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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
September
Article / Feature Kitan Club 152–155

Female Pregnancy and Shame Torment

Ogura Yūki

Ogura Yūki presents pregnancy photographs and commentary framing the exposed, bound, and visibly pregnant female body as an object of fascination, shame, and humiliation within fetish publishing.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 156–161

Palm-Fiber Rope Story

Shiba Yoshio

A fictional bondage narrative follows a captive woman subjected to elaborate palm-fiber rope restraints, interrogation, corporal punishment, and escalating sadistic control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 162–165

Waiting by the West Window

Arao Keiko

Arao Keiko’s confessional account describes widowhood, sexual vulnerability, and coercive encounters involving shaving, bondage, photographic display, and humiliating control by men outside her marriage.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 166–173

Genealogy of Torture Illustrations

Minami Hikonari

This illustrated essay traces the author’s fascination with images of women being restrained, punished, tortured, or humiliated, combining autobiographical memories and sexual-psychological reflection with discussions of historical Chinese and Japanese punishments, bondage scenes, and…

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October
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, November 1974

The November 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive opening bondage portfolio with documentary accounts of organized SM play, fiction, personal testimony, fetish essays, serialized narratives, and studies of specialized erotic practices.…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 3–26

Image Gallery

A photographic and illustrated gallery presenting staged scenes of Japanese rope bondage, including seated, floor-based, gagged, blindfolded, and suspended compositions, with several models and varied lighting, costumes, and settings. Captions identify rope restraint, sensory…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

Toward the Longed-for Love-Slave Wife

Kumiyama Takeshi

A male reader responds to a woman’s earlier memoir about wanting to become a love-slave wife, expressing sympathy for her devotion to caring for her ill father while acknowledging that her published photographs of…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30–63

The Expression of the Thumb Bent into the Character く

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

An extensively illustrated erotic reportage follows an SM study-group encounter in which a woman undergoes elaborate rope bondage, gagging, positional restraint, and humiliation, with accompanying discussion of bondage methods, photographs, correspondence, and group practices.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 64–65

The Female Student Torture Incident

Oda Musaku

A sensational reportage article surveys torture and violent initiation practices associated with delinquent female-student groups, recounting incidents involving high-school girls in Osaka and Tokyo and explaining the groups’ specialized terminology and abusive activities.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 66–77

Under the Midday Sun

Fumiyama Kiyoshi

This serialized erotic fantasy follows Aiko, an office worker, as she is repeatedly subjected to coercive bondage, humiliation, sexualized commands, and photographic or voyeuristic display by A and others, moving between indoor scenes and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 78–92

Porno Actress

Oniyama Kensaku

A serialized erotic narrative follows porn actress Ginko as she is drawn into increasingly coercive and abusive filmed performances involving domination, bondage, punishment, humiliation, and sexual exploitation. The story also reflects on the power…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 93–97

One Night in a Freak-Show Hut

Kōe Tatsuo

A first-person narrative revisits a nighttime festival sideshow filled with uncanny exhibits, grotesque figures, and staged erotic spectacles, blending childhood memory with voyeuristic fascination and disturbing fantasies of captivity, death, and bodily display.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 98–105

Great Eruption

Chiba Seiki

A serialized erotic adventure follows a submarine expedition that encounters an Amazon society, where the protagonists become entangled in royal intrigue, captivity, sexual coercion, and elaborate restraint rituals. The narrative combines speculative travel, fetishized…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 106–119

The Female Prisoner

Saji Mazō

A serialized captivity narrative depicts female prisoners subjected to harsh surveillance, confinement, physical punishment, restraint devices, humiliation, and forced labor within a prison-like setting. Its recurring scenes emphasize coercive authority, bodily discipline, and the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 120–127

Sadism Seen in Graffiti

Muranaka Moritarō

An essay examines sadistic fantasies and sexual aggression as expressed through graffiti in public toilets and other everyday spaces, interpreting the recurring imagery and language as evidence of displaced resentment, voyeurism, and eroticized violence.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 128–131

