KINBAKU RESEARCH PLATFORM
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.
The Attraction of Skirts
An essay explores the author’s fascination with women’s skirts, discussing skirt styles, movement, fabric, and the erotic impressions they evoke through personal observations and anecdotes.
View in archive →Adolescence: Letters Between Mother and Child
An epistolary account traces an adolescent’s development through letters exchanged with his mother, covering family concern, physical growth, sumo training, and the emotional distance and attachment between parent and child.
View in archive →The Bride of the Prison
A historical erotic narrative set in the Edo period depicts a woman abducted and confined as a “prison bride,” with scenes of coercion, physical restraint, humiliation, and sexual domination.
View in archive →The Birth of the Yellow Orami
A serialized erotic fantasy follows Sakai’s encounters in an imaginary female-ruled society where men are captured, restrained, humiliated, and subjected to coercive conditioning by powerful women, including the ruler Una and the mysterious Yellow…
View in archive →Proposal for an Exhibition of Women Bound in Japanese Dress
This proposal outlines an exhibition and discussion event devoted to women bound in traditional Japanese dress, combining photographs, drawings, demonstrations, and research into the techniques and visual presentation of kinbaku.
View in archive →Ideas for Images of Beautiful Women
The article presents scenario ideas for staged erotic contests involving beautiful women, including wrestling, martial arts, and other physical confrontations that emphasize female strength, rivalry, domination, and dramatic spectacle.
View in archive →Through the Light, Final Installment
The concluding installment of a sensational hospital reportage examines psychiatric patients, ward life, staff practices, sexuality, abuse, and the need for more humane institutional care.
View in archive →In Praise of Eyelashes
An essay celebrates women’s armpit hair as a natural bodily feature, contrasting it with modern grooming norms and exploring its visual and erotic appeal.
View in archive →Female Warrior with a White Blade
This illustrated historical erotic fiction follows female warriors amid battlefield combat, captivity, sexual coercion, bodily violence, and self-sacrificial death during Japan’s summer campaigns.
View in archive →From a Dreamer’s Notebook
A collection of erotic dream scenarios depicting bondage, sexual service, interracial and occupation-era fantasies, and unequal relationships between Japanese women and foreign men. The pieces mix imagined encounters with commentary on gender, desire, and…
View in archive →Fantasy of Ugliness
A serialized erotic fantasy follows a woman undergoing medical treatment and surgical intervention before becoming the focus of fetishistic observation, restraint, humiliation, and sexualized caregiving. Its scenes move between hospital settings and domestic encounters,…
View in archive →Collected Manuscript Gleanings
An editorial compilation of submitted manuscripts and autobiographical writings, presenting readers’ erotic fantasies, bondage and punishment scenes, gendered power struggles, and personal sexual recollections alongside editorial framing and commentary. The section demonstrates the magazine’s…
View in archive →The Person with an Afflicted Soul
A psychologically intense erotic narrative follows an artist and her associates through obsessive attraction, illness, confinement, and scenes of coercive bondage and physical abuse. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the story’s staged, dramatic atmosphere.
View in archive →My Image: F4’s Soliloquy
A first-person “F4” soliloquy presents erotic bondage imagery and detailed descriptions of tying, restraint positions, bodily sensation, and submission, accompanied by illustrations of bound figures.
View in archive →Two Confessions
Two first-person confessions explore erotic fascination with men’s hairy legs and bodies, moving between personal encounters, fantasy, voyeuristic observation, and sexualized memories of body hair.
View in archive →The Domesticated Human Yapoo
This serialized erotic fantasy follows Japanese protagonists who are captured and reduced to domesticated “Yapoo,” combining futuristic racial hierarchy with bodily transformation, forced service, humiliation, and bondage. The narrative repeatedly stages coercive sexualized control…
View in archive →Feminization Desire and an Experimental Record of Female-Hormone Use
This article examines the desire for feminization and presents an experimental record of male subjects using female hormones, describing changes in body shape, skin, hair, breasts, voice, and sexual function alongside medical risks and…
View in archive →The Experience of Itohime
Presented as Itohime’s personal experience, this account describes the use of female hormones and the resulting feminization of the body, including breast development and other physical changes, while recounting medical consultations, adverse symptoms, and…
View in archive →Dust-Basket Diary
A serialized erotic fiction diary follows the increasingly coercive relationship between Kōsuke and Kimiko, portraying domestic domination, restraint, humiliation, corporal punishment, bodily fetishism, and psychological cruelty through a succession of staged encounters.
View in archive →From Recent Films
A short film-oriented feature reflects on eroticized images and scenarios of domination, emphasizing the visual construction of fetishistic spectacle and the viewer’s response to it.
