Article Translations

Segawa Yasuko introduces and discusses a rare historical erotic text, The Ceremony of Marriage, which presents ritualized marital bondage, abdominal cutting, and violent sexual play through narrative passages, procedural descriptions, and graphic illustrations...

A multi-page reader-correspondence section presents letters responding to the magazine’s fiction, illustrations, photographs, and editorial choices, alongside requests, critiques, and discussion of reader interests. It also reflects the participatory culture s...

An editorial and publication-information page solicits manuscripts and artwork, explains submission and editorial policies, advertises subscriptions and back issues, and announces club or membership opportunities. It documents the magazine’s administrative and...

An illustrated practical guide demonstrates methods of tying a person to upright posts and stakes, presenting several restraint positions and rope arrangements. The feature emphasizes hands-on binding technique and the visual staging of restrained bodies.

Itō Seiu presents an illustrated account or legend associated with the north-facing Jizō of Awa. The accompanying scene depicts figures restraining and abusing a woman outdoors, combining historical/local lore with strongly sexualized coercion and bondage imag...

An illustrated fantasy feature presenting four female seppuku scenarios through staged scenes of women bound in varied positions, including floor, bathroom, and seated restraints. The accompanying Japanese text discusses different purposes and degrees of tying...

The second installment of an illustrated “American-style training” feature depicts a woman harnessed, led, and posed as a small horse in a series of staged outdoor and domestic scenes. Captions and commentary emphasize reins, bodily posture, facial expression,...

An illustrated erotic fantasy inspired by Narayama, depicting women in elaborate rope restraints and dramatic staged bondage scenes, including outdoor and suspended or otherwise constrained positions.

An erotic illustration built around a seppuku fantasy, presenting a stylized ritualized scene of bound women, a sword, blood, and impending or enacted self-disembowelment. The imagery treats death and ritual sacrifice as theatrical erotic motifs rather than re...

An erotic illustration depicting a dominant woman armed with a sword and wearing a cross, attended by a submissive nude male figure and a winged Cupid. The composition presents female authority and male submission as fantasy imagery.

A photographic feature demonstrating chair binding, showing a woman restrained in a chair while attended by another person. The image emphasizes seated positional restraint in a staged erotic setting.

A photographic feature presenting foreign bondage imagery, including a woman restrained in a kneeling position with her elbows secured by a belt beneath the knees. The accompanying note highlights the unusual restraint arrangement as an inventive form of bonda...

A photographic instructional feature demonstrating two forms of hands-behind binding. The images show variations involving wrist rope, neck restraint, and ankle binding, emphasizing the arrangement and positioning of the restrained body.

An illustrated and photographic feature presenting “American-style” torment scenes, with women subjected to elaborate restraints, fixed postures, and punishment-oriented tableaux using specialized apparatus. The accompanying images emphasize staged erotic spec...

A photographic feature centered on trampling and whipping, including scenes in which a restrained or prostrate male subject is made to submit to women’s boots and physical discipline. Captions and images stress humiliation, footwear, and dominant female contro...

A staged photographic demonstration of a woman blindfolded and secured in a seated or kneeling position against a pillar. The image emphasizes immobilization through rope binding and the use of a fixed household support.

A photographic instructional feature demonstrating hands-and-feet suspension and a single-rope binding method. The images show rope arrangements that restrict the limbs and suspend or secure the subject in a floor-based pose.

A sequence of erotic illustrations set around a storehouse depicts women in vulnerable, physically constrained positions, including figures bound near or against wooden structures. The scenes emphasize staged restraint and helplessness rather than explanatory...

An illustrated dramatic sequence titled “The Drunken Demon” portrays a predatory man and several women in an outdoor setting, with scenes of sexual menace, vulnerability, restraint, and flight. The visual narrative uses coercive erotic fantasy and the presence...

A first-person record of life in a juvenile prison, recounting the narrator’s arrest, confinement, harsh institutional discipline, forced labor, surveillance, beatings, and humiliating treatment by guards and fellow inmates. The illustrated narrative emphasize...

