Article Translations

Yumaki Akira reflects on ideas and memories behind sadistic fiction and illustration, discussing wartime recollections, visual composition, literary source material, and possibilities for erotic film and publishing.

A personal account explores the erotic allure of corsets, focusing on tight lacing, body shaping, clothing, and the intimate excitement produced by wearing and fastening the garment.

A historical feature surveys unusual rules and anecdotes surrounding ritual disembowelment and assistant execution, accompanied by an eroticized illustration of a restrained woman.

Haruki Shun'ya presents an annotated scrapbook of newspaper and magazine clippings, fiction, and illustrations concerning masochism, bondage, female dominance, punishment, fetishism, and related sexual subcultures.

A sadistic fantasy depicts a beautiful woman being abducted, restrained, tortured with knives, and dismembered, presenting graphic violence as an eroticized imaginative spectacle.

A narrative centers on a wife who is deliberately trained into submissiveness and humiliation through her husband’s controlling demands, punishment, and sexualized discipline.

A dated abuse diary records a husband’s escalating domination of his wife through verbal degradation, corporal punishment, restraint, gagging, forced poses, and domestic sexual control, including episodes surrounding pregnancy and childbirth.

A serialized fictional diary depicts a husband coercing, restraining, humiliating, and punishing his wife within a domestic setting.

This section combines a critical review of modern masochist art, film, and illustration with a long fictional account of domestic restraint, staged punishment, and erotic humiliation.

A literary and cultural section discusses fetish writing and imagery, presents the fictional account “Pig Hunting,” and examines representations and techniques of female body bondage in Japanese and Western traditions.

A miscellany of reader-submitted material discusses female bondage and scenes from bondage films, alongside a first-person account of coercive physical training and restraint involving a teacher and student. The contributions combine personal confession, bonda...

An illustrated series examines supposed character and fortune associations of different navel forms, then surveys varied forms of women’s hairdressing from historical Japanese styles to modern film and popular-media fashions. The discussion treats bodily appea...

This editorial collection presents reader-submitted erotic anecdotes, including episodes of voyeuristic observation, sexual curiosity, and encounters in or around public and domestic toilets, with commentary framing them as materials for the magazine’s reader...

A staged photo-story presents a daughter-in-law describing sustained abuse by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, including bondage, beatings, humiliation, and other forms of domestic coercion.

This sensational wartime-themed photo narrative depicts the punishment and abuse of a woman in a Nazi setting, combining historical atrocity imagery with scenes of physical restraint and assault.

A substantial notices and correspondence section promotes special issues, photographic collections, and mail-order materials while presenting reader letters, editorial replies, submissions, and publication announcements.

A reader-correspondence and editorial notice addresses the discontinuation of Seppuku Gahō, expressing appreciation for the magazine’s erotic writing and imagery, acknowledging publication constraints and delays, and inviting continued submissions of stories,...

A first-person account describes a visit to a female physician whose acupuncture examination and treatment gradually become an eroticized, disciplinary encounter involving undressing, needles, bodily exposure, and compelled postures.

This erotic narrative follows Ranako and Yoshio through an escalating regimen of punishment and fetishistic training, featuring ropes, restrictive clothing, staged scenarios, role reversal, and elaborate bodily discipline.

Presented as a confessional study, this essay surveys the navel as a site of bodily fascination and erotic experimentation, combining anecdotal practices, folk and medical explanations, and discussion of abdominal sensations and treatment.

A first-person narrative follows a man’s lifelong fixation on being buried and physically immobilized in sand, culminating in an intense encounter with laborers who enact his unusual desire. The story presents bodily restriction as a source of psychological an...

This erotic fantasy depicts a young man drawn into the orbit of a striking woman whose beauty, mystery, and commanding behavior gradually turn fascination into coercion, humiliation, and bodily torment.

A psychologically charged narrative portrays the evolving bond between an older sister and her younger brother, combining childhood physical contests and discipline with incestuous longing, possessiveness, and adult erotic tension.

A first-person confessional memoir recounts the narrator’s fascination with and involvement in the secret binding and punishment of an older sister, later connecting the experience to the narrator’s own erotic imagination and conduct.

An erotic fictional narrative follows Kaori and Tanaka through marriage, psychological domination, repeated rope bondage, punishment, and shifting memories of desire, jealousy, and wartime-era social life.

A serialized historical novel set amid Sengoku-era conflicts in Aizu, it follows rival warlords, shifting alliances, military campaigns, and the violent fates of those caught in the struggle, including women entangled in political and erotic power relations.

An editorial feature presenting and commenting on submitted manuscripts, including excerpts and discussion of unusual erotic and supernatural writing, while inviting further contributions from readers.

A fictional first-person monologue in which a woman recounts marital suspicion, a troubling attraction involving a snake, and increasingly explicit bodily and sexual preoccupations, framed as an exploration of abnormal desire and behavior.

An erotic fiction narrative follows Maki and others through escalating scenes of rope bondage, coercion, punishment, and sadistic sexual control, framed as a dramatic story of a woman who laughs under torture.

A reader-correspondence section presents letters and editorial responses concerning the magazine’s fiction, photography, bondage themes, reader expectations, submissions, and the continuing development of its specialist readership.

The second part of Rōko Matsui’s serialized erotic novel follows Misako’s troubled relationship with Natsuo through jealousy, marriage, betrayal, coercive control, and increasingly violent bondage encounters. The narrative combines romantic melodrama with capt...

Ichirō Haruta presents an account of ten months in a postwar prison, describing confinement, prison routines, illness, institutional discipline, fellow inmates, and emotionally charged visits from a wife. The piece emphasizes the psychological strain and socia...

Nobuo Takagi’s first-person account explores erotic fascination with bodily excretions, odors, taste, and medical examination through encounters involving cabaret workers and other women. It treats taboo bodily sensations as a form of fetishistic experimentati...

A dark fictional account of a son subjected to escalating paternal violence, humiliation, and physical control until domestic submission becomes nearly absolute. The narrative presents coercive family authority as a grotesque form of bondage.

A fictional horror narrative set around a theatrical “house of strange tales,” where visitors watch elaborate tableaux of torture, punishment, hanging, murder, and supernatural terror performed by costumed actors. The story emphasizes the disturbing relationsh...

A historical erotic fantasy set in the palace of King Jie, depicting courtly excess, sexual coercion, captivity, punishment, and the domination of women within an ornate Chinese-imperial setting.

An erotic literary narrative in which a seemingly ordinary encounter gradually develops into an unsettling sequence of intoxication, domination, restraint, and sadistic sexual play involving a woman named Yukiko.

A diary-like literary work centered on obsessive enema practices, rectal irrigation, bodily control, and fetishistic fantasy, supplemented by pseudo-medical reflections on the history and psychology of the practice.

A historical erotic crime narrative follows Oume as she is accused, captured, and subjected to escalating sadistic punishment, culminating in her being nailed into a box in a crucifixion-like ordeal.

Presented as an intimate letter, a female sadist addresses her slave and describes the emotional authority, discipline, and erotic control she exercises over him.