KINBAKU RESEARCH PLATFORM
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.
Rope Becomes an Explicit Subject of SM Theory
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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March 1977
The inaugural March 1977 issue of Sun & Moon introduces itself as a magazine “seeking love,” but its real editorial center is the lived practice of SM. Unlike the historical, literary, and pseudo-sexological mixture…
View in archive →Rope-Tying Classroom
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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Camera Hunt: Ecstatic Inverted Suspension
A photographic portfolio documents a bound woman being maneuvered through dramatic inverted suspension and other rope-restraint positions, emphasizing the spectacle of the staged scene.
View in archive →Pleasure Is Right There
A sequence of staged erotic photographs depicts a woman restrained in domestic and bedroom settings, including sensory restriction and tightly bound poses presented as scenes of erotic pleasure.
View in archive →Inaugural Editorial: Like the Sun and Moon
The inaugural editorial introduces Sun & Moon as a specialist magazine devoted to unconventional sexuality, erotic imagination, SM culture, and perspectives excluded from mainstream society, while inviting readers and contributors to help develop its…
View in archive →The Lifestyle of the Aesthetic Type: Practicalists’ Roundtable
A roundtable of experienced SM practitioners discusses their lifestyles, relationships, experimentation, and practical techniques, including bondage, needle play, photography, and the role of specialist magazines. The participants also reflect on marriage, secrecy, and balancing…
View in archive →Confession of a Buttocks-Whipping Enthusiast
An autobiographical confession by Kasai Rokurō describing his strong interest in whipping and other forms of corporal punishment, including encounters involving restraint, role-play, and the direction of a female partner, accompanied by staged erotic…
View in archive →Two Years of SM with My Sister-in-Law
Ōno Seiya recounts two years of SM involvement with his sister-in-law, presenting a secret and emotionally complicated relationship centered on erotic experimentation, restraint, and changing sexual roles.
View in archive →Relay Camera Hunt: A Red Ripe Persimmon Left on One Branch
A photo-reportage follows an editor’s staged bondage sessions with a married couple, combining interviews, role-play dialogue, and extensive images of rope restraint, humiliation, and changing SM dynamics.
View in archive →Barbarian Girls: 8mm Home-Movie Introduction
This feature reviews and introduces the 8mm erotic home movie The Barbarian Girls, presenting its fetishized bondage, punishment, and sensational imagery as an imported film attraction.
View in archive →Rope-Tying Classroom
A practical lesson demonstrates the “behind-the-back A-form” tie, explaining rope placement and tension while illustrating the completed restraint on a model.
View in archive →Confessional Memoir: My Wife’s Past
A confessional memoir recounts the narrator’s wife’s past in the nightlife business and his subsequent use of rope bondage, punishment, and staged photographs in their relationship, ending with a return to their present domestic…
View in archive →Overseas SM Photo Introduction, Part One
The first installment presents overseas SM photographs, chiefly depicting Black women in fetish clothing and staged scenes of bondage, domination, and sadistic display.
View in archive →Overseas SM Photo Introduction, Part Two
The second installment continues the overseas SM photo feature with additional images from a specialist Bizarre magazine, emphasizing Black female subjects in posed bondage and sadomasochistic scenes.
View in archive →Pregnant-Woman Bondage
An erotic reportage by Nakamiya Sakae describes a married couple’s escalating bondage photography centered on the wife’s pregnancy, including rope restraint, blindfolding, gagging, and staged domestic scenes. The accompanying photographs document varied kinbaku positions…
View in archive →Pregnant Beauty
A photographic portfolio presents a pregnant model in a series of rope-bound, blindfolded, seated, standing, and floor-based poses, emphasizing the visual display of pregnancy through staged restraint.
View in archive →Female Slave
This photographic feature portrays a woman as a female slave through a sequence of staged rope-bondage scenes, including restrained floor and seated positions overseen by a male participant.
View in archive →The M-Woman Awaiting Torment
A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman restrained in a succession of seated, standing, and floor positions, emphasizing her anticipation of torment, physical helplessness, and shame.
View in archive →Training a Young Wife into an M-Woman
A staged photographic sequence presents the discipline and transformation of a young wife into an M-woman through elaborate rope restraint and controlled submissive poses.
View in archive →A Rope Doll in a Straitjacket
This photographic portfolio shows a rope-bound woman posed like a doll, including tightly wrapped torso and limb configurations, blindfolding, and other forms of immobilization.
