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Published in 1952 (Showa 27) by Mutsumi Shobo, "One-Shot Romance Special Issue: Nude Customs Album" depicts a unique publishing culture in Japan, just seven years after the end of the war and the Allied occupation. This period saw a rapid spread of popular publishing dealing with entertainment and sexual customs, with pulp magazines, exemplified by "Red and Black" (founded in 1946), forming a distinctive publishing culture. This book, composed solely of photographs of women in bondage, was extremely daring for its time. Bondage works bearing provocative and literary titles such as "A Quiet Storm," "Light and Shadow of the Female Body," "Garden of Hell," and "Midnight Feast" are lined up, capturing women bound with ropes in monochrome, set in bamboo groves and indoors. The curves of the body, the shapes of the ropes, the contrast of light and shadow, and theatrical poses create a unique visual world where sensuality and tension intertwine. The content, which intertwines the lineage of torture and bondage imagery that has continued since before the war with the eroticism produced by postwar mass publishing, is interesting as it foreshadows the rise of SM photo magazines in later years. It is a valuable book with high documentary value that conveys a part of the sexual expression and publishing culture in Japan in the early 1950s.
＜Condition＞ Acceptable.
