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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 Its placement makes the relationship between punishment imagery, historical reference, and erotic bondage unusually…

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1962
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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November
Article / Feature Kitan Club 19

Enema and Diaper

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a diapered woman restrained on the floor beside enema equipment, combining infantilized presentation with an enema scene.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 20

Water from a Rubber Boot

Shima Takashi

An illustration shows a woman bound to a chair while a man uses a rubber boot to pour or administer water to her, emphasizing coercive restraint and boot-centered fetish imagery.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 21

Baby Car

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a woman restrained in a baby carriage or chair while an older man feeds her, surrounded by baby-related objects and presenting a childlike dependency scenario.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 54–59

Confession: Enchanted by Women’s Clothing

Kuchiki Hiroshi

A personal confession about a married man’s fascination with women’s clothing, recounting his transformation into feminine dress through lingerie, makeup, wigs, and accessories, as well as attempts to appear in public and refine the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 66–79

Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twentieth Night

Tsujimura Takashi

This extended serialized fiction presents interconnected tales of erotic cruelty, supernatural vengeance, death, bodily mutilation, and medicalized punishment, including the recurring story of the ghostly O-Kiku and the fetishized “foot of Venus.”

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 100–110

Woman and Snake, Part 3

Hanamaki Sōtarō

This installment of the serialized erotic crime fiction follows the abduction and abuse of a wealthy family, with captors using rope bondage, gagging, humiliation, and enema torture while detectives and associates pursue the case…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 111–113

SM Dialogue: Theatrical Rehearsal

Nakano Jirō

A scripted SM dialogue presented as a theatrical rehearsal portrays an apartment manager and a television actress in an increasingly coercive encounter involving threats, sexual domination, money, and demands for marriage.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 114–131

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A serialized SM novella follows a traveler at a rural inn whose interactions with the female servants develop into elaborate scenes of confinement, restraint, punishment, humiliation, and sadistic control, with the narrative escalating through…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 132–135

Photo Essay: The Scent of M

Ōtsuka Keiko

An illustrated photo-essay and cultural commentary explores the erotic significance of women’s navels, discussing bodily beauty, celebrity and model imagery, and the visual appeal of the exposed female midriff in erotic media.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–141

Prize Confession: Longing for Tattoos

Miyajima Kane

A first-person prize confession describes the author’s intense fascination with Japanese tattoos, especially the erotic appeal of heavily tattooed men encountered in bathhouse and private settings. The narrative links tattoo imagery, bodily display, voyeuristic…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 142–143

Film Commentary: On Harakiri

Watanabe Kaname

This illustrated personal essay recounts finding an empty enema instrument on Kujūkuri beach and develops the discovery into a humorous reflection on discarded erotic paraphernalia, different enema devices, and the intimate practices associated with…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 148–153

At a Deep Mountain Villa

Saitō Isao

This essay examines women appearing in male attire across literature, film, theater, and popular imagery, discussing female swordswomen, jockeys, soldiers, and other forms of cross-gender performance as expressions of changing ideals of femininity.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 154–157

The World of Abnormality as Seen in Film

Nakahara Isao

The feature considers rubber fetishism and other stigmatized erotic interests through personal reflection and anecdotal scenes, arguing that supposedly abnormal desires should be understood in relation to individual experience rather than dismissed outright.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 158–171

Bondage Calendar: A Woman for Each Month

Nakanishi Kin

A month-by-month bondage calendar presents twelve seasonal tableaux of women bound in varied rope configurations, combining erotic scenarios with calendar imagery and suggestions for staged visual compositions.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 172–176

The Man Possessed by Glass

Futaki Yoshio

This erotic story follows a man whose fascination with glass develops into an intense fetishistic fantasy involving glass powder, bodily danger, domination, and a woman’s coercive control over him.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 177–192

Reader Correspondence and Closing Departments

A closing reader-mail section presents extensive correspondence about readers’ experiences, interests, requests, and reactions to the magazine’s erotic writing and imagery, alongside editorial replies, product and back-issue notices, submission guidelines, and other publishing information.

