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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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379 archive events + 1 curated milestone 1955
1955
December
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Rope Acquires a Historical Vocabulary

The January 1955 Kitan Club article “The History of Rope and Feet” treats rope historically rather than only pictorially or technically. Its appearance demonstrates that rope had become a subject that could be placed…

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January
Article / Feature Kitan Club 180–189

Jealous Boys

Mine Kōji

A narrative of institutional and dormitory life portrays jealous male youths whose same-sex attraction to a desirable companion generates rivalry, possessiveness, coercion, and violent disciplinary encounters.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 190–191

A Woman's Nighttime Letter About Hemorrhoids

Hanamura Megumi

A woman’s autobiographical letter recounts lifelong hemorrhoid problems, repeated enemas, medical examinations, and the gradual transformation of treatment-related sensations into anal erotic experimentation and sexual self-reflection.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 192–203

The Inverted Hero Oda Nobunaga

Kasaya Toshikō

A historical erotic narrative portrays Oda Nobunaga as a violently contradictory hero amid Sengoku-era warfare, political betrayal, captivity, humiliation, executions, and sadistic reversals of power.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 204–209

The Naked Beauty

Yamamoto Osamu

An erotic reportage feature follows a Japanese female interpreter at an international sports-massage event, where cross-cultural massage, nudity, hypnosis, and staged bodily demonstrations turn professional performance into spectacle and sexualized submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 210–213

Sexual Fluids

Itō Seiu

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows Toyokichi, Murata, and their associates through encounters at Osaka railway stations, lodging houses, debts, theft, police suspicion, disguises, and sexual intrigue. The story combines sensational plot developments with…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 214–229

From the Notebook of a Certain Masochist

Numata Shōzō

This illustrated, serialized notebook takes the form of a satirical dialogue between a masochist and a skeptical interlocutor, ranging across masochism, slavery, domination, evolutionary fantasies, extraterrestrial societies, insects, bodily functions, and human-animal relations. Its…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 230–237

Confession: The Time a Burglar Entered

Nakano Taeko

A first-person confession recounts a nighttime burglary in which a family is confronted at gunpoint, bound, gagged, and restrained while the intruders search the house, emphasizing the narrator’s fear, helplessness, and vivid memory of…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 238–239

Lesbianism and a Discussion of Sodomy

Hamura Kyōko

An illustrated essay discusses lesbian relationships and male same-sex practices, combining arguments about homosexuality, marriage, social acceptance, and sexual behavior with speculative psychological and cultural commentary.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 240–253

The Secret of the A-Sensation

Hamura Kyōko

A pseudo-sexological feature explores the so-called A-sensation through extended discussions of female anatomy, sexuality, pregnancy, childbirth, bodily openings, and anal pleasure, supplemented by anatomical diagrams and fantastical erotic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 254–256

The Ōtsu Incident and Its Aftermath

Suda Ritsuo

A historical account of the 1891 Ōtsu Incident, in which Tsuda Sanzo attacked Crown Prince Nicholas, tracing the immediate investigation, trial, public reaction, and later interpretations of the event.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 257–259

A Woman Who Responds to Sadism

Shiraki Nobuko

A woman’s correspondence describes her sadistic feelings toward weaker people and recounts coercive, humiliating, and physically abusive treatment in intimate relationships, while reflecting on the psychology and social meaning of her impulses.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 260–269

The Crawling Insect

Tsujimura Nobutane

An erotic narrative follows a man and Tomiko as their intimate experimentation centers on enemas, anal stimulation, bodily control, and the imagined cultivation and expulsion of intestinal worms, accompanied by erotic illustrations and pseudo-medical…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 270–273

How to Bind Your Own Hands Behind Your Back

Shiraki Nobuko

A practical illustrated guide explains how a person can tie their own hands and body in various positions, using ropes, furniture, knots, and staged self-release techniques. It emphasizes repeated practice and precautions for escaping…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 276–279

