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.
Disappearance Underwater
A suspenseful erotic crime story follows police investigators as they pursue a resourceful female suspect through disguises, surveillance, a bathhouse, and an underwater escape.
View in archive →The Man Who Walks About Selling Death
A serialized crime-and-revenge thriller follows Saburō, Mari, and other conspirators through schemes involving deception, captivity, murder, drugging, and an underground room, while their shifting motives and betrayals drive the narrative toward further violence.
View in archive →Strange Transformation Sketches
Suzuki Kazuo presents an illustrated anthology of Edo-period strange tales involving supernatural transformations, ghosts, sexual intrigue, violence, murder, and revenge, accompanied by discussion of historical sources and reported testimony.
View in archive →Almost the Anniversary of Your Death
Serialized revenge fiction follows a destructive family conflict involving inheritance, coercion, sexualized domination, murder, suicide, and elaborate retaliation among the protagonists.
View in archive →Men Who Toy with Women’s Bodies
An illustrated essay surveys theatrical and staged erotic representations of cruel, dominant women who restrain, humiliate, punish, and physically overpower men, while considering the appeal of these gender reversals to spectators.
View in archive →Hell Ship
A serialized erotic fantasy follows Ōtaki, who is abducted and transported aboard a hell ship, where captors subject her to confinement, forced nudity, sexual violence, and sadistic punishment before further dangers unfold.
View in archive →Autumn Wind at Kikyo Field
Set amid a turbulent historical battle, this erotic adventure depicts women and travelers caught up in warfare, abduction, pursuit, coercive sexual encounters, and violent domination around Kikyo Field.
View in archive →The Ageless Maiden
This erotic fantasy centers on the enigmatic young woman Hanako and the fascination she arouses in a rural household, presenting youthful beauty, intimate observation, romantic intrigue, and fetishized bodily detail.
View in archive →The Hot-Spring Inn Murder Case
A serialized sensational mystery follows the investigation into the death of a young woman associated with a hot-spring inn, whose body is discovered after heavy rain and whose final movements implicate two male guests.…
View in archive →Death-Coffin Komachi
A historical supernatural revenge tale follows the ninja善四郎 and other figures through curses, apparitions, pursuit, abduction, and violent confrontations surrounding the mysterious “death coffin” and the fate of Komachi. The illustrated narrative repeatedly depicts…
View in archive →Special Issue on Slavery and Oppression
The December 1958 issue of Uramado is a large illustrated fiction anthology built around a special feature on slavery, oppression, captivity, and coercive authority. Its contents range from modern crime melodrama and foreign-set adventure…
View in archive →Strange Tale of Nude-Woman Island
An illustrated historical erotic adventure recounts the capture and coercive exploitation of women on a mysterious “Nude-Woman Island,” combining narrated episodes with staged scenes of captivity, restraint, and domination.
View in archive →Young Nude
A photographic nude feature presents a young female model in a series of posed studio images emphasizing the body, posture, and visual spectacle of nudity.
View in archive →The Scarlet Crape-Paper Tale
An illustrated historical erotic tale follows the abduction and subjugation of a woman through elaborate rope and cloth restraints, coercive encounters, and the fantasies of captors and servants.
View in archive →The Price of a Virgin
A serialized erotic crime narrative follows gangster Renjiro’s pursuit and coercive domination of the young woman Yoko amid abduction, violence, sexualized punishment, and police investigation, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.
View in archive →Palace of Troubled Slaves
An illustrated historical erotic serial follows Natsu, a woman captured and sold into slavery, as she endures coercive restraint, humiliation, punishment, and attempted escape amid slave-market and palace intrigue.
View in archive →The Cage of Hell
A serialized SM fiction narrative set around a theatrical troupe, in which actresses and other women are subjected to coercive bondage, punishment, humiliation, and sexualized backstage domination by men who stage and observe their…
View in archive →Prostitution Slave Street
A serialized erotic crime narrative follows men who abduct, confine, and sexually exploit women in a prostitution district, depicting coercion, captivity, violence, and the circulation of enslaved women through organized brothels. The story uses…
View in archive →Tragic Wish at Hatchōbori
A historically set, illustrated crime narrative follows samurai and townspeople through coercion, betrayal, pursuit, and violent retribution in Edo-period Hatchōbori. Its melodramatic plot combines forbidden desire with captivity and murder.
View in archive →Strange Suicides
A sensational illustrated report presents a series of unusual suicides, including deaths by hanging, gas, drowning, firearms, and other carefully described methods, accompanied by staged photographic scenes and explanatory commentary.
