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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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2,116 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 Its placement makes the relationship between punishment imagery, historical reference, and erotic bondage unusually…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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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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September
Article / Feature Kitan Club 14

High-Pressure Enema Pump

Shima Takashi

An illustrated depiction of a bound person connected to a high-pressure enema pump, foregrounding the apparatus and medicalized bodily-play scenario.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15

Fantasy of a Drowned Body

Taki Reiko

An erotic illustration titled “Fantasy of a Drowned Body” presents a woman’s imagined drowned or submerged body amid aquatic imagery and a darkly morbid atmosphere.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 16

The Victim in the Boat

Taki Reiko

An erotic illustration portrays a bound female victim lying inside a boat, framing restraint and helplessness through a staged maritime sacrifice scene.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 22–24

Bound Model Under Foot

A photographic sequence shows a woman subjected to elaborate rope bondage in seated, kneeling, and floor-bound positions, including scenes of foot domination and immobilization.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 25–26

Bound Woman and Cigarette

A photographic feature depicts a woman seated and immobilized with rope restraints around her torso and limbs while smoking a cigarette, emphasizing staged bound posture and sensory control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–39

Your-Choice Scrapbook

Editorial Collective

An editorial scrapbook gathers reader letters, personal accounts, questionnaire responses, illustrations, photographs, and editorial commentary on women’s sexuality, erotic media, and the magazine’s submission and publishing practices.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 40–45

Cruel Games

Ōnaka Tadashi

This serialized sadomasochistic fiction follows Yuki and Kiyoko through escalating scenes of rope bondage, enforced exposure, beating, and humiliating “cruel games” staged in domestic and outdoor settings.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46–55

Marimo Tale: A Woman's Memoir

Kusunoki Sawako

A woman’s first-person journey from Tokyo to Lake Akan leads into a fictionalized Ainu-set tale of marimo folklore, forbidden love, tribal conflict, captivity, and coercive sexual domination. The narrative combines travel-memoir framing with historical…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 56–69

Transformation Record: A Confession of Submissive Love

Manda Fuji

A confessional erotic narrative follows a man’s degradation and submission under dominant women, depicting corporal punishment, bondage, forced nudity, humiliation, discipline, and dog-role or transformation fantasies. The text is accompanied by staged erotic illustrations…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 70–71

Fantasy of the Fig

Koike Ichirō

A surreal erotic narrative follows a mysterious fig-derived drug that induces hallucinations and escalating medicalized bodily sensations, including repeated enema imagery involving a servant figure.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 74–77

Plaza of the Underworld

Ōtsuka Keiko

An underworld fantasy presents a first-person journey through demonic judgment, torture, and punishment, accompanied by photographic portraits and posed images of model Keiko Otsuka.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 78–79

A Certain Barbershop

Saitō Shichirō

A fictional barbershop narrative develops rubber-fetish fantasies involving female customers, restraint, specialized washing equipment, and humiliating salon scenarios.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 80–85

The Ordeal of a Beautiful Nose

Hanabusa Takako

This experience-fiction narrative centers on a man’s escalating obsession with a beautiful woman’s nose, subjecting it to painful enlargement, piercing, insertion, cleaning, and other apparatus-based procedures across repeated encounters.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 86–87

A Conception of Female Disembowelment

Kirihara Shimon

A literary conception of female disembowelment presents imagined historical and modern episodes in which women undergo abdominal cutting, framed through dramatic scenes of sacrifice, punishment, violence, and eroticized suffering.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 88–92

A Conversation After the Bath

Okita Kogorō

A post-bath conversation between a married couple develops into an erotic domestic fantasy involving sexual negotiation, coercive role-play, and the wife’s submission within marriage.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 93–95

Male Actors with Chest Hair

Kajimagari Son'ichi

An illustrated media feature surveys Japanese and foreign male actors celebrated for conspicuous chest hair, discussing how body hair, physique, film roles, and star imagery construct masculine erotic appeal.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 96–112

Murder by Flame

Nomoto Taizō

A serialized SM crime story follows Dr. Munakata’s investigation of a mysterious death at a sanatorium, involving erotic obsession, captivity, poison, arson, and conflicting accounts from the people connected to the victim. Illustrated scenes…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 113–125

Memoirs of Customs: Strange Residues of the Taishō Era

Horihara Hideyoshi

A purported memoir of unusual sexual customs surviving from the Taishō era, recounting coercive and fetishistic encounters involving ropes, bodily restraint, punishment, and voyeuristic observation. The piece blends historical recollection with sensational erotic storytelling.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 126–133

