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A chronology of people, publications, images, ideas, and practices documented in the Japanese SM Magazine Archive.

Dates and appearances describe material currently documented in the archive. They should not be read as claims of absolute historical first occurrence.

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2,746 archive events + 5 curated milestones 1950s
1953
December
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The Bound Body Becomes a Photographic Study

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

The January 1953 issue of Kitan Club presents the bound female body explicitly as a subject for photographic study. Rather than functioning only as an element within narrative or punishment imagery, binding becomes part…

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March
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Rope Becomes a Subject of Comparative Visual Study

The April 1953 issue of Kitan Club opens with an extended photographic study of tight binding with the hands behind and the arms raised. The sequence invites comparison between rope positions and their effects…

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August
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Itō Seiu: Fifteen Ways to Tie the Female Body

Itō Seiu

The September 1953 issue includes Itō Seiu’s “Fifteen Ways to Tie the Female Body.” The feature places named and differentiated methods of restraint inside the postwar magazine environment, connecting Seiu’s earlier visual vocabulary with…

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1954
March
Article / Feature Kitan Club 81–82

Nostalgia for the Long Pipe

Nishi Sadao

Nishi Sadao nostalgically recalls the long tobacco pipe as an eroticized object, connecting childhood memories, domestic scenes, and illustrated or cinematic images with later adult fascination. The essay also reflects on shared smoking rituals…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 83–86

Reflections on Female Seppuku

Taya Keisei

Taya Keisei surveys and reflects on representations of female seppuku, discussing historical examples, medical plausibility, sensational imagery, and the cultural fascination surrounding women’s self-disembowelment. The essay considers how erotic illustrations and related fantasies transform…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 96–99

Spring Chronicle of Masochistic Fantasy

Nagatsuka Hiroji

A masochistic erotic fantasy set around young men and their social circle, depicting submission, humiliation, bondage, beatings, gagging, and enforced nudity. The narrative moves through imagined scenes of capture and discipline, emphasizing male submissive…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 87–91

Confession of a Homosexual

Oda Masaharu

An autobiographical confession by a man describing same-sex attraction and intimate relationships with male comrades during military service, followed by marriage to a woman and the persistence of forbidden same-sex desire in his domestic…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 100–104

Beautiful Young Sadist

Yamanaka Tetsuji

An erotic narrative follows Hiroshi, a beautiful young man whose encounters with a dominant woman develop through staged seduction, restraint, humiliation, and sadistic punishment. The illustrated serial emphasizes female control and the protagonist’s conflicted…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 105–111

The Techniques of Interrogation, Arrest, and Torture

Mitani Shōsuke

An illustrated instructional feature surveys interrogation, arrest, and torture methods, including restraint with ropes, gagging, pursuit, and the use of implements. It combines practical descriptions with historical discussion of policing and punishment from the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 97–103

The Room of Evil

Futamata Shizuko

A fictional first-person account follows a woman through an unsettling erotic underworld of captivity, surveillance, and coercive encounters. As she enters the titular “room of evil,” power shifts between men and women through bondage,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 104

Being Bound for the First Time

Murata Namiko

Murata Namiko recounts her first experience as a bound model during an outdoor photography session. She describes being tied to a tree and later restrained in staged scenes, moving from apprehension and discomfort toward…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 114–123

Male Dressmaker

Higa Yuki

An illustrated serialized erotic narrative centered on Miko and encounters with a male dressmaker in and around a tailoring shop. Tailoring, clothing, exposure, teasing, and escalating sexual power and humiliation shape the story’s episodes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 105–106

I Committed Seppuku

Kishida Eiko

A first-person account by Kishida Eiko describing an imagined and eventually enacted episode of abdominal self-cutting with a razor during a bathing trip. The narrative emphasizes the writer’s fascination with pain, blood, bodily sensation,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 107–116

In Praise of Perversion, Part Two

Oniyama Kōsaku

The second part of Oniyama Kōsaku’s theoretical essay classifies diverse forms of “perversion,” including sadism, masochism, fetishism, scopophilia, exhibitionism, necrophilia, zoophilia, and same-sex desire. It considers their psychological mechanisms, social and ethical interpretations, and…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 124–130

Strange Tales of Homosexual Love, Part Three

Takahashi Tetsu

A sensational, semi-documentary account of male same-sex desire, presenting anecdotes about relationships between men of different ages and social positions alongside commentary on sexual psychology. The article is accompanied by eroticized illustrations depicting its…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 117–124

Memoirs of Dr. Yamikumo

Tsujimura Ryūsaku

A first-person memoir-style erotic narrative attributed to Dr. Yamikumo, recounting increasingly extreme encounters involving coercion, bondage, humiliation, sadistic violence, and medicalized sexual experimentation. The episodes move between fetishistic fantasy, captivity scenarios, and voyeuristic descriptions…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 131–135

My Secret Record

Itō Seiu

An autobiographical confession by Itō Seiu describing his obsessive relationship with his wife, including episodes of illness, domestic restraint, sexual experimentation, and the production of photographs and drawings. The narrative presents bondage and marital…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 125–128

