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Kinbaku Timeline

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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2,116 archive events + 3 curated milestones 1960s
1961
March
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Seiu-Style Ways of Tying Women

Itō Seiu

Fuzoku Kitan’s April 1961 special issue moves from historical punishment into a feature explicitly presenting Seiu-style methods of tying women. Its placement makes the relationship between punishment imagery, historical reference, and erotic bondage unusually…

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October
Magazine Issue Uramado

November 1961

This surviving November 1961 Uramado segment is a compact, almost entirely photographic sequence organized around two contrasting approaches to the bound female body. The opening feature, Posing Nude, photographed by Fujisawa Osamu, presents a…

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Magazine Issue Fuzoku Kitan

November 1961 Special Issue

The November 1961 special issue of Fuzoku Kitan is explicitly organized around the theme The Allure of Whip and Rope, bringing together bondage photography, illustrated sadomasochistic fiction, translated European libertine literature, erotic stories, recurring…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan unnumbered photographic section

The Allure of Whip and Rope

A photographic feature presents women bound with rope in varied indoor and outdoor settings, including chairs, floors, trees, and wooden structures, emphasizing elaborate restraint positions, bodily display, and expressions of tension or submission.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 39–46

Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue

Marquis de Sade

An illustrated excerpt from the Marquis de Sade’s Justine follows the virtuous heroine through deception, captivity, sexual coercion, and brutal punishment at the hands of abusive men.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 49–58

Honeymoon of the Whip and Rope

Shishimura Yutaka

An illustrated erotic narrative depicts a couple’s increasingly elaborate encounters with whipping, rope bondage, restraint, humiliation, and staged disciplinary scenarios.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 59–61

Women I Want to Whip, Women I Want to Tie

Kurihashi Shingo

This illustrated essay examines the author’s erotic preferences for whipping and tying women, discussing desired bodily types, submissive postures, restraint methods, and the psychology of domination.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 62–71

Hip Fireworks

Kita Jun

A richly illustrated erotic narrative follows Kanako and other participants through coercive encounters involving rope restraint, spanking, humiliation, enemas, and staged photographic scenes.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 72–80

A Woman Like a Demon

Masaki Shinichi

An illustrated serialized SM fiction presents several contrasting women, including a female doctor, whose relationships develop through coercion, captivity, medicalized sexual play, enemas, restraint, and escalating psychological domination.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 87–95

When the Whip of Fire Goes Mad

Mano Rei

An erotic narrative follows a hunter and later urban characters through violent captivity, fire, pursuit, and punishment, linking archaic hunting imagery with sensational modern scenes.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 96–97

S.M. Rotary

This S.M. column surveys television and film scenes depicting women in distress, restraint, pursuit, and threatened punishment, including staged visual examples from contemporary Japanese entertainment.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 111–119

Numbed by Flesh Day and Night

Nemoto Gin

Nemoto Gin presents an illustrated erotic narrative of a couple’s escalating bondage and discipline, featuring restraint, gagging, corporal punishment, and intense female submission.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 120–126

Duchess of the Bastille, Continued

Stanton

A serialized erotic historical adventure in which the Duchess of the Bastille and her female followers seize control, subject prisoners to elaborate restraints and punishments, and ultimately face popular and judicial retribution during the…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 133–140

Black Night

Kusada Naki

An erotic psychological narrative centered on a young woman and her mother, tracing their intimate encounters, jealousy, shifting domestic relationships, fantasies, and eventual emotional separation.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 162–170

The Charm of Two White Hemispheres

Takazawa Eiji

An illustrated erotic essay examining the fascination of women’s breasts and related bodily features, discussing visual and tactile attraction, lingerie, bodily presentation, and the psychological intensity of breast-focused desire.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 171–182

A Night Drenched in Victimization

Aoyama Mieko

An erotic narrative follows Mieko through escalating episodes of rope bondage, forced immobilization, humiliation, and coercive sexual domination, accompanied by staged visual scenes and illustrations.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 185–190

Reader Salon

The Reader Salon presents correspondence, reader reactions, personal notices, publication information, and invitations that sustain participation in the magazine’s specialist erotic reading community.

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November
Magazine Issue Uramado

December 1961

The December 1961 Uramado material is an unusually compact, entirely photographic publication built around two contrasting studies of the female body and bondage. Rather than presenting the mixture of essays, fiction, correspondence, and editorial…

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Magazine Issue Fuzoku Kitan

December 1961 Special Issue

The December 1961 special issue of Fuzoku Kitan is organized around the theme Ecstasy amid Abuse and gives exceptional visual prominence to bondage and staged torment. After the cover and a two-page formal table…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan unnumbered photographic section

Ecstasy amid Abuse

A staged photographic portfolio presents women in elaborate rope bondage, restrained in varied positions and settings including tatami rooms, a piano, a railing, and outdoor spaces, with captions framing the scenes through suffering, escape,…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 48–59

Whip, Buttocks, and the Wind of December

Shishimura Yutaka

An illustrated SM fiction narrative follows a young woman whose encounters with older men involve seduction, humiliation, forced nudity, spanking, whipping, and escalating corporal punishment in domestic and institutional settings.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 60–71

The Bloodstained-Buttocks Madam

Michel Clerc

An illustrated erotic narrative centers on a bloodstained-buttocks madam and her daughter, moving through scenes of coercion, punishment, sexualized violence, and obsessive control before ending in a dangerous forest encounter and pursuit.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 80–88