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1963
December
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

1963 New Year Issue

The January 1963 New Year issue of Kitan Club combines extensive bondage photography and fetish illustration with historical research, serialized fiction, speculative stories, personal testimony, humor, cultural commentary, and a large reader-correspondence section. Its…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 17

The White Number at Night

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration titled “The White Number at Night” shows a woman seated in a dark vehicle or compartment while an older man grips her from behind.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18

Buttock-Beating Platform

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration presents a punishment apparatus on which a bound man is positioned for beating while another man raises a long cane overhead.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 19

Cleaning the Nostrils

Shima Takashi

An illustrated erotic scene depicts a woman being restrained while another person uses a small implement to clean or probe her nostrils.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 20

Newly Designed Hand-and-Foot Stocks

Shima Takashi

An illustrated feature presents a newly designed apparatus that restrains a woman’s neck, hands, and feet in a seated position, with accompanying restraint implements displayed around her.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 21

Gymnasium Storeroom

Kurokawa Fujio

A staged photograph shows a man bound against a wall in a gymnasium storeroom, blindfolded or gagged and subjected to immobilizing restraint.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–47

Notes on Punishment and Execution in the Edo Period

Omodaka Shino

Omodaka Shino’s illustrated historical essay surveys Edo-period punishments and executions, explaining the procedures, implements, clothing, status distinctions, and treatment of condemned people while documenting execution scenes through drawings and staged visual examples.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 66–67

Breast Binding

Higashiyama Tarō

An illustrated striptease scenario depicts a performer being progressively restrained with ropes and subjected to staged handling, emphasizing breast binding as theatrical erotic spectacle.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 66–67

Strange Psychology: Hypnosis

Minono Taeko

This article explains hypnosis as a psychological practice, describing induction techniques, suggestion, altered consciousness, and demonstrations of erotic control within intimate relationships.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 68–87

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A serialized erotic captivity narrative depicting arrests, pursuits, imprisonment, chained prisoners, and repeated physical punishment and humiliation within coercive encounters involving police officers, men, and women.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 88–89

A Visit to a Designer’s Studio

Harada Sunako

A reader-style personal confession describes a married woman’s dominant relationship with her husband, whom she treats as a lifelong slave through bondage, restraints, gagging, and disciplinary control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 90–97

Sardinia Travel Notes

Arutame Mataji

A fictional Sardinian adventure depicts a captive woman subjected to elaborate restraints, gagging, electric punishment, forced medical treatment, and eventual rescue amid confrontations between captors and rescuers.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 98–103

A Dangerous Woman

Waka Yūko

A roundtable-style discussion brings together several participants to debate male cross-dressing, clothing and makeup, personal identity, social reactions, gender roles, and the pleasures and anxieties surrounding feminine presentation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 104–122

The Painting Atelier

Kimura Taishin

A long-form SM story follows Yōko and several coworkers on a mountain trip that turns into a cruel series of wagers, captivity, bindings, punishments, and humiliating sexualized abuse, with the shifting power relations among…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 123

A View of Life and Death

Asō Tamotsu

This illustrated commentary reviews a November issue of the film magazine Kindai Eiga, discussing its gravure photographs, film stars, celebrity personalities, and the ways popular media presents their lifestyles and public images.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 124–131

A Bond Formed by White Tabi

Kino Akemi

A first-person erotic memoir recounts how a woman’s fascination with white tabi leads to an intimate relationship with a man who shares and indulges her fetish, culminating in marriage and domestic life shaped by…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 132–135

Senryū Notes

Saitō Ritsuo

This illustrated senryū commentary traces humorous and erotic references to the navel, abdomen, childbirth, bodily exposure, and related physical imagery across historical and modern verse.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–138

December Issue Reading Impressions

Akuta Osamu

A reader’s extended response to the December issue reflects on its fiction and erotic writing, especially depictions of abnormal desire, beautiful women, fantasy, and the boundary between imaginative literature and lived experience.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 140–143

The Slave’s Poem

Yamamoto Hazuo

A first-person erotic narrative follows a woman’s coercive submission to a female owner, emphasizing enslavement, discipline, restraint, and psychological surrender.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 144–153

