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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
Historical Milestone Confirmed

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
Historical Milestone Confirmed

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
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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September
Article / Feature Kitan Club 70

On Female Armpit Mania

Mori Takuji

An essay examines erotic fascination with women’s armpits, discussing the visual and tactile qualities attributed to the body part and its place within fetishistic desire.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 71–78

From a Masochist’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

A first-person masochist’s notebook presents fantasies and episodes of female authority, humiliation, bondage, domestic submission, and eroticized discipline, accompanied by staged illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 79–82

On the Beauty of Boys

Yamaguchi Kōichi

An essay explores the beauty and erotic appeal of boys through historical and modern examples, discussing youthful bodies, clothing, physical training, artistic representation, and changing cultural ideals of masculine appearance.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 83–86

Sexual Fluids, Part Nine

Itō Seiu

A serialized erotic-psychological essay by Itō Seiu combines conversational anecdotes about sexually unconventional women and artistic or entertainment circles with illustrated scenes of erotic observation and bodily experience.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 87–94

Joys and Sorrows of Being Tormented, Continued

Magane Kanjirō

A long illustrated first-person account describes the pleasures and suffering of repeated bondage, beatings, humiliation, exposure, and other punitive ordeals, including restraint in domestic and outdoor settings and increasingly elaborate rope techniques.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 95–97

An Open Letter to Dr. Azuma

Hamura Kyōko

Hamura Kyōko’s open letter to Dr. Azuma is a personal confession about her masochistic and bondage-related desires, marital and domestic circumstances, and uncertainty about how to understand or manage her sexual inclinations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 98–102

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

A translated and explanatory account drawn from a 1901 German work describes violent domination, whipping, captivity, and racialized colonial encounters involving women and African servants. The piece frames these episodes as sensational historical testimony…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 103–114

A Tale of Youth, Whips, and Bitter Winds

Iwahiroshi, author reading uncertain

This kōdan-style historical erotic narrative follows a woman subjected to escalating coercion, restraint, whipping, tattooing, humiliation, and bodily violence amid a theatrical world of criminals, servants, and domineering figures. Its accompanying illustrations stage scenes…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 115–116

A Masochistic Fantasy in the Style of Kōdan

Tamura Minoru

A kōdan-style masochistic fantasy imagines a powerful woman binding, restraining, humiliating, and physically punishing a male submissive through elaborate postures and repeated discipline. The piece presents these scenarios as an imaginative design for male…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 121–126

The Teacher

Aoba Shin’ichi

A fictional account of a physical-education teacher who subjects a male student to coercive examinations, forced undressing, physical control, and humiliating restraint.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 127–132

First-Sight Part-Time Job

Shirogane Kōji

An erotic serial narrative about a woman taking a part-time job that draws her into increasingly coercive encounters involving customer observation, costume changes, exposure, and restraint.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 133–143

Natsuko’s Copybook: Diary of a Guilty Woman

Sakurai Kyōichirō

A diary-style fictional confession follows a woman’s secret relationships, jealousy, emotional instability, and self-destructive responses as she struggles between illicit desire, social expectations, and marriage.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 151

Dizism

Maru Megumi, romanization uncertain

This illustrated sensational account presents and interprets “Dizism” as a supposed form of sadism among Chinese women, combining eroticized cross-cultural description with visual depictions of sexualized dominance and violence.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 152–154

Sadism Among Chinese Women

contributor credit uncertain

A sensationalized cross-cultural essay presents alleged examples of sadistic behavior among Chinese women, including female control, physical punishment, and sexualized domination of men, while comparing these practices with Japanese sexual attitudes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 155–158

The Beauty of Women’s Noses

Masago Jūroku

Masago Jūroku examines the aesthetic and erotic significance attributed to women’s noses, discussing facial proportions, individual beauty, cultural standards, and the ways photographs and visual media shape judgments of feminine attractiveness.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 159–167

Pleasurable Period Drama: Women Bound in Film

Fujiki Senji

Fujiki Senji surveys bondage scenes involving women in period films, discussing rope restraint, theatrical staging, actresses’ performances, audience response, and recurring images of captives, punishments, and eroticized historical violence in Japanese cinema.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 168–172

A New Discovery in the Art of Rope

Tsukihisa Takeshi, credit reading uncertain

This essay presents acupuncture as a historically rooted form of painful discipline and examines its continued therapeutic and psychological appeal through case examples involving pain, nerves, and masochistic sensation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 173–174