Hip Fireworks, Part 2

Kita Jun

A serialized erotic SM narrative in which Chieko and other women are subjected to coercive sexual games involving enemas, repeated spanking, restraint, humiliation, and staged fireworks-like bodily spectacle.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 89–93

Friends Intoxicated by Enemas

Natsukawa Ayako

An illustrated erotic account of friends traveling to a hot-spring inn and engaging in group enema play, spanking, nudity, and sexualized bodily display within a boisterous communal setting.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 107–110

How Sex Reassignment Surgery Is Performed

Ishikawa Akira

A medical-style overview of male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, discussing its historical development, operative techniques, recovery, risks, costs, and the prospects and limitations of surgical gender transition.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 111–118

The Manaita Stone of Hell Castle

Akagi Keisuke

A historical erotic tale set in Edo-period Matsuyama Castle recounts a lord’s brutal punishment of a pregnant woman and the deadly legend that grows around the bloodstained Manaita Stone.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 179–182

Reader Salon

The Reader Salon presents reader letters, personal requests, editorial responses, submission guidance, and notices that sustain the magazine’s participatory correspondence community.

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1962
December
Magazine Issue Uramado

January 1962

The January 1962 Uramado material consists of a compact photographic feature titled Rope Mood, 縄のムード, credited on its opening page to photographer Yoshida Hisashi. Rather than presenting prose, fiction, correspondence, or editorial commentary, the…

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January
Magazine Issue Uramado

February 1962

The February 1962 issue of Uramado is a compact photographic publication devoted almost entirely to staged bondage imagery. Rather than following the article-heavy structure of a conventional magazine issue, it is organized as a…

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Magazine Issue Kitan Club

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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Article / Feature Kitan Club 56–62

Faint Memories

First-person remembrance of family, maternal authority, childhood, school, work, and remembered women, gradually becoming eroticized.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–91

Fantasia Masochistica

Illustrated feature of equestrian role-play, costume, posture, riding equipment, photography, audience response, and masochistic performance.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 92–103

Kizuna (Bond)

Continuing dramatic narrative of Yōko and Yūsuke involving police suspicion, imprisonment, marriage, pregnancy, domestic violence, restraint, forced labor, and possessive control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 104–105

I Want to Serve

First-person narrative about service, bodily inspection, obedience, employment, and humiliating sexual circumstances.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 120–125

Mozosu

Shōzō Ishii

Illustrated historical narrative involving feudal households, marriage, status, escape, pursuit, and Takeda–Tokugawa conflict.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 126–127

I Accuse

Tsutomu Takasaki

Polemical essay calling for a magazine responsive to social change and willing to investigate unusual and neglected subjects.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 133–134

M in Everyday Life

Feature tracing masochistic and domination-related ideas through clothing, popular culture, ordinary behavior, and personal fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 134

My Sadistic Journey

Tsutomu Tokusawa

Autobiographical account of the development of sadistic interests through childhood, adolescence, reading, and later experience.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 135

On Zen

Yoshito Iwai

Short essay juxtaposing Zen, bodily discipline, erotic practice, restraint, and physical control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 156–157

Slave Boy

Male bondage feature describing degrading labor, restraint, punishment, inspection, posture, and willing submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 172–179

Brilliant Revenge

Setsuo Kuroki

Fantasy narrative of attraction, workplace status, beauty, violence, pregnancy, attempted suicide, and revenge.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 180–210

The Contract

Kitamura

Prize-selected manuscript about obsessive relationships, coercion, jealousy, punishment, bondage, and an in-story written contract.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 211–217

The Enchanted Stage

Rōrō

Visual feature about theatre, costumes, masks, lighting, choreography, stage machinery, comic violence, and fetishized spectacle.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 219–234

Readers’ Correspondence

Closing correspondence department containing letters, replies, model requests, photographic exchanges, fetish discussions, and reader-participation notices.

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February
Magazine Issue Uramado

March 1962

The March 1962 issue of Uramado is a compact photographic publication organized around four distinct black-and-white bondage portfolios. Its editorial identity is almost entirely visual: there are no substantial prose articles, fiction, correspondence columns,…

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March
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

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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Article / Feature Kitan Club 7

Sugiba Ibushi

Reiko, reading uncertain

A theatrical monochrome illustration centers a partially nude, strongly dominant female figure set against subordinate male figures and elaborate costume.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 8

The Scarred Man

Kurokawa Fujio

A captioned illustration depicts a threatening, disfigured man controlling a doll-like or bound figure, using bodily abnormality and captivity as sensational motifs.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 10

The Eerie Locked Room

Shiba Takashi, romanization uncertain

A bound woman and a nearby male figure occupy an enclosed room, emphasizing confinement, menace, and immobilization.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 12

By Day a President, by Night a Slave

Ayama Mitsuo, romanization uncertain

A captioned illustration reverses social and gender status by showing a formally dressed woman dominating a man, explicitly contrasting public authority with private enslavement.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 13

Heavy Falling Object

Harukawa Namio

A bound figure and an implied falling weight create a staged scenario of physical danger, immobilization, and coercive spectacle.

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June
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Bondage Photography Becomes a Practical Discipline

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

“Practical Bondage Photography” explicitly joins bondage to practical photographic knowledge. The framing matters: bondage imagery is no longer only something to view or admire, but something whose production can be discussed as a practice.…

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1963
June
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Binding Becomes a Research Course

The July 1963 Kitan Club issue contains both “Bondage Research Course: Classroom of Binding Methods” and “Instructional Advice for Binding.” The vocabulary is striking: research, classroom, methods, and instruction. By this point the magazine…

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