Article Translations

Morimoto Aizō translates and explains selections from Johannes R. Birlinger's 1901 Das Grausame Weib, presenting historical and sexological cases of cruel women, especially mothers and teachers who inflict severe corporal punishment on children.

Yoshitsugu Ippei offers a first-person fetish confession describing his persistent erotic fascination with bloomers, his efforts to acquire and handle them, and the voyeuristic excitement and fantasies associated with the garments.

This illustrated essay examines the author’s fascination with women’s long boots, discussing the fetish’s psychological and historical associations, styles and materials, and its representation in imported fashion and erotic imagery.

A first-person illustrated feature describes photographing female models in posed bondage and outdoor settings, focusing on their reactions, willingness to repeat the sessions, and the photographer’s interpretation of their masochistic interest.

This serialized erotic suspense story follows Kenjiro and other characters whose fantasies of escape lead toward an isolated island, where loneliness, coercive power, captivity, and violent desire become intertwined. The narrative also reflects on alienation f...

A dramatic first-person account portrays a woman subjected to escalating domestic abuse and elaborate restraint, including rope binding, suspension, gagging, whipping, forced nudity, and other forms of corporal punishment, with the resulting psychological coll...

Itō Seiu’s October illustration depicts a crowded historical marketplace or fairground scene centered on a bound and punished woman, combining spectatorship, public display, and institutionalized violence.

This twelve-part illustrated erotic narrative follows a woman pursued by three men through encounters at the seaside, on a train, and in domestic or theatrical settings, escalating into deception, captivity, binding, and threatened punishment before a final co...

A staged bondage sequence titled “Monkey Game” depicts women restraining one another and using a cloth gag in an intimate role-play scenario.

A photographic practical feature demonstrates a variant hands-behind binding, using rope arrangements that secure the arms and body in a modified rear-restraint position.

This photographic portfolio stages rope-bound scenes with model Nakafuji Tamiko on a beach, showing several outdoor restraint positions at the water’s edge and on the shore.

In this staged episode of the Queen’s morning routine, a subordinate must remain behind her while she washes, taking care not to spill the cup of water and facing punishment for even a minor failure.

A kneeling male servant greets the smoking Queen by attending to and kissing her feet, after which the routine culminates in his release from service.

The male subordinate is used as the Queen’s footstool and must continue supporting her feet while she finishes reading the letters delivered to her.

A staged photographic feature depicts a woman training another person as an obedient “dog” through collaring, handling, and command-oriented physical discipline.

A photographic sequence presents outdoor wrestling and grappling between women, framed as playful but coercive domination and punishment without ropes.

This illustrated feature surveys erotic ukiyo-e-inspired fantasies, including scenes of sexual submission, supernatural snake imagery, and imaginative encounters drawn from historical Japanese print culture.

A staged photograph depicts a man preparing to tie his newlywed wife to a chair outdoors for a deliberately strange commemorative portrait.

An illustrated erotic scenario presents a newlywed woman in autumn dress and traditional settings undergoing playful restraint and display, accompanied by dialogue and changing poses.

A multi-page illustrated feature portrays women in elaborate traditional Japanese costumes being tied, posed, and restrained in theatrical indoor and outdoor scenes.

A cautionary illustrated feature depicts a woman bound and urges women to learn judo as a means of protecting themselves from violent attack.

A visual feature presents a gagging device for a “talkative woman” alongside photographs of a new style of women’s shoe.

A photographic album presents staged rope-binding poses of women, including standing, seated, and floor positions, as the first installment of a bondage portfolio.

A photographic portfolio presents multiple models in rope-bound poses, including blindfolded and tightly restrained configurations, as a continuation of a secret album.

A staged erotic photograph depicts a woman subjected to rope restraint amid whip imagery, presenting bondage as a fantasy tableau.

An illustrated scene from the picture story “Nightmare” portrays a distressed woman in a threatening restraint scenario, framing coercion and fear through erotic narrative imagery.

A visual feature juxtaposes an idealized portrait of youthful male beauty with a photograph of a consensual bondage scene in which a male participant is tied by the hands and ankles and subjected to an endurance-oriented prop-based pose.

This feature presents a woman relaxing in a yukata after bathing alongside eroticized bathhouse and moxibustion-room imagery drawn from historical visual culture.

An illustrated “Reiko tying-method classroom” experiments with floor-bound female figures in varied costumes and poses, presenting multiple rope-binding arrangements as stylized restraint studies.

A staged photographic study of female seppuku presents a woman posing with a blade at her abdomen, including scenes of simulated cutting and blood for an extreme erotic death fantasy.

This illustrated fetish feature focuses on the erotic display and handling of women’s feet, hands, and clothing, including images of a woman wiping a foot.

A staged photographic sequence depicts a woman physically overpowering and subduing a prone man in a scene centered on domination and submission.

A serialized erotic narrative follows a woman whose life is marked by wartime displacement, exploitation, captivity, and coercive sexual encounters, combining personal tragedy with bondage imagery.

A scrapbook-style collection presents and comments on erotic clippings and illustrations involving bondage, sexual scenarios, and an intense fascination with particular bodily features such as hair, mouths, and armpits.

This supernatural erotic narrative depicts the intertwined exploits of Madame, Ruri, and other characters amid transformation, domination, restraint, sexual violence, and grotesque insect imagery.

An essay examines erotic fascination with women’s armpits, discussing the visual and tactile qualities attributed to the body part and its place within fetishistic desire.

A first-person masochist’s notebook presents fantasies and episodes of female authority, humiliation, bondage, domestic submission, and eroticized discipline, accompanied by staged illustrations.

An essay explores the beauty and erotic appeal of boys through historical and modern examples, discussing youthful bodies, clothing, physical training, artistic representation, and changing cultural ideals of masculine appearance.

A serialized erotic-psychological essay by Itō Seiu combines conversational anecdotes about sexually unconventional women and artistic or entertainment circles with illustrated scenes of erotic observation and bodily experience.

A long illustrated first-person account describes the pleasures and suffering of repeated bondage, beatings, humiliation, exposure, and other punitive ordeals, including restraint in domestic and outdoor settings and increasingly elaborate rope techniques.