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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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774 archive events + 1 curated milestone 1954
1954
June
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Binding Is Explained as a Process

Tsujimura Takashi

By July 1954, Kitan Club was not merely presenting finished bondage poses. “Until the Binding Is Complete: Photographic Explanation” frames binding as a sequence that can be demonstrated and followed. This procedural presentation is…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 33

Mirror of Delusion

Hōrōkyō, credit reading uncertain

An erotic illustration titled “Mirror of Delusion” depicts a figure enclosed in an ornate, fantastical setting surrounded by grotesque, possibly demonic forms.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34

Hell

Jōkō Juku, credit reading uncertain

An erotic illustration titled “Hell” portrays nude figures undergoing torment amid demonic imagery in an infernal landscape.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 35

Shrimp Binding

Kawabata Tanako

“Shrimp Binding” presents a photographic bondage feature showing a woman posed and secured with chains in a tightly folded, restrained position.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 36

Kimono Suspension

Kawabata Tanako

A photographic feature presents a woman in a patterned kimono suspended and restrained with rope, emphasizing the interaction of traditional clothing, posture, and bondage display.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 37

Waist Restraint

contributor credit uncertain

A photographic study depicts a woman kneeling while bound around the waist, presenting a staged restraint posture as a visual demonstration.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 39–42

Yuriko’s Adventure

Inoue Kazuo, credit reading uncertain

This illustrated serialized erotic adventure follows Yuriko as she is pursued and forcibly restrained by men aboard a ship, escapes into the sea, reaches a tropical island, and encounters unfamiliar island inhabitants amid continuing…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 43–54

An Invitation to Rope Play

Tsujimura Takashi

An instructional dialogue presents rope-play scenarios involving wives, lovers, students, and other partners, explaining methods of binding the body, blindfolding and gagging, positional restraint, and suspension through accompanying photographs and drawings.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 55–58

The Woman of the Brothel

Mori Jun’nosuke

An erotic narrative follows a brothel woman whose encounters with the male narrator develop through themes of captivity, restraint, submission, jealousy, and forbidden desire, illustrated with staged bondage scenes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 59–65

Continued Diary of an Enema Maniac

Hanamura Emiko

A continuation of a fetish diary recounts the author’s intense interest in enemas, including intimate experiences, medical examinations, hospital visits, equipment, fluids, and increasingly elaborate procedures involving partners and acquaintances.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 66–70

The Education of the Jealous Man

Nakaya Reiichi

A pseudo-medical and psychological essay examines pathological jealousy through case-like accounts of abnormal sexuality, including masochistic fantasies, self-binding, and morbid ideas about death and sexual control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 71–76

On Arms as Female Beauty

Yamaguchi Sanjūshi, romanization uncertain

An illustrated essay treats the female arm as an object of erotic beauty, discussing its shape, skin, hair, musculature, grooming, and the emotional and cultural meanings attached to its display.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 77–89

Night-Light Island, Part Three

Kurihara Mugishin; illustrations by Shinjō

The third installment of a serialized erotic adventure follows encounters on an isolated island involving pursuit, coercion, captivity, verbal humiliation, restraint with ropes and household objects, and escalating sexual domination.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 90–92

Obsession with Women’s Necks

Kasa Kazuten, romanization uncertain

An essay on an intense erotic fixation with women’s necks, illustrated through scenes of neck-focused restraint, handling, and visual attention.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 98

Diaper Torment

Akai Shigeru

An illustrated feature describing diapering as an erotic torment practice, emphasizing diapers, immobilization, humiliation, and punitive control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 99–102

From My Manga Scrapbook

Haruki Toshino, romanization uncertain

A scrapbook-based survey of striking manga and magazine clippings, discussing bizarre and erotic imagery, changing publishing practices, and the appeal of sensational illustrations to readers.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 103–109

The Escaped Prisoner

Shinohara Sakue

A serialized erotic crime-and-captivity narrative follows an escaped prisoner through pursuit, recapture, interrogation, confinement, and humiliating punishment by female authorities and their associates.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 110–111

Enema Curiosities

Ōki Takashi, romanization uncertain

An illustrated first-person account of enema examinations and treatments emphasizes medicalized bodily exposure, embarrassment, coercive examination, and the narrator’s fascination with the procedure and its apparatus.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 117–120

