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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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463 archive events + 2 curated milestones 1970s
1972
December
Magazine Issue SM Play

SM Play Photo Special

SM Play Photo Special is a large visual anthology devoted to bondage, sadomasochistic imagery, punishment, fetishism, and erotic illustration. The cover describes the volume as containing approximately 250 SM photographs and pictures across roughly…

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1974
December
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, January 1974

Kitan Club’s January 1974 issue is a large, densely illustrated specialist erotic magazine organized around bondage, sadomasochism, fetish practices, personal testimony, serialized fiction, and reader participation. Its opening pages move from submission notices and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 22

I Transformed into an Animal

Naegi Yoko

A first-person account of a married woman’s movement into SM, bondage, animal identification, altered consciousness, humiliation, and loss of ordinary self-consciousness, accompanied by staged photographs.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–39

A Woman’s Execution Chamber

Sahara Yōichirō

A fictionalized first-person narrative in which a department-store security guard turns surveillance, capture, interrogation, and punishment into a private vocation involving a hidden restraint room and photographic display.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46, 70, 91, 96, 102, 105, 108, 168, 172, 177, 191, 195

Contents Photographs

Suzuki Chizuko; Saijō Kiyo

A photographic index identifying the issue’s dispersed image-gallery subjects, captions, photographers, and models.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 56–65

The Person at Twilight

Kiku Kaoru

An illustrated first-person narrative combining sexual reminiscence, voyeurism, photography, bondage, role-playing, and coercive encounters with women identified by names or pseudonyms.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 75–77

Chair of Heaven

Satō Mitsuyasu

An illustrated essay about televised close-ups, women’s nostrils, beauty programming, and the voyeuristic staging and inspection of female bodies.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 112–121

Prize-Winning Confession: Voyeur Record

Tadano Heisuke

A first-person observational essay describing covert viewing of women in public toilets and classifying bodies, clothing, posture, age, and behavior as a purported record of voyeuristic experience.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 164–181

Sinking to the Bottom of Deep Water

Kurume Sakae

A continuing narrative of staged bondage, photography, jealousy, blackmail, marriage, possessive violence, emotional dependency, and renewed attempts to control and document a woman’s body.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 234

Salon

A formally listed salon department containing multiple short reader-oriented items; its body pages are not represented in the viewer-page sequence.

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January
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, February 1974

Kitan Club’s February 1974 issue is a large, densely illustrated Japanese SM and fetish magazine combining staged photography, erotic fiction, personal testimony, practical bondage instruction, criticism, reader correspondence, community notices, and extensive mail-order catalogs.…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 54

Ah, a Woman Crazy for M

Koiwa Sōichirō

Long photo-illustrated SM narrative following named women through travel, restraint, bathing, humiliation, sensory experiments, and staged photography.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 74

Binding

Ogawa Samon

Illustrated lesson on bondage methods, rope selection, self-binding, gagging, chair and pillar restraint, positioning, and release.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 60

Dog Show Program

Muroi Nobuo

Formal contents entry whose independent body-page boundary cannot be established from the supplied scan evidence.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 78

Great Eruption

Takezako Seiya

Serialized narrative involving wealthy households, servants, travel, sexual manipulation, threats, bondage, and underworld encounters.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 90

The S/M Enterprise

Akitsu Shinjirō

Serialized SM-club feature involving numbered slave identities, commands, capture, punishment, role-play, photographs, and illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 106

A Strange Masochist

Maeda Machiko

Critical discussion of Tsukamoto’s writing and imagery, realism, sensationalism, documentary appearance, and erotic violence.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 114

A Study of S&M

Wakamoto Hiroshi

Dramatic SM narrative of domination, ropes, whipping, commands, punishment, and theatrical role conflict.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 95

Service

Shiba Takashi

Staged service-role image or panel presenting bondage, obedience, and theatrical role-play.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 132

Play Report

Fukui Momoko

First-person report on voyeuristic observation, hot-spring encounters, blindfolding, cords, photography, and staged play.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136

Tankibō

Tsujimura Takashi

Sensational narrative of an SM gathering, a woman’s death, police investigation, suspects, evidence, and possible revelation of the culprit.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 166

Nighttime Bibi-Nobi

Wakate Nobuo

Reflective essay on rubber fetishism, bodily freedom, urination, childhood conditioning, and acceptance of unusual desires.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 202

Night Photographer

Azuma Nobuo

Reader response to SM reportage and photographs, reflecting on staging, realism, models, bodily display, shame, and viewing effects.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 238

Kitan Club Salon

Broad salon and community section gathering reflections, SM research-group material, correspondence, editorial questions, film commentary, and reports.

