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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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1955
February
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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Article / Feature Kitan Club 312

Sodomy Correspondence

A reader-correspondence column discusses male same-sex interests, fundoshi and abdominal wrapping, personal sexual preferences, and requests for suitable photographs and editorial coverage.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 313

Enema Correspondence

An enema-focused correspondence section presents reader requests, photo submissions, and editorial commentary on the staging and visual presentation of enema scenes and related medicalized equipment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 314

Next Issue Preview

A preview of the forthcoming April special issue lists planned fiction, memoirs, essays, visual material, contest entries, and other features, presenting the magazine’s upcoming editorial program.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 316

Calls for Manuscripts and Publication Information

The editorial department solicits submissions in multiple categories—including fiction, unusual-experience accounts, essays, letters, illustrations, personal statements, and local reports—and provides submission, reader-communication, and publication information.

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March
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, April 1955 Special Expanded Issue

The April 1955 special expanded issue of Kitan Club is a large and unusually varied publication combining a substantial opening pictorial section with historical research, confession-contest selections, serialized fiction, memoir, translated European material, medical…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 7

African Curiosities

An illustrated feature titled “African Curiosities” presents a series of African-themed erotic tableaux involving unusual bodily positions, restraint, and scenes of physical domination.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 8

Finger Puppets

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu’s “Finger Puppets,” part of a series on unusual spectacles, depicts a crowded, dramatically arranged scene in which human bodies are presented as objects of manipulation and visual curiosity.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 9

Complex Love

“Complex Love” presents a portrait of a gagged and apparently restrained woman whose expressive eyes suggest an unheard message addressed directly to the viewer.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 10

Cold Stone Cell

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a frightened, nude woman kneeling in a cold stone cell with her wrists tightly bound overhead against the wall.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 11

Hanging from the Pillar

Miyako Mineko

An erotic illustration shows a woman bound with rope to a pillar, her arms raised above her head and her body arranged in a helpless suspended posture.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 12

Modern-Style Fantasy of a Household

Miyako Mineko

This erotic illustration presents a modern fantasy inspired by the traditional Hitotsuya motif, depicting a woman restrained across a household-like setting surrounded by domestic and theatrical objects.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 13–14

Blood-Stained Hair Rope

Itō Seiu

An illustrated historical erotic narrative set amid the Boshin War, in which a woman is captured, bound, and subjected to violent treatment by opposing forces.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15

Female Prisoner

An illustrated scene depicts a young female prisoner bound behind bars while male guards approach, emphasizing confinement, surveillance, and helplessness.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 16

Sacrifice

An illustrated sacrificial scene shows a young woman restrained and displayed before male figures at a waterfall, combining ritualized sacrifice with eroticized captivity.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18

Dream of a Masochist

Sugihara Kōji

This dream sequence depicts a masochistic fantasy of women subjected to restraint, gagging, and domination by male and female figures.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 19

Beautiful Captives

“Beautiful Captives” combines two erotic illustrations with Japanese narrative text portraying women bound, chained, gagged, and held captive in dramatic settings including a ship or maritime scene.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 20–23

White Slave

An illustrated erotic captivity narrative follows a young woman lured into an urban trafficking ring, sold into sexual exploitation, and subjected to binding, punishment, and other forms of coercive control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 24

Ligation Photo Album

A photographic portfolio presents staged scenes of women restrained with rope in varied ligation positions, emphasizing visual display and physical immobilization.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 25

Rear Suspension

A practical photographic feature demonstrates rear suspension, showing a model secured with her arms bound behind her back and suspended from overhead ropes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 26

Binding

A photographic feature presents a woman bound in a seated pose, accompanied by a caption reflecting on the discomfort and discipline involved in being tied.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29–30

Queen, Please Offer Your Feet

A staged photographic feature presents Queen Rumi Kasuga commanding a male slave to offer his feet and submit to foot trampling, emphasizing female authority and male servility.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 31–32

Blinded and Struck

This photographic portfolio depicts a woman blindfolded and tightly bound outdoors, including to a tree, while another woman appears to supervise or participate in the staged captivity scenario.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 33

Human Chair

A staged photographic feature portrays a dominant woman using a submissive person as a human chair amid scenes of kneeling, bodily control, and servile positioning.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34

Bound Nude Beauty

A photographic feature presents a nude woman subjected to elaborate rope bondage, including restrained limbs, torso binding, and gagging or sensory restriction.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34

Dog Training

A staged erotic scene depicts a clothed female “owner” training a nude male “dog” on a rope leash, including a command to wait for food.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 35–36

In the Park

A staged outdoor bondage sequence shows a woman tied up in a park, worrying about passersby and asking to be released when someone approaches.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 37–38

Collection of Cruel Women

An illustrated feature presents a collection of cruel or disciplinary women, depicting scenes of school punishment, piano instruction, imported women, strict teaching, and other staged female-dominance scenarios.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 39

It Falls!

A staged photographic vignette titled “It Falls!” shows a female model tumbling down a staircase in a dramatic scene of peril and physical vulnerability.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46–54

Notes on Meiji-Period Newspapers

Azuma Shin

Azuma Shin surveys Meiji-period newspaper reports and related popular imagery, reproducing sensational stories involving marriage, domestic conflict, women’s sexuality, prostitution, crime, punishment, bodily exposure, and sexual scandal while commenting on their historical context and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 55–59

Gibs and Corset

Tokuyama Hajime

An erotic narrative explores a married couple’s experimentation with plaster casts, corsets, and other restrictive medicalized garments, blending bodily control with marital sadomasochistic desire.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 60–67

Yukata Sōshi

Shirogane Kōji

This episodic erotic narrative centers on summer yukata, hot-spring and lodging-house encounters, voyeuristic observation, and scenes of women being restrained or humiliated indoors and outdoors.

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