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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
December
Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 68–69

Abuse in the Office

A staged photographic feature depicts a woman bound and humiliated in an office setting, using desks, chairs, and other workplace surroundings as part of the restraint scenes.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 72–79

The Entire Art of Love

Kabiya Kazuhiko

A wide-ranging essay examines male same-sex desire through psychological theory, social relationships, and active/passive sexual roles, combining contemporary observations with historical and literary examples. It also discusses reciprocal and unequal relationships, emotional attachment, and…

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Article / Feature Uramado 66

Actresses in Scenes of Suffering

Shiba Toshiyasu

A sensational film-feature article reviews scenes of actresses subjected to capture, bondage, torture, forced exposure, and other ordeals in Japanese and imported films, presenting the performers and films as objects of erotic spectacle.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 70–82

Ten Variations on Whipping

An illustrated gallery presents ten variations on whipping, drawing on erotic fiction, historical punishment scenes, and stylized depictions of corporal discipline.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 80–84

Famous Sodomites

Hai Geitei

This historical survey profiles famous male same-sex lovers and homoerotic figures from antiquity through modern Japan and the West, drawing on literature, biography, art, and scandalous or sensational episodes. The article emphasizes how masculine…

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Article / Feature Uramado 74

Temptation to Masochism

Kuroda Shiro

The concluding installment examines masochism through fictionalized and anecdotal cases involving women and men, linking desires for humiliation, punishment, submission, and suffering to psychological, social, and sexual dynamics.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 85–88

Portraits of Famous Lesbians

Mano Rei

A biographical and cultural survey presents famous lesbians and women associated with same-sex desire, including literary, artistic, theatrical, and historical figures from Japan and abroad. It considers lesbian relationships, cross-dressing and gender presentation, eroticized…

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 83–87

Binding a Woman

A visual feature surveys scenes of women being bound with ropes, poles, chairs, and other restraints, emphasizing immobilization and enforced poses.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 108–117

The Flower Rocking Horse

Kita Jun

A serialized erotic SM story in which Misae and other characters are subjected to escalating rope bondage, corporal punishment, forced nudity, humiliation, and coercive sexual domination.

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Article / Feature Uramado 82

Tragic Death of a Defeated Warrior

Hisatomi Koji

A serialized historical erotic narrative follows defeated warriors and women through pursuit, captivity, combat, escape attempts, and tragic deaths, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 88–93

The Woman Enchanted by the Whip

Tagi Keisuke

This serialized erotic narrative follows a woman whose encounters with whipping develop into an obsessive and coercive bondage relationship, escalating through domination, punishment, and submission.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 94–97

The Vanishing Woman

Mimura Jirō

A serialized erotic crime narrative in which a woman is abducted, drugged, restrained, subjected to escalating violence, and ultimately threatened with death while her captor’s identity and motives emerge.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 118–119

Why Does the Rope Tighten?

A film-oriented feature about the forthcoming erotic movie “Does the Wife’s Nudity Cost Dearly?”, highlighting its plot of sexual blackmail and captivity and its prominently staged bondage scenes.

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Article / Feature Uramado 92

Disregard for Women's Rights in the Meiji Era

Kasai Koichi

This illustrated historical survey documents the disregard of women’s rights in the Meiji era through accounts of forced marriage, domestic and sexual abuse, discriminatory legal customs, and contemporary newspaper-reported cases.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 120

Swaying

Abe Kitayoshi

An illustrated cultural essay tracing earrings and ear piercing as bodily adornment, considering their history, changing social meanings, and erotic associations with the ear and visible jewelry.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 98–103

A Picture Scroll of a Woman's Torment

An illustrated historical-style torture narrative follows a woman who is captured, bound with rope, beaten, humiliated, and exposed to further punishment by male antagonists, with the accompanying prose presenting the scenes as a dramatic…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 121–123

Earrings

Banba Takeo

This essay traces earrings from historical customs to modern fashion, interpreting ear piercing and ornamental jewelry as signs of femininity, ownership, submission, and sexual psychology.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 124–133

Reconciliation of the Intestines

Udō Megumi

An erotic narrative about a married couple uses enemas, anal stimulation, humiliation, and bodily control to dramatize conflict, mutual desire, and eventual reconciliation within marriage.

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Article / Feature Uramado 99

White Wall

Fukamori Eishi

A photographic sequence depicts a nude woman bound with rope against a stark white wall, moving through crouched, kneeling, standing, and floor-bound positions.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 104–106

Readers' Forum

The readers’ forum presents correspondence, reader-submitted photographs, reactions to earlier material, and requests or notices concerning participation in the magazine’s erotic publishing community.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 107–116

Caprice in Mexico

Mitsuhiko

An illustrated presentation of a purported Mexican company’s fetish catalogue, featuring stylized women in masks, corsets, boots, lingerie, and other specialized costumes arranged in scenes of bondage, restraint, and domination.