Sexual Fluids, Part Three

Itō Seiu

The third installment of Itō Seiu’s essay examines sexual fluids, nude modeling, and the relationship between eroticized bodies and modern visual culture. It discusses artists, models, photography, painting, exploitation, and changing sexual attitudes while…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 136–144

East-West Masochists Compared

Kiyama

An essay compares Japanese and Western forms of masochism through anecdotes about erotic performance, spectatorship, gender roles, and imagined or observed encounters. It considers differences in masochistic psychology, behavior, social setting, and cultural expression,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 129–134

Spiders and Butterflies, Final Installment

Hida Ryōji

The concluding installment of Hida Ryōji’s serialized SM fiction follows a woman who is abducted, restrained, humiliated, and prepared for staged photographic display. The narrative combines captivity, elaborate rope and apparatus bondage, sensory restriction,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 135–137

Cruel Women

Moriki Aizō

Moriki Aizō’s translated continuation of Das Grausame Weib presents historical and anecdotal accounts of women who exercise violent authority over enslaved or subordinated people, including whipping and other forms of corporal punishment. The piece…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 145–147

Fūzoku Art Museum

A visual gallery presents historical and imported erotic illustrations and related imagery depicting sexualized restraint, domination, fetishistic attention to bodies and clothing, and theatrical erotic scenes. Captions frame the images as examples of changing…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 148

Ecstatic Male Beauty

A photographic feature presenting nude male models in posed, physically expressive scenes, celebrating muscular bodies and masculine beauty for a sodomist-oriented readership.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 138–140

Slave Boy

Hasegawa Hiroshi

A fictional first-person account of a young man who becomes a female employer’s servant and sexual subordinate. The Madam and her assistant enforce his obedience through stripping, verbal humiliation, corporal punishment with a riding…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 149–155

Clinical Report on Deviant Sexuality

Miyake Ichirō

A clinical case-report series examining atypical sexual interests and behaviors, including foot fetishism, hair fetishism, female same-sex desire, and fetishistic attachment to objects. The accounts combine patient histories, erotic fantasies, compulsive conduct, and psychiatric…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 156–161

The Psychology of the Man Who Torments a Conquered Woman

Kageura Makoto

A psychological essay examines why some men torment, humiliate, or otherwise mistreat women they have sexually “conquered.” Through analysis and illustrative conversational examples, it links such behavior to insecurity, self-display, the desire to prove…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 162–171

Modern Male Slaves

Hiiragi Fuyuo

A serialized reportage-style study of men who submit to women as servants, pupils, or sexual slaves, including accounts of female-led discipline, humiliation, punishment, and domestic control. It frames these practices through contemporary sexual psychology…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 178–180

Nightly Demon

A first-person erotic memoir recounting recurring nighttime encounters, seduction, intimate touching, and escalating sexual excitement. Its confessional style emphasizes the narrator’s sensual responses and the atmosphere of repeated clandestine pleasure.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 181–183

Thirteen Virgins

An illustrated erotic fiction centered on a woman who recounts her intense pursuit of a series of female partners, culminating in the appearance of a “thirteenth virgin.” The narrative uses confessional dialogue, seduction, and…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 184–187

The Defiled Amazon

An illustrated erotic story in which a woman’s bra becomes the focus of erotic attention, jealousy, and an increasingly intimate encounter. Through dialogue and scenes of seduction and bodily vulnerability, the episode explores lingerie…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 188–193

Wretched Women

Ōyama Akira

A sensational survey of “wretched women” drawn from Japanese legends, historical anecdotes, and literary narratives. It recounts women associated with murder, torture, sexual cruelty, punishment, and execution, accompanied by lurid illustrations and reflections on…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 194–199

The Demon of Lust's Mad Banquet

Sakanoue Nobuhiko

An illustrated essay on demonic lust, witchcraft, occult rites, and sexually charged violence. Drawing on European and other transnational examples, it describes witches, satanic ceremonies, bodily torment, sacrificial imagery, and fantasies of collective erotic…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 200–206

My Wanderings in Male Attire

An autobiographical account of a woman’s long fascination with wearing men’s clothing, beginning in childhood and developing through school, work, social outings, and romantic encounters. The narrative describes the excitement, secrecy, confidence, and erotic…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 207–213

Lesbos Correspondence

A multi-page reader-correspondence column in which women write about intimate relationships, same-sex desire, erotic experimentation, appearance, and encounters involving fetishistic or BDSM interests. The editor responds with advice and encouragement, fostering an exchange of…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 214–225

Apes, Beasts, and Rough Rope

Nagaoka Yaichirō

An extended essay tracing the imagery and cultural meanings of rough-rope bondage in Japanese erotic art, literature, film, and magazine illustration. Drawing on historical examples and personal recollections, it discusses bound female bodies, rope…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 226–233

Short People: Group Portraits

Hie Shōgo

A serialized erotic narrative about newlyweds whose marriage is unsettled by the husband’s secret fetishistic collection, voyeuristic behavior, and controlling treatment of his wife. The story develops through domestic scenes of lingerie and stocking…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 234–241