SM Play Girl

Tsujimura Takashi

An interactive SM feature combining reader-style confessions, editorial commentary, erotic scenarios, and photographic examples centered on bondage, restraint, humiliation, and gendered dominance. The material presents readers’ fantasies and requests alongside staged visual demonstrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 134–135

Model and Photography Ideas

Masaoka Ritomu

A portfolio of proposed drawing and photography setups depicting women and men in elaborate rope restraints, including post bondage, paired restraint, suspension-like poses, and other staged SM tableaux. Captions specify compositions and pose arrangements…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–143

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A serialized fictional narrative follows Ichirō and others through political intrigue, captivity, coercion, interrogation, and bondage, combining crime-sensational action with scenes of punishment and submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 144–147

The History of the Corset

Narita Ichirō

This illustrated historical survey traces the corset from earlier Western garments through modern fashion, explaining how changing designs shaped the torso, breasts, waist, and posture while linking corsetry to ideals of femininity, class, and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 156–161

Abnormal Essays: Notes on Passing Thoughts

Minamikata Yoshio

A series of reflective essays examines cruelty and sadism in Japanese and foreign films, contrasting graphic brutality with imaginative and psychological effects while also discussing censorship, actresses, fashion, and erotic visual presentation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 162–174

Thirty-Nine Strange Nights, Twenty-Eighth Night

Tsujimura Takashi

This serialized erotic fantasy follows Sanjirō’s encounters with twin performers Natsuko and Fuyuko, developing through staged spectacle and shifting power relations into captivity, elaborate restraint, humiliation, and forced intestinal cleansing.

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October
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Confessions, Experiences, and Memoirs Special Issue

The November 1963 issue of Kitan Club is presented as a special number devoted to confessions, personal experiences, and memoirs. Its editorial structure combines staged photographic portfolios, erotic illustration, autobiographical testimony, psychological reflection, serialized…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 9–10

Prelude of the Suspended Body

This visual feature depicts a woman secured in a rope harness and lifted into suspension, documenting changing suspended poses and the dramatic presentation of the hanging body.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14

Adorable Mare

Shiba Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a woman posed as an adorable mare, wearing a harness and bit while moving on all fours with reins, a saddle, and a whip nearby.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15

A Greeting of 'Good Night'

Shiba Takashi

An erotic illustration presents a woman reclining in an elegant night setting while a submissive figure attends to and appears to kiss or worship her foot.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18

Enema and Diaper

Shiba Takashi

An erotic illustration presents a diapered woman receiving an enema from a male partner, with medical implements and a basin prominently shown.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 21

What Will Attack Next?

Shiba Takashi

A photographic feature presents a woman bound and inverted in a staged domestic scene under the teasing heading “What Will Attack Next?”

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 27–29

New Model Studies

A sequence of model studies depicts women in lingerie and partial dress posing in staged restraint scenarios, including rope-bound torsos, gagging, and controlled postures.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–35

The Effect of an Oblate

Kurihara Chō

An essay describes the physical and psychological effects of taking medicine wrapped in an oblate wafer, using the experience to reflect on suggestibility, bodily sensation, and the tension between rational explanation and mysterious inner…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 36–41

Sweet Nightmare

Ōnaka Tadashi

A serialized erotic nightmare follows a narrator’s encounters with a beautiful sea woman and a young woman whom he binds, restrains, and humiliates in increasingly elaborate dreamlike scenes of pursuit and captivity.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46–49

Women Who Ride

Kura Ryōjin

A photo-rich reportage piece profiles women who ride horses, describing their riding experiences, family backgrounds, training, and participation in equestrian events.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 50–51

Our First Play

Watanabe Mitsuru

A married couple recounts their first SM play, moving from mutual hesitation to an extended consensual session involving discipline, restraint, and role experimentation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 58–71

Tales of the Twenty-Ninth Night

Tsujimura Takashi

A serialized erotic SM narrative follows encounters in which women are photographed, interrogated, and subjected to elaborate rope bondage, gagging, immobilization, and other forms of restraint. The story is accompanied by staged photographic scenes…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 72–73

Recent Female Fighting Scenes in Film

Yamada Takao

This illustrated film commentary surveys recent Japanese and foreign screen scenes of women fighting, wrestling, overpowering one another, and being restrained, emphasizing their sensational and erotic appeal to viewers.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 74–78

