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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
1974
May
Article / Feature Kitan Club 142–149

Great Eruption, Installment 68

Chiba Aooni

A continuing comic-erotic adventure set partly in London combines travel observations, sexual farce, bondage motifs, and the exaggerated tone of a long-running serial.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 150–165

Female Prisoner, Part Four

Saji Asazō

A long captivity narrative develops through dialogue, coercive control, confinement, and the psychological relationship between captor and female prisoner.

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June
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, July 1974

The July 1974 issue of Kitan Club is organized around an unusually large body of bondage photography followed by reportage, serialized fiction, confessional writing, reader testimony, illustrated essays, and accounts of contemporary SM practice.…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 5–28

Beautiful Garden of Perversion

Tsukamoto Tetsuzo

A photographic portfolio depicting staged kinbaku scenes with women posed in varied rope restraints, including floor bondage, suspension, blindfolding, gagging, and other theatrical forms of immobilization.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

Photo: Pleasure Amid Suffering

Kimura Tsutomu

A photographic feature depicts a young woman tightly bound in an elaborate rope restraint, accompanied by text portraying her initiation into masochistic experience and the pleasure she discovers amid suffering.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 64–71

Great Eruption

Chiba Seiki

A serialized SM fiction installment in which the defiant Queen Meri is subjected to humiliating medical examinations, forced nudity, verbal commands, and increasingly restrictive physical restraint by Emiko and her attendants.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 72–89

Woman Prisoner

Saji Mazo

A serialized captivity fantasy follows women arrested and confined under harsh surveillance, with courtroom proceedings, prison discipline, restraint, humiliation, and escape or transfer anxieties shaping the narrative.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 90–93

The Tomoko I Raised

Shinmaru Kiyoshi

Presented as an experience confession, this piece recounts the narrator’s prolonged bondage, sexual training, discipline, and staged humiliation of Tomoko, culminating in increasingly elaborate restraint and fetish scenarios.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 94–110

The Gate of Purple Orchids

Furyu Gokudoken

A serialized historical erotic fiction set in Edo-period Japan follows the thief Nezumi Kō and other criminals through schemes, captivity, revenge, and increasingly coercive bondage and sexual punishment scenes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 114–119

Visiting Reiko, the Phantom Woman of Suma

Shiki Shisei

An erotic reportage-style narrative follows a visit to Reiko, a mysterious Suma woman, recounting a journey, an arranged meeting, and encounters involving her submissive bondage persona and imagined captivity.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 126–141

The Jar on the Bed

Asaba Yasushi

A serialized erotic narrative follows Shinkichi, whose domineering wife subjects him to escalating domestic, medicalized, and humiliating forms of control, while doctors and observers become entangled in the couple’s secretive relationship. The story combines…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 147–149

Mariko Image Drawings

Suzaka Akira

This illustrated image-fantasy feature presents Mariko in an imagined coercive marriage scenario involving public exposure, restraint, beatings, and forced service, accompanied by prose describing the fantasy’s development and presentation to the reader community. The…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 150–157

I Cry at Twilight

Nakagawa Keiko

Keiko Nakagawa presents a first-person erotic confession describing an escalating SM relationship involving rope bondage, gagging, sensory restriction, humiliation, and staged photographic scenes. The narrative also reflects on desire, shame, control, and the complex…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 158–171

Madman

Oniyama Kensaku

This serialized SM fiction follows the manipulative and increasingly violent relationship between吟子, 岩見, and 佐戸崎, combining coercive sexual encounters, bondage, humiliation, threats, and financial exploitation. The story emphasizes domination, sadism, jealousy, and psychological instability…

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July
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, August 1974

The August 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive photographic opening with first-person reports, confessions, serialized fiction, essays, and illustrated erotic narratives. Its front matter establishes the issue's visual emphasis through a…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30–71

Camera-and-Pen Reportage: Savoring the Taste of Theft on an Early-Summer Evening: The Relationship Between Fujisaka Hiroshi and Tamaki Akiko