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Article / Feature Uramado 107

Record of Rope-Love Sin and Karma

Fujimi Masafumi; illustrations by Domi Shoichi

An illustrated historical erotic narrative follows a young master, a female teacher, and their associates through jealousy, sexual intrigue, rope bondage, punishment, and revenge.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 134–138

The Shame of a Woman Being Tormented

Miyahara Shizuo

This mixed historical and visual feature surveys punishments and instruments used to torment women, linking Japanese and Western traditions of corporal discipline with modern sadistic fantasy and staged erotic imagery.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 139–140

On Demonstrative Sadism

Fujikawa Jun

An illustrated essay examines demonstrative sadism, distinguishing sadistic impulses and behaviors through psychological observations and illustrative examples.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 141–146

Crabs Crawling on a Woman's Skin

Shinoda Fujimi

A historical erotic narrative set in Edo-period Japan follows sexual encounters, coercion, and sadistic punishments involving a woman named Okyō, Senkichi, and other characters, including scenes of crab play and wooden-horse punishment.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 147–149

Memories of Tormenting Women

Fujikawa Jun

Fujikawa Jun presents a confessional memoir of tormenting girls and women, tracing sadistic fantasies from childhood through later erotic modeling and photographic scenarios.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 157–169

The Woman of the Etsugyaku Club

Aoyama Miekichi

A serialized erotic narrative follows reporter Keiichi’s encounters with an enigmatic female doctor and the Etsugyaku Club, developing through abduction, interrogation, rope restraint, and increasingly coercive sadomasochistic scenes, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Uramado 124

Tokyo Hedon Yaro

Minamimura Ran

A serialized SM fantasy follows a young man whose encounters with an older dominant woman and other women involve seduction, humiliation, coercive role reversal, and increasingly elaborate bondage and punishment scenes. The accompanying illustrations…

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Article / Feature Uramado 134

Uramado Town

A miscellany section combines film and cultural commentary with sensational crime and punishment reports, including discussions of mystery films, detectives, imprisonment, discipline, and female dominance. It presents these subjects through reviews, anecdotal reportage, and…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 170–175

Reader Salon

The Reader Salon presents readers’ letters, personal responses, and editorial exchanges about erotic fiction, bondage imagery, and sexual interests, together with reader-oriented notices and listings for specialist publications.

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Article / Feature Uramado 142

Black-Hair Confession: Boyhood Chapter

Shima Fuji

A first-person confession revisits the narrator’s boyhood, family life, schooling, and formative encounters with women, emphasizing how memories of beautiful black hair and female attention shaped later desire.

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Article / Feature Uramado 152

Readers' Short Reviews

A reader-review column presents brief responses to erotic magazines, illustrations, photographs, and related works, showing readers evaluating and discussing the publication’s visual and sexual culture.

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Article / Feature Uramado 154

The Man Who Failed to Become a Man

Matsudaira Shoji; illustrations by Toyoda Minoru

Set in a historical period, this illustrated narrative follows Send太郎’s coercive encounter with a woman and her family, escalating through captivity, restraint, humiliation, violence, and threatened punishment.

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Article / Feature Uramado 174

New Film Introductions

A film-review section introduces and evaluates several Japanese and foreign films, emphasizing their plots, performances, visual presentation, eroticized situations, violence, and sensational subject matter.

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Article / Feature Uramado 180

Shake Your Ass and Run

Ari Kyoji

A serialized erotic narrative set around a nightlife and service business depicts employees and customers caught in coercive sexual games, surveillance, humiliation, fetishized bodies, and escalating disciplinary scenarios.

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Article / Feature Uramado 188

Female Prisoners and Prenatal Education

Narutaki Saburo

An illustrated essay considers prenatal education among female prisoners, arguing that a pregnant woman’s experiences, emotions, and surroundings may influence the child’s later character and development.

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Article / Feature Uramado 207

Ōoku Scroll of Naked Women

Bojo Tomonari; illustrations by Nakajima Kimi

An illustrated historical erotic narrative set in the women’s quarters of Edo Castle, where court women and covert intruders become caught in episodes of abduction, coercion, nudity, and rope restraint. The accompanying drawings emphasize…

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January
Magazine Issue Uramado

February 1961

This February 1961 Uramado segment consists entirely of Selected Masterpieces of Pleasurable Torment Photography, an eight-page bondage portfolio selected and compiled by the editorial department. The photographs present a single female model in a…

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Magazine Issue Fuzoku Kitan

February 1961

The surviving February 1961 Fuzoku Kitan material is dominated by an unusually extensive bondage-photography section, preceded by a formal contents page that reveals a much broader editorial program of sadomasochistic fiction, cross-dressing confession, homosexuality,…

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Magazine Issue Gaho Fuzoku Kitan

February 1961

The February 1961 issue of Gaho Fuzoku Kitan is organized around a formal table of contents, an extended sequence of color and monochrome pictorial material, illustrated punishment fantasies, short fiction, a photographic narrative, reader…

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 1

Death-Calling Whip

Mano Ichirei

“Death-Calling Whip,” credited to Mano Ichirei, is listed as a whipping-centered erotic fiction work in the special torment-fiction selection.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 1

Hell's Stowaway Ship

Aoyama Miekichi

The visual feature presents a staged bondage scene in which a woman lies restrained across bedding, evoking captivity and punitive erotic fantasy associated with the title “Hell’s Stowaway Ship.”