Devoted to the Enema

Hamura Kyōko

A first-person account of enema practices describes bodily sensations, erotic pleasure, and their incorporation into married sexual life, accompanied by discussion of equipment and methods.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 179–187

Rainbow of Life

Taketani Jūzō

A serialized first-person erotic narrative follows a troubled marriage and its entanglement with jealousy, coercion, bondage, bodily punishment, and eventual police intervention. The story presents abusive marital and interpersonal power relations as dramatic SM…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 188–191

Abdominal Cutting Seen on Sōshi Paper, Part Two

Kawai Itsuko

This illustrated cultural-historical essay examines depictions of female abdominal cutting and seppuku in kusazōshi, combining literary anecdotes, family and revenge narratives, and commentary on the sexualized presentation of punishment and bodily violence.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 192–194

Current Reflections on Female Genitalia

Dokushi Yotsuya, credit reading uncertain

An illustrated essay reflects on contemporary ideals of female beauty by comparing breasts, hips, genital appearance, pubic hair, skin coloration, and body proportions, relating physical features to erotic attraction and changing cultural standards.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 195–202

Dream: An Illustrated Story

Matsui Raikō, credit reading uncertain

A nightmare-like erotic fantasy follows a man’s pursuit and capture of a woman, escalating through coercion, physical restraint, captivity, and sexual violence in a heavily illustrated narrative.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 203–216

At the Evening Window

Furukawa Yūko

A first-person account traces Yūko’s troubled and obsessive relationship with T through travel, domestic encounters, bondage, sexual coercion, masochistic submission, and reflections on desire, marriage, and loss.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 223–230

Sorrow and Compassion for an Abused Boy

Mikata Kōji

A compassionate but melodramatic narrative follows an abused boy through institutional confinement, exploitation, and encounters with adults, emphasizing the emotional consequences of violence and neglect.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 231–235

Fragments of My Masochism

Kawada Tashirō, credit reading uncertain

A first-person series of masochistic recollections describes fantasies and experiences involving punishment, restraint, humiliation, and bodily control, accompanied by erotic illustrations and a reader-submission notice.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 236–246

Female Seppuku: Snow-Molded Ayukawa Osen

Segawa Yasuko

A serialized historical erotic narrative follows Ayukawa Osen and related figures through betrayal, sword violence, captivity, and ultimately female seppuku, accompanied by dramatic illustrations of the confrontations and ritual death.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 247–260

A Strange Night Without Characters

Ukishima Genji, romanization uncertain

A serialized erotic narrative follows encounters involving desire, deception, captivity, police pursuit, imprisonment, and changing power relations between men and women, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 261–264

Sexuality Advice Column

contributor and readers

An advice column answers readers’ questions about sexual desire, marriage, gendered behavior, bodily appearance, fetishistic interests, and anxieties about relationships through a sexological and psychological lens.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 266–269

Publication Listings and Notices

A contents-and-notices section lists articles, illustrations, photographs, and other features from the issue, alongside subscription, ordering, and publication information for readers.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 270–273

On Long-Boot Fetishism

Amaike Seibi, romanization uncertain

This illustrated essay examines the author’s fascination with women’s long boots, discussing the fetish’s psychological and historical associations, styles and materials, and its representation in imported fashion and erotic imagery.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 274–277

Looking at the Beauty of Models

Nakamura Yasushi, credit reading uncertain

A first-person illustrated feature describes photographing female models in posed bondage and outdoor settings, focusing on their reactions, willingness to repeat the sessions, and the photographer’s interpretation of their masochistic interest.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 278–290

Night-Light Island

Kurihara Mugi; illustrated by Shinjō

This serialized erotic suspense story follows Kenjiro and other characters whose fantasies of escape lead toward an isolated island, where loneliness, coercive power, captivity, and violent desire become intertwined. The narrative also reflects on…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 291–305

The Fruits of Abuse

Hosokawa Nobuko

A dramatic first-person account portrays a woman subjected to escalating domestic abuse and elaborate restraint, including rope binding, suspension, gagging, whipping, forced nudity, and other forms of corporal punishment, with the resulting psychological collapse…

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October
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

November 1954

The November 1954 special issue is built around an unusually large visual portfolio followed by essays, confessions, fiction, translated material, and fetish studies. Its opening pages function as a catalogue of bodily positioning and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 5

Illustrated Variations in Restraint

Takiko

An illustrated gallery presents numerous variations on restraint, including rope bondage, suspension, immobilizing devices, and restrictive positions, with Japanese labels identifying the techniques or apparatus.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 6

