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.
Lump of Flesh
This illustrated erotic thriller depicts a respectable marriage destabilized by secret sexual obsession, jealousy, and coercive encounters, escalating into psychological and physical violence within an atmosphere of domestic secrecy.
View in archive →You're Next
A serialized crime-and-SM narrative follows a predatory man, his female victims, and the police investigation surrounding abduction, coercion, bondage, humiliation, sexual violence, and murder. The story moves between criminal pursuit and intensely staged scenes…
View in archive →Soft-Skin Lantern
A serialized erotic crime narrative follows maid Chikaga and other women as they are abducted, bound, humiliated, and threatened by violent men, with the detective-like figure Hamano Suke pursuing the case; illustrated scenes accompany…
View in archive →July 1959: Special Issue on Terrifying Unusual Sensations
The July 1959 issue of Uramado is organized around a prominent Special Feature on Terrifying Unusual Sensations, combining erotic horror, punishment imagery, supernatural fiction, crime, fetishism, historical inquiry, illustrated narratives, and photography. The opening…
View in archive →Illustrated Tale: Hell Screen
An illustrated historical erotic tale follows the violent entanglements of figures including 長吉, お絹, 鬼丸, and 秀勇, using rope bondage, captivity, coercion, and supernatural or grotesque imagery to dramatize desire and terror.
View in archive →Selected Nude Masterpieces
A photographic portfolio presents nude models in a series of carefully arranged, dramatic poses against dark studio backgrounds, emphasizing bodily form, gesture, and staged erotic display.
View in archive →From the Unsorted Files
This editorial miscellany from the magazine’s unsorted files discusses submitted manuscripts and illustrations, comments on editorial selection and revision, and presents excerpts or concepts involving erotic fiction, rope figures, supernatural motifs, and fetish imagery.
View in archive →The Hanging House
A serialized supernatural erotic tale set around the Musashiya house, where the spirits of abused and murdered women, strange apparitions, and uncanny transformations draw characters into a cycle of fear, revenge, binding, and hanging.…
View in archive →Madam, Your Hand Please
A serialized erotic narrative follows actress Yumiko through coercive encounters involving abduction, restraint, staged photography and film production, police intervention, and repeated domination by men. The story blends sensational reportage conventions with eroticized captivity…
View in archive →Female Hara-Kiri in History and Fiction
This illustrated historical-literary study examines female hara-kiri and related forms of ritual self-sacrifice in Japanese history, comparing documented cases with fictional and theatrical representations. It discusses gendered violence, historical sources, and the eroticized depiction…
View in archive →Servant of the Feet
A first-person erotic narrative traces a man’s lifelong obsession with women’s feet, from childhood discoveries through adult encounters involving observation, touch, footwear, stockings, and covert fetishistic behavior. The account presents this fixation as a…
View in archive →The Samurai with Two Faces
A serialized Edo-period erotic horror tale follows samurai Kaneda Sanshiro through sinister dreams, uncanny transformations, violent swordplay, and encounters with a mysterious woman whose shifting faces blur the boundary between supernatural threat and human…
View in archive →Female Intelligence Agent
A serialized illustrated espionage fantasy follows a female intelligence agent infiltrating enemy territory, being captured, and enduring interrogation, confinement, forced undressing, physical restraint, and humiliating abuse before attempting escape and rescue. The narrative combines…
View in archive →Inside the Gray Walls
A serialized first-person account of prison life follows inmates through intake, solitary confinement, labor, discipline, meals, entertainment, family contact, pardon procedures, and the emotional pressures of incarceration, including male same-sex relationships among prisoners. Illustrated…
View in archive →Aikuchi (Dagger)
A serialized sensational erotic crime narrative follows Osawa through encounters involving coercion, restraint, sexual menace, and repeated dagger attacks, culminating in revenge and murder. The continuing story shifts between violent confrontations and scenes of…
View in archive →The Gallows Bed
A crime-mystery narrative follows the investigation of a strangled woman discovered bound to a bizarre “gallows bed,” with shifting testimonies, suspects, and clues involving rope restraint and sexual intrigue.