A serialized erotic fantasy set around a sinister “room of evil,” where characters manipulate, threaten, bind, and attempt to subjugate one another. The narrative emphasizes coercive encounters, captivity, rope restraint, humiliation, and shifting struggles fo...

A woman recounts a marriage marked by coercive sexual demands, bondage, beatings, humiliation, and her husband’s sadistic violence. Framed as a psychological and social discussion, the confession and accompanying illustrations consider consent, women’s autonom...

A masochistic notebook combining historical anecdotes, imagined scenes, and reflections on eroticized domination, restraint, humiliation, and female authority. The text ranges across Chinese and European historical settings while treating bondage devices and c...

A historical account of slavery and cruelty, focusing on the capture, transport, forced labor, punishment, sexual violence, and resistance of enslaved people, particularly in the Americas. Illustrated scenes emphasize the brutality of slaveholders and the suff...

A first-person account by a Japanese man describing the development of his same-sex desire, relationships with younger men, emotional attachments, and the social pressures surrounding secrecy, work, and domestic life. The confession presents homosexual experie...

A polemical essay that praises sexual “perversion” as a condition exceeding ordinary sexuality and interprets it as a sign of psychological, cultural, and even philosophical development. Across several chapters, the author contrasts conventional and unconventi...

A serialized erotic narrative follows a shop owner’s increasingly intimate encounters with Kazuko and a married couple, moving from flirtation and employment into elaborate scenes of rope binding, restraint, commands, and domestic sexual power. The story empha...

The second installment of Azuma Shin’s “Overseas Sadism Notes” examines gagging in Western and Japanese sadistic imagery. It compares gag types and their visual effects, discusses rope and cloth restraints, and considers examples from imported comics, films, a...

A long first-person erotic reportage attributed to Madame Diana, describing her intense involvement with horseback riding, riding instruction, and equestrian circles. The account links riding technique, bodily exertion, gendered power, and sexual sensation, in...

A first-person continuation about a man’s longstanding desire to wear women’s clothing and his wife’s involvement in helping him dress, apply makeup, and assemble an elaborate feminine appearance. The account culminates in staged posing and photography, presen...

The fifth installment of Matsui Raikō’s first-person serialized narrative follows the narrator’s shifting romantic and erotic fascinations through encounters at cinemas, cafés, theatrical companies, and performance events. Her attraction to performers and arti...

The fourth installment of a research talk examines Japanese seppuku and related forms of female self-disembowelment through historical cases, literary sources, medical observations, and period illustrations. It discusses ritual procedure, wounds and bodily eff...

A first-person account of an M/S relationship between a medical student and a sadistic woman, developing through correspondence, meetings, and increasingly elaborate scenes of rope bondage, gagging, blindfolding, suspension, and domestic restraint. The narrati...

A historical erotic narrative that returns to Meiji-era theater and popular entertainment, portraying onnagata performance, provincial social life, erotic intrigue, arranged marriage, and coercive relationships. The text is accompanied by dramatic erotic illus...

A fictionalized editorial encounter follows a young, sexually inexperienced writer whose sensational manuscript combines murder, striptease, coercion, and imagined sexual violence. The surrounding narrative contrasts literary ambition and editorial judgment wi...

A first-person account of a young factory worker subjected to coercive discipline, humiliation, and violent punishment by a female supervisor and fellow workers. The narrative combines workplace control, bodily punishment, and eroticized submission within a wa...

A former military policeman recounts wartime encounters involving the detention, abuse, sexual violation, and killing of women in occupied territory. The memoir presents military violence and atrocity through sensational testimony, including the treatment of w...

A fictional tale set at a snowbound northern hot-spring inn, where a brutal proprietor exploits and confines women associated with the bathhouse. Attempts at escape lead to pursuit, capture, rope restraint, humiliation, and further abuse amid the isolated wint...

A first-person confession by a man who describes being raised among sisters, developing a strongly feminine identity, and wearing women’s clothing from childhood onward. He recounts cross-dressing, family and social responses, and his later efforts to live ope...

An autobiographical account of the author’s development of sadistic interests, beginning in childhood through exposure to newspaper reports, fiction, illustrations, and imagined scenes of abuse. The narrative also describes later fantasies and experiences invo...