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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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403 archive events + 1 curated milestone 1963
1963
December
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

1963 New Year Issue

The January 1963 New Year issue of Kitan Club combines extensive bondage photography and fetish illustration with historical research, serialized fiction, speculative stories, personal testimony, humor, cultural commentary, and a large reader-correspondence section. Its…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 17

The White Number at Night

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration titled “The White Number at Night” shows a woman seated in a dark vehicle or compartment while an older man grips her from behind.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18

Buttock-Beating Platform

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration presents a punishment apparatus on which a bound man is positioned for beating while another man raises a long cane overhead.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 19

Cleaning the Nostrils

Shima Takashi

An illustrated erotic scene depicts a woman being restrained while another person uses a small implement to clean or probe her nostrils.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 20

Newly Designed Hand-and-Foot Stocks

Shima Takashi

An illustrated feature presents a newly designed apparatus that restrains a woman’s neck, hands, and feet in a seated position, with accompanying restraint implements displayed around her.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 21

Gymnasium Storeroom

Kurokawa Fujio

A staged photograph shows a man bound against a wall in a gymnasium storeroom, blindfolded or gagged and subjected to immobilizing restraint.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–47

Notes on Punishment and Execution in the Edo Period

Omodaka Shino

Omodaka Shino’s illustrated historical essay surveys Edo-period punishments and executions, explaining the procedures, implements, clothing, status distinctions, and treatment of condemned people while documenting execution scenes through drawings and staged visual examples.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 66–67

Breast Binding

Higashiyama Tarō

An illustrated striptease scenario depicts a performer being progressively restrained with ropes and subjected to staged handling, emphasizing breast binding as theatrical erotic spectacle.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 66–67

Strange Psychology: Hypnosis

Minono Taeko

This article explains hypnosis as a psychological practice, describing induction techniques, suggestion, altered consciousness, and demonstrations of erotic control within intimate relationships.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 68–87

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A serialized erotic captivity narrative depicting arrests, pursuits, imprisonment, chained prisoners, and repeated physical punishment and humiliation within coercive encounters involving police officers, men, and women.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 88–89

A Visit to a Designer’s Studio

Harada Sunako

A reader-style personal confession describes a married woman’s dominant relationship with her husband, whom she treats as a lifelong slave through bondage, restraints, gagging, and disciplinary control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 90–97

Sardinia Travel Notes

Arutame Mataji

A fictional Sardinian adventure depicts a captive woman subjected to elaborate restraints, gagging, electric punishment, forced medical treatment, and eventual rescue amid confrontations between captors and rescuers.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 98–103

A Dangerous Woman

Waka Yūko

A roundtable-style discussion brings together several participants to debate male cross-dressing, clothing and makeup, personal identity, social reactions, gender roles, and the pleasures and anxieties surrounding feminine presentation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 104–122

The Painting Atelier

Kimura Taishin

A long-form SM story follows Yōko and several coworkers on a mountain trip that turns into a cruel series of wagers, captivity, bindings, punishments, and humiliating sexualized abuse, with the shifting power relations among…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 123

A View of Life and Death

Asō Tamotsu

This illustrated commentary reviews a November issue of the film magazine Kindai Eiga, discussing its gravure photographs, film stars, celebrity personalities, and the ways popular media presents their lifestyles and public images.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 124–131

A Bond Formed by White Tabi

Kino Akemi

A first-person erotic memoir recounts how a woman’s fascination with white tabi leads to an intimate relationship with a man who shares and indulges her fetish, culminating in marriage and domestic life shaped by…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 132–135

Senryū Notes

Saitō Ritsuo

This illustrated senryū commentary traces humorous and erotic references to the navel, abdomen, childbirth, bodily exposure, and related physical imagery across historical and modern verse.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–138

December Issue Reading Impressions

Akuta Osamu

A reader’s extended response to the December issue reflects on its fiction and erotic writing, especially depictions of abnormal desire, beautiful women, fantasy, and the boundary between imaginative literature and lived experience.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 140–143

The Slave’s Poem

Yamamoto Hazuo

A first-person erotic narrative follows a woman’s coercive submission to a female owner, emphasizing enslavement, discipline, restraint, and psychological surrender.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 144–153

The Experience of Bondage Photography

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A richly illustrated feature documents staged bondage-photography sessions, describing the models, rope arrangements, physical positions, emotional direction, and practical challenges of producing kinbaku images.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 162–163