View in archive →Illustrated Bondage of a Voluptuous Female Body
A photographic feature presents a woman in a series of tightly rope-bound poses, documenting Japanese kinbaku techniques and the visual aesthetics of immobilized bodies.
View in archive →The Inclinations of a Masochistic Woman
In a first-person erotic reportage, a woman recounts how encounters with older authority figures and later partners deepened her masochistic desires, submissive role, and interest in bondage and discipline.
View in archive →Special Project: Collection of Works
This special illustrated portfolio presents ten staged erotic scenes involving bondage, restraints, suspension, coercion, and sexualized punishment.
View in archive →Bamboo Torment Image
An illustrated feature presents bamboo-based restraint devices and positions, combining practical explanations with staged photographs of their use in bondage scenes.
View in archive →Pregnant-Woman Bondage
A camera-report feature follows a staged bondage photography session involving a pregnant model, including editorial dialogue, specialized restraints, posing, and the production of images for an SM publication.
View in archive →The Pillar and Us
A confessional narrative by a married woman describes incorporating a structural pillar and household settings into the couple’s consensual bondage and marital SM practices.
View in archive →New Year Reflections: Seeking Better Material
Kawamoto Ryūji’s New Year editorial reflects on the difficulty of obtaining fresh, compelling material, discusses changing SM readership and publishing conditions, and calls for more distinctive contributions and participation.
View in archive →Dream-Filled Nightlife
An extended personal and instructional feature on domestic and marital SM presents bondage scenarios, handmade restraint equipment, role-play, and staged photographic scenes as ways for couples to explore erotic fantasy and everyday sexual life.
View in archive →Sun & Moon Correspondence
The magazine’s correspondence and community pages combine editorial notices, reader and contributor communications, group introductions, submission requests, publication information, and previews of forthcoming material.
View in archive →June 1977
The June 1977 issue deepens the magazine’s focus on couples and marital SM. Its principal theme is announced by the long opening roundtable, “A Wife Sinking into Secret Pleasure: The Wife’s Position and the…
View in archive →Inverted Suspension: Tormenting a Woman Like a Bagworm
A photographic feature depicts a woman bound in rope and suspended upside down from a frame, with successive views emphasizing the inverted posture, immobilization, and staged ordeal.
View in archive →The Secretly Delighted Wife and the Husband’s Position: Practicalists’ Roundtable
A practicalists’ roundtable in which couples and the moderator discuss domestic restraint, including rope and belt techniques, bondage positions, sensory restriction, equipment, household staging, and the negotiation of marital roles and pleasure.
View in archive →Confessional Memoir: My Wife’s Past
Hasegawa Tadao’s confessional memoir reflects on his wife’s sexual past, the narrator’s changing desires and anxieties, and the ways secrecy, marriage, and fetishistic imagination shape their relationship.
View in archive →A Hot Wind Swirled Through the Blazing Room
A first-person erotic reportage recounts a series of elaborately staged bondage sessions involving suspension, restraint, spanking, humiliation, and photographic performance, presented through extended illustrated scenes.
View in archive →My First SM Photographs
A photographer describes making his first SM photographs, including recruiting a model, arranging restraints and poses, managing the shoot, and reflecting on the practical and commercial aspects of erotic image-making.
View in archive →Captivated by a Chastity Belt
This extended erotic reportage follows Rie’s sexual and relational history, her encounters with SM and bondage, and the author’s development of chastity-belt concepts and other restraint apparatus inspired by her body and behavior.
View in archive →Miscellaneous Impressions of SM Play
A reflective essay considers the writer’s experiences of SM, the changing representation of bondage and sexual desire in specialist magazines, and the psychological differences between ordinary sexual relationships and SM encounters.
View in archive →Body-Painting Humiliation
A photographic feature depicts a woman subjected to body painting, rope bondage, exposure, and humiliation in a staged SM scenario.
View in archive →Training a Young Wife into an M-Woman
A photographic and narrative feature presents the staged training of a young wife as an M-oriented submissive through marital bondage, discipline, exposure, and ritualized restraint.
View in archive →Bondage by Request
A photographic feature depicting a male model, initially in sailor-style clothing and later undressed, subjected to elaborate rope restraint and posed submission.
View in archive →A Moment of Ecstasy
The first part of N.’s photographic sequence presents a bound subject in staged domestic and bedroom settings, emphasizing rope restraint, exposure, and eroticized vulnerability.