Punishment in the Eleventh Lunar Month

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu illustrates an alleged post-wedding custom in a Nagano village in which young men publicly strip and humiliate newlyweds at the village shrine, prompting the couple to vow mutual fidelity; the accompanying note…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 7–8

Punishing the Disobedient

Hanayama Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

A continuation of the magazine’s “What Shall I Do?” feature depicts four elaborate punitive bondage scenes using frames, furniture, chains, poles, and suspended containers, while inviting readers to submit further ideas for unusual restraint…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 9

Blindfolded Woman

A photograph from Bizarre depicts a blindfolded woman seated with her arms restrained behind her and a rope wrapped around her ankles, accompanied by commentary on the unusual tying arrangement and the visual effect…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 10

Ankle Restraints

A photographic feature presents a woman whose wrists and arms are bound while chains linking her shoes restrict her stride, with the accompanying text emphasizing the contrast between Japanese-style restraint and the resulting masochistic…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 11

Night Visitor

An illustrated erotic narrative, “Night Visitor,” portrays a mysterious nighttime scene in which a man discovers a woman bound to a tree in a forest and watches as an ominous male figure approaches, blurring…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 12

Sad Clown and Evolutionary Fantasy

Shikata Takashi, artist credit uncertain

An erotic illustration presents a sad clown-like figure and a woman in a surreal theatrical world of whips, balloons, and fantastical forms, framing the male performer as a subordinate figure whose suffering supports the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 13–14

Until She Is Bound

composition and performance by Haruhi Rumi; model Itabuki Makiko

A staged photographic sequence follows a masked and gloved woman overpowering another model, forcing her into submission and progressively restraining her with bindings.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15–18

Attack

composition by Haruhi Rumi

This outdoor photographic sequence depicts a costumed woman attacking, dragging, tying, and disciplining a male captive among trees and tall grass, with captions organizing the episode as a progressive assault and restraint scenario.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 19–22

A Campsite Story

Hanayama Kazuhisa, artist credit uncertain

A sequential illustrated campsite narrative follows Riko and Masao as their hiking trip turns into a series of playful but coercive erotic reversals involving outdoor restraint, disrobing, feeding, and punishment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 23–24

The Page: Abdominal-Cutting Performance

This photographic feature presents staged scenes of a woman performing or being associated with abdominal-cutting imagery, framed by reader correspondence from a self-described female abdominal-cutting enthusiast and editorial notes about submitted photographs.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 25

Trampling

composition by Haruhi Rumi

A composed erotic photograph depicts a woman in high heels pressing her foot onto a prone man, emphasizing female control and the spectacle of male submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 26

Human Horse

composition by Haruhi Rumi

A staged erotic photograph depicts a man reduced to a “human horse,” carrying or serving a dominant woman and being made to run for her.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 27

Are You Doing This?

Haruhi Rumi

A photographic feature presents a kneeling male slave in a posture described as easy to strike, framed by a woman’s command to assume the position.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 28

Necktie

composition by Haruhi Rumi

A staged scene titled “Necktie” depicts a submissive man kneeling at a woman’s feet while she controls him through his necktie.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

Improvised Post Restraint

Tobita Kinryō, artist credit uncertain

An illustrated domestic bondage scene shows a woman concealed and restrained inside a wardrobe as an unsettling “keepsake” left behind for her returning husband.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30

Chair Restraint

Kōji, from a contributor’s private album

An illustrated contributor-album scene depicts a woman secured in a wheeled chair or walker-like apparatus, emphasizing immobilization through an improvised restraint device.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 31–32

Bathhouse Punishment

This two-part illustrated bathhouse sequence presents a newlywed subjected to playful marital punishment, first positioned over a bathtub and then drenched under a shower while wearing an elaborate kimono.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 33

Acrobatic Dancer and Undressing

A photographic feature presents an acrobatic dancer in a split pose alongside staged images depicting a young woman being progressively undressed, with the sequence intended to continue in a later issue.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34

The Man Who Picks Up a Whip

A visual feature titled “The Man Who Picks Up a Whip” combines a photograph of a nude man bending to retrieve an object with an erotic historical painting of a woman dominating a fantastical…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 35

Woman Wrapped in Chains

Takase Shinobu

Takase Shinobu’s photographic feature depicts a nude woman bound and enveloped in chains, emphasizing elaborate bodily restraint as its central image and motif.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 36