The Kasumigaura Women’s Battle

Yasuda Takao

A bondage enthusiast’s memoir discusses the uses and appeal of bands and rubber restraints before shifting into an illustrated historical erotic narrative of women’s conflict, capture, and violent ordeal at Kasumigaura.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 164–177

Memoir of a Badminton Match

Manabe Masuo

This essay presents an elaborate method for imaginatively reading erotic punishment illustrations, guiding readers through scenes of female restraint, humiliation, bodily exposure, and forced bodily functions; the accompanying pages also advertise and depict staged…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 178–192

Reader Communications

A reader-mail section compiling personal letters, responses to the magazine’s articles and photographic features, requests for correspondence and meetings, and notices about reader clubs, back issues, and mail-order materials. The correspondence also reflects readers’…

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January
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

February 1963 Issue

The February 1963 issue of Kitan Club presents a broad mixture of bondage photography, fetish illustration, theoretical discussion, fiction, personal testimony, cultural reportage, and reader-oriented community material. Its opening pages establish the issue’s visual…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 17

The Prison Bride

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration titled “The Prison Bride” depicts a woman reclining in a prison-like setting while bound with rope, presenting captivity as a staged visual fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18

Prison at the Bottom of the Earth

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration titled “Prison at the Bottom of the Earth” shows a woman restrained by ropes against the walls of an underground cell, emphasizing confinement and helplessness.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 19

The Woman Outlaw’s Suicide on the Rooftop

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration titled “The Woman Outlaw’s Suicide on the Rooftop” portrays a female outlaw in a dramatic rooftop scene with a sword and a restrained male figure, combining criminal melodrama, erotic staging, and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–37

A Trial Discussion of M and S

Shirakawa Yukio

An essay examines the psychological, ethical, and social meanings of masochism and sadism, contrasting pathological cruelty with the pursuit of pleasure, love, freedom, and self-realization in postwar society.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 38–52

Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twenty-Second Night

Tsujimura Takashi

This serialized SM tale follows a married couple and their associates through escalating episodes of surveillance, coercion, rope restraint, physical punishment, medicalized experimentation, and sadomasochistic role play.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 54–59

Birth of the Women’s Sumo Association

Okamoto Yoshio

A reportage-style account of the founding and first meeting of a women’s sumo association, describing its rules, recruitment, organizers, participants, demonstrations, and bouts in an atmosphere that combines athletic spectacle with eroticized observation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 62–65

Gallstone Reflections

Sudō Ritsuo

An essay on navel dirt and omphaloliths that combines medical and anatomical explanation with folklore, wordplay, hygiene advice, fetishistic associations, and personal anecdotes about the navel as an eroticized body part.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 66–73

A Voyeur’s Almanac

Nagata Toshio

An autobiographical series of recollections about voyeuristic encounters from childhood through adulthood, including peeping at women bathing, dressing, and undergoing medical examinations, alongside reflections on visual fascination, erotic memory, and postwar social life.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 76–93

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A serialized SM novel follows a female narrator and a female slave through escapes, recaptures, prison confinement, interrogation, punishment, and eventual separation, combining melodramatic crime plotting with scenes of bondage and humiliation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 94–101

Sardinia Travel Notes

Arutame Mataji

A serialized adventure narrative recounts an expedition into Sardinia, portrayed as a slave state where captured women endure restraint, punishment, medicalized cruelty, and forced labor before the protagonists attempt to escape.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 102–105

Enchanted by Neru’s Discipline

Koshino Nobutoshi

A first-person confession describes the author’s longstanding erotic fascination with women’s buttocks and waists, especially as revealed through clothing, and recounts voyeuristic observation, memories, and personal encounters shaped by that fetish.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 106–111

The Mystery of the Privy Fly

Masayume Hirōmasa

This strange medical-gothic tale follows a patient whose intense fear of the privy fly develops into bizarre bodily symptoms, hallucinations, and a mysterious illness that doctors struggle to explain.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 116–117

Two Pregnant Women

Senuma Shirō

A dialogue and accompanying erotic scenarios focus on pregnant women, marital sexual situations, restraint, and enema-related play, blending conversational narration with fetishistic fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 118–119

