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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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403 archive events + 1 curated milestone 1963
1963
April
Article / Feature Kitan Club 178–191

Reader Communications

A wide-ranging reader correspondence section presents readers’ reports, requests, opinions, and personal experiences concerning bondage, nude photography, fetish practices, and participation in the magazine’s erotic community, alongside editorial responses and notices.

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May
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

June 1963 Issue

The June 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines extensive bondage photography, full-page punishment illustration, historical and sociological writing, reader testimony, fetish essays, serialized fiction, and a substantial correspondence section. Its opening visual material establishes…

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Magazine Issue Uramado

June 1963 Special Extra Issue

Uramado's June 1963 Special Extra Issue, Volume 6, No. 7, is an unusually large, visually oriented special edition devoted to erotic photography, bondage imagery, fetish costume, historical fantasy, Japanese and Western illustration, and imported…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 6–13

Opening Gravure Portfolio

An opening photographic portfolio presents staged rope-bondage scenes in which women are restrained in seated, kneeling, reclining, and outdoor positions, with several images featuring gagging, blindfolding, and attention to the mouth and sensory restriction.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14–21

Frontispiece Illustration Portfolio

Shima Takashi, Taki Reiko, Kurokawa Fujio, and others

A frontispiece illustration portfolio assembles Japanese erotic drawings and staged imagery involving ritualized washing, oral candle punishment, disembowelment and sacrifice motifs, tobacco play, and hierarchical service scenes. The images emphasize female submission, coercion, and…

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Article / Feature Uramado 18–26

Waves of Hair

A photographic portfolio titled “Waves of Hair” depicts a long-haired woman in staged scenes of rope bondage and enforced poses, emphasizing her hair, bodily restraint, and theatrical vulnerability.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 22–29

Second Gravure Portfolio

A second gravure portfolio depicts staged rope-bondage tableaux in domestic, outdoor, and bathing settings, showing women immobilized in varied postures and sometimes gagged or blindfolded.

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Article / Feature Uramado 27–42

Corset in a Japanese Room, Part 1

A sequential photographic feature portrays a woman modeling corsetry, stockings, lingerie, and high heels in a Japanese-style interior, with posed interactions and costume adjustments creating staged erotic tableaux.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–39

One Hundred Forms of Prostitution

Higuchi Itsuma

A historical survey of prostitution from the Edo period through early Meiji Tokyo, describing brothels, geisha and sex workers, police regulation, urban entertainment districts, and changing commercial and social practices.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 40–41

When a Woman Turns into an Animal

Hamura Kyōko

A cultural and psychological essay, partly prompted by a contemporary novel, about women’s supposedly “animal” instincts as expressed through sexuality, pregnancy, motherhood, and the tension between bodily impulses and modern social restraint.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 42–47

The Hot Whip

Karii Rei

A first-person reader account of an erotic encounter involving restraint, whipping, humiliation, and escalating control between partners in a hotel setting, presented as an “abnormal experience” narrative.

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Article / Feature Uramado 43–51

Transforming Beauty Ninja Arts

Shimamoto Haruo

An illustrated historical erotic serial follows beautiful ninja characters through capture, interrogation, bondage, punishment, revenge, and secret techniques amid a fantastical period setting.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 48–49

Notes on Masochism

Ōkura Yasuo

An essay on masochism tracing its historical development, psychological motivations, and manifestations in contemporary sexual culture, including the relationship between fantasy, confession, and behavior.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 50–62

Motomi’s Resistance

Ōnaka Chū

A serialized erotic fiction narrative in which Motomi and other young women are captured, stripped, bound, disciplined, and subjected to escalating sadistic punishments, with repeated attempts at resistance and escape.

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Article / Feature Uramado 59–61

Cute Rider

Ebuchi Akio

An illustrated feature depicts fantastical and playful erotic scenes involving a fairy-like rider on a horse and groups of riders traveling together in a public carriage.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 63

Sadism and Transformation

Chigusa Tadao

An essay examining sadism through transformation fantasies, focusing on the desire to alter or degrade an idealized beautiful body and interpreting such scenarios as expressions of psychological conflict and self-image.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 64–77

Tales of Contemporary Female Heroism

Morooka Tateo

A serialized erotic narrative depicts women using judo skill, physical dominance, and public humiliation to overpower men in confrontational encounters. Dialogue-heavy episodes portray female authority and male submission through staged wrestling and restraint scenarios.

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Article / Feature Uramado 68–74

Seven Rear Views

A photographic portfolio presents seven nude or partially nude women viewed from behind in staged rope-binding scenes, emphasizing bodily posture, restraint, and rear-view composition.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 78–83

Razor and Beauty

Kawano Kyōsuke

An erotic narrative centered on a beautiful woman and a razor explores fascination with body hair, shaving, and intimate grooming through imagined encounters and illustrated scenes. The accompanying imagery emphasizes theatrical erotic spectacle and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 84–99

Rose Insect

Bukkō Tōshirō

A serialized first-person crime and SM thriller follows a gangster narrator through encounters with women and rival underworld figures, featuring coercive bondage, sexual violence, interrogation, betrayal, and murder amid shifting schemes and identities.

