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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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321 archive events + 1 curated milestone 1962
1962
December
Magazine Issue Uramado

January 1962

The January 1962 Uramado material consists of a compact photographic feature titled Rope Mood, 縄のムード, credited on its opening page to photographer Yoshida Hisashi. Rather than presenting prose, fiction, correspondence, or editorial commentary, the…

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January
Magazine Issue Uramado

February 1962

The February 1962 issue of Uramado is a compact photographic publication devoted almost entirely to staged bondage imagery. Rather than following the article-heavy structure of a conventional magazine issue, it is organized as a…

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Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, February 1962

Kitan Club, February 1962 is a densely illustrated specialist magazine combining erotic visual culture, sadomasochistic fiction, bondage photography, personal confession, editorial polemic, reader correspondence, and commercial notices. Its opening pages establish a pictorial identity…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 56–62

Faint Memories

First-person remembrance of family, maternal authority, childhood, school, work, and remembered women, gradually becoming eroticized.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–91

Fantasia Masochistica

Illustrated feature of equestrian role-play, costume, posture, riding equipment, photography, audience response, and masochistic performance.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 92–103

Kizuna (Bond)

Continuing dramatic narrative of Yōko and Yūsuke involving police suspicion, imprisonment, marriage, pregnancy, domestic violence, restraint, forced labor, and possessive control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 104–105

I Want to Serve

First-person narrative about service, bodily inspection, obedience, employment, and humiliating sexual circumstances.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 120–125

Mozosu

Shōzō Ishii

Illustrated historical narrative involving feudal households, marriage, status, escape, pursuit, and Takeda–Tokugawa conflict.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 126–127

I Accuse

Tsutomu Takasaki

Polemical essay calling for a magazine responsive to social change and willing to investigate unusual and neglected subjects.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 133–134

M in Everyday Life

Feature tracing masochistic and domination-related ideas through clothing, popular culture, ordinary behavior, and personal fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 134

My Sadistic Journey

Tsutomu Tokusawa

Autobiographical account of the development of sadistic interests through childhood, adolescence, reading, and later experience.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 135

On Zen

Yoshito Iwai

Short essay juxtaposing Zen, bodily discipline, erotic practice, restraint, and physical control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 156–157

Slave Boy

Male bondage feature describing degrading labor, restraint, punishment, inspection, posture, and willing submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 172–179

Brilliant Revenge

Setsuo Kuroki

Fantasy narrative of attraction, workplace status, beauty, violence, pregnancy, attempted suicide, and revenge.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 180–210

The Contract

Kitamura

Prize-selected manuscript about obsessive relationships, coercion, jealousy, punishment, bondage, and an in-story written contract.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 211–217

The Enchanted Stage

Rōrō

Visual feature about theatre, costumes, masks, lighting, choreography, stage machinery, comic violence, and fetishized spectacle.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 219–234

Readers’ Correspondence

Closing correspondence department containing letters, replies, model requests, photographic exchanges, fetish discussions, and reader-participation notices.

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February
Magazine Issue Uramado

March 1962

The March 1962 issue of Uramado is a compact photographic publication organized around four distinct black-and-white bondage portfolios. Its editorial identity is almost entirely visual: there are no substantial prose articles, fiction, correspondence columns,…

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March
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, April 1962

Kitan Club, April 1962 is a densely illustrated Japanese specialist magazine combining erotic photography, fetish-oriented fiction, personal confession, reader correspondence, essays, visual criticism, and commercial notices. Its editorial identity is announced by the cover…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 7

Sugiba Ibushi

Reiko, reading uncertain

A theatrical monochrome illustration centers a partially nude, strongly dominant female figure set against subordinate male figures and elaborate costume.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 8

The Scarred Man

Kurokawa Fujio

A captioned illustration depicts a threatening, disfigured man controlling a doll-like or bound figure, using bodily abnormality and captivity as sensational motifs.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 10

The Eerie Locked Room

Shiba Takashi, romanization uncertain

A bound woman and a nearby male figure occupy an enclosed room, emphasizing confinement, menace, and immobilization.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 12

By Day a President, by Night a Slave

Ayama Mitsuo, romanization uncertain

A captioned illustration reverses social and gender status by showing a formally dressed woman dominating a man, explicitly contrasting public authority with private enslavement.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 13

Heavy Falling Object

Harukawa Namio

A bound figure and an implied falling weight create a staged scenario of physical danger, immobilization, and coercive spectacle.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15–24

The Ecstatic Realm of Ropes and Cords

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A large photographic program documents rope binding, foot restraint, hands-behind suspension, domestic bondage poses, seppuku staging, dominant and submissive roles, and outdoor suspension.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 44–53

Mami and Shinobu

This first-person confessional fiction follows an intimate relationship structured by bondage, pain, endurance, domination, submission, and shifting master-slave roles. The installment concludes on printed page 53.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 54–63

Nose, Rope, and Me

Nakamura Ryōko

A first-person fetish narrative centers on fascination with the female nose and develops through ropes, gags, handcuffs, humiliation, coercive fantasy, and reflections on authorship.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 64–77

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Asao, romanization uncertain

A long serialized SM novel moves from harsh school discipline into prison, escape, recapture, medical examination, dissection, electrical stimulation, and institutional bodily control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 78

Human Ego

Rihei Takiguchi

An essay questions human claims to superiority by juxtaposing animal slaughter with executions, experimentation, and other forms of human cruelty.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 79–85

The Grave of Fallen Leaves

An episodic narrative of Masako and Teizō combines coercive sexuality, humiliation, restraint, memory, and sadomasochistic fantasy with integrated illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 92–95

Fantasia Masochistica

Setsuo Yamamoto

A dreamlike dialogue presents a male submissive dominated by women through commands, riding imagery, restraint, punishment, and humiliation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 96–105

A Woman’s Record: The Heike Settlement

Kazuko Kusaki, reading uncertain

A continuing first-person narrative links a bound woman and a rural community to inherited discrimination, poverty, forced labor, wartime flight, policing, family conflict, and survival.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 106–107

On Cross-dressing Play

Oda Namio

A confessional contribution discusses makeup, wigs, clothing, cross-dressing, erotic role-play, restraint, dependency, and humiliation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 108–111

Girls’ Sumo and Wrestling Scenes

Maruyama Keizō

A confession traces a fascination with girls’ sumo and wrestling through memories, local contests, holds, throws, and increasingly elaborate scenes of female physical domination.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 124–125

Seppuku Photos: Review and Reputation

Minamigata Jun

A visual-criticism column evaluates staged seppuku photography through composition, props, costume, makeup, blood effects, continuity, and the balance between theatricality and photographic realism.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 139–141

The Bars of the Mental Hospital

Kazuo Kawamura, reading uncertain

An autobiographical account of psychiatric hospitalization describes ward routines, electrotherapy, restraints, surveillance, stigma, correspondence, and eventual release.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 142–148

A Love Letter

Kyōko Hamamura, role uncertain

An extended exchange of intimate letters discusses marriage, pregnancy, bodily change, photographs, unusual sexual preferences, and the tension between domestic life and exceptional desire.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 149–155

Ode to Christiel

Tsujimura Takashi and/or Kyōko Hamamura, roles uncertain

A continuing correspondence feature combines personal testimony, reader questions, erotic experimentation, enema and irrigation practices, restraint, pregnancy, contraception, privacy, censorship, and editorial handling of intimate material.

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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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