View in archive →Prostitute Rain
A serialized erotic horror narrative follows high-school student Ayako as her encounters with teachers escalate into coercive sexual abuse, pursuit, humiliation, and violent domination amid persistent rain and threatening supernatural imagery.
View in archive →Jar Hell
A serialized supernatural erotic-horror tale in which a mysterious woman and predatory men become entangled in confinement, bodily transformation, hallucination, and violent domination associated with an uncanny jar or vessel.
View in archive →Calendar of Fragrant Skin
An Edo-period erotic serial follows the beautiful Otama as she is drawn into a world of sexual coercion, captivity, voyeuristic display, and power struggles within elite households and pleasure settings.
View in archive →White Flame
A first-person erotic narrative portrays an intense and secretive sexual relationship between two men, framed through longing, reunion, physical intimacy, and emotional dependence.
View in archive →An Eerie Notebook: Do Not Open That Box
A fictional found notebook recounts bizarre and terrifying incidents involving a mysterious sealed box, supernatural events, violence, and the efforts to uncover the truth behind them.
View in archive →Female Slaves in Foreign Magazines
This illustrated survey of foreign erotic magazines examines depictions of female slavery, bondage, captivity, and coercion through imported photographs, staged scenes, and magazine commentary.
View in archive →The Ivory Throne
A serialized adventure fantasy follows expeditions, African rulers and soldiers, enslaved people, and violent struggles surrounding the fabled Ivory Throne, emphasizing captivity, coercion, and rescue.
View in archive →Bubble Hell
A serialized erotic narrative follows Ginji and Junko through an increasingly coercive relationship involving restraint, physical punishment, humiliation, domestic scenes, and conflicted marital desire.
View in archive →The Captive Beauty
A historical erotic serial set amid Sengoku-era warfare depicts samurai and soldiers capturing, humiliating, restraining, and exploiting women, while following the resistance and escape efforts of the central characters.
View in archive →Hebiko Island
This fictional narrative follows Shigeru and other boys confined in a remote juvenile institution, where they endure hunger, beatings, forced labor, harsh discipline, and attempted escapes while struggling against institutional oppression.
View in archive →The Poisonous Yellow Moth
A dark erotic-fantasy narrative follows a man’s encounter with a mysterious woman whose attraction, bodily transformation, and eventual moth-like identity are linked to poisonous yellow moth powder and occult experimentation.
View in archive →The Slave-Ship Incident
A historical account of the Maria Luz slave-ship incident recounts the abuse and attempted escape of Chinese contract laborers, the Japanese legal intervention that freed them, and the ensuing diplomatic dispute over slavery, human…
View in archive →The Female Slave’s Jewel
A historical erotic adventure set in the Mongol world follows enslaved women subjected to captivity, coercive service, rope restraint, punishment, and pursuit amid rivalries over a precious jewel.
View in archive →Earless Grass
A literary narrative follows a young woman with severe hearing loss through hospitalization, surgery, family concern, and an emotionally complex relationship with a nurse as she hopes to regain hearing and independence.
View in archive →The Bodhisattva of the Cellar
An Edo-period erotic captivity tale in which the painter Sōtatsu abducts O-Mitsu, binds and confines her in a cellar, and subjects her to escalating threats, humiliation, and sexual coercion before the narrative’s violent climax.
View in archive →The Incarnated Ecstatic Female Buddha
A surreal erotic narrative in which an artist’s encounter with a young woman becomes an obsessive dream of bodily transformation, mystical female sexuality, and the merging of devotional imagery with desire.
View in archive →Skull Lantern
This serialized historical erotic adventure follows samurai, attendants, and other characters through abduction, interrogation, violent captivity, escape attempts, and conspiratorial pursuit in an Edo-period setting, accompanied by dramatic bondage and torture illustrations. Rope restraint,…
View in archive →April 1959: Special Feature on Obscene Cults
The April 1959 issue of Uramado is organized around a special feature on 淫祠邪教, imagined obscene, heretical, and sexually charged religious cults. Its contents combine illustrated crime and suspense, supernatural and historical fiction, pseudo-ethnographic…
View in archive →The Vanished Tattooed Nude
An illustrated sensational account follows the disappearance of a tattooed nude woman and the police investigation, mixing eroticized scenes of captivity, coercion, and interrogation with lurid reportage.
View in archive →Nude Masterpieces
A photographic portfolio presents staged black-and-white nude studies emphasizing sculptural poses, bodily form, concealment, and visual spectatorship.
View in archive →Secret Tales of Obscene Cults Abroad
This purportedly foreign-sourced dossier surveys obscene cults, occult religions, sexual rituals, secret societies, and sensational cases involving fetishistic or coercive practices.