Lewd Rope and Youth

An illustrated feature on erotic tattooing that surveys tattoo practices, their historical development, and their associations with pain, beauty, and sexualized domination. It combines cultural commentary with sensational anecdotes about tattoo artists, clients, and…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 242–247

Sodomia Correspondence

A correspondence and advice column presenting readers’ autobiographical accounts and questions about same-sex attraction, adolescent sexual development, romantic relationships, and changing erotic preferences. Editorial replies interpret these experiences through contemporary psychological and social perspectives,…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 248–261

Memoir of a Female Cross-Dresser

A first-person memoir of a male-bodied narrator’s life as a female cross-dresser, recounting youthful experimentation, same-sex desire, relationships, theatrical and nightlife experiences, and encounters with other gender-variant people. The article combines autobiographical testimony with…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 262

Discipline Tale

An illustrated erotic fiction feature introduces Jirō, a red-haired Japanese-French mixed-race sexual sadist, who enters the bedroom of Miyoko, a sexually frustrated woman married to an impotent husband. The page presents the episode as…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Soshi 263–275

The Rainbow of the Enchantress

A serialized erotic narrative follows a married couple whose encounters with an alluring dance instructor and other figures become entangled with seduction, jealousy, bondage, and psychological disturbance. The story moves between domestic interiors, treatment…

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April
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

May 1954

The May 1954 issue of Kitan Club combines a substantial opening portfolio of rope illustration and photography with prison memoir, enclosed-room fiction, translated sexual literature, masochistic testimony, queer confession, discussions of bodily transformation, historical…

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Magazine Issue KK Correspondence

May 1954

KK Correspondence No. 20, issued May 1, 1954, is a compact sixteen-page club bulletin reproduced here as eight paired-page scans. Its editorial identity is intensely participatory: rather than presenting a conventional sequence of polished…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 7

Binding Methods Using Posts and Stakes

Takiko

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 8

The North-Facing Jizō of Awa

Itō Seiu

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 9–10

Four Female Seppuku Fantasies

Kazuhisa, artist credit reading uncertain

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 11–12

American-Style Training, Part Two

composition by Sugiura Kōji

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,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 13–14

Narayama Play-Dream

Takiko

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.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15

Seppuku Fantasy

Kazuhisa, artist credit reading uncertain

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 16

Female-Dominance Fantasies

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 17

Chair Binding

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.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18

Foreign Bondage Photographs

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 19–20

Three Forms of Hands-Behind Binding

composition by Sugiura Kōji

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.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 21–22

American-Style Torment, Part Two

composition by Sugiura Kōji

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 spectacle and bodily immobilization.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 23–24

Trampling and Whipping

composition by Tsujimura Takashi

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,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 25

Pillar Restraint

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.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 27–28

Storehouse

Takiko

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29–31

The Drunken Demon

artist credit unclear

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 33–39

A Juvenile Prison Record

Nikone Kōji

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 emphasizes the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 40–48

The Room of Evil

Futamata Shizuko

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 49–62

Sentimental Education: Confession of a Woman Prisoner

Azuma Shinsaku; illustrated by Kurihara Shin

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 autonomy,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 63–68

From a Masochist’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

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 coercive scenarios…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 69–73

Slavery and Cruelty: A Scene from a Dreadful History

Kawano Shirō; illustrations by Sugiura Kōji

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 74–76

Confession of a Male Homosexual

Oda Masaharu

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 77–80

In Praise of Perversion

Oniyama Yakusaku, romanization uncertain

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 81–94

Two-Hundred-Character Hymns

Masago Jūshirō

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.…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 95–100

Overseas Sadism Notes: The Gag, Part Two

Azuma Shin

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 101–114

Madame Diana

Norisugi Kiyoko

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, including…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 115–118

Continued: Longing for Women’s Clothing

Shigeta Masakazu

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 119–128

The Man I Sought, Part Five

Matsui Raikō

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 artistic milieus…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 129–136

Seppuku Research Night Talk, Part Four

Nakayasu Hiromichi

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 effects,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 137–143

MS Play

Nakatani Reiichi

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 narrative…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 144–148

Sexual Fluids

Itō Seiu

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 illustrations depicting…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 149–160

The Virgin Writer

Awami Ichirō, romanization uncertain

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 with the writer’s dependence…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 161–167

Bull Castration

Shinohara Sakue, romanization uncertain

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 168–172

Memoir of a Former Military Policeman

Hayashida Maki

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 173–178

Sorrowful Tale of a Northern Hot-Spring Town

Yoshino Asao

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 179–183

Confession of a Feminized Man

Shinohara Yukio

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…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 184–187

My Etsugyaku Notebook

Tsumaki Mitsuzō

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 involving…

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June
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Binding Is Explained as a Process

Tsujimura Takashi

By July 1954, Kitan Club was not merely presenting finished bondage poses. “Until the Binding Is Complete: Photographic Explanation” frames binding as a sequence that can be demonstrated and followed. This procedural presentation is…

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1955
December
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Rope Acquires a Historical Vocabulary

The January 1955 Kitan Club article “The History of Rope and Feet” treats rope historically rather than only pictorially or technically. Its appearance demonstrates that rope had become a subject that could be placed…

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