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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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1956
April
Article / Feature Kitan Club 31–35

Taste of the Devil

Nobuo Takagi

Nobuo Takagi’s first-person account explores erotic fascination with bodily excretions, odors, taste, and medical examination through encounters involving cabaret workers and other women. It treats taboo bodily sensations as a form of fetishistic experimentation…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 36–39

Complete Submission

Shinji Sakata

A dark fictional account of a son subjected to escalating paternal violence, humiliation, and physical control until domestic submission becomes nearly absolute. The narrative presents coercive family authority as a grotesque form of bondage.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 40–45

The Chilling House of Strange Tales

Seiryū Kishimoto

A fictional horror narrative set around a theatrical “house of strange tales,” where visitors watch elaborate tableaux of torture, punishment, hanging, murder, and supernatural terror performed by costumed actors. The story emphasizes the disturbing…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46–47

Body-Odor Diary

Reisaku Karii

A first-person diary-style fiction about a man’s obsessive attraction to women’s body odor, sweat, bodily traces, and worn clothing, culminating in increasingly intrusive attempts to pursue and control his desired women.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 48–53

The Palace of King Jie

Shōhaku Aizawa

A historical erotic fantasy set in the palace of King Jie, depicting courtly excess, sexual coercion, captivity, punishment, and the domination of women within an ornate Chinese-imperial setting.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 54–59

A Late Awakening

Natsuo Adachi

An erotic literary narrative in which a seemingly ordinary encounter gradually develops into an unsettling sequence of intoxication, domination, restraint, and sadistic sexual play involving a woman named Yukiko.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 60–69

The Gray Notebook

Ryūichi Yazaki

A diary-like literary work centered on obsessive enema practices, rectal irrigation, bodily control, and fetishistic fantasy, supplemented by pseudo-medical reflections on the history and psychology of the practice.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 70–75

Crucifixion in a Box

Kō Tayama

A historical erotic crime narrative follows Oume as she is accused, captured, and subjected to escalating sadistic punishment, culminating in her being nailed into a box in a crucifixion-like ordeal.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 80–84

Strange Zen

Taichi Mori

A first-person account describes a visit to a female physician whose acupuncture examination and treatment gradually become an eroticized, disciplinary encounter involving undressing, needles, bodily exposure, and compelled postures.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 85–90

Punishment and Fetishism

Tōma Mineno

This erotic narrative follows Ranako and Yoshio through an escalating regimen of punishment and fetishistic training, featuring ropes, restrictive clothing, staged scenarios, role reversal, and elaborate bodily discipline.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 91–93

Bladder Research, Part Three

Ritsuo Sudō

Presented as a confessional study, this essay surveys the navel as a site of bodily fascination and erotic experimentation, combining anecdotal practices, folk and medical explanations, and discussion of abdominal sensations and treatment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 94–99

Physiological Desire

Aiichirō Nagaoka

A first-person narrative follows a man’s lifelong fixation on being buried and physically immobilized in sand, culminating in an intense encounter with laborers who enact his unusual desire. The story presents bodily restriction as…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 100–107

Crimson Demon Palace

Kōsuke Saji

This erotic fantasy depicts a young man drawn into the orbit of a striking woman whose beauty, mystery, and commanding behavior gradually turn fascination into coercion, humiliation, and bodily torment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 108–114

Older Sister and Younger Brother

Toshino Haruki

A psychologically charged narrative portrays the evolving bond between an older sister and her younger brother, combining childhood physical contests and discipline with incestuous longing, possessiveness, and adult erotic tension.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 115–119

Longing for the Shadow Flower

Nobuo Aoyama

A first-person confessional memoir recounts the narrator’s fascination with and involvement in the secret binding and punishment of an older sister, later connecting the experience to the narrator’s own erotic imagination and conduct.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 120–131

The Beauty of Bygone Days

Tamaki Yoshii

An erotic fictional narrative follows Kaori and Tanaka through marriage, psychological domination, repeated rope bondage, punishment, and shifting memories of desire, jealousy, and wartime-era social life.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–146

