Fūzoku Zōshi 風俗草紙
Short-lived Tokyo magazine (1953–1954) whose bondage gravure and sensational SM content led to repeated bans before it closed in 1954.
Fūzoku Zōshi was a Tokyo magazine issued by Nihon Tokushu Shuppansha, the company that later became the publisher Nihon Bungeisha. According to Japanese Wikipedia, the company’s April 1953 launch, a true-story magazine, was renamed Fūzoku Zōshi from its July 1953 issue.
It aimed at a broader readership than Kitan Club, advertised heavily in evening newspapers, and opened its issues with bondage photographs. Suma Toshiyuki (Minomura Kō), who had left Kitan Club, was involved with the magazine, although Japanese Wikipedia’s article on Kubo Shoten says he kept his role out of public view because he expected it to be banned. The historian Kawahara Azumi describes it as a rival to Kitan Club and notes that Yoshida Minoru, the publisher of Kitan Club, wrote to Iida Toyoichi asking him to avoid writing for it if he could.
The authorities did act. Kawahara lists the March 1954 issue and the May, June and July issues as banned, with the magazine ending after its October 1954 issue; Japanese Wikipedia’s article on Nihon Bungeisha instead dates the first ban to February 1954. The contacts Suma made there later helped him launch Uramado.