View in archive →The World of Beauty and Fetishism
A concluding feature explores beauty through fetishistic visual and bodily motifs, presenting stylized erotic imagery that links physical appearance, clothing, pose, and desire.
View in archive →The Female Warrior Tayū
A dramatic account of a female gidayū performer whose demanding artistic life is intertwined with illness, marriage, family tensions, and emotional sacrifice.
View in archive →Bondage Film News
A roundup of contemporary films featuring women subjected to bondage, handcuffing, gagging, captivity, pursuit, and other sensational restraint scenarios, with brief plot and cast details.
View in archive →Deaths Caused by Restraint and Sound-Suppression Devices
A sensational report examines police investigations into nude photography and the circulation of images depicting women in compromising or restrained poses, asking where artistic beauty ends and obscenity begins.
View in archive →A Proposal to Form a Masochists’ Club
Yamada Masao proposes forming a masochists’ club to provide discreet fellowship, mutual understanding, correspondence, and opportunities for members to share their interests.
View in archive →Local Reports and Correspondence
A mixed news and correspondence section reports local incidents, police and custodial matters, restraint-related accidents and deaths, film activity, and reader or contributor communications from around Japan.
View in archive →Modern Masochism Art Review
Hara Tadamasa reviews modern masochist art through illustrated self-images and staged scenes, discussing how bodily presentation, clothing, restraint, humiliation, and fetishistic fantasy are represented visually.
View in archive →Reader Correspondence, Editorial Replies, and Publication Notices
A multi-page reader-correspondence section presents letters and editorial replies about erotic experiences, fetish interests, bondage and punishment practices, personal relationships, and reactions to the magazine, alongside publication notices, submissions guidance, and announcements concerning forthcoming…
View in archive →November 1957
The November 1957 issue of Uramado is presented as an “abnormality and mystery special.” It combines supernatural transformation, Gothic suspense, crime reporting, sexual pathology, fetishistic fiction, historical adventure, Western pulp, and photographs of women.…
View in archive →A Woman Struggling in a Trap
A woman is discovered bound and struggling in a trap, while the surrounding narrative develops a threatening, coercive encounter involving restraint and physical vulnerability. The accompanying illustrations emphasize rope bondage and the captive woman’s…
View in archive →The Spirit of the Abandoned House
A serialized erotic crime narrative follows investigators and other characters through an abandoned-house mystery involving a missing or endangered woman, drugging, restraint, violence, and interrogation. Its episodes combine detective-story suspense with scenes of captivity,…
View in archive →Transformation of the Demon Princess, Part Eight of the Secret Memorandum
The eighth installment of a serialized historical erotic fantasy follows the Demon Princess and her associates through espionage, disguises, pursuit, capture, and violent confrontations in an Edo-period setting. The richly illustrated narrative combines supernatural…
View in archive →The Demon’s Exorcist
A serialized occult-crime narrative follows journalist Kato as he investigates a bizarre murder involving a married couple, a mysterious hospital, unusual photographs, and the suspected hypnotic or supernatural influence of Dr. Kuki. The story…
View in archive →The True Nature of Cholera
A serialized erotic narrative follows Toshirō’s obsessive attraction to Yumi, whose beauty and unusual behavior draw him into a psychologically charged sequence of pursuit, fantasy, and sexual confrontation. The story develops through recurring scenes…
View in archive →The Shuriken
A serialized erotic period drama centered on Wakana and Sasuke, involving jealousy, pursuit, deception, and violent confrontations around a theatrical and pleasure-quarter setting. The narrative includes coercive restraint, humiliation, and scenes of sexualized domination,…
View in archive →We Buy Corpses
A serialized historical-grotesque crime narrative about Dr. Knox’s Edinburgh anatomy school and the body snatchers Burke and Hare, who procure corpses for dissection and payment. The story develops through murder, corpse trafficking, clandestine investigation,…
View in archive →Tattooed Benten, Part One
The first installment of a historical erotic adventure follows rival ninja figures and their pursuit of a heavily tattooed woman amid theft, disguise, capture, and repeated confrontations. The narrative combines sensational crime plotting with…
View in archive →The Intruder
This illustrated serialized fiction depicts a rainy-night intruder forcing his way into a young woman’s room and subjecting her to threats, coercion, and physical assault. The episode develops into a violent pursuit and confrontation,…
View in archive →The Man Who Came from Hell to Kill
A serialized crime-and-captivity story about a violent man whose escape from prison leads to pursuit, revenge, abduction, and murder. The narrative combines prison intrigue with sadistic threats, coercive encounters, and illustrated scenes of restraint…
View in archive →Record of Wandering
A first-person record of the author’s wandering encounters and relationships with young men in postwar Japan, including reflections on same-sex desire, emotional attachment, sexual experience, and the tensions between idealized love and physical longing.…