View in archive →A Moment of Ecstasy, Part Two
The continuation of N.’s sequence shows further intimate bondage tableaux in which the subject is restrained and posed across a bed and against patterned furnishings.
View in archive →Pregnant-Woman Bondage
A photographic and instructional feature presents a pregnant woman bound in varied rope configurations, including seated, reclining, standing, and restrained postures, with discussion of technique and bodily positioning.
View in archive →The Pleasure of Peeping, Part Two
This second installment explores voyeuristic pleasure through erotic anecdotes, commentary, and staged photographs of women subjected to blindfolding, gagging, rope bondage, and other intimate scenes.
View in archive →Captivated by a Mysterious Bondage Belt
An erotic narrative follows an older man’s recollection of pursuing and restraining a female student with a distinctive bondage belt, rope, blindfolds, and other restraints, accompanied by staged images of the episodes.
View in archive →Bamboo Torment Image
An illustrated practical feature presents bamboo-based bondage devices and configurations, explaining their construction and use for immobilization, positional restraint, suspension, sensory restriction, and corporal punishment.
View in archive →From SMP to SMG?
A mixed photographic and narrative feature describes the production of SM films and staged erotic scenes, including the recruitment and direction of performers, photography, secrecy, and the author’s encounter with a woman involved in…
View in archive →Autobiography of a Masochistic Woman: Female Slave Yoshiko
Yoshiko’s first-person account traces her development from an ordinary married life into a female-slave identity shaped by a dominant partner, bondage, discipline, sexual submission, and changing domestic relationships, accompanied by documentary-style photographs.
View in archive →Relay Camera Hunt: Continued Training of a Young Wife into an M-Woman
A staged erotic reportage follows the successive rope-binding sessions used to train a young wife into an “M-woman,” combining editorial narration, dialogue, and photographic demonstrations of varied restrained positions and sensory restriction.
View in archive →October 1977
The October 1977 issue is the most self-consciously historical and reflective of the three. Its opening photography still emphasizes restraint as spectacle, but the issue devotes substantial attention to the history of SM publishing,…
View in archive →The Image of Discipline
A photographic feature presents staged scenes of women undergoing elaborate rope restraint, blindfolding, suspension, and disciplined poses in domestic and studio-like settings.
View in archive →M-Woman T Living in the West
A visual feature centered on M-woman T presents her bound and blindfolded body in staged erotic scenes associated with submissive identity and restraint.
View in archive →The Three Bagworms: A Roundtable
A long-form roundtable brings together SM writers, editors, and participants to discuss personal experience, bondage practice, erotic photography, publishing, changing sexual culture, and the future of specialist magazines.
View in archive →Beloved Wife Bondage Diary
A husband records a domestic bondage diary describing the progressive tying, positioning, blindfolding, gagging, and photographing of his wife in consensual marital SM scenes.
View in archive →An Abnormal Sex Life
An extended erotic reportage follows a woman’s “abnormal” SM relationship, detailing staged sessions involving submission, restraint, punishment, specialized equipment, and photographic documentation.
View in archive →Collector of Humiliation: A Record of Solitary Pleasure
Moriyama Shūichi surveys the development of postwar Japanese SM magazines and image culture through memories of collecting publications, models, photographs, and bondage materials, linking archival preservation to changing tastes in humiliation and restraint.
View in archive →I Am the Bachelor King
Katsura Keiki presents a first-person erotic memoir about his relationships, domestic life, encounters with SM enthusiasts, and experiments involving bondage, discipline, and partner exchange, framed by reflections on SM magazines and changing sexual cultures.
View in archive →Altar: My First SM Swap Experience
A photographic feature documenting an introductory SM swap experience, showing a restrained participant and staged scenes of bondage, sensory restriction, and sexualized role exchange.
View in archive →Secret Mania Photograph Collection
A photographic collection depicting staged scenes of a nude woman subjected to rope bondage, blindfolding, gagging, and controlled positioning by a male partner.
View in archive →Love Slave
This photographic feature presents a woman as a “love slave” in a series of staged rope-bound scenes involving blindfolding, exposure, and submissive poses.
View in archive →M-Woman T Living in the West, Part Two
Part two of the M-Woman T series follows a Western-resident submissive woman through staged photographs of rope bondage, blindfolding, and varied restrained positions on beds and furniture.