Tsukamoto Tetsuzo

An extended first-person erotic reportage presents photographer Fujisaka Hiroshi’s staged bondage sessions with Tamaki Akiko, using a “theft” scenario to frame repeated rope-restraint, gagging, humiliation, positional restraint, and photographic documentation, alongside discussion of their…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 72–75

Confession: Voyeurism and Enemas

Shinagawa Sugao

A first-person confession describes the author’s voyeuristic fascination with enemas, including watching a woman undergo an enema and eventually involving his wife in increasingly elaborate enema play.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 76–83

Great Eruption

Chiba Seiki

This illustrated serialized erotic fantasy follows a powerful princess or queen in a secret matriarchal realm where captives and attendants are subjected to coercive bondage, sexual humiliation, and fetishistic punishments.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 90–103

Men and Women Who Squeeze Each Other

Oniyama Kensaku

A serialized erotic narrative follows a manipulative man and woman whose relationship develops through financial exploitation, coercive sexual encounters, humiliation, and shifting dominance.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 104–113

Modern Yakuza Temperament

Minami Hikozo

An illustrated essay traces the eroticized image of women being punished or dominated from older sensational imagery to modern yakuza culture, linking sexual violence, gangster masculinity, and changing social attitudes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 114–117

Confession: I Learned the Taste of Enema Torment

Hayasaka Ikuko

A first-person confession describes a married woman’s increasingly intense enema-centered SM experiences, including invasive play, restraint, humiliation, and the complicated mixture of shame, pain, and pleasure surrounding her husband’s demands; the account is illustrated…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 118–135

Woman Prisoner

Saji Mazo

This serialized erotic captivity narrative follows a female prisoner subjected to surveillance, interrogation, confinement, restraint, forced positions, physical punishment, and repeated attempts at control within a prison-like setting involving guards, officials, and other captives.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–143

Mizusawa Underground

Mizusawa Noboru

An illustrated essay examines spanking, restraint, and other SM practices as forms of punishment, pleasure, psychological stimulation, and negotiated sexual interaction, with discussion of changing social attitudes toward sexuality.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 144–159

The Gate of Purple Orchids

Furyu Gokudoken

A serialized historical erotic novel set in the Edo period follows aristocrats, servants, warriors, and criminals through episodes of seduction, jealousy, captivity, rope bondage, coercion, and sadistic punishment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 160–165

Confession: SM Awakening

Nakamura Emiko

Nakamura Emiko recounts her first extended SM encounter after responding to a reader or editorial contact, describing rubber fetish equipment, elaborate restraint, gagging, sensory control, and submission to a dominant partner. The confession also…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 166–173

Night Stranger

Yoshino Mayumi

A fictionalized SM narrative follows Yuri and A through increasingly elaborate hotel-room scenes of restraint, rubber play, humiliation, sensory restriction, and shifting dominance, accompanied by erotic illustrations. The story culminates in an intense, staged…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 174–178

Experiential Confession: Remarried Brides: Play Wives

Hitomi Yotaro

Hitomi Yotaro presents an experiential confession about married couples who incorporate other partners into their intimate lives, framing wife-sharing and multiple-partner encounters as a carefully negotiated form of marital play. The account emphasizes the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 179–

My Queen Image

Hirahara Seiichi

This essay examines the author’s ideal image of the “queen,” arguing that genuine female dominance requires respect, authority, refinement, and demanding personal presence rather than merely attractive appearance or an easy male servant fantasy.…

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August
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

September 1974 Issue

The September 1974 issue of Kitan Club, Volume 28, Number 9, serial number 319, opens with an unusually extensive photographic presentation before the regular numbered pages begin. The front section includes the photographic series…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club Unpaginated

Hamana Lakeside Night: Photographic Section

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A photographic portfolio set at night around Hamana Lake presents models in elaborate Japanese rope-bondage arrangements, including immobilized, suspended, gagged, blindfolded, and highly contorted poses, with captions emphasizing bodily display, endurance, and sensory restriction.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club Unpaginated

Color Photo Section: Eleven Poses

A color photographic portfolio presents eleven staged bondage poses featuring women restrained with rope in domestic and studio-like interiors, including seated, kneeling, spread-leg, gagged, and furniture-bound compositions.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