The Experience of Bondage Photography

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A richly illustrated feature documents staged bondage-photography sessions, describing the models, rope arrangements, physical positions, emotional direction, and practical challenges of producing kinbaku images.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 162–163

The Kasumigaura Women’s Battle

Yasuda Takao

A bondage enthusiast’s memoir discusses the uses and appeal of bands and rubber restraints before shifting into an illustrated historical erotic narrative of women’s conflict, capture, and violent ordeal at Kasumigaura.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 164–177

Memoir of a Badminton Match

Manabe Masuo

This essay presents an elaborate method for imaginatively reading erotic punishment illustrations, guiding readers through scenes of female restraint, humiliation, bodily exposure, and forced bodily functions; the accompanying pages also advertise and depict staged…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 178–192

Reader Communications

A reader-mail section compiling personal letters, responses to the magazine’s articles and photographic features, requests for correspondence and meetings, and notices about reader clubs, back issues, and mail-order materials. The correspondence also reflects readers’…

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January
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

February 1963 Issue

The February 1963 issue of Kitan Club presents a broad mixture of bondage photography, fetish illustration, theoretical discussion, fiction, personal testimony, cultural reportage, and reader-oriented community material. Its opening pages establish the issue’s visual…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 17

The Prison Bride

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration titled “The Prison Bride” depicts a woman reclining in a prison-like setting while bound with rope, presenting captivity as a staged visual fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18

Prison at the Bottom of the Earth

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration titled “Prison at the Bottom of the Earth” shows a woman restrained by ropes against the walls of an underground cell, emphasizing confinement and helplessness.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 19

The Woman Outlaw’s Suicide on the Rooftop

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration titled “The Woman Outlaw’s Suicide on the Rooftop” portrays a female outlaw in a dramatic rooftop scene with a sword and a restrained male figure, combining criminal melodrama, erotic staging, and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–37

A Trial Discussion of M and S

Shirakawa Yukio

An essay examines the psychological, ethical, and social meanings of masochism and sadism, contrasting pathological cruelty with the pursuit of pleasure, love, freedom, and self-realization in postwar society.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 38–52

Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twenty-Second Night

Tsujimura Takashi

This serialized SM tale follows a married couple and their associates through escalating episodes of surveillance, coercion, rope restraint, physical punishment, medicalized experimentation, and sadomasochistic role play.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 54–59

Birth of the Women’s Sumo Association

Okamoto Yoshio

A reportage-style account of the founding and first meeting of a women’s sumo association, describing its rules, recruitment, organizers, participants, demonstrations, and bouts in an atmosphere that combines athletic spectacle with eroticized observation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 62–65

Gallstone Reflections

Sudō Ritsuo

An essay on navel dirt and omphaloliths that combines medical and anatomical explanation with folklore, wordplay, hygiene advice, fetishistic associations, and personal anecdotes about the navel as an eroticized body part.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 66–73

A Voyeur’s Almanac

Nagata Toshio

An autobiographical series of recollections about voyeuristic encounters from childhood through adulthood, including peeping at women bathing, dressing, and undergoing medical examinations, alongside reflections on visual fascination, erotic memory, and postwar social life.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 76–93

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A serialized SM novel follows a female narrator and a female slave through escapes, recaptures, prison confinement, interrogation, punishment, and eventual separation, combining melodramatic crime plotting with scenes of bondage and humiliation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 94–101

Sardinia Travel Notes

Arutame Mataji

A serialized adventure narrative recounts an expedition into Sardinia, portrayed as a slave state where captured women endure restraint, punishment, medicalized cruelty, and forced labor before the protagonists attempt to escape.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 102–105

Enchanted by Neru’s Discipline

Koshino Nobutoshi

A first-person confession describes the author’s longstanding erotic fascination with women’s buttocks and waists, especially as revealed through clothing, and recounts voyeuristic observation, memories, and personal encounters shaped by that fetish.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 106–111

The Mystery of the Privy Fly

Masayume Hirōmasa

This strange medical-gothic tale follows a patient whose intense fear of the privy fly develops into bizarre bodily symptoms, hallucinations, and a mysterious illness that doctors struggle to explain.

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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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