Bedpost and Bed Restraint

Kawabata Tanako

A photographic feature presents a woman restrained with her arms raised against a bedpost, illustrating bed-based rope restraint and positioning.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 44–46

Diary of an Enema Maniac

Hanamura Emiko

A first-person account of an obsessive interest in enemas, tracing the author’s childhood experiences, experiments with enema equipment, bodily sensations, secrecy, and continuing desire for the practice.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 47–52

Strange Tales of a Year-End Gathering

Shirogane Kōji

An erotic grotesque tale set around a company year-end gathering, in which female employees and a socially powerful employer become involved in staged performances, coercive sexualized punishment, bondage, humiliation, and sadistic spectacle.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 53–60

From a Masochist’s Notebook

Numa Shōzō

A masochist’s reflective notebook linking women’s horseback riding and changing gender roles to fantasies of female authority, then developing these ideas through dreams, slave-wife scenarios, submissive service, and related reader material.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 61–64

Sexual Fluids, Part Ten

Itō Seiu

The tenth installment of Itō Seiu’s erotic serial follows coercive encounters involving staged spectacles, pursuit, captivity, and the use of ropes and other restraints, accompanied by sensational illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 65–78

Love Together with Abuse

Futamata Shizuko

A long first-person erotic narrative recounts a woman’s formative and adult experiences of abuse, humiliation, domination, restraint, and conflicted desire, linking intimate violence with love and dependency.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 79–87

Record of a Boy’s Springtime in a Mining Town

Mikihara Yoshio

A serialized narrative follows a boy’s adolescence in a coal-mining town, depicting schoolyard rivalries, group violence, coercive confrontations, and humiliating restraint amid difficult family and working-class circumstances.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 88–90

Sadism in Senryū

Urushibara Bunsei

This illustrated cultural essay interprets senryū poems as evidence of sadistic erotic practices and fantasies, especially those associated with Edo-period courtesans, attendants, and sexualized punishment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 91–95

Schoolchild Sumo Training

Yamaguchi Kōichi

A memoir-like account describes compulsory school sumo training, including strenuous physical drills, forced bouts, bodily pain, public nudity, and disciplinary methods shaped by authoritarian school culture.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 96–98

Longing for Seppuku and Suicide

Hyōdō Ren’ichi

An essay examines a fascination with seppuku and suicide through personal reflections, historical and modern dramatic representations, and eroticized images of abdominal cutting and self-destruction.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 99–102

The Woman Bound by Eight Men

Kishimoto Seiryū

A richly illustrated feature discusses and reenacts historical Japanese bondage scenes in which women are restrained by several men, describing costumes, settings, rope techniques, and staged photographic compositions.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 103–107

Three-Point Pulse

Hasegawa Kiyoshi

A narrative-practical feature presents the use of three moxibustion points in a marital bondage and punishment scenario, combining diagrams, fictionalized domestic episodes, and detailed descriptions of the resulting sensations and procedures.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 108–112

Collection: From My Scrapbook

Saji Kōsuke

Saji Kōsuke presents a first-person scrapbook-style account of encounters and fantasies involving female sadism, bondage, restraint, and sensational erotic situations, framed as collected personal experiences and observations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 113–121

The Dreamer of the Seventh Heaven

Asō Kazuo

Asō Kazuo’s serialized fantasy depicts the narrator’s imagined “seventh heaven” through grotesque and erotic scenarios involving obese bodies, humiliation, restraint, voyeuristic spectacle, and unusual sexualized punishments.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 122–126

Manifestations of Female Wrestling Beauty

Shichifuku Shihei

Shichifuku Shihei offers an eroticized comparative study of women’s wrestling beauty, evaluating wrestlers’ physiques, breasts, buttocks, hair, eyes, facial features, strength, and competitive performance through prose and silhouette illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 127–140

A Single Flower

Kataya Kaoru

A historical erotic narrative set in an Edo-period domain depicts peasants crushed by feudal taxation and abuses who organize resistance, endure interrogation and corporal punishment, and ultimately confront the authorities, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 141–146

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

Morimoto Aizō translates and explains selections from Johannes R. Birlinger's 1901 Das Grausame Weib, presenting historical and sexological cases of cruel women, especially mothers and teachers who inflict severe corporal punishment on children.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 147–150

Diary of a Bloomers Maniac

Yoshitsugu Ippei

Yoshitsugu Ippei offers a first-person fetish confession describing his persistent erotic fascination with bloomers, his efforts to acquire and handle them, and the voyeuristic excitement and fantasies associated with the garments.

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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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