View in archive →Shibuya Album, Part One
A photographic portfolio presenting a woman in varied rope-bound positions, primarily on a bed, as part of a Shibuya-themed kinbaku album.
View in archive →Special Training Sequence
Y.Y.’s staged photographic sequence depicts a woman undergoing a stylized bondage and discipline routine through successive rope-bound positions, including standing and floor-based restraints.
View in archive →Reader-Submitted Photographs
A reader-submitted photographic feature by Ichinose Sōshi showing a woman in several staged rope- and chain-bound poses, including restrained and gagged compositions.
View in archive →Scramble
A photographic feature presenting staged scenes of a blindfolded and harnessed woman subjected to varied bondage and restraint poses.
View in archive →Dazzling Menstrual Belt
A historical and cultural account of menstrual belts, tracing their development from earlier Japanese practices through modern commercial products and their adoption in erotic and fetish contexts.
View in archive →Continuing to Dream, Now…
A mixed photographic narrative follows Chieko’s progression from an encounter with the photographer through increasingly controlled posing, nudity, rope restraint, commands, and submission-oriented performance.
View in archive →The Beauty of Rope and Leather
An essay compares the aesthetic and cultural qualities of rope and leather in Japanese and Western SM, emphasizing natural materials, traditional kinbaku, and the symbolic meanings of restraint, accompanied by illustrative bondage photographs.
View in archive →Training Beautiful Things in Submission
A staged erotic reportage follows the coercive training of a female submissive through repeated sessions involving rope restraint, blindfolding, positional bondage, sensory control, and commanded movement, with detailed descriptions of techniques and interactions.
View in archive →Fortune Is Unpredictable
An interview-style erotic feature explores unpredictable encounters, the formation of M-submissive identities, and the dynamics of training, authority, and erotic negotiation between partners, illustrated with staged bondage and submission photographs.
View in archive →My SM Play Technique
An illustrated practical guide to rope bondage describes suspension setups, tying points, body positioning, equipment, weight distribution, and safety considerations for staged SM photography and play.
View in archive →Sun & Moon Correspondence: Reader Opinions, Fantasies, and Photo-Exchange Requests
A substantial correspondence and community section presents readers’ opinions, fantasies, personal experiences, photo-exchange requests, submissions, and notices concerning Sun & Moon and related SM publications.
View in archive →Transformed Arousal
A full-page erotic illustration depicts a coercive bondage fantasy in which bound and restrained women are confronted by an armed male figure.
View in archive →November 1977
Issue No. 5 of Sun & Moon presents Japanese SM culture as a world increasingly organized around ordinary couples, amateur photographers, reader correspondence, private collections, and self-described practitioners. Unlike magazines built primarily around professional…
View in archive →I Am Miko
A photographic feature presenting Miko in a series of staged rope-bondage scenes, including standing, seated, and floor-bound positions. The images emphasize elaborate restraint arrangements and the subject’s physical submission.
View in archive →The Woman Who Came from the North Like a Wild Goose
A photographic feature depicting a woman in striped clothing being bound and posed with rope in several seated, kneeling, and reclining scenes. The sequence presents stylized kinbaku restraint as a staged visual performance.
View in archive →A Challenge from a Married Couple Who Play
An erotic reportage and photographic portfolio documenting the Tamaki married couple’s shared SM life and a staged session of consensual bondage. The feature describes their relationship, negotiation of roles, rope restraint, sensory restriction, corporal…
View in archive →Miscellaneous Thoughts on Sadism
Sakuma Kazuyuki reflects on his long-standing interest in sadism, tracing its development from reading fetish magazines and private fantasies to experimentation with bondage, discipline, and other erotic practices. He distinguishes consensual, controlled sadistic play…
View in archive →The Woman Who Awakened My Sadistic Nature
A first-person account of how an encounter with Chizuko led the narrator to discover and develop his sadistic desires. The narrative describes escalating sexualized rope restraint, humiliation, coercion, and staged bondage scenes, accompanied by…
View in archive →The Woman Who Came from the North Like a Wild Goose
An erotic reportage piece recounting the unexpected correspondence and meeting with a female reader from northern Japan, leading to a documented bondage photography session. The article emphasizes the relationship between reader participation, editorial discovery,…
View in archive →Diary of Erotic Bondage
A photographic diary documenting an extended domestic bondage session involving a married couple, with staged scenes of rope restraint, blindfolding, gagging, positional control, and self-conscious performance for the camera. The accompanying narration presents the…
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