The Tale of Mrs. Sekiya

Hanada Ichirō

This reflective essay praises and recollects Mrs. Sekiya as a memorable figure in postwar SM culture, discussing her photographic and literary representations alongside an erotic illustration of a woman made a sacrificial victim.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 122–131

The Devil’s Lips

Tanuma Toshio

This serialized SM fiction follows the narrator’s fixation on Akemi, whose beauty, physical strength, cruel temperament, and enjoyment of humiliating and physically tormenting others shape a series of sadistic erotic encounters.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 146–147

One-Piece Dress Fetishism

Yumehara Kōichi

A first-person fetish confession describes an intense fascination with enemas, enema instruments, bodily sensations, and medicalized sexual fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 148–155

The Insect in the Hair

Ninchōji Yoshiko

A long fictional narrative follows an artistically minded man whose attraction to women’s long black hair develops into a consuming romantic and erotic fixation, expressed through hair imagery, jealousy, intimacy, and staged scenes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 160–165

Men’s Hearts and Women’s Hearts

Azusa Kayoko

This experiential novel follows an office romance and affair involving a married woman and male colleagues, escalating through sexual jealousy, emotional manipulation, violence, and marital conflict.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 166–179

The Practice of Bondage Photography

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

A practical feature documents staged bondage photography, describing how models are posed, tied, struck, restrained, and photographed with ropes, gags, blindfolds, and other props.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 180–192

Reader Communications and Mrs. Sekiya’s Bondage Diary V

A multi-page reader-communications section presents personal letters and experiential accounts, including the fifth installment of Mrs. Sekiya’s bondage diary, alongside reader requests, editorial replies, club notices, publishing information, and advertisements for bondage photographs and…

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February
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

March 1963 Issue

The March 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually large opening visual program with confessional writing, fiction, fetish commentary, cultural reportage, illustrated essays, and a long reader-correspondence section. The first photographic portfolio concentrates…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 6–13

Opening Rope-Bondage Gravure

A photographic rope-bondage portfolio presents women secured in varied seated, kneeling, reclining, and contorted positions, emphasizing elaborate rope placement and bodily restriction.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14–16

Products Displayed Before the Customer

Claude Koga

Claude Koga’s illustrations portray bound women as commodities displayed for inspection, subjected to a mistress’s whip when they resist, and finally packed and shipped to purchasers in a dark mail-order captivity fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 17

Enema Cover

Shima Takashi

Shima Takashi’s cover illustration depicts a woman restrained and gagged while suffering the effects of an administered enema and being made to move about wearing a diaper cover.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18

Constriction Garment

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a woman wearing a constricting leather garment that tightens as it absorbs water and clings closely to the body, with a man assisting or observing her.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 19

A Woman’s Disembowelment

Taki Reiko

An erotic illustration presents a Japanese woman in a domestic interior alongside imagery of ritual disembowelment or seppuku, linking female vulnerability with violent punishment fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 20

Fantasy of Disembowelment Play

Taki Reiko

Titled “Fantasy of Disembowelment Play,” this erotic illustration shows a kneeling nude woman gripping a blade at her abdomen amid blood imagery, staging seppuku as an imagined erotic punishment scene.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 21

Nasal Teasing

Shima Takashi

A staged erotic photograph shows a woman surrounded by two men engaging in nasal teasing, presenting the nose as the focus of playful fetishistic attention.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–41

From the Town of Wind

Yamabe Mayumi

Mayumi Yamabe’s serialized erotic fiction follows a married woman whose relationship develops from conventional intimacy into coercive bondage, sexual experimentation, revenge, and forbidden relationships, culminating in a husband’s fatal accident and her unsettled search…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 42–51

White Socks

Manda Fuji

A first-person confession recounts a lifelong masochistic fixation on women, centered on the white socks and feet of a physically assertive woman named Setsuko and culminating in humiliating wrestling and punishment encounters.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 52–57

Comic Talk on the Waist

Maki Takashi

A humorous illustrated essay traces Japanese women’s waistcloths and loincloths from traditional red garments to modern underwear, combining historical anecdotes with commentary on their erotic and cultural meanings.

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June
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Binding Becomes a Research Course

The July 1963 Kitan Club issue contains both “Bondage Research Course: Classroom of Binding Methods” and “Instructional Advice for Binding.” The vocabulary is striking: research, classroom, methods, and instruction. By this point the magazine…

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