The Day My Wife Junko and I Burned

Miura Keiichi

A first-person account describes a husband and wife’s increasingly intense marital S/M relationship, including Junko’s bondage, humiliation, exhibition, and staged scenes documented through photographs and shared with an S/M readership.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 132–140

The Conduct of Love Slave Pero

Sha Denzaburō

An extended erotic narrative follows the conduct and training of the love slave Pero through episodes of female control, bondage, corporal punishment, oral and anal play, enema-related fetishism, and ritualized group discipline.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 141–143

Anus Experiences I Cannot Forget

Takemichi Seiya

A first-person erotic confession recounts the narrator’s increasingly elaborate anal and enema experiments with his partner T-ko, eventually linking these practices to their married life and continuing intimacy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 144–155

The Gate of Purple Orchids

Fūryū Gokudōken

A serialized historical erotic novel set in an Edo-period pleasure house follows courtesans, patrons, and elaborate staged encounters involving bodily display, humiliation, enemas, fetishistic props, and theatrical sexual performance, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 156–170

A Swaying Bridle

Shinkawa Hiroo

A critical essay on staged bondage photography examines rope restraint, gags, blindfolding, bodily poses, facial expression, and the photographic aesthetics of SM scenes, discussing works and models featured in contemporary specialist publications.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 171–175

Women's Sumo Notes

Omatsu Hirahiko

A historical and folkloric study traces women’s sumo from early records through Edo-period and modern examples, considering regional customs, rainmaking rituals, entertainment, and changing interpretations of women’s participation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 176–185

My SM Experiment: Nasal Torment with a Nelaton Catheter

Satō Matsuo

Satō Matsuo documents a first-person SM experiment using Nelaton catheters for prolonged nasal insertion, progressively larger tubes, and the introduction of water or air, describing resistance, pain, gagging, tears, nasal discharge, gastric discomfort, and…

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November
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

December 1974 Issue

The December 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive opening bondage photography portfolio with reportage, serialized fiction, essays on the aesthetics and practices of SM, autobiographical and quasi-documentary writing, illustrated commentary, and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 3–26

Color Photo Section: White Pig Just Arrived

Photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzo

A photographic portfolio presents staged erotic scenes of nude models subjected to elaborate Japanese rope bondage, including blindfolding, gagging, positional restraint, suspension, and humiliating “white pig” imagery, photographed in domestic and theatrical interiors.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

Please Torment Me

Ikeda Masaru

A photographic feature shows model Keiko Nakagawa tightly restrained and gagged, with Ikeda Masaru’s commentary emphasizing her self-described masochistic identity and the psychological experience of bondage beyond merely displaying the body.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30–73

The Woman Who Wants to Become a Beast

Tsukamoto Tetsuzo

An extended erotic reportage follows Yamaguchi Eiko, a woman fascinated by SM, through interviews and successive staged bondage sessions in which she is tied, blindfolded, gagged, humiliated, and posed as an animal-like captive, accompanied…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 74–81

In Response to Images by Suzaki Akira

Kitagawa Mariko

Kitagawa Mariko responds to reader-supplied requests and images by Suzaki Akira, discussing staged scenes of rope bondage, restraint, humiliation, punishment, and related erotic fantasies. The article emphasizes the collaborative, commissioned nature of the illustrations…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–85

Pastiche: Machiko

Ozawa Junichi

This erotic fiction follows Machiko through coercive encounters involving captivity, forced nudity, physical restraint, and humiliating treatment, presented as a literary pastiche with grotesque and sensational imagery.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 86–93

Great Eruption, Part 72

Chiba Aooni

Part 72 of the serialized erotic narrative depicts an imprisoned woman subjected to escalating coercion, bondage, physical punishment, sexual humiliation, and domination by men in an extravagant foreign setting.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 94–104

Female Captive, Part 10

Saji Asazo

The tenth installment of a serialized captivity fantasy follows imprisoned women subjected to punitive control, medicalized examinations, forced bathing, restraints, and escalating humiliation by guards and officials.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 105–107