View in archive →A Letter to a Wayward Married Woman
An erotic fantasy presented as a letter to a married woman, in which the male narrator offers himself as a submissive object for her affection, control, and punishment. The accompanying illustrations reinforce themes of…
View in archive →Jealousy of the Index Finger
A serialized erotic mystery follows a police investigation into the suspicious death of a woman connected to several men, whose conflicting accounts reveal jealousy, illicit desire, drugs, and possible murder. The narrative combines detective-style…
View in archive →Friday Terror
A serialized erotic crime thriller follows Ema through a series of disturbing Friday-night encounters involving a mysterious woman, fetishistic photographs and drawings, abduction, bodily injuries, and a murder investigation. As the mystery deepens, scenes…
View in archive →Curious Conversations
A lively essay recounts backstage stories from gambling halls, describing professional gamblers, wagers, cheating, bluffing, money management, and the social codes of gambling contests. The author uses anecdotes and imagined conversations to examine gambling…
View in archive →The Window
A short illustrated narrative follows a young man’s encounter with a household and its occupants after responding to a newspaper advertisement. The story develops an atmosphere of secrecy, psychological unease, dependency, and eroticized restraint…
View in archive →Love Doll
A serialized erotic mystery in which a writer investigates a disturbing household history involving a dead woman, suspicious diaries and drawings, psychological disturbance, and possible murder or suicide. The narrative combines bondage imagery and…
View in archive →The Black and White of Murderous Intent
A serialized crime and SM thriller follows Masami and her accomplices as they abduct, restrain, interrogate, and murder victims, while investigators and witnesses gradually piece together the perpetrators’ identities. The narrative combines sensational criminal…
View in archive →Slug Fantasia
A surreal erotic fantasy in which a man and woman encounter giant slugs and undergo grotesque bodily transformations. The illustrated narrative combines hypnotic, coercive encounters with imagery of crawling, sticky bodies, restraint, and metamorphosis.
View in archive →The Mermaid Covered in Scars
An erotic crime-and-captivity narrative follows Yuka and her associates through suspicion, murder, interrogation, escape, and violent confrontations, with recurring motifs of coercion, restraint, and sadistic threat. The concluding pages are accompanied by posed erotic…
View in archive →Demon Insect
A serialized erotic fiction narrative involving Kyōko and other women caught in a web of family conflict, deception, pursuit, and coercive encounters. The story includes captivity, psychological tension, and vividly illustrated restraint scenes.
View in archive →The Man Who Targeted Stalin
A sensational historical account of a German special-operations plot to assassinate Stalin during the final years of World War II. It follows the recruitment and training of the operatives, their parachute infiltration, disguises and…
View in archive →The Woman with Black Manicure
A serialized erotic crime narrative centered on a mysterious woman with black-painted nails, whose presence is linked to seduction, abduction, violence, and threats against Reiko. The story moves through encounters in an apartment and…
View in archive →A Woman’s Fiery-Fat Hell
A serialized historical erotic crime narrative set in Edo-period Japan, centered on Shizu, Yoshitarō, and the women and men around an oil merchant’s household. Jealousy, coercive sexual encounters, murder, concealment of bodies, and arson…
View in archive →The Curse of the Jewel
A historical erotic fiction narrative centered on Miyo, a female performer entangled in the pursuit of a valuable jewel. The story combines theatrical intrigue, coercive encounters, captivity, and elaborate binding scenes involving ropes, gagging,…
View in archive →Darkness
A serialized erotic mystery follows businessman Enami and the increasingly ominous encounters surrounding Yūko, Asabuki, and Horikoshi. The story combines nightclub intrigue, deception, murder investigation, captivity, and sadistic threat within a dark urban setting.
View in archive →Publication Information
A publication-information page for the magazine gives ordering and subscription instructions, submission guidelines, issue details, pricing, and publisher information. It also promotes the magazine’s fiction and illustration contents and its reader-facing editorial services.
View in archive →January 1958
The January 1958 New Year issue of Uramado is a lavish 150-page special number organized around hidden crimes, historical punishment, erotic danger, supernatural tales, foreign pulp, and illustrated suspense. Its cover advertises the “Hidden…
View in archive →Kitan Club, January 1958
Kitan Club’s January 1958 issue is a large, densely illustrated specialist erotic magazine combining bondage imagery, masochist writing, cinema culture, historical anecdote, fiction, reader correspondence, and commercial photographic circulation. Its opening establishes a participatory…
View in archive →A Strange Tale of the Female Chūshingura
An illustrated historical erotic tale recasts the Chūshingura legend through the ordeal of a woman pursued, abducted, coerced, and subjected to humiliating restraint amid samurai intrigue.