Portrait of a Cute M-Woman

Inoue Shōtarō

In this letter to the editor, Kyōko describes her enema-centered anal self-stimulation, including sleeping with an improvised inserted device, experimenting with beads and marbles, and using everyday objects as substitutes for purpose-made equipment. She…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 64–65

Recent News of Kyōko, Apostle of Enemas

Murata Kyōko

Murata Kyōko reports on her recent circumstances and continuing enthusiasm for enemas, describing insertion equipment, bodily sensations, and related fetish interests in a letter-like personal account.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 66–79

The Female Captive

Saji Mazō

A serialized captivity fantasy follows numbered female prisoners subjected to arrest, transport, confinement, interrogation, restraints, gagging, and increasingly severe punishments by guards and other authorities.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 73

Feet Are for Lips

Oka Takashi

This short foot-focused erotic scene centers on a captive woman’s feet and footwear as objects of forced attention and oral fetishistic devotion.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 80–92

Rose Slave on a Hazy Moonlit Night

Kinosaki Kyōsuke

A serialized erotic SM story follows Reiko as she is subjected to escalating humiliation, restraint, punishment, and ritualized abuse by Daisaku and others, blending sadistic fantasy with surreal imagery and a threatening moonlit rural…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 87

Siamese Cat and Woman

Oka Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a nude woman restrained on a bed with a Siamese cat positioned across her body, combining bondage imagery with a theatrical domestic tableau.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 93–97

Record of Lending Out My Wife

Gotō Shūsei

A first-person account describes a married couple arranging for the wife to be sexually used and disciplined by two male partners, with staged photographic scenes documenting the couple’s bathhouse and bedroom encounters.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 98–111

Marijuana Party

Onizan Kōsaku

This serialized SM fiction follows the jealous Ginko and her associates through a marijuana-fueled party where erotic rivalries escalate into coercive group sexual spectacles, nudity, humiliation, and female-directed domination.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 106

The Queen's Anger

Oka Takashi

An erotic narrative of a marijuana-fueled party in which a commanding “queen” humiliates and controls male participants, accompanied by a prominent illustration of female dominance and forced exposure.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 112–119

Great Eruption

Chiba Seiki

Takano Harumi examines the erotic appeal attributed to pregnant nude bodies, discussing pregnancy, maternity, bodily transformation, voyeuristic spectatorship, and the tension between reproductive imagery and sexualized display. The essay surveys photographic examples featuring posed…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 120–133

The Gate of Purple Orchids

Fūryū Gokudōken

Kitagawa Mariko’s extended first-person fantasy presents a married woman imagining and recounting her transformation into a male reader’s slave-wife, with episodes of domestic service, training, humiliation, bondage, punishment, and group sexual scenarios accompanied by…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 127

From the Kumosuke Diary

Oka Takashi

An Edo-period erotic narrative depicts a noblewoman abducted, bound with rope, and subjected to coercive sexual humiliation by her captors and attendants.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 134–135

Recommending Anal Drinking

Miki Reiko

A provocative instructional essay advocates alcohol administration through the anus, discussing its bodily effects and describing an experimental couple’s escalating attempts with enemas and drinking.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–143

I Ate the Forbidden Fruit

Takamura Hiroko

Takamura Hiroko’s confessional correspondence describes her attraction to and experiences of bondage, sexual submission, humiliation, and repeated staged restraint, accompanied by photographs illustrating the scenes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 144–153

Confessions of Mr. S and Mr. M

Abuno Jōji

A first-person confessional about two women’s encounters with male sadomasochists, describing bondage, voyeurism, humiliation, enemas, and the ambivalent relationship between erotic curiosity, fear, and coercion. The account also reflects on women’s participation in and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 154–165

The Appeal of Pregnant Nudes

Takano Harumi

An illustrated essay examines the erotic appeal of pregnant nude bodies, presenting staged photographs and discussing pregnancy, childbirth, bodily transformation, exhibitionism, and the fetishization of the enlarged abdomen. It also situates these images within…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 166–175