Sad Wind over the Dusty Plain

Yasuko Segawa

A serialized historical novel set amid Sengoku-era conflicts in Aizu, it follows rival warlords, shifting alliances, military campaigns, and the violent fates of those caught in the struggle, including women entangled in political and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 147–151

Manuscript Gleanings

Editorial Department

An editorial feature presenting and commenting on submitted manuscripts, including excerpts and discussion of unusual erotic and supernatural writing, while inviting further contributions from readers.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 152–155

Abnormal Monologue

Jūzō Taketani

A fictional first-person monologue in which a woman recounts marital suspicion, a troubling attraction involving a snake, and increasingly explicit bodily and sexual preoccupations, framed as an exploration of abnormal desire and behavior.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 156–163

The Woman Who Laughs under Torture

Takashi Tsujimura

An erotic fiction narrative follows Maki and others through escalating scenes of rope bondage, coercion, punishment, and sadistic sexual control, framed as a dramatic story of a woman who laughs under torture.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 164–172

Reader Correspondence

A reader-correspondence section presents letters and editorial responses concerning the magazine’s fiction, photography, bondage themes, reader expectations, submissions, and the continuing development of its specialist readership.

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May
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, June 1956

The June 1956 issue of Kitan Club combines visual portfolios, literary criticism, serialized fiction, prison memoir, personal confession, fetish commentary, short fiction, reader submissions, and extensive editorial back matter. The opening pages establish the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 9

Humiliation of Beauty

Takashi Shima

An illustrated erotic feature titled “Humiliation of Beauty” depicts a glamorous woman subjected to degrading physical treatment by a man, emphasizing beauty, domination, and humiliation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 10–11

Captive on a Solitary Island

This translated comic episode, “Captive Island,” follows a blonde woman bound to a tree on an uncharted South Pacific island as a panther attacks and a jungle man approaches, ending at a dramatic cliffhanger.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 12–14

Saga Michiko Pose Collection

Takashi Shima

A photographic pose collection featuring Saga Michiko presents staged scenes of a model bound in domestic interiors with rope, including seated and floor-based restrained poses.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15

Private-Room Play

Takashi Shima

An atmospheric erotic scene set in a silent midnight hall depicts a woman in a revealing costume posed with a long staff, accompanied by prose describing a pale figure emerging in the darkness.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 16

The Convent’s Secret Chamber

Shōhei Miyazaki

This illustrated fantasy presents a convent’s hidden chamber where nuns oversee the ritualized restraint and exposure of a bound man, combining religious imagery with captivity and erotic spectacle.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18–25

Depictions of Torment in Popular Literature

Kaoru Fujimi

Across serialized pages, Fujimi Kaoru surveys how popular literature and related visual media depict torment, restraint, punishment, captivity, and sensational erotic violence, comparing recurring scenes and techniques across novels, magazines, films, and illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 26–36

The Red Flowers Are Weeping, Part Three

Rōko Matsui

The third installment follows a young woman whose bondage during a dance lesson develops into increasingly coercive encounters involving restraint, humiliation, voyeurism, romantic jealousy, and marriage-related tensions.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 42–49

Ten Months in Confinement

Ichirō Haruta

This serialized confinement narrative depicts a prisoner’s ten months in a postwar penal institution, including inmate hierarchy, surveillance, escape attempts, crime investigations, parole procedures, and the pressures of life under custody.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 52–58

On Nako’s Self-Love

Nako Kadota

Kadota Nako offers an extended first-person account of self-love, describing mirror-gazing, bodily self-admiration, makeup, fantasy, and the psychological intensity of narcissistic erotic desire.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 84–95

My Ideas and Recollections

Akira Yumaki

A female sadist addresses her slave in an intimate letter, recounting commands, punishment, humiliation, bodily discipline, and expectations of obedience within their relationship.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 98–99