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Article / Feature Uramado 84–89

Garden of Beautiful Agony

A photographic portfolio presents women posed in elaborate bondage settings, including against fencing and in stark, shadowed interiors, evoking an atmosphere of beautiful suffering and staged erotic drama.

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Article / Feature Uramado 90–91

Advance of the Women's Army

Ebuchi Akio

Akio Ebuchi’s illustrated fantasy depicts a mounted, female-led army advancing through a mythic landscape, with nude and semi-nude figures, fallen men, and imagery of female power and domination.

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Article / Feature Uramado 92–97

Poem Among the Trees

A sequence of forest photographs shows a woman bound to trees and posed among branches and undergrowth, accompanied by a Japanese poem reflecting on autumn, winter, memory, and desire.

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Article / Feature Uramado 98–106

Shadow's Gaze

A photographic feature presents a woman in shadowed, enclosed, and domestic settings, using framing, concealment, and suggestive poses to create an atmosphere of erotic observation.

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Article / Feature Uramado 107–113

Playing with Belts

A photographic portfolio depicts women posing with belts in varied interiors and restrained or suggestive positions, treating the belt as both an erotic accessory and a means of bondage.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 120–121

Concerning a Married Couple’s SM Photographs

Shingū Akio

An author’s account of a married couple’s long-running SM photography project describes their domestic S/M roles, staged bondage and punishment scenes, and the preservation of these intimate practices in a photographic record.

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Article / Feature Uramado 123–138

Poses of Beauty

A photographic portfolio presents a woman modeling successive rope-bound poses, emphasizing sculptural body positioning, restraint, and staged erotic expression.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–138

Notes on Women’s Wrestling

Okahira Yoshio

An essay surveys women’s sumo as a spectacle and subculture, discussing historical and contemporary female wrestling troupes, performers’ bodies and techniques, public reception, and the role of photographs and specialist publishing in preserving and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 139–141

Notes of a Fetish-Art Maniac

Yoshino Mayumi

A playful fetish-art notebook presents illustrated scenarios and mock conversations centered on fetishistic body display, women’s feet, hair and appearance, bondage-like posing, and voyeuristic or staged domestic encounters.

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Article / Feature Uramado 139

Steel Bed

A staged photograph showcases a woman bound with rope on a steel bed, apparently highlighting the bed as specialized bondage equipment in a mail-order or product-advertising context.

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Article / Feature Uramado 140–154

Corset in a Japanese Room, Part 2

A photographic portfolio stages women in leather corsets, stockings, gloves, and high heels posing and interacting in a Japanese-style room, with balloons and theatrical domestic décor reinforcing the fetishistic scene. The images emphasize clothing-centered…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 150–155

The Sad Wish of a Dreaming Maiden

Kusamura Yoshiko

A confessional erotic narrative about a dreaming young woman whose seaside fantasies, exposure to spectatorship, bodily vulnerability, and later medical distress become intertwined with longing, shame, and masochistic desire.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 156–177

Tower of Sand: An Account of My Wife Natsuko

Kasagi Hisaji

A grim first-person erotic fantasy in which a husband recounts the abduction and prolonged captivity of his wife Natsuko, who is subjected to escalating bondage, suspension, gagging, punishment, humiliation, and sadistic torture before a…

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Article / Feature Uramado 155–170

Room of Solitude

A photographic portfolio portrays a woman isolated and repeatedly restrained, gagged, and posed in domestic interiors, emphasizing staged captivity and sensory control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 178–191

Reader Communications

A reader-mail section presents correspondence about erotic photography, bondage and punishment imagery, fetish interests, personal experiences, and requests for advice or publication, alongside editorial replies, reader submissions, and mail-order notices for specialist materials.

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June
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

July 1963 Issue

The July 1963 issue of Kitan Club presents a characteristic mixture of staged bondage photography, imaginative torture illustration, reader testimony, erotic fiction, serialized narratives, practical rope discussion, and correspondence. The front matter establishes the…

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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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Article / Feature Kitan Club 6–13

Opening Gravure Selection

An opening photographic portfolio presents staged scenes of women bound with rope and restraints in varied seated, reclining, and standing positions, including close studies of bondage equipment and gagging.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14–21

Frontispiece Illustration Portfolio

Shima Takashi and Taki Reiko

A portfolio of erotic illustrations depicts captive and restrained women in theatrical historical or fantasy settings, including cage imagery, whipping, humiliation, and punishment scenes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 22–29

Later Gravure and Photo Studies

A later photographic sequence shows women in elaborate rope bondage and staged captivity scenarios, using gags, blindfold-like coverings, restrictive positions, and chained restraints.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–40

My Illustrated Scroll of Cruel Delight

Sasaki Tsutomu

An illustrated catalogue of imagined cruel erotic scenes, presenting numerous bondage, restraint, punishment, and domination scenarios through prose and accompanying drawings. The piece emphasizes elaborate rope arrangements, forced postures, humiliation, and theatrical sadomasochistic fantasy.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 41