Confession to Hanamura-sensei

A first-person erotic dedication to Hanamura-sensei combines admiration of her writing with an elaborate fantasy of female beauty, bathing, bodily display, and fetishistic scenarios; the surrounding pages also include an open reader letter requesting…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 280–283

From Film and Magazine Communications

A film-and-magazine communications column reviews recent Japanese films and related erotic publications, emphasizing staged scenes of female captivity, cutting, bondage, sadistic violence, and sensationalized erotic spectacle. It also comments on magazine illustrations and the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 284–291

The Story of Rope

Sugimura Ken

An illustrated dialogue and narrative feature explores rope bondage, erotic restraint, gendered desire, secrecy, and marital power, combining discussion of bondage imagery with serialized fiction involving island isolation, sexual control, punishment, and intimate conflict.…

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February
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Kitan Club, March 1955 Special Expanded Issue

Kitan Club's March 1955 special expanded issue is a large, densely illustrated publication combining pictorial fetish culture, theoretical discussion of sexual abnormality, serialized and prize fiction, autobiographical confession, historical inquiry, and an extensive reader-community…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 12

Kawayanagi Idea Ten Forms

A multi-panel illustrated feature presenting ten humorous and erotic tableaux, including couples engaged in restraint, punishment, submission, and fetishistic play.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 13

Fire Wheel

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu’s “Fire Wheel” is a dramatic erotic illustration of a bound figure secured to a large wheel-like apparatus, presenting a spectacular punishment and restraint tableau.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 16–17

Girl Sumo

An illustrated feature presents a theatrical “girl sumo” spectacle in which women wrestle in staged bouts, with several scenes incorporating rope restraint, costumes, and sumo-related props and commentary.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18–19

Two Bondage Subjects

Two erotic illustrations depict women subjected to elaborate restraints: one is nearly suspended by a rope attached to her hair and made to move with it, while the other is forced into a protruding…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 20–21

Masochistic Photo

A two-page photographic feature depicts staged sadomasochistic scenes in which women dominate submissive men through foot-licking and whipping or striking with an implement, accompanied by brief provocative captions and model credits.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 22–23

Bondage Photo Album

A photographic album presenting women posed in elaborate rope bondage, including seated and prone restraints, bound limbs, veiling, and other staged kinbaku compositions.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 24–25

Outdoor Rope-Binding Sequence

A staged outdoor photographic sequence shows a woman progressively rope-bound beside a rustic bench and in surrounding vegetation, including restrained and incapacitated poses. The captions emphasize the binding process and the subject’s inability to…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 26–27

Two Dominant Women: Combination Photos

A staged photographic feature presents two women in a sadomasochistic role-play scenario, with one woman dominating, restraining, and punishing the other through bindings and forced positions. The images emphasize female authority, immobilization, and theatrical…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 28

A Cute Customer

Tsuzuki Mineko

Tsuzuki Mineko’s illustration “A Cute Customer” depicts a woman seated in a domestic swing or chair, partially wrapped and entangled in fabric and rope in a stylized bondage tableau.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

The Fetishist's Dream

Tsuzuki Mineko

A full-page erotic illustration presents a reclining woman amid patterned garments and bedding, visualizing a fetishistic dream through an intimate, voyeuristic composition.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30

The Fetishist's Page

A photographic fetish feature depicts a male model subjected to nose clipping and pinching, rope binding that raises his lower body, and being knocked down.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 31–33

Picture Album of Cruel Women: Hegemann Special

Morimoto Aizō

An illustrated album attributed to Rudolf Hegemann presents scenes of women exercising cruel or dominant power through restraint, punishment, humiliation, and captivity, with German captions identifying the imported artworks.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–35

Female Slaves Being Sold

This illustrated feature depicts a white female slave displayed on an auction platform, chained and whipped for failing to comply while slave merchants inspect her body and watch her distress before choosing a purchaser.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 38

Women's Wrestling

A photographic feature from the French magazine Pigalle presents staged scenes of women wrestling, including holds and bodily restraint.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 40

Morning Departure / After Dinner

Sugihara Kōji

Sugihara Kōji’s illustrated domestic vignettes show a wife restrained and humiliated during her husband’s morning departure and after-dinner routine, emphasizing coercive marital discipline and his sadistic gaze.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 41–44

