Latest Archive Additions
The newest magazine issues added to the Kinbaku Today research archive, listed by the date they became available here rather than by their original publication date.
Uramado, September 1964
Uramado’s September 1964 issue is a large, densely illustrated S-M magazine combining erotic photography, illustrated fiction, historical sensationalism, film criticism, literary commentary, reader contributions, commercial notices, and serialized fantasy. Its editorial identity is defined…
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Kitan Club, November 1973
Kitan Club’s November 1973 issue presents itself as a documentary and literary record of sexual subcultures, combining bondage photography, erotic fiction, personal testimony, fetish essays, visual catalogues, correspondence, and publishing notices. Its central editorial…
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Kitan Club, December 1973
Kitan Club’s December 1973 issue is a large, visually saturated collection of erotic fiction, staged photography, SM testimony, fetish essays, reader correspondence, and commercial image catalogs. Its editorial identity depends on the constant interchange…
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Uramado, October 1964
Uramado’s October 1964 issue is a hybrid specialist magazine combining erotic photography, illustrated fiction, film criticism, social commentary, visual-art promotion, reader correspondence, and serialized pulp narrative. Its opening pages establish a strongly visual identity:…
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SM Sniper No. 337, September 2007
SM Sniper is a visually dense Japanese specialist magazine organized around bondage, kinbaku, fetish photography, SM reportage, personal testimony, fiction, criticism, community notices, and an extensive commercial advertising network. The issue opens with photographic…
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Geijutsu Shincho, April 1995
The April 1995 issue of Geijutsu Shincho is organized around an extensive special feature on Itō Seiu, the historically marginal and controversial artist associated with 責め絵, eroticized restraint, grotesque imagery, and popular visual culture.…
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SM Collector, July 2014
SM Collector volume 03 is a visually driven Japanese SM magazine organized around photographic portfolios, adult-video promotion, serialized fiction, personal confession, community notices, and commercial listings. Its editorial identity is closely tied to the…
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Kitan Club, April 1966
Kitan Club’s April 1966 issue is a large, visually dense SM and fetish periodical combining erotic fiction, personal testimony, critical essays, photographic features, correspondence, community notices, and an extensive mail-order publishing economy. The formal…
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Kitan Club, April 1962
Kitan Club, April 1962 is a densely illustrated Japanese specialist magazine combining erotic photography, fetish-oriented fiction, personal confession, reader correspondence, essays, visual criticism, and commercial notices. Its editorial identity is announced by the cover…
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Kitan Club, February 1962
Kitan Club, February 1962 is a densely illustrated specialist magazine combining erotic visual culture, sadomasochistic fiction, bondage photography, personal confession, editorial polemic, reader correspondence, and commercial notices. Its opening pages establish a pictorial identity…
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SM Mania, September 2007
SM Mania’s September 2007 issue is a large Japanese adult magazine organized around serialized erotic fiction, bondage photography, fetish illustration, reader participation, and commercial SM culture. Its formal contents pages appear near the front,…
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Kitan Club, August 1952
Kitan Club’s August 1952 issue is a densely illustrated postwar sex-and-customs magazine combining historical essays, erotic fiction, personal confessions, social reportage, popular sexology, literary commentary, correspondence, puzzles, and sensational visual material. Its editorial identity…
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S&M Sniper, November 2008
S&M Sniper No. 351 is a large, visually saturated Japanese SM and fetish magazine organized around photographic portfolios, scene reports, erotic fiction, video criticism, reader contributions, advice, event information, and extensive commercial promotion. Its…
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SM Collector Vol. 4, October 2014
SM Collector Vol. 4 is a Japanese special issue devoted to the commercial, photographic, and performative culture of bondage and sadomasochism. Identified in the colophon as an October 2014 supplement, it combines gravure photography,…
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Kitan Club, January 1958
Kitan Club’s January 1958 issue is a large, densely illustrated specialist erotic magazine combining bondage imagery, masochist writing, cinema culture, historical anecdote, fiction, reader correspondence, and commercial photographic circulation. Its opening establishes a participatory…
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Kitan Club, August–September 1962
This August–September 1962 combined issue of Kitan Club is a large, visually dense specialist erotic magazine organized around bondage photography, fetish illustration, personal confession, serialized fiction, reader correspondence, and mail-order publishing. Its opening pages…
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Kitan Club, February 1974
Kitan Club’s February 1974 issue is a large, densely illustrated Japanese SM and fetish magazine combining staged photography, erotic fiction, personal testimony, practical bondage instruction, criticism, reader correspondence, community notices, and extensive mail-order catalogs.…
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Kitan Club, January 1974
Kitan Club’s January 1974 issue is a large, densely illustrated specialist erotic magazine organized around bondage, sadomasochism, fetish practices, personal testimony, serialized fiction, and reader participation. Its opening pages move from submission notices and…
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Uramado, December 1964
Uramado’s December 1964 issue is a large, densely illustrated SM and popular-culture magazine combining serialized fiction, literary criticism, erotic photography, film commentary, reader correspondence, publishing notices, and extensive commercial back matter. Its editorial identity…
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Kitan Club, March 1974
Kitan Club’s March 1974 issue is a large, densely illustrated SM magazine organized around bondage photography, erotic reportage, serialized fiction, personal confession, critical commentary, and reader communication. Its opening pages establish the publication’s commercial…
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