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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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380 archive events + 1 curated milestone 1963
1963
February
Article / Feature Kitan Club 58–59

Peeping into the Toilet

Mori Yonesaburō

An erotic comic narrative follows two male friends whose curiosity about a women’s toilet develops into voyeuristic attempts to observe a female employee and the ensuing farcical complications.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 60–68

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A serialized SM fiction narrative follows a construction-company worker who is subjected to exhausting forced labor, shackling, beatings, and systematic humiliation as a slave among other abused workers.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 69

Recent Shocking Bondage Films

Higashiyama Eishi

A critical survey of recent shocking bondage films discusses cinematic depictions of women and men being tied, gagged, restrained, and subjected to staged scenes of cruelty and sexualized captivity.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 70–79

Piāno’s Torment

Yukitoshi Haruka

This serialized fiction centers on a piano teacher who becomes entangled in an increasingly coercive relationship and is repeatedly bound, exposed, disciplined, and tormented around a piano, with later developments involving marriage, jealousy, and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 80–81

A Chair

Kurise Chō

A practical discussion of suppositories explains their medical uses, rectal absorption, methods of insertion, and the differences between local and systemic effects, presented with playful sexualized dialogue.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–96

Toward the Distant Mountains and Rivers

Iimori Kiyoshi

This serialized wartime erotic fiction follows a military unit whose commander and female trainees undergo severe discipline, emotional manipulation, and ritualized fantasies of abdominal cutting and self-sacrifice.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 97–103

Sardinia Travel Notes

Aruta Matado

Framed as travel notes from Sardinia, this illustrated fantasy depicts female captives subjected to chains, stocks, forced labor, punitive supervision, and grotesque medical experiments by a visiting doctor.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 104–107

A Curious Confession

Tama Ichirō

An autobiographical confession by a young nurse describes her growing obsession with diapers and her use of nursing routines, patients, urine, and enforced diapering to enact and intensify her fetishistic fantasies.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 108–111

K-ko

Nonoyama Shinjiro

This experiential narrative recounts M’s voyeuristic fascination with K-ko, a young teacher, and the increasingly coercive relationship that develops through surveillance, control, humiliation, and physical discipline.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 112–115

Notes of a Gun-Making Maniac

Yoshino Mayumi

A two-part feature presents conversational vignettes about buying and selling worn panties, coats, shoes, and other fetishized clothing, followed by a nightmarish historical narrative set amid Japanese military operations around Nanjing’s Zhonghua Gate.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 116–119

An Evil Dream

Kirihara Shimon

A dark erotic narrative depicts a woman’s encounter with an American serviceman and the escalating use of coercion, nudity, restraint, and sexualized violence against a backdrop of wartime occupation and military life.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 120–133

Thirty-Ninth Night Tales: Twenty-Third Night

Tsujimura Takashi

This extended installment of the serialized “Thirty-Ninth Night Tales” moves between grotesque village legends and modern scenes of pursuit, surveillance, abduction, and staged sexual domination, including elaborate rope bondage and captivity episodes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 134–141

Yellow Sex

Yoshino Mayumi

An essay on sexual psychology and S/M orientation examines the contrast between dominant and submissive tendencies, their effects on marriage and domestic life, and the ways readers describe or negotiate such desires through letters…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 142–147

The Navel and Disembowelment

Suda Ken夫

A cultural and erotic essay links the navel with disembowelment and seppuku, discussing bodily symbolism, historical execution imagery, cross-cultural accounts of surgery and childbirth, and the visual fascination of exposed abdominal anatomy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 148–155

Flame and Mud

Kuwata Ken’ichi

A serialized SM fiction narrative depicts a coercive encounter in which a woman is bound, humiliated, beaten, and subjected to escalating domination by a male narrator, with recurring motifs of restraint, fear, sexualized cruelty,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 156–164

Female Laborer

Tani Misako

A reader-experience SM novel follows a female student mobilized to work in a wartime aircraft factory, where coercion, rivalry, and workplace control lead to elaborate captivity, binding, enemas, and humiliating punishment. The narrative frames…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 165–169

Thoughts on Masochistic Art

Tajima Naoshi

This essay considers the aesthetics of masochistic art through representations of gendered costume, cross-dressing, role reversal, and combat in films, fiction, photography, and popular imagery. It discusses female riders, pirates, swordswomen, and male figures…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 170–181

The Practice of Bondage Photography

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō describes the planning and execution of bondage photography, recounting shoots involving models, outdoor and temple settings, posing, restraint arrangements, lighting, camera work, and correspondence with readers seeking guidance. The article combines practical…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 182–194

Reader Communications

A reader-correspondence section presenting letters about personal SM and fetish experiences, responses to the magazine’s articles and photographs, requests for advice or contact, and announcements for reader-submitted material, clubs, products, and forthcoming issues.