View in archive →Tickling Kannon
An Edo-period serialized erotic adventure follows the schemes of the physician Kōan and other villains as they pursue money, abduct O-Shizu, and subject her to elaborate rope restraints and relentless tickling. The illustrated narrative…
View in archive →The Burning Women’s Cave
This serialized erotic fantasy follows travelers and local men who are lured toward a hot-spring mountain and an uncanny women’s cave, where seductive, grotesque female figures subject them to captivity, humiliation, and bizarre supernatural…
View in archive →Wheel of Vengeance Hell
This illustrated Edo-period erotic revenge serial follows shifting confrontations among townspeople, courtesans, and criminals as abduction, confinement, deception, and violent punishment drive the characters toward reciprocal vengeance.
View in archive →The Goddess’s Jar
This serialized erotic fantasy follows investigators and other victims into a murderous occult cult centered on a seductive goddess, whose rituals involve coercion, bondage, bodily transformation, and supernatural violence.
View in archive →Selections from a Heretical Temple of Lust
A historical survey of alleged heretical lust cults in the Edo period, describing their beliefs, sexualized rituals, sensational incidents, official investigations, arrests, executions, and related illustrated scenes. It presents these accounts through archival documents…
View in archive →The Riding Immortal Woman
An erotic fictional dialogue about a young man visiting a beautiful female fortune-teller whose predictions and seductive authority lead to a coercive, physically dominant sexual encounter, accompanied by erotic illustrations.
View in archive →The Magic of the Waist Cord
A serialized erotic-occult tale in which practitioners use waist cords, binding rites, curses, and other magical techniques to control women and summon frightening supernatural experiences. The narrative combines ritualized restraint, violent fantasy, and dramatic…
View in archive →The Strange Cult of Loving Spirits
This serialized erotic fantasy follows characters drawn into a sinister spirit-worship cult whose schemes involve abduction, coercion, captivity, ritualized bondage, and attempts at rescue and revenge. Its illustrated narrative combines supernatural menace with sensational…
View in archive →The Cult of Female Bodily Suffering
An illustrated sensational account of a secretive heretical cult in which women are subjected to ritualized humiliation, forced nudity, bodily punishment, restraint, and sacrifice-like suffering.
View in archive →Nude Benten
An erotic occult narrative depicting the manipulation and coercion of women through religious ritual, hypnotic suggestion, nudity, binding, sexualized humiliation, and staged scenes of submission.
View in archive →The Sin of Falling
A suspenseful erotic crime narrative follows Kasai as he schemes to obtain money through fraud, murder, staged alibis, and drugging, while investigators and associates gradually expose the plan.
View in archive →The Golden-Cat Cult of Female Desire
This serialized occult crime fantasy follows the Golden-Cat cult, its female mediums and male devotees, and a series of ritualistic manipulations, assaults, murders, and supernatural threats surrounding its secret teachings.
View in archive →That Scene, That Actress
A critical survey of bondage and erotic scenes in Japanese and foreign films, discussing actresses, direction, staging, visual impact, and the conventions of sensational and SM cinema.
View in archive →The Sorceress of Yasaka
A serialized historical erotic narrative set in Edo-period Japan, in which a mysterious sorceress and her associates become entangled in religious intrigue, pursuit, captivity, interrogation, and ritualized bondage.
View in archive →Sacrifice to the God of Love
A serialized erotic-sadistic narrative follows Hartley, Marie, and others through abduction, restraint, violence, murder, and ritualized sacrifice within a sinister cult-like setting. Illustrated scenes emphasize captivity, coercion, female figures, police investigation, and the recurring…
View in archive →Black-Hair Binding
A serialized erotic historical-fantasy thriller follows doll maker Izumi Megichi and other Edo-period figures through abduction, rope binding, hair-cutting rituals, grotesque dolls, curses, and violent pursuit, accompanied by dramatic bondage illustrations.
View in archive →Hair Lantern
A serialized narrative follows a boy’s fascination with women’s long hair through encounters at a bathhouse, hair salon, cinema, and domestic settings, blending sensual fantasy with crime, femme-fatale imagery, and occult or supernatural motifs.…
View in archive →Her Mass
A serialized erotic-crime narrative follows Shuwaru and Merii as they investigate a clandestine obscene cult, encountering abduction, coercive restraint, ritualized violence, and a deadly confrontation. The story is accompanied by dramatic black-and-white illustrations.