The Appeal of Bridal-Furisode Bondage Play

Takahashi Hideki

An illustrated feature discusses the aesthetic and practical appeal of binding a bride in a furisode kimono, emphasizing elaborate rope arrangements, restrictive garments, posture, weight, and staged photographic presentation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 108–116

Sarugutsuwa, Part 2

Niikawa Hiroo

The second installment examines the sarugutsuwa gag, combining literary and historical discussion with illustrated examples of different mouth-restraint designs and their sensory and disciplinary effects.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 117–121

Diary of Newlywed Erotic Life

Sugitani Junji

A newlywed husband recounts escalating erotic experiments with his wife, including elaborate restraint, humiliation, nose-focused fetish play, and staged hotel encounters. The diary blends marital intimacy with sadomasochistic performance and repeated use of specialized…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 122–133

The Gate of Shiran, Part 41

Furyu Gokudoken

This installment of a serialized period SM novel follows Mizuno and other characters through elaborate scenes of capture, forced display, restraint, suspension, and sexualized punishment. Illustrated set pieces emphasize theatrical bondage tableaux, historical setting,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 134–141

The Aesthetics of Bondage

Roman-ha Sei

An illustrated practical essay examines the aesthetics and mechanics of Japanese rope bondage, discussing frog, crab, large-character, and other positions, along with rope placement, suspension, props, photography, and the visual presentation of restrained bodies.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 142–156

Masochism and Wages

Oniyama Kosaku

A long dramatic account follows the making of a masochistic film, depicting performers, director, supervisor, and crew negotiating staged punishment, bodily endurance, artistic performance, money, and labor during an increasingly intense production.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 157–161

Deep Throat and American Pornography

Haseda Kameji

A critical survey of the American pornographic film Deep Throat examines its commercial impact, theatrical circulation, advertising, performers, and reception, contrasting American and Japanese sexual cultures and censorship practices. It also discusses the film’s…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 162–167

Women's Sumo Notebook, Part 2

Omatsu Hirahiko

This cultural-historical essay investigates the regional distribution and possible origins of women’s sumo in Japan, drawing on folklore reports, local customs, occupational groups, and historical changes from the Edo period through the modern era.…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 168–176

A Parade Dedicated to Fukada Kikuko

Mizue Shin

An illustrated erotic narrative dedicated to Fukada Kikuko follows an artist’s obsessive fantasies of depicting her, moving through scenes of sexual coercion, restraint, humiliation, domestic domination, and wartime violence. The text and accompanying drawings…

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1975
December
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

January 1975 Issue

The January 1975 issue of Kitan Club is organized around a broad mixture of bondage photography, first-person SM reportage, serialized fiction, confessional narratives, cultural commentary, and reader-oriented discussion. The issue begins with “The Point…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 3–25

The Point of Contact Between Beauty and Bondage

photography by Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A long photographic portfolio presents women in elaborate Japanese rope-bondage arrangements, including standing, floor-based, blindfolded, gagged, and suspended positions, emphasizing the visual interplay of bodily form, restraint, and staged erotic composition.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

The Beauty of a Modest Housewife

photography by Fujikawa Tōichirō; model Fujita Akiko

A photographic feature profiles model Fujita Akiko as “The Beauty of a Modest Housewife,” framing an apparently respectable domestic woman’s transformation into a restrained erotic subject through accompanying editorial prose.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30–59

Holiday of Bluedy

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

An extended first-person erotic account follows the author’s encounters with Yamaguchi Ayako, emphasizing elaborate rope bondage, restraint, gagging, bodily exposure, menstrual and animal-role-play scenarios, and staged photographic documentation. The piece presents escalating SM sessions…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 60–65

Man’s Paradise: Cebu Island

Takezako Seiya

An erotic travel report presents Cebu as a destination for Japanese men seeking commercial sex and SM experiences, describing encounters with local women, hotel services, enema play, and the island’s tourist economy alongside documentary-style…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–89

Human Eruption, Part 75

Chiba Seiki

A serialized SM fantasy continues the captivity and punishment of characters including Ariake, Niitsu, the princess, and Dr. Willy, combining secret laboratories, restraint, medicalized procedures, humiliation, and escape attempts. The installment culminates in further…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 90–95

The S-Hospital Incident Record

Ashikawa Fujio

Presented as a personal record of hospitalization after a traffic accident, this narrative describes life in S Hospital, medical examinations, nursing routines, bodily vulnerability, and the narrator’s increasingly sexualized fixation on nurses and hospital…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 96–101

Loincloths, Armpit Hair, Etc.

