Article Translations

A historical study of seppuku that traces its ritual and social development and examines how suicide, execution, and related scenes influenced Meiji and earlier Japanese fiction, drama, and illustration.

A translated and contextualized selection from a 1901 German illustrated work portraying cruel women who punish, torture, humiliate, and sometimes kill men and enslaved or subordinate figures.

A first-person confession recounts imprisonment under female guards, describing regimented scoring, physical punishment, humiliation, restraint, and the narrator’s fear and submission.

This illustrated survey examines scenes of punishment, bondage, humiliation, and sexualized cruelty appearing in modern Japanese literature, reproducing literary excerpts alongside interpretive commentary.

A surreal erotic dream narrative follows a male protagonist who is repeatedly bound, disciplined, and tormented by women in elaborate rope and restraint scenarios, accompanied by fetish illustrations.

Ōji Tarō offers a first-person account of his lifelong fascination with acrobatic contortions, describing childhood encounters with performers, strenuous self-training, bodily pain, and the sensual gratification he derives from extreme flexibility.

This fictional narrative follows Maki and her male companion through an unstable relationship of seduction, jealousy, bondage, physical punishment, and alternating control, culminating in increasingly coercive scenes of restraint and torment.

Kishimoto Seiryū documents an erotic experiment in which a man is dressed as a woman and subjected to elaborate binding, suspension, and corporal punishment, accompanied by staged photographic illustrations and references to earlier Japanese restraint imagery.

An autobiographical-style masochist’s notebook combines anecdotes about domestic servants and elite households with reflections on masochistic desire, bodily impurity, discipline, and the psychological conditioning of obedience.

An eroticized narrative of ritual suicide and abdominal cutting presents a group’s military-style seppuku performance in graphic, sequential detail, emphasizing the spectacle, discipline, and bodily violence of the drawn blade.

A first-person erotic confession recounts two sisters’ emotionally charged same-sex relationship, the use of men and social situations to provoke jealousy, and escalating group sexual games involving secrecy, manipulation, and fetishized clothing.

An art criticism essay examines masochistic imagery and themes in films, including historical and contemporary cinematic representations, while also discussing related erotic publishing and visual culture.

A first-person captivity narrative follows Pierre, a male model subjected to binding, nudity, humiliation, and coercive artistic direction, with repeated attention to the erotic staging and photographing of his body.

A woman recounts her sexual and emotional development from adolescence through intimate relationships, marriage, and domestic life, presenting a personal confession shaped by secrecy, desire, and changing gender expectations.

A first-person essay examines women with sadistic tendencies through encounters with an intimidating, verbally abusive female tax-office worker whose dominance and cruelty fascinate the narrator.

The editorial department surveys reader letters describing varied sexual interests and fantasies—including bondage, sadism, fetishism, cross-dressing, medicalized practices, and bodily scenarios—while presenting them as evidence of the magazine’s participatory...

An illustrated erotic narrative depicts a woman being overpowered, stripped, and publicly humiliated by men in and around a railway carriage, emphasizing coercion, captivity, and voyeuristic spectacle.

A photo-report documenting an outdoor rope-bondage session, with models tied and suspended among trees, rocks, streams, and waterfalls; the text also discusses pose planning, equipment, weather, and photographic staging.

An illustrated feature presenting several imaginative bondage arrangements, including women restrained to furniture, overhead structures, and other settings in staged poses.

The concluding installment of Azuma Shin’s serialized erotic novel follows wartime and postwar separations, reunions, jealousy, marital tensions, and coercive bondage encounters involving its central characters.

A reader-communications and editorial-information section presents correspondence, editorial replies, submission guidance, and notices about forthcoming issues and requested contributions.

A historical erotic illustration depicts a richly dressed woman pleading for her life at a guillotine while an executioner prepares to carry out the sentence.

An eroticized historical torture scene shows a woman restrained inside an iron maiden, with the caption describing her body being pierced by needles through openings in the apparatus.

A dramatic illustration presents a woman confined in a suspended cage above a fire, accompanied by commentary condemning the cruelty of religious persecution in supposedly peaceful societies.

An erotic illustration depicts a woman bound spread-eagled to a tree while a man aims a firearm at her, framed as a fanciful vision of punishment in Japan before the Kojiki.

A photographic feature demonstrates a breast restraint made from celluloid rings and cord, inspired by French nude imagery and presented as an application of rope and ring bondage.

A staged photographic sequence presents a female-led rope punishment game involving restraint, wax-dripping heat, pinching, and the submissive partner’s pleas for leniency.

A staged bondage photograph presents Rumi gagged and posed over a man, emphasizing her severe expression and forceful, dominant use of her legs.

This staged photographic feature contrasts active and passive roles through scenes of one woman restraining, pulling the hair of, and pressing down another woman.

A photographic demonstration shows women secured with rope in a continuous binding and hands-behind-back configuration.

A photographic bondage feature demonstrates hands-behind-the-waist binding and a gag harness through two staged restraint scenes.

An erotic illustration presents a newlywed dressed in a sheer summer kimono, bound with rope in a playful domestic fantasy.

An erotic illustration depicts a newlywed in an Akashi-style kimono subjected to foot suspension as part of a husband’s playful bondage fantasy.

A photographic feature depicts a woman with her wrists bound together and secured overhead, emphasizing an elevated restraint position.

A staged scene portrays a domineering woman rousing a prone male servant and threatening punishment if he refuses to perform or obey her commands.

A staged domestic scene shows a woman using a prone man as a seat while ordering him not to move and threatening further servile punishment, including attention to her feet.

A staged photograph shows a seated woman using a prone man as a footstool, emphasizing her control and the erotic display of feet.

A staged photograph depicts a woman administering a beating or spanking to a kneeling man, accompanied by taunting Japanese captions.

An erotic illustration titled “The Silent Piper” depicts a gagged woman with her arms restrained to a horizontal bar, presenting bondage as a theatrical visual tableau.

A staged erotic photograph presents a woman with dramatically disordered hair in an intimate, sensual encounter, emphasizing hair as a visual fetish.