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February
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, March 1974

Kitan Club’s March 1974 issue is a large, densely illustrated SM magazine organized around bondage photography, erotic reportage, serialized fiction, personal confession, critical commentary, and reader communication. Its opening pages establish the publication’s commercial…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club

Image Gallery

An opening color-photography section presenting staged female bondage, rope scenes, domestic interiors, and erotic tableaux. Visible captions refer to restraint, waiting, exposure, and sensory or bodily submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 3–11

Color Photo Section

An opening color-photography section presenting staged female bondage, rope scenes, domestic interiors, and erotic tableaux. Visible captions refer to restraint, waiting, exposure, and sensory or bodily submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 12–26

Bound Enchantresses

Tetsuzo Tsukamoto

A substantial photographic portfolio of adult female models in rope-based restraint, suspension, kneeling and reclining poses, and theatrical domestic settings. Captions catalog different bindings, materials, emotional states, and bodily presentations while naming numerous models.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

Goddess of Venus

Chizuko Suzuki

A one-page illustrated profile of a woman associated with professional wrestling who is presented as enjoying bondage, rough treatment, and humiliation. The page combines promotional prose with a staged photograph.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30

The Battle Between the Grazing Beast and the Male Beast

Tetsuzo Tsukamoto

A long camera-and-pen reportage follows a woman through travel, hotel, outdoor, and domestic scenes of animalized role-play, bondage, humiliation, photography, and staged endurance. Prose, dialogue, production detail, and a large photographic sequence present the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 70

Female Captive

Asao Saji / M Group

The opening installment of a serialized captivity narrative set around a wealthy family and a strict girls’ boarding-school environment. Students face surveillance, forced chores, public humiliation, iron restraints, confinement, and escalating institutional punishment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–85

Sayuri, an SM Trainer

Sayuri

Sayuri recounts her introduction to SM and her development as an instructor, discussing ropes, handcuffs, collars, chains, blindfolds, costumes, demonstrations, clients, and the construction of a public SM identity.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 86–95

SM Enterprise

Shinjiro Akitsu

The sixth episode of a serialized fiction about a commercial SM performance setting where money, customers, performers, commands, costumes, ropes, and handcuffs turn domination into public spectacle. Backstage organization gives way to jealousy, coercion,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 96–107

The Song of the Canary That Forgot Its Song

Hiroko Takamura

A first-person reader-directed account of correspondence, travel, photographic submission, directed posing, physical helplessness, shame, endurance, and the wish to return to ordinary domestic life. An extensive monochrome photographic sequence reconstructs or documents the narrated…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 108–114

A Wild Banquet in the Hell of the Female Body

Akiko Suzuka

A sensational account centered on Mary, a snake, a married couple, Li, and other participants in a staged scene of commands, restraint, physical exhaustion, humiliation, observation, and spectacle. The accompanying images reinforce the narrative’s…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 115–117

Song of Two Hills

Kiyoko Sonezaki

A confessional narrative beginning with an incident in a public toilet and developing into an exploration of concealed observation, mirrors, clothing, bodily detail, shame, and erotic curiosity. Narrow illustrations of female figures echo the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 118–135

Dream

A surreal erotic narrative begins with a failed young job seeker and an unusual employment advertisement, then develops through telephone interviews, mysterious instructions, marriage, footwear, commands, restraint, and dreamlike domestic role-play. The story shifts…

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1975
January
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Rope Becomes an Explicit Subject of SM Theory

Kashiwagi Hajime

Kashiwagi Hajime’s “The Proposition of Rope: The Intersection of S and M” treats rope as an explicit conceptual problem within S/M. That framing moves beyond pose, technique, or photographic practice. Rope itself becomes a…

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1977
February
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Rope-Tying Classroom

Roppongi Kaoru

By March 1977, Sun & Moon includes a feature explicitly titled “Rope-Tying Classroom.” In the archive chronology, the title offers a useful marker of how specialized and instructional the presentation of rope practice had…

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