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A first-person prison memoir recounts ten months of confinement, describing inmate life, discipline, surveillance, labor, medical inspection, social hierarchy, and the psychological effects of incarceration.

A sensational account reconstructs the violent relationship and death of O-Fumi, a woman whose abuse and trampling of her husband culminate in grotesque self-destruction and death.

The second installment of Itō Seiu’s historical erotic narrative follows theatrical and urban figures through schemes involving women, rope restraint, punishment, and staged displays of bondage, accompanied by numerous illustrations.

A translated and heavily discussed account of “cruel women” surveys female violence and corporal punishment, focusing especially on women teachers disciplining children and domestic authority exercised through beating and humiliation.

A first-person erotic report recounts a prolonged encounter involving coercive sexual play, verbal commands, and varied forms of binding and positional restraint, accompanied by staged illustrations.

This autobiographical confession recalls the author’s adolescent fascination with boys’ bodies, perspiration, swimwear, athletic uniforms, and the excitement of watching and imagining their physical development.

The author reflects on three remembered encounters with women wearing traditional waist wraps, focusing on their clothing, bodily presentation, movement, and the lingering erotic force of these observations.

In this first-person confession, a young woman describes her growing desire to expose her body, her secret conversations with I-san, and a seaside episode in which the possibility of being seen intensifies her excitement. She then recounts I-san’s forceful, se...

A first-person erotic narrative follows a financially desperate young man who becomes a servant at a chicken shop and is subjected to escalating labor, humiliation, corporal abuse, and sexual coercion by domineering women. His enforced submission develops into...

A sensational historical account of the 1907 Beipu Incident in Japanese-ruled Taiwan, describing colonial administration, taxation, anti-colonial mobilization, armed clashes, and reprisals against local residents.

A first-person confession by a married woman describing repeated abdominal abuse and coercive sexual encounters with her husband, framed through shame, suffering, secrecy, and eventual medical attention.

An erotic essay examines the use and sensations of breast bars and menstrual belts, combining body-part fetishism with personal experimentation and discussion of specialized sexual implements.

A first-person confession describes an extraordinary masochist’s pursuit of extreme physical and psychological sensations, including dangerous work environments, self-bondage, immersion in mud, and fantasies of punishment and helplessness.

This illustrated serialized adventure follows Yuriko through abduction, pursuit, confinement, and threatening sexual encounters involving several men in remote island, cave, and outdoor settings.

A narrative of institutional and dormitory life portrays jealous male youths whose same-sex attraction to a desirable companion generates rivalry, possessiveness, coercion, and violent disciplinary encounters.

A woman’s autobiographical letter recounts lifelong hemorrhoid problems, repeated enemas, medical examinations, and the gradual transformation of treatment-related sensations into anal erotic experimentation and sexual self-reflection.

A historical erotic narrative portrays Oda Nobunaga as a violently contradictory hero amid Sengoku-era warfare, political betrayal, captivity, humiliation, executions, and sadistic reversals of power.

An erotic reportage feature follows a Japanese female interpreter at an international sports-massage event, where cross-cultural massage, nudity, hypnosis, and staged bodily demonstrations turn professional performance into spectacle and sexualized submission.

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows Toyokichi, Murata, and their associates through encounters at Osaka railway stations, lodging houses, debts, theft, police suspicion, disguises, and sexual intrigue. The story combines sensational plot developments w...

This illustrated, serialized notebook takes the form of a satirical dialogue between a masochist and a skeptical interlocutor, ranging across masochism, slavery, domination, evolutionary fantasies, extraterrestrial societies, insects, bodily functions, and hum...

A first-person confession recounts a nighttime burglary in which a family is confronted at gunpoint, bound, gagged, and restrained while the intruders search the house, emphasizing the narrator’s fear, helplessness, and vivid memory of the assault.

An illustrated essay discusses lesbian relationships and male same-sex practices, combining arguments about homosexuality, marriage, social acceptance, and sexual behavior with speculative psychological and cultural commentary.

A pseudo-sexological feature explores the so-called A-sensation through extended discussions of female anatomy, sexuality, pregnancy, childbirth, bodily openings, and anal pleasure, supplemented by anatomical diagrams and fantastical erotic illustrations.

A historical account of the 1891 Ōtsu Incident, in which Tsuda Sanzo attacked Crown Prince Nicholas, tracing the immediate investigation, trial, public reaction, and later interpretations of the event.

A woman’s correspondence describes her sadistic feelings toward weaker people and recounts coercive, humiliating, and physically abusive treatment in intimate relationships, while reflecting on the psychology and social meaning of her impulses.

An erotic narrative follows a man and Tomiko as their intimate experimentation centers on enemas, anal stimulation, bodily control, and the imagined cultivation and expulsion of intestinal worms, accompanied by erotic illustrations and pseudo-medical detail.

A practical illustrated guide explains how a person can tie their own hands and body in various positions, using ropes, furniture, knots, and staged self-release techniques. It emphasizes repeated practice and precautions for escaping the restraints.

A photographic feature presents nude studies centered on the breasts, nipples, abdomen, and navel, with notes on models, lighting, poses, and photographic composition.

A first-person erotic dedication to Hanamura-sensei combines admiration of her writing with an elaborate fantasy of female beauty, bathing, bodily display, and fetishistic scenarios; the surrounding pages also include an open reader letter requesting further t...

A film-and-magazine communications column reviews recent Japanese films and related erotic publications, emphasizing staged scenes of female captivity, cutting, bondage, sadistic violence, and sensationalized erotic spectacle. It also comments on magazine illu...

An illustrated dialogue and narrative feature explores rope bondage, erotic restraint, gendered desire, secrecy, and marital power, combining discussion of bondage imagery with serialized fiction involving island isolation, sexual control, punishment, and inti...

A ten-scene erotic illustration feature depicting women in varied fetishized situations, including rope restraint, bodily display, discipline, and attention to the feet and legs.

A staged erotic image presents a bride bound to a wooden frame in a traditional Japanese interior, emphasizing ceremonial costume, immobilization, and visual spectacle.

Itō Seiu discusses and illustrates a sideshow curiosity involving a beautiful woman without hands who performs everyday crafts with her feet, placing the spectacle within older traditions of bodily marvels and public display.

Illustrated kinbaku scenes show women restrained with ropes in a traditional Japanese room, including a floor-bound pose and a suspended position.

An illustrated sadistic fantasy depicts a woman secured to a chair in elaborate leather restraints beside a black cat, with accompanying text emphasizing the mixture of Japanese atmosphere and foreign mechanical devices and invoking the Marquis de Sade.

This illustrated “room” feature presents a woman immobilized in an elaborate leather-and-metal restraint system, with chains and other equipment described as part of a purpose-built sadistic apparatus.

A feature introducing images from foreign fetish publications, especially BIZARRE, comments on unfamiliar restraint devices and contrasts them with Japanese bondage customs and aesthetics.

A photographic portfolio presents women posed in elaborate rope, chain, belt, and apparatus restraints, including full-body bondage, immobilized postures, and scenes of sensory or physical restriction.

Illustrated snow-country vignettes and accompanying erotic drawings depict nude women skiing and engaging in playful winter scenes, combining comic storytelling with exhibitionistic fantasy.