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March
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

April 1963 Issue

The April 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines photographic bondage portfolios, fetish illustration, psychological essays, first-person testimony, erotic fiction, travel writing, correspondence, and an unusually extensive community section. Its opening visual program occupies a…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14

Dancing in a Cangue

Shima Takashi

An illustrated scene titled “Dancing in a Cangue” shows a woman restrained beneath a wooden bar or cangue, with her ankles chained and a child nearby.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15

Wire Torture

Claude Koga

An erotic illustration depicts a bound woman being subjected to wire restraint or torture while another figure attends to the scene.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 16

Avant-Garde Artist

Claude Koga

An erotic illustration presents a restrained nude figure as an avant-garde artwork while a seated observer studies the display, emphasizing the relationship between bondage and artistic spectatorship.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 17

Bee Torture

Claude Koga

An erotic illustration depicts two women bound and exposed to bees as a staged scene of torment and punishment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 21

Cigarette Torture

Shima Takashi

A photographic feature depicting a woman subjected to cigarette torture, with cigarettes used as instruments of eroticized pain and control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–39

Religious Hallucination and Masochism

Hayashi Yumio

Hayashi Yumio examines religious hallucination and masochism, linking fervent belief, sacrifice, martyrdom, self-denial, and pathological religious experience across Christian and Japanese contexts.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 40–45

The Humiliation of Machiko

Gotanda Chūtarō

A serialized SM fiction narrative in which the married Machiko encounters coercive male domination that escalates through exposure, bodily humiliation, fetishized observation, and physical restraint, accompanied by an erotic illustration.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46–49

The Dark Generation

Mutsu Ryō

A first-person account of a troubled wartime generation recounts a criminal investigation in which the narrator and companions are arrested, interrogated, and subjected to severe police abuse, leaving lasting psychological scars.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 50–59

In the Prison of Beautiful Tastes

Takagi Nobuo

This first-person erotic narrative follows Mita’s encounter with a women-oriented fetish club, where female authority, bondage, humiliation, enemas, and other forms of coercive sexual play are presented as a “prison” of exquisite sensation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 60–69

Confession Concerning Enemas

Ichijiku

An autobiographical confession describes the narrator’s prolonged hospitalization and repeated enemas, focusing on the shame, dependence, sensory details, and eroticized authority of the nurses who administer the procedures.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 70–81

Brothers, Apostles of the Sadistic Story

Yukitoshi Haruka

A historical erotic narrative follows Margarita, a woman accused of witchcraft, through inquisitorial interrogation, religiously framed punishment, captivity, and execution, with sadistic scenes accompanied by illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–83

The Childbirth Enema

Suga Chiyo

An illustrated medicalized bondage scenario depicts a woman restrained on an obstetric-style table while a childbirth enema is administered, emphasizing bodily discomfort, forced positioning, and clinical procedure.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 84–91

The Intoxicated Woman

Hōda Fujihito

In a first-person confession, a woman recounts formative and adult experiences of coercive restraint, humiliation, beatings, and her conflicted attraction to abusive encounters with men who tie and discipline her.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 92–98

A Masochist’s Love

Nakayasu Hiromichi

A documentary-style historical survey examines cases of girls and young women who committed or attempted seppuku from the Meiji era through the postwar period, relating these acts to family conflict, romantic frustration, social expectations,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 99–105

A History of Girls’ Seppuku

Taketani Jūzō

An unfinished serialized erotic novel depicts a troubled marriage in which a controlling husband subjects his wife to domestic authority, emotional humiliation, and coercive sexual demands, with recurring attention to her body and lactation.…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 106–117

The Wife of the Cross

Shibasaki Shigeko

A first-person confessional account follows a woman’s troubled romantic and marital relationships, including escalating episodes of sexual bondage, humiliation, and submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 118–121

Murmurs to God

Aruta Matado

An erotic captivity fantasy presented as an exploration of Sardinia depicts enslaved women subjected to confinement, elaborate restraint devices, forced labor, torture, and execution-like punishments.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 122–125

A Visit to Sardinia

Sudō Ritsuo

An illustrated fetish feature evaluates dancers’ navels and abdominal forms through descriptive commentary, photographs, and model imagery, treating the navel as an object of erotic comparison and appreciation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 126–143

A Prisoner’s Bondage Story

Hanada Ichirō

This long-form SM war fantasy follows aerial-combat pilots and military personnel whose capture leads to elaborate bondage, interrogation, humiliation, sadistic punishment, medical procedures, and death in a fantastical military setting.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 144–151

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Asazō

A sensational erotic reportage surveys gay bars, same-sex desire, gender presentation, and sexual subcultures, interweaving encounters with commentary on homosexuality, femininity, marriage, and pregnancy. The piece presents these scenes as contemporary postwar sexual culture…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 152–165

Yellow Sex, Continued

Yoshino Mayumi

A serialized SM fiction follows Reiko as she is abducted and subjected to elaborate confinement, restraint, humiliation, branding, whipping, and other forms of sadistic punishment in a secluded stone building. Illustrated episodes emphasize captivity,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 174–177

Acquiring Photographs of Pregnancy

Senuma Shirō

The author explains how he obtained and prepared photographs of pregnant women, discussing the rarity of such images, reader demand, editorial selection, and the visual appeal of the pregnant body.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 178–192

Reader Communications

A reader-correspondence section presenting letters, personal experiences, requests, feedback, and discussions of bondage, sexual interests, photographs, and magazine participation, alongside editorial replies and publishing notices.