Kimono, Kimono, Kimono Stories

Makibe Takashi

A hybrid instructional and narrative feature explains and illustrates ways of tying women in kimono and obi, while presenting eroticized scenarios of restraint, exposure, humiliation, and bodily control through traditional clothing.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 79–81

The Pleasures of Travel

Watanabe Kane

A travel memoir presents travel as an escape into unfamiliar landscapes, local customs, personal freedom, and amusing encounters, including sexually charged commercial and enema-related references.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–87

Diary of an Inverted Fetish

Kubo Ichirō

A diary-style fetish confession recounts the narrator’s fascination with long boots, leather, military and school uniforms, swordsmanship, and scenes in which women overpower, discipline, and humiliate men.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 88–89

A Handmade Loincloth and Red Swimsuit

R. Ichirō

This autobiographical erotic narrative describes a rural visit where a physically timid young man becomes involved in a fetishistic episode centered on a handmade loincloth, a red swimsuit, female control, and enforced submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 90–95

Shigeko's Strange Habit

Onna Gakumai

A narrative about Shigeko’s unusual erotic fixation on women’s feet, restraint, and humiliating physical play, presented through dialogue and illustrated scenes involving female partners.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 96–106

Flower and Snake, Part Six

Dan Oniroku

A serialized fictional episode in which Kyoko and Shizuko are pursued, captured, stripped, gagged, and subjected to coercive bondage and sexual humiliation by a group of men.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 107–109

Notes of a Gag-Making Enthusiast

Yutani Teruo

An illustrated enthusiast’s notebook cataloguing several gagging arrangements and materials, with practical descriptions, scenario fragments, and examples of how the restraints affect speech and movement.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 110–112

Please Torment My Nose

Yoshino Kio

A first-person erotic confession describes a woman’s escalating nose-centered fetish, in which her partner subjects her to humiliating restraint, nose-hair manipulation, fluids, and other forms of punishment and sensory stimulation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 113–115

War and the Mood of Cruelty

This essay links wartime atrocities and mass violence, including the killing of Chinese civilians by the Japanese military, to a postwar cultural appetite for cruelty as represented in films, literature, television, and erotic imagery.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–145

New Harima Dish Mansion

Manda Fujin

A historical erotic tale set in the Harima domain depicts escalating schemes of captivity, rope restraint, humiliation, coercion, violence, and sexualized punishment among samurai-era characters. The narrative culminates in brutal sadistic confrontations and execution-like…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 146–151

Fabric of Mad Love

Nonaka Nobutoshi

A first-person confession traces the author’s intense fetishistic attraction to women’s obi and other waist garments, from childhood memories and voyeuristic observation to fantasies and encounters involving wearing, touching, and collecting such clothing.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 152–159

Concerning Pregnancy Photographs

Kageura Sakae

This illustrated essay examines erotic pregnancy photography and related medicalized scenes, discussing posed images of pregnant bodies, examinations, childbirth, nudity, and the viewer’s fascination with maternal transformation. It combines commentary on photographic technique and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 160–161

The Sweet Life of Rubber Play

Tsuda Akiko

A personal confession describes the author’s long-standing fascination with rubber, including sleeping on rubber sheets, using rubber clothing and accessories, and finding tactile pleasure in increasingly elaborate rubber play.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 162–171

Underwear Made of Paper

Okayama Fujin

An illustrated erotic feature presents paper underwear as an unusual novelty, combining product-like claims about its feel and use with suggestive imagery and testimonials aimed at readers interested in fetish garments.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 172–177

Women's Feet and Underwear

Himeuma Fujin

A personal narrative traces the author’s fascination with women’s feet and underwear from childhood memories through adult encounters, describing stockings, bare feet, foot-focused fantasies, and voyeuristic observation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 178–179

When a Woman Is Bound

Nakayashiki Makoto

The author recounts his longstanding fascination with artistic and cinematic depictions of women being attacked or cut, tracing the interest from illustrated fiction to contemporary films and popular visual culture. The piece reflects on…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 180–181

When a Woman Is Cut

Okamoto Fujin

A first-person report on attending an amateur women’s sumo event in Nagasaki describes the contestants, their bodies and costumes, the physical intensity of the bouts, and the excited spectatorship surrounding the matches.

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November
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

December 1963 Issue

The December 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines photographic bondage studies, erotic illustration, personal confession, historical and pseudo-documentary inquiry, serialized fiction, reader communications, and miscellaneous research notes. Its formal contents page presents the publication…

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