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A profile of nude model Kaga Rieko, combining biographical commentary with staged studio and outdoor photographs depicting rope-bound, blindfolded, and otherwise restrained poses; a second model, Sugawa Reiko, is also presented in kinbaku scenes.

A documentary-style survey of Meiji-period newspaper reports concerning foreign settlements, prostitution, trafficking, domestic abuse, wife-selling, sexual exploitation, sensational crimes, and the era’s criminal punishments, with commentary on their historic...

A translated and illustrated excerpt from Johannes R. Birlinger’s 1901 work on the cruel treatment of women, presenting historical and ethnographic examples of wife and servant abuse, flogging, confinement, forced labor, and patriarchal domination.

A serialized Edo-period erotic fantasy follows the violent exploits of the transforming monk Shichibake Kozō and associated characters, featuring pursuit, abduction, deception, sexual coercion, and elaborate rope restraints and punishments. Illustrated scenes...

A substantial reader-mail section presents letters responding to the magazine’s fiction, illustrations, photographs, bondage and erotic features, while also recording requests, criticisms, personal disclosures, and suggestions for future issues and reader part...

A catalog-style guide advertises newly available erotic photograph and illustration booklets, especially works featuring female nudity, abdominal cutting imagery, bondage, restraint, punishment, and fetishized bodies, with titles, creators, formats, and prices...

An editorial marking the magazine’s resumption discusses its interrupted publication, rising printing and distribution costs, circulation difficulties, and plans to sustain regular issues through reader support and improved editorial content.

A publishing-information section lists the contents of earlier Kitan Club issues, invites readers to submit fiction, essays, reports, photographs, illustrations, and ideas, and provides subscription, back-issue, pricing, and publisher-distribution details.

An erotic illustration depicts a woman posed in a doorway with her raised arms and body apparently secured by straps or restraints.

An erotic illustration presents a commanding woman holding reins attached to two kneeling, collared men, emphasizing a spectacle of female control and male submission.

Two sensual illustrations portray topless women reclining and partially submerged in water amid floral motifs, patterned fabrics, and dreamlike aquatic surroundings.

A photographic bondage feature presents women in black clothing restrained with bands and coverings, emphasizing tightly bound seated and reclining poses.

A pose-focused photographic feature shows masked and restrained women adopting varied kneeling, crouching, and seated positions, with captions identifying the models.

A photographic sequence contrasts a sideways glance with a prone pose, including outdoor and studio scenes of women bound with rope and cloth.

A photographic scene shows a woman bound with rope while reclining outdoors in the morning sunlight.

A photographic portrait presents a woman in kimono seated in a restrained pose, emphasizing traditional dress and rope bondage.

This illustrated erotic narrative follows an actress traveling through rural Japan, performing and recounting staged bondage encounters involving rope restraint, theatrical performance, and relationships with spectators and companions.

A serialized historical erotic narrative set amid wartime mobilization, following soldiers and women through coercive encounters, captivity, and sexualized restraint.

A marital SM narrative in which a domineering wife subjects her husband to escalating humiliation, physical punishment, and coercive domestic discipline, illustrated through staged scenes.

An illustrated erotic account presenting a man’s methods of binding, controlling, and observing women, with detailed scenes of rope restraint, imposed poses, and voyeuristic display.

An essay on women’s underwear examines the author’s fascination with garments such as corsets, girdles, stockings, and brassieres, combining personal fetish experience with observations on changing fashion, social attitudes, and erotic spectatorship.

A serialized erotic narrative follows Yukari through coercive encounters involving domination, humiliation, punishment, bondage, and escalating sexual control by male characters, including scenes centered on an enema device.

Hayashi Yumio critically examines contemporary research on “inversion” (homosexuality), questioning simple distinctions between normality and abnormality and weighing innate disposition, psychological factors, social environment, ethics, and cultural change. T...

An eroticized lesbian-sex feature presents imagined or dramatized encounters between women through suggestive dialogue, intimate scenarios, and discussions of sexual roles, desire, and bodily pleasure. Its tone combines sexual fantasy with a permissive treatme...

A serialized erotic script follows artists, photographers, and women through staged encounters involving seduction, exhibition, voyeuristic photography, coercive posing, nudity, and bondage-like situations. The dialogue-driven narrative repeatedly turns women’...

A serialized erotic fantasy depicts a woman subjected to increasingly elaborate restraint, torture, and ritualized female seppuku, accompanied by graphic staged illustrations and procedural descriptions.

This serialized SM fiction follows a troubled love triangle involving adultery, jealousy, captivity, sexual humiliation, and escalating sadistic punishment imposed on women by male and female characters.

Translated from a 1901 German illustrated work, this historical account presents cases of allegedly cruel women—especially a female teacher whose disciplinary practices become abusive—through descriptions of corporal punishment, sexualized cruelty, and institu...

The fifth installment examines Japanese hair practices and hairstyles across historical periods, linking elaborate coiffures, theatrical conventions, and hair-binding imagery to changing ideals of beauty and eroticized restraint, with numerous accompanying ill...

A newspaper-style report describes the seppuku suicide of a young man, including the circumstances of the act, medical response, and subsequent death.

The second installment surveys Meiji-era newspaper stories involving gender, sexuality, marriage, domestic conflict, cross-dressing, violence, and sensational social incidents, commenting on what these reports reveal about changing sexual and social norms.

A film commentary examines bondage, captivity, punishment, and sexually charged performances in Japanese and foreign cinema, discussing actors, staging, camera work, and the appeal of restraint imagery.

A first-person account of ten months in prison describes captivity, surveillance, disciplinary rules, graded privileges, forced training-factory labor, inspections, punishment, and the routines of institutional life.

This sexological essay, framed partly as a response to a letter from “M,” considers sexual desire, gendered behavior, evolutionary and social explanations, and changing ideas about masculinity, femininity, and sexual freedom.

Yamada Masami reflects on thirty years of observing and pursuing women’s “abnormal” sexuality, centering on a married couple whose experiments with appearance, flirtation, jealousy, and sexual disclosure reshape their relationship. The essay presents these dev...

This award-winning erotic narrative depicts Taeko being dressed in a diaper cover, restrained in uncomfortable positions, and subjected to escalating bodily discomfort, sweating, urination, and humiliation. The story emphasizes the fetishistic clothing and sen...

A reader-centered confession and exchange discusses a fetishistic fixation on women’s underwear, including worn or soiled garments, bodily scent, and the desire to wear or handle them. The piece combines personal testimony with the participatory advice-and-res...

Kurihara Shin reflects on the magazine’s literary and visual representations of sadism, bondage, and erotic fantasy, defending imaginative illustration while comparing it with fiction, film, censorship, and readers’ expectations. The essay also comments on art...

An essay on sadism as spectacle, drawing on freak shows, popular entertainment, historical anecdotes, wartime memories, and the author’s reflections on the public’s fascination with staged bodily suffering and grotesquerie.

A photographic and autobiographical discussion of producing staged bondage images, describing models, studio arrangements, rope and cloth restraints, poses, lighting, and the aesthetic presentation of bound bodies.