The Traitor

Shima Takashi

A crime-and-captivity story follows Hasegawa as he abducts and restrains Akiko, while Kyōji’s intervention exposes betrayal, jealousy, and violent erotic obsession.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46–52

On New Developments in Perversion Research

Naruse Ryō

This theoretical essay surveys changing definitions of perversion, distinguishing normality, abnormality, sexual deviation, and same-sex desire while arguing that sexual behavior must be understood through psychology, biology, social norms, and historical context.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 53–57

Drawing Bondage Pictures

Naruyama Nōhei

An illustrated first-person account explains how the artist designs bondage pictures, discusses models, poses, ropes, clothing, composition, and expressive detail, and reflects on the relationship between erotic imagery and artistic practice.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 58–70

Night Light Island, Part 6: An Unpleasant Promise

Azuma Shin

This installment of a serialized erotic thriller follows journalist Kenzaburō and others on Sado Island as an investigation into a suspicious marriage and a woman’s disappearance develops into coercion, captivity, escape attempts, and violent…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–89

On Sweat

Mizushima Mamoru

A first-person erotic confession explores the writer’s intense fascination with his wife’s sweat, bodily scent, rubber garments, and sweat-producing situations within marriage and staged fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 104–118

The Shadow Flower

Kataya Kaoru

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows Tōe, a vulnerable woman drawn into coercion, captivity, medicalized abuse, and escalating sadistic domination by men and women. Its episodes combine psychological terror, bondage, humiliation, and illustrated sensational…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 119–121

Cruel Women

Morimoto Aizō

This translated historical account, based on a 1901 German source, surveys allegedly cruel women—especially female teachers and guardians—who inflict corporal punishment and derive authority from the suffering and humiliation of those under their control,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 122–127

Diary of an Enema Maniac, Emiko: A Sad Monologue

Hanamura Emiko

Presented as Emiko’s first-person diary, this confessional account describes her compulsive fascination with enemas, bodily sensations, photographic display, and the psychological tension between shame, secrecy, pain, and sexual pleasure. The accompanying illustrations reinforce its…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 128–133

The Tide Wave

Shirogane Kōji

A period erotic narrative set around Itako follows encounters involving geisha, travel, seduction, and scenes of coercive restraint, accompanied by illustrations depicting bondage and domination.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 134–137

My Image: The Operating Room, A Favorite Dream

Taketani Jūzō

A dreamlike first-person account set in a hospital imagines a wife undergoing increasingly elaborate surgical and nursing procedures, blending medical settings with eroticized control, vulnerability, and bodily transformation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 148–153

The Blood-Stained Hair Rope, Part 3

Itō Seiu

A richly illustrated erotic feature exploring the fetishization of women’s hair through historical anecdotes, hair-rope bondage, violence, and staged scenes of restraint involving blood and humiliation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 154–161

Ten Months in Confinement

Haruta Ichirō

A first-person prison memoir recounting ten months of confinement, including cell life, forced labor, surveillance, discipline, prohibited smoking, fellow prisoners, and the routines of penal administration.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 162–165

Confession: Cutting One's Own Belly

Odawara Wataru

A disturbing first-person confession describing an attempted act of self-disembowelment, its preparation and execution, the sensations of pain and blood loss, and the subsequent medical aftermath.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 166–171

My Experience

Nagase Akiko

A first-person erotic confession by Nagase Akiko recounts the calculated domination, stripping, humiliation, and corporal punishment of a female companion in an escalating staged encounter.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 174–175

Memoir: The Young Lady Who Was Catheterized

Tamura Jin'ichi

Tamura Jin’ichi presents a medicalized erotic memoir centered on a young woman undergoing catheterization, combining voyeuristic observation with detailed fascination with clinical examination and bodily control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 179–183

Open Letter to the Editors

Sugawara Haruo

Sugawara Haruo’s open letter urges the editors to improve the magazine’s editorial policy, distribution, reader services, contributor relations, and regional organization while preserving confidentiality and strengthening participatory publishing.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 189–191

One Night in Tokyo

R.G.S.

