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A photographic model introduction presents Michiko Hanazaka, a long-haired woman from Kyushu, posing for the editorial office in a dark dress while bound with rope in several seated positions.

An illustrated erotic bondage scene presents a young woman in a swimsuit straddling a specially designed pipe horse, with her hands and feet fixed in place and the reader invited to imagine the apparatus in motion.

A photographic portrait titled “The Staring Woman” shows Terumi Saga gazing toward readers while tightly wrapped and restrained in a checkered garment, with a caption emphasizing the varied impressions the image may produce.

An erotic illustration depicts a young woman in revealing attire riding and controlling a horse with reins in a stylized outdoor fantasy scene.

Kaoru Fujimi surveys scenes of torment, captivity, binding, assault, and eroticized suffering in modern popular and historical Japanese literature, comparing narrative descriptions with accompanying illustrations and considering their sensational and erotic ef...

Norio Kotake argues for reviving wakashū kabuki through a proposed young performers’ troupe, discussing its historical significance, recruitment and training, costumes, gendered performance, and the theatrical appeal of youthful actors in female roles.

In this autobiographical continuation, Nako Kadota describes an intense preoccupation with self-love, bodily appearance, clothing, erotic fantasy, and painful self-directed experiments, presenting autoerotic desire as both psychological confession and masochis...

A prison-guard memoir recounting ten months of work and life around prison wards, including institutional routines, inmate personalities, criminal histories, disciplinary practices, parole interviews, and anxieties surrounding release and rehabilitation.

An essay presents moxibustion scars as a source of erotic fascination, combining reflections on pain, endurance, bodily marking, and sadistic desire with illustrated fantasies of women subjected to ritualized burning and restraint.

Part four of a serialized erotic novel follows Masaki, Misako, Teruko, and Shōko through scenes of deception, drinking, theatrical display, and escalating rope bondage in which women are coerced, restrained, and subjected to sadistic control.

A practical guide to improving boys’ physical development through a body-building machine, describing medical checks, exercise routines, massage, hydrotherapy, adjustable apparatus, and training precautions.

A collector’s miscellany combining discussions of disgust, sexual abnormality, and sensational anecdotes with literary-biographical essays on Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky, linking artistic creativity to psychological suffering, sexuality, and spiritua...

A theater essay examines staged torment scenes, detailing the use of ropes, poles, bindings, lighting, movement, and multiple performers while debating realism, spectacle, and audience response.

A serialized erotic tale set in a hospital follows Kajii, a gravely ill patient, and the narrator’s obsessive fascination with the attractive attendant Tamako, whose flirtations, gossip, jealousy, and bodily humiliations create an increasingly sadomasochistic...

In this autobiographical recollection, a man traces his early erotic fascination with sashes, clothing, male bodies, bathing, and the exposed or restrained figure from childhood through adolescence. Memories of boys’ bodies and private acts gradually become a...

This editorial news-and-magazine feature discusses a Muromachi-period love story in which religious devotion, male-male attachment, jealousy, and erotic obsession are entangled, drawing on classical literary and historical sources to show how the relationship...

A fictional SM narrative in which characters engage in escalating restraint, humiliation, and sadistic bodily control, culminating in a violent and highly coercive encounter.

An editorial anthology of submitted manuscripts and literary fragments, combining erotic narrative excerpts with commentary and glimpses of the magazine’s manuscript-selection and reader-submission culture.

A serialized bondage narrative centered on a psychologically charged relationship between a male customer and a female entertainer, depicting repeated rope restraint, coercion, humiliation, and the protagonist’s fixation on bondage.

A fictionalized psychological account explores a woman’s fantasies of ritual suicide and bodily injury, framing seppuku through eroticized scenes of fear, surrender, and death.

In this first-person fetish confession, a woman describes her growing fascination with black silk underwear, nylon stockings, and the erotic excitement produced by purchasing, handling, viewing, and wearing them.

This serialized SM fiction follows espionage and international-conflict intrigue involving the fictional Y country, as a woman is captured and subjected to coercive interrogation, mechanical restraint, punishment, and sexualized bodily examination.

An eyewitness-style wartime account describes the death of a woman attached to a Japanese military unit, recounting her isolation, sexual vulnerability, coercion, and eventual suicide amid violence on the front. The narrative combines sensational testimony wit...

An illustrated erotic feature titled “Humiliation of Beauty” depicts a glamorous woman subjected to degrading physical treatment by a man, emphasizing beauty, domination, and humiliation.

This translated comic episode, “Captive Island,” follows a blonde woman bound to a tree on an uncharted South Pacific island as a panther attacks and a jungle man approaches, ending at a dramatic cliffhanger.

A photographic pose collection featuring Saga Michiko presents staged scenes of a model bound in domestic interiors with rope, including seated and floor-based restrained poses.

An atmospheric erotic scene set in a silent midnight hall depicts a woman in a revealing costume posed with a long staff, accompanied by prose describing a pale figure emerging in the darkness.

This illustrated fantasy presents a convent’s hidden chamber where nuns oversee the ritualized restraint and exposure of a bound man, combining religious imagery with captivity and erotic spectacle.

Across serialized pages, Fujimi Kaoru surveys how popular literature and related visual media depict torment, restraint, punishment, captivity, and sensational erotic violence, comparing recurring scenes and techniques across novels, magazines, films, and illu...

The third installment follows a young woman whose bondage during a dance lesson develops into increasingly coercive encounters involving restraint, humiliation, voyeurism, romantic jealousy, and marriage-related tensions.

Ogata Afumi’s dialogue compares erotic imagery and conventions from the Meiji and Shōwa periods, using illustrated scenes and historical commentary to discuss changing representations of women, sexuality, fashion, domestic life, and erotic performance.

This serialized confinement narrative depicts a prisoner’s ten months in a postwar penal institution, including inmate hierarchy, surveillance, escape attempts, crime investigations, parole procedures, and the pressures of life under custody.

A roundup of local newspaper and magazine reports recounts drug-related incidents, assaults, suspicious behavior, and other sensational crimes in postwar Tokyo neighborhoods.

Kadota Nako offers an extended first-person account of self-love, describing mirror-gazing, bodily self-admiration, makeup, fantasy, and the psychological intensity of narcissistic erotic desire.

A reader-question-and-answer column discusses constipation, bowel habits, and enema use, combining practical health guidance with detailed consideration of eroticized bodily stimulation.

A supernatural historical erotic narrative about a woman impregnated by a Kurama demon and subjected to pursuit, captivity, coercive restraint, and sadistic abuse.

A sadistic dream narrative depicts a woman being captured, restrained, humiliated, and physically tormented through coercive erotic control.

A historical war-period erotic narrative follows women and soldiers amid flight, pursuit, capture, sexual violence, restraint, and brutal battlefield reversals.

A female sadist addresses her slave in an intimate letter, recounting commands, punishment, humiliation, bodily discipline, and expectations of obedience within their relationship.

A fictional sadomasochistic narrative involving a woman, an adversarial male figure, coercive encounters, and elaborate scenes of restraint, punishment, and psychological domination.