Suzuki Yuriko

This illustrated essay surveys the erotic meanings and changing cultural representations of loincloths and female armpit hair, discussing Japanese and Western fashions, grooming, advertising, film, photography, and the fetishization of natural body hair. The…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 102–113

The Woman Prisoner

Saji Mazō

A serialized erotic captivity narrative in which female prison guards subject a male prisoner to elaborate restraints, gags, suspension, humiliation, and corporal punishment. The accompanying illustrations visualize the staged scenes of female control and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 114–122

Gags, Part 3

Shinkawa Hiroo

The third installment of an extended examination of gags, discussing different gagging methods, materials, applications, and bodily effects through instructional commentary, erotic scenarios, illustrations, and references to historical and literary examples.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 128–131

In Takayama, Hida

Saijō Noriyo

An autobiographical erotic narrative recounts seduction, betrayal, and encounters involving captivity and bondage, accompanied by photographic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 132–143

The Gate of Purple Orchids, Part 41

Fūryū Gokudōken

Part 41 of a historical erotic serial follows Edo-period revenge and intrigue through scenes of women being captured, punished, tied, and suspended, with accompanying erotic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 144–150

The Aesthetics of Tightness

Roman-ha Sei

An illustrated essay on the aesthetics of kinbaku, comparing rope patterns, tension, posture, bodily presentation, and practical effectiveness through a sequence of photographed binding demonstrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 151–165

Confession: Feminine Onanism

Huang Yosaburō

A first-person erotic confession presents female-centered sexual fetishism through scenes of humiliation, bodily control, fetishized odors and bodily functions, and masochistic submission, alongside an extended narrative of domestic and institutional domination.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 166–170

My Long, Long Day

Shimizu Toshiaki

An illustrated reportage on performers in traditional Japanese dress explores the discomfort, endurance, and visual appeal of tight obi bindings, long sleeves, and staged bridal or geisha-like restraint scenes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 171–175

A Girl of Today: About Keiko

Takahashi Hideki

Presented as a first-person account of “Keiko,” this article describes workplace sexual interrogation, escalating verbal humiliation, and the narrator’s voyeuristic interest in a young woman’s sexual history and vulnerability, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

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January
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

February 1975

The February 1975 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive opening photographic presentation with first-person reportage, erotic fiction, experiential testimony, aesthetic essays, serialized narratives, and reader-oriented confessional writing. Its editorial identity rests on…

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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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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

Naked Portent of a Wicked Prank

Inoue Kōtarō

A commentary on a photograph of a woman tightly bound at the neck, torso, thighs, ankles, and wrists, with her raised feet and restrained posture suggesting suspension and complete immobility. The writer interprets her…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30–59

Everything About the Woman Who Gave Herself Up, Kikuko

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A long-form erotic photo-report follows Kikuko, a woman preparing for marriage, through staged scenes of rope bondage, exposure, immobilization, humiliation, and escalating submission, accompanied by an explicitly subjective narrator’s commentary on her body and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 60–65

My Encounter with Youth and the Strange

Mizue Shin

A first-person reminiscence recounts the author’s early fascination with erotic bondage imagery and subsequent encounters with women, rope restraint, punishment, humiliation, and other SM experiences.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 70–77

The Great Eruption, Part 76

Chiba Seiki

Part 76 of a serialized erotic fantasy follows the return and renewed adventures of the powerful figure Amei/Akiko amid royal courts, military retainers, female soldiers, sexual display, captivity, and elaborate coercive bondage.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 78–86