Fantasies of the Slave Wife Mariko

Kitagawa Mariko

An illustrated erotic fantasy presents Mariko’s imagined life as a slave wife, moving through scenes of rope restraint, forced nudity, humiliation, punishment, and sexual domination involving teachers, employers, and other men. The accompanying narrative…

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September
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, October 1974

The October 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive opening bondage portfolio with documentary reportage, serialized fiction, confessional writing, reader-oriented SM essays, and discussions of technique and fantasy. The front section is…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 3–26

Image Gallery

A photographic portfolio presenting staged erotic scenes of women in Japanese-style rope bondage, including floor restraints, partnered binding, gagging, blindfolding, and suspension.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

The Flavor of Masochism Seeping Out

Arita Yoshitada

Arita Yoshitada reflects on photographs of Fujita Akiko, praising their unpolished, intensely authentic quality and interpreting her concealed face, exposed body, and apparent restraint as expressions of deeply felt masochistic desire.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30–63

Scenes from a Long-Distance Expedition to Echizen

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A photographic erotic reportage follows a trip to Echizen, where the author arranges and documents an extended series of staged kinbaku scenes involving a nude female model, travel settings, domestic interiors, rope restraints, and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 64–67

Again: Black Breasts

Suwa Ōji Ken

Suwa Ōji Ken revisits the reception of “Black Breasts,” reflecting on editorial responses, reader expectations, authorial self-criticism, and the tension between experimental erotic writing and commercially acceptable material.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 68–79

Female Prisoner

Saji Mazō

A serialized captivity narrative follows a female prisoner subjected by guards to prolonged restraint, forced feeding, physical punishment, humiliation, and increasingly elaborate bondage while staff and supervisors treat her suffering as institutional routine.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 80–83

Becoming Lady Sayoko's Toilet

Hajō Yūji

This first-person erotic fantasy depicts a male submissive who becomes Lady Sayoko’s personal toilet, accepting degrading bodily service and escalating commands within a relationship structured by female authority, fetishized waste, and humiliation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 84–91

Great Eruption

Chiba Seiki

A serialized erotic SM fiction follows Queen Meri as she exerts cruel control over an English couple through interrogation, bondage, gagging, forced positions, and other humiliating punishments. The narrative emphasizes coercive power, female authority,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 92–93

Memories of My Wife and Enemas

Fujioka Enema

A first-person memoir describes a wife’s recurring enemas and the couple’s eroticized domestic routines, including specialized equipment, restraint, bodily preparation, and the narrator’s growing interest in the practice.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 94–109

Muddy Sea of Folly

Oniyama Kensaku

This installment of a serialized SM novel follows illustrator Iwemi as his relationship with Ginko and the manipulative Sasaki escalates into coercion, financial leverage, staged erotic photography, physical punishment, and repeated humiliation, eventually reversing…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 110–122

The Gate of Purple Orchids

Fūryū Gokudōken

A serialized historical erotic novel set in the Edo period follows the sadistic abuse, restraint, humiliation, and sexual exploitation of Masako by Kuroba and other men, blending melodramatic intrigue with elaborate bondage scenes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 123–128

From Flower and Snake

Ozawa Jun'ichi

An essay examines the film adaptation and erotic imagery of Flower and Snake, discussing its staging, atmosphere, bodily display, and psychological implications before turning to a first-person account of attending an SM research meeting…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 129–139

Conversation on a Rainy Night

Nakagawa Keiko

A first-person account of a rainy-night encounter describes a woman’s bondage, sensory restriction, embarrassment, and psychological response, accompanied by photographs and related reflections on masochistic experience.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 140–143

A Wonderful Person to Me

Takahashi Mutsuo

The author reflects on his admiration for a woman associated with SM publishing and imagery, combining personal confession with discussion of her character, sexuality, illness, and the emotional meaning of their relationship.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 144–151

Two Scarlet Peonies

Hitomi Yōtarō

An erotic narrative follows a married couple and a female partner through an elaborate rope-bound photographic session, emphasizing marital intimacy, negotiated submission, and the aesthetic staging of bondage.

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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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