A Faint Wish

Shibajima Reiko

A reader letter reflecting on personal wishes, emotional vulnerability, and the role of the magazine as a source of companionship and understanding, contributing to the publication’s reader-community exchange.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 42–52

Tales of the Thirty-Ninth Night: Thirty-Sixth Night

Tsujimura Takashi

The thirty-sixth installment of a serialized erotic tale combining fictional narration with photographs of a woman being bound, gagged, posed, and restrained during an elaborate studio production. The accompanying text also describes the photographers,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 53

My Miserable Pictures

Ashizawa Iho

An illustrated feature presents grotesque erotic scenes of women subjected to imagined cruelty, framed as the artist’s fascination with creating disturbing pictures and the gap between fantasy and reality.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 72–80

A Solitary Longing for Masochism

Kurise Takashi

A serialized historical erotic narrative depicts women subjected to wartime captivity, interrogation, punishment, mutilation, and execution, combining tragic romance with sadistic violence and fatalistic suffering.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 81–85

On Differences in the Binding Process

Makishibamura Toshitaka

A humorous first-person account and dialogue piece discusses enema procedures, bowel cleansing, laxatives, clinic encounters, and the embarrassment and eroticized bodily sensations surrounding them.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 86–91

Rubber-Mania Correspondence

Hirayama Fushizō

A roundtable compares Japanese kinbaku with foreign bondage practices, discussing rope techniques, restraint styles, cultural differences, photography, film, and the experiences of participants and enthusiasts.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 92–93

The Garden of Pleasure

Shima Hiroshi

A rubber-fetish correspondence feature discusses readers’ interests, submitted experiences, fetish preferences, and the role of specialist magazines in connecting rubber enthusiasts.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 94–102

Prelude to the Nose

Akutsu Katsumi

An illustrated erotic fiction depicts a female-dominated household in which servants are subjected to escalating bondage, humiliation, discipline, and sexual control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 103–105

Flower and Snake, Part Four

Dan Oniroku

The fourth installment of the serial fiction follows grotesque coercive encounters centered on exaggerated noses, bodily humiliation, and domination, accompanied by erotic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 116–122

To the Human-Hair Maniac

Fukuda Hisafumi

A fetish-oriented piece addressing an obsessive attraction to human hair, presenting hair as an object of erotic fascination and personal fixation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 123–133

A Curious Return Visit

Ōnaka Tadashi

A narrative of a return visit to a rural family home develops nostalgia for worn clothing and ragged appearance into an eroticized account of domestic tension, illness, dependence, and forbidden desire.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 123–133

A Solitary Longing for Masochism

Tama Hiroshi

An illustrated masochistic fantasy depicts a male subject undergoing escalating female domination, restraint, humiliation, and physical punishment, framed by reflections on solitary masochistic desire.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 142–157

Wandering in Space

Saji Asako

A serialized captivity fantasy follows women and men subjected to military, institutional, and maritime confinement, interrogation, punishment, forced labor, and elaborate restraints amid recurring scenes of escape, pursuit, and recapture.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 158–163

Reader Experience: Concerning the Film I Want to Die

Iwasaki Sashiko

A first-person reader account recounts encounters with a physically powerful man, escalating bondage and sexual coercion, and the narrator’s later retaliation against him. The narrative emphasizes fear, humiliation, bodily control, and the complicated emotional…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 164–165

Instructional Advice for Binding

Endō Hajime

This feature discusses the film “I Don’t Want to Die,” focusing on gas-chamber execution, imprisonment, fear, and the staged restraint and punishment of a female prisoner. Its commentary combines cinematic spectatorship with graphic imagery…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 166–169

Reader Letters and Communications

The communications and publishing material discusses the presentation of female models as erotic ideals, editorial selection of photographs, and the circulation of specialized bondage and fetish image collections through mail order. It also reflects…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 170

Model and Reader Correspondence

Ayasaka Tarō

This reader-correspondence section presents letters from readers discussing their long-term interest in the magazine, reactions to bondage-oriented illustrations and models, requests for fresher material, and feedback on editorial policies, submissions, and readership.

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July
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

August 1963 Issue

The August 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines extensive staged bondage photography, erotic and grotesque illustration, autobiographical testimony, historical fantasy, serialized fiction, reader confessions, and community correspondence. Its opening visual section moves through several…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14–21

Illustrated Torment Portfolio

An illustrated torment portfolio presents stylized scenes of bondage, punishment, bodily distress, and theatrical erotic suffering, including weighted restraint, air-pump imagery, and self-destructive tableaux.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–36

Until I Became a Kitan Club Reader

Endō Tamotsu

A personal essay recounts the author’s gradual discovery of Kitan Club, secret reading habits, and growing recognition of his unusual sexual interests through the magazine’s stories and images. It presents the magazine as a…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 37–41

Memories of Kamakura: On Nude Women’s Wrestling

Iuchi Sayūko

This erotic memoir recalls a Kamakura outing that develops into a nude women’s wrestling encounter, with the participants struggling, tying and restraining one another while the narrator watches and becomes absorbed in the spectacle.…

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