Scarlet Peony Passion

Hitomi Yōtarō

An erotic first-person account follows a married couple and their companions through elaborate SM encounters involving bathing, role-play, rope restraints, blindfolding, humiliation, and staged photographic scenes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 87–91

An Unusual Wakame-Sake Incident

Tachibana Uchio

A confessional account describes a man’s fascination with feminine beauty, his use of female hormones to develop breasts and alter his appearance, and the narcissistic and sexual feelings produced by the transformation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 92–97

Woman: The Mysterious Part

Tonegawa Gorō

This essay recounts the narrator’s intense fixation on model Maeda Machiko, moving from magazine photographs and voyeuristic fascination to imagined bondage, coercion, and the tension between erotic fantasy and everyday reality.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 98–107

The Aesthetics of Questioning, Continued

Funabashi Ichirō

A continuation of Funabashi Ichirō’s essay examining voyeurism as an aesthetic and psychological practice, using public toilets, peeping devices, films, bodily functions, and illustrated scenarios to explore spectatorship, secrecy, and the tension between ordinary…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 108–113

An Experience of Seppuku

Yoshiya Kazuko

A sensational first-person account describing two women’s ritualized seppuku fantasy and enactment, including the preparation, bodily exposure, abdominal cutting, blood, pain, and aftermath, accompanied by graphic erotic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 114–127

The Female Prisoner, Part 12

Saji Asazō

A serialized captivity fantasy follows a female prisoner subjected to harsh surveillance, restraint, punishment, humiliating treatment, and repeated attempts to secure release or legal intervention.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 128–131

A Sonnet for the Three Beautiful Flowers

Shuchi Yoshiharu

An illustrated erotic-literary feature presents imaginative tributes to three women, combining floral symbolism, animal imagery, nudity, bondage, and fantasies of female beauty, dominance, and display.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 132–141

Gag, Part 4

Shinkawa Hiroo

A serialized essay on gagging examines historical Chinese and Japanese gag forms, their terminology and construction, and their erotic and disciplinary effects, illustrated with staged bondage scenes and practical variations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 148–151

An SM Affair with an Older Woman

Aoyama Ken'ichi

A first-person erotic confession recounts a young man’s increasingly intimate SM affair with an older woman, combining workplace and domestic encounters with voyeuristic observation, submission, and bondage episodes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 152–164

The Gate of Shiran

Fūryū Gokudōken

A serialized Edo-period erotic SM tale follows a criminal and his associates through abduction, interrogation, elaborate rope bondage, suspension, humiliation, and coercive sexual encounters involving the characters 千登世, 豊香, and 新五郎. The installment emphasizes…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 165–169

The Alluring Rubber Raincoat

Umekawa Sachiko

An essay on the erotic appeal of rubber rainwear surveys rubberized raincoats, capes, masks, gloves, boots, and related garments, combining fetish commentary with practical suggestions for wearing them in indoor, outdoor, water, and role-play…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 170–177

Nostril Photography Meeting

Satō Mitsuyasu

Satō Mitsuyasu reports on a specialized nostril-photography gathering, describing the selection and posing of female models, close-up camera and lighting techniques, participants’ fetishistic fascination with noses, and several staged bondage-style photo sessions.

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February
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

March 1975 Issue

The March 1975 issue of Kitan Club opens with a substantial visual sequence rather than immediately beginning its numbered prose. After the wraparound cover and publisher advertisements, PDF page 3 introduces Tsukamoto Tetsuzō’s “The…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 3–26

Image Gallery

An illustrated essay reflects on the enduring male fantasy of women willingly surrendering themselves to bondage, pairing that meditation with a staged photograph of a bound female model. The text presents the image as…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

Melancholy Amid Splendor

Hayashi Shigezō

A lengthy illustrated erotic reportage follows Yamaguchi Ryōko through a staged “white sow” training scenario in which she is repeatedly bound with rope, restrained in varied positions, humiliated, and subjected to escalating sensory and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30–67

The Sensual Sow’s Education

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

An extended historical and practical essay examines gags, discussing their literary and cultural representations, varieties, materials, techniques, and use within scenes of restraint, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

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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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