The Compulsive Undresser

Aoba Shin’ichi

A case-style psychological account explores compulsive undressing, describing public and private episodes of male and female nudity while considering exhibitionistic impulses, social inhibition, and possible clinical causes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 121–124

Further Reflections on Female Seppuku

Taya Takao; illustrations by Umeda Junzō

An illustrated essay surveys female seppuku as a historical and imaginative motif, combining literary scenarios, visual depictions, wartime and peacetime comparisons, case statistics, and discussion of motives, gender, and eroticized violence.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 125–131

The Disappeared Hose

Shirogane Kōji

An erotic serialized story follows a company group and married couple on a hot-spring excursion, where social encounters, bathing arrangements, disguise, and a missing stocking generate embarrassment and suggestive complications.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 132–134

Cruelty to the Abdomen

Ōshima Hajime

A prose-and-illustration feature surveys sadistic fantasies focused on cutting, piercing, binding, and otherwise tormenting the abdomen, presenting elaborate scenarios of bodily injury and distress.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 135–142

Women, Flowers of Crucifixion

Nakagawa Fusao; illustrations by Shikata Takashi

A historical erotic narrative depicts women subjected to crucifixion, restraint, interrogation, and execution amid Edo-period violence, concluding with extended fantasies of female abdominal cutting and ritualized death. Its illustrations emphasize staged scenes of punishment,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 143–146

Contemporary Masochism Art Criticism

Hara Tadamasa

An art-critical essay examines contemporary masochism through opera, cinema, music, painting, and literary representation, arguing that masochistic aesthetics emerge through psychologically charged images of suffering, restraint, and eroticized power. It discusses works and artists…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 147–156

Tight Bond

Kusanagi Hisato

A serialized erotic narrative follows a married couple whose relationship develops through coercive encounters, binding, confinement, humiliation, and escalating struggles over authority, desire, and secrecy. The story repeatedly links domestic intimacy with physical restraint…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 157–161

A Record of Lesbos

Murai Keiko, credit reading uncertain

A literary account of Lesbos explores female same-sex desire through references to Sappho and tribadism, combining reflections on sexual psychology with scenes of attraction, jealousy, secrecy, and intimate correspondence. Its episodes trace how forbidden…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 162–166

Sexual Fluids, Part Eleven

Itō Seiu

The eleventh installment of a transgressive erotic narrative presents theatrical scenes of sexual display, coercion, nudity, and voyeuristic spectatorship among performers and audiences.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 167–172

A Study of Female Wrestling Beauty

Kitajima Kazutoshi, romanization uncertain

An illustrated study of female wrestling examines wrestling holds, bodily strength, movement, and the eroticized visual appeal of wrestlers’ bodies, especially the breasts, hips, legs, and buttocks.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 173–180

Ten Months in Confinement

Haruta Ichirō

A first-person account of ten months in confinement describes prison cells, surveillance, inspections, labor, meals, daily schedules, interpersonal tensions, and the psychological effects of incarceration.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 181–185

On Enema Play

Hamura Kyōko

Hamura Kyōko presents a practical account of enema play, describing equipment, insertion methods, body positions, quantities, and precautions, accompanied by instructional illustrations of restrained participants.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 186–188

Recollections of Moxibustion Mania

Hosaka Shin, credit reading uncertain

Hosaka Shin recounts a moxibustion fixation involving repeated therapeutic and eroticized applications of heat, bodily exposure, restraint, and the intense sensations associated with treatment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 189–192

A Cross-Dressing Photography Maniac

Suzuki Jūzō

Suzuki Jūzō describes a cross-dressing photography enthusiast who collects women’s clothing, transforms his appearance, poses for photographs, and pursues increasingly elaborate staged images and private fantasies.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 193–204

The Life of Rakukichi

Hakubundō Kichiroku, credit reading uncertain

A serialized autobiographical erotic narrative follows Rakukichi from school and adolescence into adult life, emphasizing his repeated encounters with physically and psychologically dominant women, humiliation, punishment, and male submission. The illustrated episodes also depict…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 205–206

A Teacher’s Confession

contributor credit uncertain

Presented as a teacher’s first-person confession, this episode describes the sexualized disciplining, coercion, and humiliation of younger male subordinates, framed through workplace hierarchy and the narrator’s sadistic control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 207–212

