Article Translations

A nostalgic, eroticized account of Hakata’s child Yamakasa festival describes local customs, boys’ festival dress, and the narrator’s attraction to a beautiful young participant amid the community celebration.

This interview with Matsudaira Taeko, presented as an “artificial woman,” discusses feminine appearance, cross-gender presentation, bodily transformation, relationships, and the social reception of a gender-variant identity.

The second installment of a young woman’s diary follows her movement from loneliness and alienation into exploitative sexual encounters marked by coercion, humiliation, voyeuristic attention, and conflicted recollection.

A first-person confession recounts a married woman’s affair with another man while her husband suffers serious illness, focusing on secrecy, guilt, desire, and the strain placed on domestic life.

This autobiographical fantasy memoir traces the author’s lifelong fascination with apprentice boys, their distinctive work clothes, and the imagined pleasure of becoming or keeping such an apprentice, combining childhood memories with adult fetishistic reverie...

A memoir of attraction to animals describes the author’s early fascination with horses, cattle, and other animals, rural and military settings that intensified it, and later encounters with animal breeding and sexual practices.

An illustrated two-part feature contrasts therapeutic moxibustion on a woman’s back with punitive moxibustion applied to her buttocks, emphasizing the eroticized visual appeal of burn marks and her cries of pain during the procedure.

A ten-panel illustrated senryū feature depicts erotic and comic scenes associated with Yoshiwara pleasure quarters, including flirtation, sexual teasing, voyeurism, and playful restraint.

An erotic illustration by Kudaka Kazuhisa portrays a kimono-clad woman engaged in an ink-brushing or ink-blackening scene, emphasizing stylized Japanese beauty, costume, and fetishized visual presentation.

Itō Seiu’s illustrated erotic narrative presents a historical-period tale of sexual coercion, voyeuristic spectacle, punishment, and women subjected to elaborate restraint, including rope and snake imagery.

A photographic feature drawn from foreign magazines presents women in revealing outfits and staged views of lingerie, emphasizing the visual appeal of stockings, garter belts, slips, and underwear glimpsed beneath fashionable clothing.

This illustrated masterpiece collection depicts women subjected to elaborate suspension and inverted-hanging arrangements, with wrists, ankles, ropes, bars, and rings used to create dramatic aerial and reverse-suspension poses.

Morimoto Aizō introduces a Paul Kamm picture collection portraying cruel and dominant women in staged scenes of whipping, riding, restraint, and other coercive erotic tableaux, captioned with German titles.

A staged photograph shows a woman folding a restrained man over her lap and sitting on him while he supports himself with his head under her control.

A staged photograph depicts a woman standing over and trampling a prone male model, emphasizing his humiliation and her control, including through high-heeled footwear.

Two foreign photographs present elaborate restraint devices disguised as women’s clothing, including a dramatic full-body costume and a corset-and-skirt ensemble.

A staged erotic photograph foregrounds a woman’s prominently displayed buttocks, with corsetry, long gloves, half-boots, and visible underwear contributing to the fetishized presentation.

A photographic feature presents three posed views of a woman in a bathing suit at the Sayama boat-racing venue, combining outdoor scenery, spectatorship, and exhibitionist display.

An illustrated feature depicts women in stylized ice-skating scenes, including athletic poses, falls, stretching, and playful mishaps in revealing skating costumes.

A photographic portfolio presents women posed nude or lightly draped in gauze, emphasizing veiled bodies, backs, buttocks, and intimate rear-view compositions; accompanying text comments on the difficulty of reproducing the veil’s detail and promises improved...

An erotic illustration portrays a nude woman amid smaller nude figures, a threatening supernatural environment, and imagery suggestive of torment in a mythic or Buddhist-style hellscape.

A detailed erotic illustration depicts a hellish punishment scene with nude figures, an armed tormentor, and women gathered around a bound or afflicted male figure.

A photographic feature highlighting black leather gloves against a woman's pale skin, including scenes of a woman posed with chained ankles and gloved contact that emphasize tactile restraint and fetishized accessories.

Staged photographs depict a female-dominant “queen” using a submissive servant as a footstool and seat, with accompanying text describing the servant’s obedient, physically uncomfortable support during her activities.

Photographs and captions present a servant attending to a dominant woman in toilet and bathing-room settings, including washing her feet and being made to smell them.

A two-part illustrated feature depicts an acrobat being trained backstage and a “One-Inch Boy” using a rope to manipulate a suspended female performer. The scenes present theatrical discipline, bodily control, and staged bondage imagery.

A collection of Western-themed captivity illustrations portrays women subjected to harsh restraint, including leather punishment tied to a tree and a bound sheriff’s female assistant exposed to vigilante violence. The captions frame these scenes as sensational...

The “Fetishist’s Page” presents humorous and sensational photographs involving nose teasing, a voyeuristic view of a model’s feet, a blindfolded and bound model, and an enema scene, with captions inviting readers to inspect or guess details of the staged image...

A staged photographic feature presents two women posed together amid autumn grasses at a historic battlefield and lakeside setting.

Hayashi Yumio examines destructive and self-destructive impulses through Freud-influenced sexual psychology, questioning simplistic explanations of sadism, masochism, delinquency, and postwar social disorder. The essay argues that these behaviors must be under...

This prize-winning confession and experiential essay traces the writer’s fascination with women’s feet alongside rope restraint, combining personal memories, bondage scenarios, foot-focused imagery, and references to films and popular culture.

Mori Ta recounts childhood and adolescent experiences involving a hernia belt, medical examinations, bodily exposure, discipline, and the lasting fascination these encounters created, accompanied by illustrations of the remembered scenes.

A translated and annotated survey of historical anecdotes about cruel women, emphasizing female authority, domestic discipline, corporal punishment, and sadistic treatment of children, servants, and husbands.

A serialized erotic narrative in which a woman’s intense love and emotional dependence become entangled with coercion, bondage, beatings, humiliation, and repeated scenes of physical restraint, accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrations.

An illustrated feature surveys stories and staged depictions of actresses being tied, describing bondage scenes, restraint methods, and the erotic appeal of female captives in theatrical and cinematic contexts.

An illustrated essay examines the noses of four women presented as beautiful, comparing their shapes, proportions, and facial effects while discussing changing ideals of feminine beauty and cosmetic judgment.

A serialized first-person masochist’s notebook recounts fantasies and encounters involving submission, humiliation, service, and discipline under socially dominant women, framed through class, gender, and authority relations.

A letter addressed to Ibuki Misako discusses staged bondage photography, including breast restraints, nudity, rope work, poses, and the visual presentation of the female model’s body.

An illustrated historical erotic narrative portrays Oda Nobunaga’s cruelty, sexual domination, captivity, punishment, and encounters with performers and subjects amid Sengoku-era warfare and courtly life.

A reader-correspondence section presents readers’ and editors’ exchanges about masochistic and sadistic interests, erotic photographs, illustrations, posing, clothing, and requests for future magazine material.