View in archive →Phantom Samurai: The Gecko Spell of Exorcism
An illustrated historical erotic fantasy follows a mysterious samurai and an exorcist through seduction, deception, violent captivity, murder, and supernatural rituals involving a gecko spell. The serialized narrative combines occult menace with elaborate scenes…
View in archive →May 1959
The May 1959 issue of Uramado is a large, visually varied publication combining erotic photography, illustrated fiction, historical narratives, sensational crime and occult stories, essays, reader-oriented material, and an extensive special feature titled A…
View in archive →Keep Your Eyes on the Thighs
An illustrated erotic narrative follows a performer who uses theatrical tricks, ropes, blindfolds, blades, and staged danger to captivate an audience and outwit an intrusive police officer.
View in archive →Nude Masterpieces: The Female Body and Rope
A photographic portfolio presents staged nude compositions featuring women bound with rope in varied poses, including floor restraint, kneeling, and suspension-like arrangements.
View in archive →Tattooed Komachi
This illustrated historical erotic tale follows the courtesan Okyō and an Edo-period household through secret encounters, erotic deception, bondage, and the eventual intervention of a military official.
View in archive →Crimson Sash Incantation
An illustrated historical erotic serial set in Edo-period Japan follows a merchant, spies, and a captive woman amid secret plots, abduction, interrogation, and repeated rope-bound scenes rendered with elaborate restraint imagery.
View in archive →The Prisoner Woman of the Desert
A serialized erotic captivity narrative set in the desert follows Angeli and other women imprisoned and abused by soldiers and foreign adventurers, with coercive encounters, attempted escapes, pursuit, and rescue efforts unfolding amid military…
View in archive →Neriko's Hell
A serialized historical erotic fiction follows Neriko and other women subjected to forced labor, captivity, rope restraint, sexual violence, and sadistic abuse, while their suffering unfolds amid household exploitation, escape attempts, and legal retribution…
View in archive →Lament of the Karayuki Women
A richly illustrated historical narrative recounts the exploitation of Japanese karayuki women who were sold or lured overseas, confined in brothels, subjected to sexual coercion and violence, and separated from home. The story combines…
View in archive →Beauty Urahoko
A historical erotic serial follows Akihei and other characters through encounters involving seduction, secrecy, jealousy, and elaborate rope restraint in an Edo-period setting, accompanied by erotic illustrations.
View in archive →Demon Blood
A supernatural erotic serial set around a hospital depicts a mysterious blood-drinking woman, frightened patients and staff, medical examination, captivity, and escalating violence amid uncanny events.
View in archive →Strange Love Spirit Cult
This serialized erotic thriller follows Shingo and Eiji as they become entangled with the secretive Aireikyō cult, whose leaders abduct and violently restrain women including Miyuki and Mitsuko before the conflict culminates in an…
View in archive →Woman's Body and Oppression
Suzuki Kazuo surveys the oppression of women in Edo-period Japan, tracing the sale, abduction, confinement, and exploitation of women in licensed pleasure quarters and related businesses through legal records, anecdotes, and cases involving Yoshiwara…
View in archive →Ota's Black Magic
A serialized supernatural SM narrative in which Ota uses “black magic,” needles, ropes, and bodily control to dominate Misato and Mizushima through elaborate scenes of restraint, coercion, humiliation, and sadistic fantasy.
View in archive →From the Unsorted Shelf
An editorial miscellany presenting excerpts and discussion of submitted or previously unpublished writings, including commentary on editorial selection, manuscript preparation, reader response, and the magazine’s publishing process.
View in archive →Crimson Crepe Tradition
A serialized historical erotic tale set in the Edo period follows a formidable woman pursuing and capturing men amid village intrigue, swordplay, confinement, humiliation, and punitive violence, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.
View in archive →Black-Haired Lantern
A serialized erotic fantasy centers on a young man’s intense, secretive fixation on a woman’s long black hair, developing through voyeurism, hair cutting, possession, and forbidden desire.
View in archive →Endless Crimson Resentment
A serialized Edo-period erotic revenge tale follows Oyae, Chōgorō, Tōzaburō, and others through coercive encounters, social intrigue, and escalating punishment, restraint, and violent retribution in and around pleasure quarters and domestic spaces.
View in archive →Mad Dream
This surreal serialized SM story follows Chiko through encounters with Miyo and a mysterious black-beret figure, escalating into abduction, restraint, violence, and sadistic sexual power games.
View in archive →The Sea Demon and the Women
A serialized historical erotic fiction episode about the pirate lord Wang Zhi and his encounters with women, depicting abduction, captivity, coercion, torture, punishment, and violent power struggles in a sixteenth-century maritime setting. The unit…
View in archive →Invitation of Darkness
A serialized erotic mystery follows a woman drawn into clandestine nighttime encounters whose disappearance and apparent murder prompt an investigation that gradually exposes deception, coercion, and hidden desire.
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