A Curious Rule for Seppuku

Dōjin Yamanaka

A fictional sadomasochistic narrative involving a woman, an adversarial male figure, coercive encounters, and elaborate scenes of restraint, punishment, and psychological domination.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 100–103

From My Masochistic Scrapbook

Toshino Haruki

Yumaki Akira reflects on ideas and memories behind sadistic fiction and illustration, discussing wartime recollections, visual composition, literary source material, and possibilities for erotic film and publishing.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 104–105

The Fantasy of Sweet Torment

Kiyofumi Sawa

A personal account explores the erotic allure of corsets, focusing on tight lacing, body shaping, clothing, and the intimate excitement produced by wearing and fastening the garment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 106–107

My Views on Sadistic Abuse

Kenji Azuma

A historical feature surveys unusual rules and anecdotes surrounding ritual disembowelment and assistant execution, accompanied by an eroticized illustration of a restrained woman.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 108–114

Diary of an Abused Wife

Jūzō Taketani

Haruki Shun'ya presents an annotated scrapbook of newspaper and magazine clippings, fiction, and illustrations concerning masochism, bondage, female dominance, punishment, fetishism, and related sexual subcultures.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 131

Masochism Experience Discussion

Kuroi Kunio

A dated abuse diary records a husband’s escalating domination of his wife through verbal degradation, corporal punishment, restraint, gagging, forced poses, and domestic sexual control, including episodes surrounding pregnancy and childbirth.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–138

Recent Bondage in Period Films

Kōji Suma

This section combines a critical review of modern masochist art, film, and illustration with a long fictional account of domestic restraint, staged punishment, and erotic humiliation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 139–141

Research on the Navel

Akira Itō

A literary and cultural section discusses fetish writing and imagery, presents the fictional account “Pig Hunting,” and examines representations and techniques of female body bondage in Japanese and Western traditions.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 142

Film and Magazine Communications

Editorial Department

A miscellany of reader-submitted material discusses female bondage and scenes from bondage films, alongside a first-person account of coercive physical training and restraint involving a teacher and student. The contributions combine personal confession, bondage…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 143–150

A Study of Bound Female Bodies

Seiji Fujimoto

An illustrated series examines supposed character and fortune associations of different navel forms, then surveys varied forms of women’s hairdressing from historical Japanese styles to modern film and popular-media fashions. The discussion treats bodily…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 151

A Wife’s Confession of Torment

Kiyo Inoue

This editorial collection presents reader-submitted erotic anecdotes, including episodes of voyeuristic observation, sexual curiosity, and encounters in or around public and domestic toilets, with commentary framing them as materials for the magazine’s reader community.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 152–153

My Paradise of Punishment

Senji Kizaki

A staged photo-story presents a daughter-in-law describing sustained abuse by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, including bondage, beatings, humiliation, and other forms of domestic coercion.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 154–156

A Sadistic Comic

Maruharu Kinoshita

This sensational wartime-themed photo narrative depicts the punishment and abuse of a woman in a Nazi setting, combining historical atrocity imagery with scenes of physical restraint and assault.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 157–160

Spring and a Woman’s Bare Feet

Shigeru Fujiki

A substantial notices and correspondence section promotes special issues, photographic collections, and mail-order materials while presenting reader letters, editorial replies, submissions, and publication announcements.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 161–174

Reader Correspondence

Editorial Department

A reader-correspondence and editorial notice addresses the discontinuation of Seppuku Gahō, expressing appreciation for the magazine’s erotic writing and imagery, acknowledging publication constraints and delays, and inviting continued submissions of stories, essays, photographs, and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 175

Regarding the Discontinuation of Seppuku Gahō

Editorial Department

A reader-correspondence and editorial notice addresses the discontinuation of Seppuku Gahō, expressing appreciation for the magazine’s erotic writing and imagery, acknowledging publication constraints and delays, and inviting continued submissions of stories, essays, photographs, and…

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June
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, July 1956