Perversion Through Extremes and Contradictions

Kitajima Kazutoshi

Kitajima Kazutoshi reflects on extreme and contradictory forms of sexual desire through autobiographical encounters, discussing fetishistic attraction, voyeuristic observation, pursuit of women, and fantasies of domination, bodily transformation, and humiliation. The closing material also…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 213–214

From My Miscellaneous Reflections

Nakagawa Fusao

A personal miscellany reflecting on the contents and presentation of a recent erotic magazine issue, including its visual material, readers’ reactions, and the author’s preferences for future publishing.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 215–220

The Lifeline My Father Gave Me

Tobita Ryōji

A sensational fictional narrative in which Aiko is confined in a psychiatric hospital, subjected to coercive medicalized abuse and restraint, and drawn into a violent escape and revenge plot involving her father and the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 221–233

The Plaza of Evil

Kawada Junko, credit reading uncertain

A multi-part sensational feature combining purported case accounts, personal testimonies, and editorial commentary about unusual sexual behavior, coercion, medical treatment, humiliation, and the psychology of masochistic desire.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 234

A Correctional-Psychology Response to Perversion

editorial or specialist contributor

This essay challenges prevailing interpretations of “perversion” in group psychology, arguing that social and political pressures can produce or magnify supposedly deviant behavior and that such cases should be examined with greater psychological nuance.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 235–236

Female Seppuku in Historical Printed Works

Kawai Itsuko

Kawai Itsuko examines depictions of female seppuku in early Japanese kusazōshi and related printed narratives, discussing recurring scenes of women’s self-disembowelment, loyalty, sacrifice, and dramatic eroticized violence.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 237–243

Recollections of a Hernia Belt

Mori Ta

Mori Ta recounts childhood and adolescent experiences involving a hernia belt, medical examinations, bodily exposure, discipline, and the lasting fascination these encounters created, accompanied by illustrations of the remembered scenes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 244–248

Cruel Women

translated and explained by Morimoto Aizō

A translated and annotated survey of historical anecdotes about cruel women, emphasizing female authority, domestic discipline, corporal punishment, and sadistic treatment of children, servants, and husbands.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 249–265

On a Day of Love

Furukawa Yūko

A serialized erotic narrative in which a woman’s intense love and emotional dependence become entangled with coercion, bondage, beatings, humiliation, and repeated scenes of physical restraint, accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 266–268

Actresses Who Were Bound

Ioka Kinshū, romanization uncertain

An illustrated feature surveys stories and staged depictions of actresses being tied, describing bondage scenes, restraint methods, and the erotic appeal of female captives in theatrical and cinematic contexts.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 269–272

On Four Beautiful Women’s Noses

Kitaya Mizo, romanization uncertain

An illustrated essay examines the noses of four women presented as beautiful, comparing their shapes, proportions, and facial effects while discussing changing ideals of feminine beauty and cosmetic judgment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 273–283

From a Masochist’s Notebook

contributor credit uncertain

A serialized first-person masochist’s notebook recounts fantasies and encounters involving submission, humiliation, service, and discipline under socially dominant women, framed through class, gender, and authority relations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 284

To Ibuki Misako

contributor credit uncertain

A letter addressed to Ibuki Misako discusses staged bondage photography, including breast restraints, nudity, rope work, poses, and the visual presentation of the female model’s body.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 285–295

The Hero of Perversion: Oda Nobunaga

Yasuda Kazuo, credit reading uncertain

An illustrated historical erotic narrative portrays Oda Nobunaga’s cruelty, sexual domination, captivity, punishment, and encounters with performers and subjects amid Sengoku-era warfare and courtly life.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 296–298

Masochism Correspondence

multiple readers

A reader-correspondence section presents readers’ and editors’ exchanges about masochistic and sadistic interests, erotic photographs, illustrations, posing, clothing, and requests for future magazine material.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 299–302

Lesbos Correspondence

multiple readers

A reader-correspondence section collecting accounts and questions about female homosexuality, lesbian desire, gender presentation, and related erotic experiences.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 303–305

Enema Correspondence

multiple readers

Readers exchange detailed personal accounts and practical observations concerning enemas, intestinal cleansing, enema devices, bodily sensations, and the erotic use of enemas.

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