View in archive →Kiba Takashi’s Conception
A large staged erotic illustration depicts a woman restrained across a horse-like apparatus, combining mechanical bondage with theatrical visual invention.
View in archive →Reiko Taki Picture Collection
Two full-page illustrations present women in staged rope restraint, using school uniform, clothing, age-coded identity, posture, and exposure as visual motifs.
View in archive →Color Illustrations: Schoolgirl and Thirty-year-old Woman
The illustration centers on a woman tied behind a pillar, with attention to rope marks, immobilization, clothing, and the bodily effects of prolonged restraint.
View in archive →Photograph: Punishment of the Lady’s Maid
A multi-page photographic feature presents a woman in Japanese-style costume in seated, kneeling, and floor-based rope-restraint positions, emphasizing costume, posture, rope arrangement, and studio staging.
View in archive →An Amorous Akō Ballad
This illustrated Akō-themed erotic ballad blends Chūshingura-era revenge and household intrigue with sexualized coercion, restraint, violence, and the threatened or actual punishment of women.
View in archive →Foreign-Film Stills: From the Argentine Film Female Prisoner No. 113
Film stills depict women prisoners, confinement, conflict, and collective scenes of female incarceration, presenting cinema as a source of eroticized and dramatic captivity imagery.
View in archive →New Year’s Punishment Ideas
A long scenario feature discusses staged punishment, bondage games, social gatherings, role-based discipline, ropes, clothing, humiliation, and escalation, combining anecdotes with practical suggestions and diagrams.
View in archive →Camera and Film Miscellany
The essay considers lenses, distance, lighting, framing, audience sightlines, and the practical photographing of staged bondage, alongside commentary on Japanese and foreign films.
View in archive →A Loyal Retainer Living in Darkness
This serialized historical erotic fiction follows a loyal retainer moving undercover through the intrigues surrounding the Akō vendetta, with secret messages, disguises, violence, and eroticized encounters involving coercion and restraint.
View in archive →The Doctrine of Color Siya
A richly described narrative of secret doctrine, ritual authority, temple interiors, costumes, machinery, ceremonial punishment, bondage, and eroticized submission. Large illustrations are integrated into the fantastic religious setting.
View in archive →An Invitation to Masochism
A cultural and psychological essay examines masochism through literary, mythological, cinematic, and social examples, relating suffering, humiliation, fantasy, compensation, theatricality, and role reversal.
View in archive →Two Paths of the Genroku Era
A serialized Genroku-era erotic adventure follows samurai, townspeople, and women through abduction, concealment, escape, social intrigue, and shifting romantic and sexual power relations. The narrative repeatedly uses confinement, coercion, and bondage imagery within its…
View in archive →Mania Correspondence
A community column combines reader-oriented reports, film and stage notes, bondage observations, props and costumes, personal testimony, and requests for photographic contributions.
View in archive →Moxibustion Bulletin: Fire Punishment and the Wife
A first-person domestic narrative turns marriage, moxibustion, heat, commands, shame, and endurance into a scene of ritualized disciplinary control.
View in archive →An Examination of Bondage Involving Film Actresses
A systematic study classifies actresses, costumes, restraint devices, positions, age, social identity, staging, and the psychological effects of cinematic bondage, using extensive comparative tables.
View in archive →From the Notebook of a Dreamer
A philosophical notebook considers slavery, Roman servitude, obedience, authority, punishment, translation, human dignity, and the difference between institutional and personal domination.
View in archive →Good Evening!
A serialized erotic story follows Chifumi from an unremarkable young woman into a transformed beauty through cosmetic surgery, tracing how her altered appearance changes her confidence, employment prospects, romantic relationships, and domestic life. Its…
View in archive →Report on Experiments with Female-Hormone Use
A diary-like medical-sexological account records hormone preparations, injections, bodily measurements, breast development, emotional responses, adverse effects, and the desire to feminize the body.
View in archive →A Nurse’s Enema Diary
Dated diary entries describe enemas, patients, clinical authority, embarrassment, bodily reactions, and the nurse’s intimate perspective on medical encounters.
View in archive →Beauties of Punishment: Lady’s Maid Okiku
An illustrated historical feature recounts Edo-period women, courtesans, entertainers, crime, punishment, local legend, and urban sexual culture, including a depiction of a bound and punished woman.
View in archive →Shadow on the Road to the Underworld
This serialized Edo-period erotic crime tale follows Sanpei and Oharu through betrayal, abduction, interrogation, revenge, and repeated scenes of coercive captivity and rope restraint.
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