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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.

A reader-correspondence section collecting accounts and questions about female homosexuality, lesbian desire, gender presentation, and related erotic experiences.

Readers exchange detailed personal accounts and practical observations concerning enemas, intestinal cleansing, enema devices, bodily sensations, and the erotic use of enemas.

Correspondence discussing abdominal-cutting imagery and fantasies, including requests for and descriptions of scenes involving female bodies and cross-dressing.

Front matter and house notices announce contest results and forthcoming features, list the issue’s contents and contributors, solicit reader submissions and photographs, and provide subscription, mail-order, and publication information for Kitan Club.

A visual survey presents twelve forms of contemporary Japanese binding, showing restrained figures in varied rope-bound positions with brief handwritten labels.

Itō Seiu describes an Edo-period Yoshiwara punishment scene in which a courtesan is subjected to severe restraint and “fire punishment,” framed as warmth during the cold twelfth lunar month.

An illustrated instructional feature demonstrates several floor-based and household restraint arrangements, depicting bound bodies, ropes, and positional variations in domestic settings.

An illustrated erotic sequence depicts a woman subjected to broom-based torment while restrained in a series of posed bondage and punishment scenes.

A photographic feature presents a masked woman with her hands and feet tightly bound, emphasizing immobilization and sensory restriction.

A photographic fetish feature focuses on a pair of tall lace-up woven boots worn by a white woman, presenting the footwear and feet as eroticized visual objects.

An erotic illustration titled “Spider” depicts a woman entwined with or threatened by a large spider-like figure in a dark, fantastical scene.

“River Imp,” by Seki, is an erotic fantasy illustration based on the Japanese kappa folklore motif, showing a woman in a surreal encounter with a river creature.

Morimoto Aizō presents an illustrated and photographic survey of “cruel women,” discussing Western images of dominant women who humiliate, punish, control, or otherwise overpower men in staged erotic scenes.

A staged domestic-service scene shows a woman using a submissive man as a living stand while she handles a washbasin and prepares to apply makeup.

A photographic sequence depicts a dominant woman trampling and pressing her feet against a submissive man, presenting the act as a playful but humiliating queen-and-servant scene.

The first “chair” service exercise presents a woman seated or supported above a kneeling man in a shoulder-ride posture, who must maintain the position until released by his dominant mistress.

A photographic feature depicts a woman secured in a compact shrimp-style bondage posture as part of a punishment or service scene.

An erotic illustration presents a newlywed domestic bondage fantasy in which a husband restrains his bride while attempting to take her temperature.

An erotic illustration depicts a newlywed domestic scene in which a husband approaches his resisting wife with an enema apparatus.

An erotic illustration presents a man and woman modeling an elaborate outfit incorporating straps, belts, and other restrictive elements.

An erotic illustration depicts a private-room scene in which a woman is held and restrained with ropes and chains by a male partner.

This illustrated feature presents a punishment platform and related surrealistic scenes of figures secured with ropes, wires, and specialized restraint furniture.

A photographic feature presents a young male wearing a fundoshi, alongside staged images of undressing associated with women’s underwear fetishism.

A staged outdoor sequence depicts models pursuing, knocking down, binding, trampling, and striking a restrained subject in a wooded setting.

A step-by-step photographic sequence demonstrates outdoor rope restraint, including tying a subject to a pine tree, manipulating posture, and completing the bound pose.