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 1

Memories of Dolly Morton

Inami Etsurō

This photographic feature presents a second staged scene of a reclining, restrained figure in an interior setting, framed as a visual remembrance of Dolly Morton.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 1

White Twin Peaks

Masaki Shin'ichi

“White Twin Peaks,” credited to Masaki Shin'ichi, is listed as an erotic fiction work in the issue’s special selection; the contents page provides no further plot detail.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 1

Woman in Boots with Buttons

Rudolf Schlichter

A reproduction of Rudolf Schlichter’s illustration shows a seated woman in prominent buttoned boots, using stylized pose and costume to create a fetish-oriented erotic image.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 2–4

Aware, Bound Sorrow

A photographic portfolio depicts a nude woman bound with rope in seated, reclining, and tightly posed positions, emphasizing sorrowful introspection and the visual drama of kinbaku restraint.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 3

Skin Laid Bare

A photographic feature presents a woman posed with her upper body exposed and partially draped, emphasizing the visual display of bare skin.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 5

Shigarazuya

A staged photographic feature presents a woman in a sailor uniform subjected to rope restraint, foregrounding the eroticized clothing and the fetishist’s domination of the uniformed model.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 6

The Sadness of the Uniform

Photographs show a sailor-uniformed woman bound and posed outdoors around benches, railings, and trees, treating the uniform as an object of fetishistic restraint and melancholy spectacle.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 9–10

Rope-Writhing Poses

This visual feature presents a nude model in varied rope-bound, contorted poses, emphasizing bodily restriction and staged erotic display.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 10–12

Strange Bound Woman

A photographic feature presents a nude woman in a series of rope-bound poses, emphasizing her contorted posture, exposed body, and theatrical erotic atmosphere.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 11–12

Captive Nude Form

A photographic sequence titled “Captive Nude Form” depicts a nude woman restrained with rope in seated and reclining positions on a tatami-mat interior floor.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 13–14

Outdoor Bound Woman

A photographic feature presents a woman bound outdoors against large trees, emphasizing the stark visual contrast between her pale body and the dark natural surroundings.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 15–16

Crucifixion Binding

A series of staged photographs depicts a woman restrained upright with her arms and legs spread against rods in a crucifixion-like binding, framed as a severe and painful punishment tableau.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 18–20

Pitiful School-Uniformed Girl

A photographic feature portrays a woman in a sailor-style school uniform bound with rope in seated and reclining poses, framing her as a vulnerable and pitiful captive figure.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 17–18

Before the Round Window

This photographic feature shows a woman tied in several posed settings, including before a round window and beneath or beside heavy wooden objects, presenting restraint as an elaborate punishment scenario.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 19–20

Hallway Outrage

A photographic bondage feature stages a woman restrained and humiliated in a traditional hallway, using varied rope positions and the voyeuristic setting to create an atmosphere of public exposure and captivity.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 26–30

Woman Given an Enema

A staged photographic sequence presents a bound woman undergoing an enema, emphasizing the apparatus, bodily exposure, discomfort, and endurance involved in the scene.

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Article / Feature Fuzoku Kitan 21

Ravishing Full-Nude Binding

A concluding photographic feature presents a wife subjected to elaborate full-nude rope binding, emphasizing immobilization, exposure, and the visual aesthetics of marital bondage.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 32–34

Black Blindfold

A photographic feature shows a woman restrained with rope and wearing a black blindfold in seated and posed bondage scenes.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 36–38

Bound for a Long Time

A black-and-white photographic sequence depicts model Yuki Murakami tightly bound with rope linking the neck and ankles and compressing the torso, forcing her into prolonged, uncomfortable poses.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 40–42

Captured Posture

This photographic feature shows a woman restrained in and around a chair, with rope securing her torso and limbs while she is made to maintain confined, awkward seated and kneeling positions.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 44–46

The Chair's Tormented Pose

A series of staged photographs explores the chair as a device of restraint, showing a woman tied across, behind, and beneath its frame in increasingly constrained and distressed poses.

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Article / Feature Gaho Fuzoku Kitan 48–50

The Whip Flies

A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman tied with rope in several positions and subjected to whipping, emphasizing her restrained body and reactions to the blows.

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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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