This erotic fiction follows United Nations soldiers on leave in Tokyo as a night of bars, solicitation, and hotel-room encounters culminates in the discovery and coercive restraint of a young woman.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 192–222

Venus's Heavy Stone

Masago Jūshirō

This serialized erotic SM fiction follows office manager Yamaguchi as an initially domineering relationship with employee Miyako is reversed through escalating coercion, bondage, humiliation, foot-focused fetishism, and female control, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 223–227

Experience in a Dormitory

Midorikawa Junko

A first-person erotic account of a young woman’s hospitalization for severe intestinal illness, focusing on invasive enemas, rectal treatments, examinations, undressing, restraint, and her conflicted humiliation and submission to the nurses and doctors.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 248–255

Bondage Without Rope

Futamata Shizuko

This serialized erotic fiction follows Shizuko as she enters a household and exercises increasingly forceful psychological and physical control over its inhabitants through domestic authority, improvised restraints, humiliation, and sexual coercion. The narrative emphasizes…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 256–261

Record of My Half-Life

Kitajima Kagetsu

An autobiographical confession recounting the author’s sexual and aesthetic development through encounters with women, voyeuristic situations, erotic ukiyo-e and shunga, obi imagery, and fetishistic recollections from youth into adulthood.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 262–271

Oda Nobunaga, Hero of Perversion

Kasagi Toshirō

A historical-psychological essay interprets Oda Nobunaga’s legendary cruelty, military ambition, gender relations, erotic interests, and death through the lens of sexual abnormality and the violent culture of the Sengoku period.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 272–279

Thirty Years of Pursuing the Abnormal

Yamada Masami

A thirty-year memoir of pursuing erotic and “abnormal” interests, centered especially on the author’s fascination with women’s noses, facial coverings, masks, body-part imagery, and their representation in photographs, films, theater, and popular culture.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 280–287

The True Face of Bondage Models, Part 1

Tsujimura Takashi

A behind-the-scenes profile of bondage models and staged photography sessions, describing the models’ personalities, working relationships, preparation, and experiences with rope restraint. The article is illustrated with photographs documenting several bondage poses and sessions.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 288–291

Letter to M, First Letter

Futamata Shizuko

A personal letter from Shizuko Futamata to “M” reflecting on their correspondence, changing intimacy, literary sensibilities, and the relationship between private experience, sexual identity, and writing.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 292–294

Recollections of Punishment Pictures

Yoda Seiji

An essay recalling erotic and punishment illustrations, comparing scenes of women being restrained, captured, or displayed and discussing their composition, historical atmosphere, realism, and erotic impact.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 295–297

Commentary on the Picture Album Cruel Women

Morimoto Aizō

A critical commentary on the picture album “Cruel Women” examines staged erotic scenes of women dominating, restraining, humiliating, and punishing men, while discussing the images’ composition, symbolism, and psychological effects.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 298–299

Film and Magazine Correspondence

Shiraishi Minoru

A film-and-magazine correspondence column surveys recent and forthcoming films, especially screen depictions of women being bound, captured, threatened, or subjected to violent spectacle, alongside related erotic-magazine imagery and production news.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 300–304

Readers' Correspondence

A readers’ letters section presents personal bondage and fetish experiences, reactions to photographs and articles, requests for future coverage, and exchanges that sustain participation in the magazine’s specialist community.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 305–306

Masochism Correspondence

A reader-correspondence column collecting masochistic fantasies and experiences, including submissive relations with dominant women, gender-role reversal, and related bodily or sexual fetishes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 307–308

Sadism Correspondence

A correspondence column on sadistic fantasies and bondage, including readers’ proposed scenarios, posed photographic compositions, and editorial discussion of restraint techniques and erotic presentation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 309–310

Seppuku Correspondence

Readers and editors discuss eroticized seppuku imagery and narratives, focusing on staged belly-cutting scenes, visual depictions, and requests or submissions involving photographs and drawings.

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