reader requests, and edi...

A detailed survey of torture scenes in Japanese and foreign films, examining depictions of restraint, beating, hanging, burning, gagging, and other abuses while discussing their staging, acting, camera work, and dramatic effect.

Hara Tadamasa reviews several American films, including Backlash, The Swan, and White Bird, examining their depictions of sexually charged cruelty, female power, masochistic desire, and psychologically coercive relationships. The essay evaluates how acting, at...

Azuma Ichirō continues a critical study of detective fiction, discussing the construction of crime plots, clues, disguises, forensic investigation, criminal psychology, and the balance between rational detection and sensational or fantastic effects. The articl...

Kida Magarō reviews a theatrical production centered on the intertwined “Red Dish” and “Missing Dish” episodes, describing its cast, staging, dramatic conflicts, and scenes of pursuit, restraint, punishment, and threatened violence. The review treats the play...

A survey of recent films summarizes plots involving murder, captivity, punishment, supernatural menace, and other sensational or cruel situations, with particular attention to films featuring eroticized violence and restraint.

This extended essay examines human cruelty, sadism, and the relationship between cruelty and morality, then considers how eroticized cruelty is represented in literature, visual art, photography, theater, and film. It concludes by proposing a more systematic f...