The July 1956 issue of Kitan Club combines visual portfolios, criticism of popular literature, autobiographical essays, serialized fiction, prison memoir, fetish commentary, short fiction, reader communications, and publishing notices. The front matter establishes a…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 10–11

Gathering of the Masqueraders

A two-page visual feature reproduces four stylized fetish-costume illustrations from the American magazine Bizarre, depicting figures in cowgirl, fashionable, soldier, and female-officer attire.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14

The Pipe Horse

Ryōji Hida

An illustrated erotic bondage scene presents a young woman in a swimsuit straddling a specially designed pipe horse, with her hands and feet fixed in place and the reader invited to imagine the apparatus…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15

The Staring Woman

A photographic portrait titled “The Staring Woman” shows Terumi Saga gazing toward readers while tightly wrapped and restrained in a checkered garment, with a caption emphasizing the varied impressions the image may produce.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 28–29

My Image: The Revival of Wakashū Kabuki

Norio Kotake

Norio Kotake argues for reviving wakashū kabuki through a proposed young performers’ troupe, discussing its historical significance, recruitment and training, costumes, gendered performance, and the theatrical appeal of youthful actors in female roles.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30–36

On Nako’s Self-Love, Part Two

Nako Kadota

In this autobiographical continuation, Nako Kadota describes an intense preoccupation with self-love, bodily appearance, clothing, erotic fantasy, and painful self-directed experiments, presenting autoerotic desire as both psychological confession and masochistic practice.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 37–42

Ten Months in Confinement

Ichirō Haruta

A prison-guard memoir recounting ten months of work and life around prison wards, including institutional routines, inmate personalities, criminal histories, disciplinary practices, parole interviews, and anxieties surrounding release and rehabilitation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 43–45

The Attraction of a Woman Marked by Moxibustion

Shōichi Iwase

An essay presents moxibustion scars as a source of erotic fascination, combining reflections on pain, endurance, bodily marking, and sadistic desire with illustrated fantasies of women subjected to ritualized burning and restraint.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46–55

The Red Flowers Are Weeping, Part Four

Rōko Matsui

Part four of a serialized erotic novel follows Masaki, Misako, Teruko, and Shōko through scenes of deception, drinking, theatrical display, and escalating rope bondage in which women are coerced, restrained, and subjected to sadistic…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 60–67

From My Collection

Sōkichi Kakuma

A collector’s miscellany combining discussions of disgust, sexual abnormality, and sensational anecdotes with literary-biographical essays on Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky, linking artistic creativity to psychological suffering, sexuality, and spiritual striving.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 68–69

Thoughts on Torment in Theater

Chūjirō Honda

A theater essay examines staged torment scenes, detailing the use of ropes, poles, bindings, lighting, movement, and multiple performers while debating realism, spectacle, and audience response.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 70–77

The Love of Kajii

Fujio Maki

A serialized erotic tale set in a hospital follows Kajii, a gravely ill patient, and the narrator’s obsessive fascination with the attractive attendant Tamako, whose flirtations, gossip, jealousy, and bodily humiliations create an increasingly…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 78–82

A Young Man’s Zen Record

Kōichi Yamaguchi

In this autobiographical recollection, a man traces his early erotic fascination with sashes, clothing, male bodies, bathing, and the exposed or restrained figure from childhood through adolescence. Memories of boys’ bodies and private acts…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 83

Recent Magazine Communications

Editorial Department

This editorial news-and-magazine feature discusses a Muromachi-period love story in which religious devotion, male-male attachment, jealousy, and erotic obsession are entangled, drawing on classical literary and historical sources to show how the relationship eventually…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 92–94

Living Volcano

Minoru Aoba

A fictional SM narrative in which characters engage in escalating restraint, humiliation, and sadistic bodily control, culminating in a violent and highly coercive encounter.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 95–99

Selected Manuscripts and Gleanings

Editorial Department

An editorial anthology of submitted manuscripts and literary fragments, combining erotic narrative excerpts with commentary and glimpses of the magazine’s manuscript-selection and reader-submission culture.

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