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A serialized period erotic adventure following the wandering rogue Yasugorō through encounters involving travel, loyalty, romance, violent conflict, and women caught in coercive situations. The narrative combines chivalric drama with eroticized danger and capt...

A modern-setting continuation centered on strained romantic relationships, pursuit, betrayal, and physical violence. Illustrated scenes emphasize erotic coercion, wounded bodies, confrontation, and the vulnerability of women within the story’s sadomasochistic...

A nonfiction account of itinerant perfume vendors, street hawkers, and fairground entertainers distinguishes the historical yashi from ordinary open-air merchants. It describes deceptive medicine sellers, hustlers, gambling and performance tricks, and sexualiz...

An illustrated feature presents American women’s professional wrestling as a sensational imported spectacle, showing posed and staged wrestling scenes involving female performers. The accompanying text emphasizes the sport’s novelty, bodily display, and erotic...

A photographic feature presents bathing scenes involving performers during motion-picture production, combining behind-the-scenes images with staged cinematic tableaux and captions. The photographs emphasize the eroticized spectacle of actors bathing and being...

Nakajima Kawatarō surveys memorable “unexpected criminals” in classic detective fiction, discussing concealed identities, doubles, staged deaths, impersonation, and ingenious investigative reversals. The article analyzes how writers construct surprise perpetra...

An illustrated essay on the “ecology” of gamblers, examining their desire for money and excitement, the psychology of winning and losing, and the contrasting types of amateur and professional players. It includes anecdotes and practical observations about mahj...

An instructional and imaginative survey of male masochist and fetishistic play, organized around several scenarios involving female dominance, needle play, armpit and body-part fetishism, and shoe polishing. The article combines psychological commentary, eroti...

A first-person erotic memoir recounting the author’s developing fascination with restraint, erotic experimentation, and the psychological atmosphere surrounding bondage encounters. The narrative includes scenes of women being bound and blindfolded, accompanied...

A serialized erotic story follows Ts mur a Shūzō, an English teacher who becomes a discreet male sex worker serving married women and widows. The installment portrays his encounters with female clients, their concealed desires, and the increasingly mysterious...

A historical survey of gangster and crime films, tracing their development from early American productions through later sound-era films. It discusses recurring criminal archetypes, violent and sensational imagery, notable actors and directors, and the genre’s...

An essayistic and humorous examination of the triangular wooden horse, an erotic apparatus associated with stage performances and fetish practices. The author describes its construction, bodily effects, possible uses, and the mixture of curiosity, discomfort,...

A sensational true-crime report follows a sexually motivated attacker known as the “Strangler of Terror,” who stalks young women in Tokyo’s suburban districts and assaults them with a knife or other weapon. It reconstructs the attacks, suspect descriptions and...

An illustrated crime report on sexual assaults against girls, the psychology of sex offenders, and the difficulties of police investigation. It recounts how policewoman Fujii was used as undercover bait near a shrine festival, leading to the pursuit and arrest...

A historical survey of Western torture instruments and coercive techniques, illustrated with depictions of devices such as racks, restraints, wheels, and other apparatus. The article compares their construction and use in interrogation, punishment, and executi...

A practical and anecdotal guide to sodomitic social and romantic interaction, discussing masculine and feminine roles, appearance, eye contact, conversation, gestures, and approaches to potential partners. The article also considers the emotional insecurity an...

A dramatized profile of an enka singer tracing his upbringing, rise through Tokyo’s nightlife and entertainment districts, performances, and relationships with companions and patrons. The narrative combines the singer’s concealed sadness and romantic or sexual...

A translated detective mystery adapted from Dashiell Hammett follows private investigator Spade as he investigates a brutal murder in a wealthy household. Interviews, suspicious family relationships, inheritance motives, hidden identities, and physical clues g...

An editorial afterword promotes the magazine as accessible entertainment and highlights the issue’s fiction, visual features, and special sections. It also provides publication, pricing, ordering, and publisher information for readers.

