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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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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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Article / Feature Kitan Club 163

Two Moxibustion Anecdotes (お灸二題)

An illustrated two-part feature contrasts therapeutic moxibustion on a woman’s back with punitive moxibustion applied to her buttocks, emphasizing the eroticized visual appeal of burn marks and her cries of pain during the procedure.

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January
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, February 1955 Special Enlarged Issue

This February 1955 special enlarged issue of Kitan Club is a 309-page miscellany combining bondage illustration, staged photography, sexual and psychological essays, reader testimony, serialized fiction, translated European writing, historical material, prison memoir, autobiographical…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 5

Kawayanagi Amateki: Ten Scenes

Yamaguchi Kōichi

A ten-scene erotic illustration feature depicting women in varied fetishized situations, including rope restraint, bodily display, discipline, and attention to the feet and legs.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 6

The Bound Bride

A staged erotic image presents a bride bound to a wooden frame in a traditional Japanese interior, emphasizing ceremonial costume, immobilization, and visual spectacle.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 9

Masterpiece Collection: The Black Cat

An illustrated sadistic fantasy depicts a woman secured to a chair in elaborate leather restraints beside a black cat, with accompanying text emphasizing the mixture of Japanese atmosphere and foreign mechanical devices and invoking…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 10

The Room of Itō Seiu

This illustrated “room” feature presents a woman immobilized in an elaborate leather-and-metal restraint system, with chains and other equipment described as part of a purpose-built sadistic apparatus.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 17–18

Nude Skiing

Illustrated snow-country vignettes and accompanying erotic drawings depict nude women skiing and engaging in playful winter scenes, combining comic storytelling with exhibitionistic fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 23–24

Rope Binding

A photographic presentation of the ebi-zeme or “shrimp” restraint position, showing rope binding and associated whipping poses on a male subject.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 25–26

A Japanese Woman Being Punished

An illustrated wartime feature depicts a Japanese woman subjected to sexualized punishment and execution, framing her suffering within accounts of military brutality, the Manchurian defeat, and the mistreatment of Japanese civilians.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 27–28

Two-Woman Combat Photographs

A photographic feature presents staged scenes of two women fighting, restraining, and overpowering one another outdoors, including sequences involving abandonment in the rain and physical domination.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

Strange Submission: An Idea Selection

An illustrated “idea selection” proposes bizarre domestic restraint scenarios, including tying a woman to a drying stand and forcing her into a washing scene, with captions presenting the situations as imaginative bondage concepts.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30

New Artists' Picture Collection

A picture feature presents illustrated captivity fantasies, including a woman tied to railway tracks while pursuers approach and another woman bound in a precarious suspended position.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 33–34

Women's Restraint and Leg Irons

A photographic feature depicts women subjected to elaborate cloth and rope bindings, leg irons, and other positional restraints, including a sequence focusing on the restrained subject’s expressions.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46–52

Is Inverted Sexual Taste Ultimately Immoral?

Naruse Ryō

Naruse Ryō examines whether so-called inverted sexual tastes are genuinely immoral, challenging fixed moral judgments by relating sexual nonconformity to psychology, social norms, historical change, and literary and artistic representation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 53–55

An Experiment Concerning Nipple Fixation

Furuta Kichirō

Furuta Kichirō presents an illustrated practical experiment in nose punishment, describing nose rings, clamps, ropes, weights, suspension, and other methods intended to intensify pain and sensory effects.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 56–63

The Bride Has Arrived

Shirogane Kōji

A fictional captivity narrative follows a bride who is abducted, restrained, gagged, humiliated, and treated as a commodity by male captors in a vividly staged East Asian setting.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–83

Miscellaneous Notes on Moxibustion

Hasegawa Kiyoshi

An illustrated practical and anecdotal account of moxibustion discusses treatment methods, bodily sensations, therapeutic settings, and the relationship between medical practice and eroticized punishment imagery.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 84–92

Ten Months in Prison

Kasuga Ichirō

A first-person prison memoir recounts ten months of confinement, describing inmate life, discipline, surveillance, labor, medical inspection, social hierarchy, and the psychological effects of incarceration.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 96–104

The Bloodstained Reins, Part Two

Itō Seiu

The second installment of Itō Seiu’s historical erotic narrative follows theatrical and urban figures through schemes involving women, rope restraint, punishment, and staged displays of bondage, accompanied by numerous illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 105–111

Cruel Women

Morimoto Aizō

A translated and heavily discussed account of “cruel women” surveys female violence and corporal punishment, focusing especially on women teachers disciplining children and domestic authority exercised through beating and humiliation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 112–121

How I Was Tormented

Hōzuka Mitsuo

A first-person erotic report recounts a prolonged encounter involving coercive sexual play, verbal commands, and varied forms of binding and positional restraint, accompanied by staged illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 126–127

My Observations of Three Deformed Women

Tōmei Hiroshi

The author reflects on three remembered encounters with women wearing traditional waist wraps, focusing on their clothing, bodily presentation, movement, and the lingering erotic force of these observations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 132–153

Trampled

Kotake Norio

A first-person erotic narrative follows a financially desperate young man who becomes a servant at a chicken shop and is subjected to escalating labor, humiliation, corporal abuse, and sexual coercion by domineering women. His…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 164–165

Breasts and the Menstrual Belt

Hanamura Megumi

An erotic essay examines the use and sensations of breast bars and menstrual belts, combining body-part fetishism with personal experimentation and discussion of specialized sexual implements.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 166–175

Confession of an Extraordinary Masochist

Nagaoka Shun'ichirō

A first-person confession describes an extraordinary masochist’s pursuit of extreme physical and psychological sensations, including dangerous work environments, self-bondage, immersion in mud, and fantasies of punishment and helplessness.

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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
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

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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