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April
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

May 1963 Issue

The May 1963 issue of Kitan Club is organized as a broad anthology of bondage photography, fetish illustration, supernatural adventure, historical fiction, personal testimony, cultural commentary, and reader correspondence. Its opening pages establish the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 6–13

Opening Gravure Portfolio

An opening visual portfolio presents staged erotic scenes of women and men subjected to rope bondage, gagging, masking, and restrained poses in domestic and outdoor settings.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14–21

Illustration Portfolio

Shima Takashi, Claude Koga, Kurokawa Fujio, Taki Reiko, and others

An illustration portfolio depicts stylized erotic scenes involving bound, gagged, captured, and otherwise physically controlled women, with recurring motifs of restraint, coercion, and submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 22–28

Second Gravure Portfolio

A second photographic portfolio shows women immobilized with rope in seated, kneeling, floor-based, and other staged bondage positions, often with covered or blindfolded faces.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–42

Valley of the Dead

Nonaka Aizō

A grotesque supernatural tale set in a haunted valley, where a mountain man, a witch-like woman, and a traveling performer become entangled in violent torture, poison, death, and occult revenge.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 43–45

Notes of a Gun-Making Maniac

Yoshino Mayumi

A conversational notebook-style column presents comic exchanges about apartment moves, deliveries, money, and erotic merchandise, alongside a mail-order advertisement for a women’s bondage photo collection and fetish garments.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46–55

The Women of Sunpu Castle

Maki Shinji

This historical erotic adventure portrays rival women of Sunpu Castle whose beauty, martial prowess, jealousy, and violent struggle culminate in swordplay, decapitation, and fatal revenge.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 56–67

A Beautiful Cry

Iseki Yasuaki

A serialized erotic story follows Akiko as she enters an increasingly coercive relationship in which she is disciplined, restrained, humiliated, and compelled to endure painful punishment, while her emotional distress and cries are eroticized…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 68–75

The Ordeal of the Diapered Child

Yoshino Mayumi

The concluding ordeal centers on a young woman subjected to diapering, physical discipline, restraint, and degrading treatment, while the later pages discuss Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Diary of a Mad Old Man, its film adaptations, and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–99

Longing for a Long Sentence

Hanada Ichirō

A dark erotic narrative centers on obsessive planning and enactment of prolonged punishment, with characters subjected to beatings, burning, binding, suspension, and psychological domination.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 100–102

Marriage: The Withered Chapter

Kururugi Sakae

A serialized erotic narrative portrays a marriage deteriorating into coercive domestic sadism, with jealousy, humiliation, physical restraint, and psychological submission shaping the relationship.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 103–117

Secret Tales of Female Seppuku

Horikawa Shichirō

This historical erotic tale follows a woman in a samurai-era setting who is compelled toward ritual female seppuku, presenting execution, obedience, spectatorship, and bodily suffering as a highly stylized dramatic spectacle.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 118–125

The Wife of the Cross, Continued

Taketani Jūzō

A serialized erotic fiction installment portrays a wife subjected to rigid household rules, forced domestic service, physical punishment, sexualized humiliation, and repeated attempts at escape within an abusive marital and family regime.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 126–127

Intoxicated by the Words of an Enema

Takeno Keizō

This reader confession by a young woman traces the development of her fascination with enemas from childhood experiences into a private erotic fixation involving medical imagery, self-experimentation, and fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 128–135

Observations on Women in Male Dress

Tajima Naoshi

The essay examines the erotic and imaginative appeal of women in male dress, drawing on literary, cinematic, illustrated, military, and historical examples to discuss gendered appearance, role reversal, and masculine presentation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–137

Reflections on Bondage Photography

Yasuda Takao

An essay reflecting on bondage photography discusses the visual appeal of bound bodies, the role of costume and restraint, and the tension between documentary realism and erotic staging.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 138–147

Love’s Bewilderment

Manda Fuji

An extended erotic narrative follows the narrator’s obsessive relationship with Keiko, whose illness, authority, and sexual demands draw him into coercion, humiliation, bondage, rivalry, and fantasies of suffering and death.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 148–149

The Women’s Sumo of the Wives

Maruyama Keizō

A reportage-style feature describes a village wives’ sumo contest, emphasizing the women’s physical competition, spectatorship, local festival atmosphere, and eroticized wrestling imagery.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 150–167

The Woman of the Ginkgo Mansion

Sanjō Takushi

A serialized erotic narrative follows Tokunoichi and Yoshiji through encounters involving abduction, coercion, physical restraint, and sadistic sexual violence, culminating in an assault at the Ginkgo Mansion.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 168–177

Happiness: An Eight-Millimeter Memoir

Ōtsuka Keiko

Ōtsuka Keiko’s memoir reflects on her experiences with women’s nude modeling, erotic photography, and 8-millimeter filming, considering the emotional and psychological dimensions of being viewed and recorded.

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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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