An illustrated account of the Oyama/Afuri Shrine area describes Ryōben Falls, reputed in the Edo period to cure madness. It recounts the legend of a madwoman being bound, taken beneath the freezing waterfall, and struck with a ritual 金剛杖, accompanied by Itō...

A photographic scene portrays a woman confronted with the frightening prospect of having a bit-like gag placed in her mouth, emphasizing apprehension, restraint, and controlled submission.

A photographic feature presenting Western-style binding, gagging, and pony-themed fetish imagery, with women shown in staged restraint scenes and costume.

An illustrated instructional feature presenting seven rope-restraint positions using swings, ladders, bars, wooden structures, and other apparatus, accompanied by commentary on the importance of rope technique.

A staged photographic scene depicts a submissive male prostrate beneath a dominant woman’s feet, accompanied by a second image of the woman compelling him to rise. The feature centers on female authority, male submission, and eroticized foot worship.

A photographic feature presents an athletic nude male portrait alongside images of a woman in a patterned skirt and a woman bound at the feet and lower body. The visual sequence combines ideals of male beauty, women’s clothing, simulated seppuku imagery, and t...

A two-image photographic feature depicting women engaged in staged wrestling scenes, emphasizing physical struggle and posed domination.

A photographic feature showing model Itō Mieko in stockings and a restrained, helpless seated pose, with rope binding across her torso and arms.

The third installment of “American-Style Torment” presents highly theatrical bondage scenes, combining illustrated tableaux with photographic imagery of multiple people tied in elaborate, uncomfortable positions and apparatus. The feature emphasizes spectacle,...

“The Woman in White” is a photographic feature featuring model Chiba Chizuko in white clothing, bound with rope in a series of staged reclining and suspended poses. The images foreground costume, immobilization, and the visual presentation of female submission...

A photographic study documenting multiple rope-binding configurations around the chest, arms, and torso, shown from front, back, and side views. The sequential images emphasize the appearance and positioning of the restraints as a practical visual record of ki...

An illustrated erotic narrative scene set in a storehouse, in which a woman is confronted and restrained after being discovered with a younger man. The accompanying text uses threats, betrayal, and criminal authority to frame the scene as coercive captivity an...

An illustrated captivity scene depicts Tamiko bound with her hands behind her back and gagged in a dark, windowless basement or storage room. The accompanying text presents the image as a scene from Sakiko Okada’s story “Revenge.”

An erotic illustration feature depicts three women restrained with ropes to wooden poles in different kneeling, crouching, and seated positions. The images focus on pole-based immobilization and the visual display of bound bodies.

An illustrated feature presents several women tied to chairs in varied positions, emphasizing the chair as a means of restraint and display. The imagery focuses on rope binding and immobilized posture rather than accompanying procedural text.

An erotic illustration titled “Beheading” depicts a kneeling nude woman threatened by an armed soldier, accompanied by Japanese text describing a girl stripped of family, property, clothing, chastity, and ultimately life. The scene combines sexualized captivit...

An illustrated execution scene depicts a beautiful female spy calmly awaiting death by firing squad while a female officer photographs or observes her final moments. The presentation combines execution imagery with an explicitly staged, voyeuristic erotic spec...

This illustrated historical punishment feature portrays a woman bound to a stake and burned, with accompanying text referring to Joan of Arc, Japanese fire executions, and the treatment of condemned women. The imagery emphasizes public punishment, bodily expos...

An illustrated feature depicts a nude woman bound against a wooden post while a kimono-clad swordswoman stands nearby. The accompanying text presents binding as a historical form of disgrace or punishment associated with samurai culture.

A practical and aesthetic guide to constructing bondage photographs and developing ideas for torment scenes. It discusses rope arrangements, poses, props, models, body presentation, hair and clothing, indoor and outdoor settings, and the balance between visual...

The concluding installment of Futamata Shizuko’s serialized erotic crime narrative follows a web of coercion, betrayal, and retaliation involving abducted and restrained women, violent men, and a dangerous household. Through shifting encounters in rooms, hotel...