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Kawai Itsuko examines depictions of female seppuku in early Japanese kusazōshi and related printed narratives, discussing recurring scenes of women’s self-disembowelment, loyalty, sacrifice, and dramatic eroticized violence.

An illustrated gallery presents numerous variations on restraint, including rope bondage, suspension, immobilizing devices, and restrictive positions, with Japanese labels identifying the techniques or apparatus.

Itō Seiu illustrates an alleged post-wedding custom in a Nagano village in which young men publicly strip and humiliate newlyweds at the village shrine, prompting the couple to vow mutual fidelity; the accompanying note acknowledges that the scene has been exa...

A continuation of the magazine’s “What Shall I Do?” feature depicts four elaborate punitive bondage scenes using frames, furniture, chains, poles, and suspended containers, while inviting readers to submit further ideas for unusual restraint devices and settin...

A photograph from Bizarre depicts a blindfolded woman seated with her arms restrained behind her and a rope wrapped around her ankles, accompanied by commentary on the unusual tying arrangement and the visual effect of her extended legs.

A photographic feature presents a woman whose wrists and arms are bound while chains linking her shoes restrict her stride, with the accompanying text emphasizing the contrast between Japanese-style restraint and the resulting masochistic shuffling movement.

An illustrated erotic narrative, “Night Visitor,” portrays a mysterious nighttime scene in which a man discovers a woman bound to a tree in a forest and watches as an ominous male figure approaches, blurring dream, voyeurism, and suspense.

An erotic illustration presents a sad clown-like figure and a woman in a surreal theatrical world of whips, balloons, and fantastical forms, framing the male performer as a subordinate figure whose suffering supports the spectacle.

A staged photographic sequence follows a masked and gloved woman overpowering another model, forcing her into submission and progressively restraining her with bindings.

This outdoor photographic sequence depicts a costumed woman attacking, dragging, tying, and disciplining a male captive among trees and tall grass, with captions organizing the episode as a progressive assault and restraint scenario.

A sequential illustrated campsite narrative follows Riko and Masao as their hiking trip turns into a series of playful but coercive erotic reversals involving outdoor restraint, disrobing, feeding, and punishment.

This photographic feature presents staged scenes of a woman performing or being associated with abdominal-cutting imagery, framed by reader correspondence from a self-described female abdominal-cutting enthusiast and editorial notes about submitted photographs...

A composed erotic photograph depicts a woman in high heels pressing her foot onto a prone man, emphasizing female control and the spectacle of male submission.

A staged erotic photograph depicts a man reduced to a “human horse,” carrying or serving a dominant woman and being made to run for her.

A photographic feature presents a kneeling male slave in a posture described as easy to strike, framed by a woman’s command to assume the position.

A staged scene titled “Necktie” depicts a submissive man kneeling at a woman’s feet while she controls him through his necktie.

An illustrated domestic bondage scene shows a woman concealed and restrained inside a wardrobe as an unsettling “keepsake” left behind for her returning husband.

An illustrated contributor-album scene depicts a woman secured in a wheeled chair or walker-like apparatus, emphasizing immobilization through an improvised restraint device.

This two-part illustrated bathhouse sequence presents a newlywed subjected to playful marital punishment, first positioned over a bathtub and then drenched under a shower while wearing an elaborate kimono.

A photographic feature presents an acrobatic dancer in a split pose alongside staged images depicting a young woman being progressively undressed, with the sequence intended to continue in a later issue.

A visual feature titled “The Man Who Picks Up a Whip” combines a photograph of a nude man bending to retrieve an object with an erotic historical painting of a woman dominating a fantastical male-bodied figure.

Takase Shinobu’s photographic feature depicts a nude woman bound and enveloped in chains, emphasizing elaborate bodily restraint as its central image and motif.

A photographic feature presents a woman restrained with her arms raised against a bedpost, illustrating bed-based rope restraint and positioning.

A staged two-woman photograph depicts an intimate rope-binding scene emphasizing tight wrapping and bodily restraint.

This essay examines sadistic and masochistic patterns as forms of group psychology rather than merely individual pathology, relating abuse, coercion, authority, military and religious discipline, labor conflict, and postwar social and economic conditions to th...

A first-person account of an obsessive interest in enemas, tracing the author’s childhood experiences, experiments with enema equipment, bodily sensations, secrecy, and continuing desire for the practice.

An erotic grotesque tale set around a company year-end gathering, in which female employees and a socially powerful employer become involved in staged performances, coercive sexualized punishment, bondage, humiliation, and sadistic spectacle.

A masochist’s reflective notebook linking women’s horseback riding and changing gender roles to fantasies of female authority, then developing these ideas through dreams, slave-wife scenarios, submissive service, and related reader material.

The tenth installment of Itō Seiu’s erotic serial follows coercive encounters involving staged spectacles, pursuit, captivity, and the use of ropes and other restraints, accompanied by sensational illustrations.

A long first-person erotic narrative recounts a woman’s formative and adult experiences of abuse, humiliation, domination, restraint, and conflicted desire, linking intimate violence with love and dependency.

A serialized narrative follows a boy’s adolescence in a coal-mining town, depicting schoolyard rivalries, group violence, coercive confrontations, and humiliating restraint amid difficult family and working-class circumstances.

This illustrated cultural essay interprets senryū poems as evidence of sadistic erotic practices and fantasies, especially those associated with Edo-period courtesans, attendants, and sexualized punishment.

A memoir-like account describes compulsory school sumo training, including strenuous physical drills, forced bouts, bodily pain, public nudity, and disciplinary methods shaped by authoritarian school culture.

An essay examines a fascination with seppuku and suicide through personal reflections, historical and modern dramatic representations, and eroticized images of abdominal cutting and self-destruction.

A richly illustrated feature discusses and reenacts historical Japanese bondage scenes in which women are restrained by several men, describing costumes, settings, rope techniques, and staged photographic compositions.

A narrative-practical feature presents the use of three moxibustion points in a marital bondage and punishment scenario, combining diagrams, fictionalized domestic episodes, and detailed descriptions of the resulting sensations and procedures.

Saji Kōsuke presents a first-person scrapbook-style account of encounters and fantasies involving female sadism, bondage, restraint, and sensational erotic situations, framed as collected personal experiences and observations.

Asō Kazuo’s serialized fantasy depicts the narrator’s imagined “seventh heaven” through grotesque and erotic scenarios involving obese bodies, humiliation, restraint, voyeuristic spectacle, and unusual sexualized punishments.

Shichifuku Shihei offers an eroticized comparative study of women’s wrestling beauty, evaluating wrestlers’ physiques, breasts, buttocks, hair, eyes, facial features, strength, and competitive performance through prose and silhouette illustrations.

A historical erotic narrative set in an Edo-period domain depicts peasants crushed by feudal taxation and abuses who organize resistance, endure interrogation and corporal punishment, and ultimately confront the authorities, accompanied by dramatic illustratio...