View in archive →Strange Museum
A fictionalized visit to a strange museum presents an eccentric collection of historical, foreign, and fetish-related objects while exploring their uses, origins, and the unsettling fascination they hold for visitors.
View in archive →Hair Wheel
A serialized erotic narrative follows Snowe, a woman celebrated for her exceptionally long black hair, through courtship, marriage, jealousy, and increasingly coercive and violent fantasies surrounding male desire and control.
View in archive →Mystery of the Heike Village
A serialized grotesque horror tale follows two traveling medicine merchants who enter a secluded former Heike settlement, where an uncanny female-led community subjects men to bizarre restraints, punishments, and transformations before the travelers struggle…
View in archive →The Cursed Old Man
A first-person supernatural horror narrative recounts a series of disturbing encounters involving a cursed elderly man, his wife, occult-like phenomena, and increasingly grotesque bodily and psychological transformations.
View in archive →Tales of Supernatural Strangeness
A serialized collection of sensational Edo-period tales recounts murders, executions, strange deaths, cannibalism, criminal women, tattooing, imposture, and other grotesque incidents drawn from historical anecdotal sources.
View in archive →The Lady and the Dog
A serialized erotic SM narrative about a wealthy woman who subjects a man to dog-like service, physical discipline, humiliation, and increasingly demanding domestic and sexual control.
View in archive →The Two-Headed Killer
An illustrated film feature recounting a grotesque supernatural crime story in which a scientist’s experiments produce a murderous two-headed creature pursued by police and investigators.
View in archive →Phantom Samurai: Hama Calendar - Hell of Congealed Fat
An illustrated serialized erotic adventure set in an Edo-period milieu follows a woman captured and subjected to elaborate rope restraint, humiliation, and coercive sexual violence before being transported toward a remote island.
View in archive →Gift from the Dead
A serialized erotic crime thriller follows a married couple whose financial troubles, illicit desires, and encounters with a mysterious dead woman draw them into deception, murder, investigation, and psychological terror. The narrative is interspersed…
View in archive →The Murderous Doll
A serialized horror narrative follows a couple, a child, and a sinister doll-like presence as unsettling perceptions, psychological disturbance, and violent deaths converge around an apparently murderous supernatural force.
View in archive →Tattoo
A historical erotic adventure set at a mountain inn during torrential flooding depicts travelers, a female bandit, and male criminals becoming entangled in pursuit, coercion, betrayal, and violent struggle.
View in archive →August 1959 Special Issue: Curses, Magic, and Illusion
The August 1959 issue of Uramado is an unusually large special number built around curses, magical practices, occult fantasy, supernatural revenge, and illusion, while retaining the magazine's characteristic mixture of erotic illustration, nude photography,…
View in archive →Beauty and the Beast
An illustrated serialized SM story follows a woman captured and restrained by a physically imposing man, with rope bondage, coercion, escape attempts, and escalating confrontations involving additional captors. The narrative alternates between eroticized captivity…
View in archive →Nude Masterpieces
A photographic feature presents a series of posed nude studies, emphasizing the body, dramatic lighting, sculptural composition, and carefully arranged erotic imagery.
View in archive →From the Unsorted Shelf
A first-person confession examines a woman’s life with a husband who subjects her to increasingly elaborate bondage, discipline, collars, ropes, and other forms of control, while she reflects on desire, shame, fear, dependency, and…
View in archive →Ghostly Yin-Yang Master
An Edo-period supernatural erotic tale follows the diviner 彦兵衛 and the young お千代 as occult predictions, ghostly apparitions, possession, and increasingly elaborate acts of binding draw a household into a terrifying web of desire,…
View in archive →The Demon-Cursed Blind Doll
An illustrated Edo-period supernatural tale follows characters caught in a chain of occult curses, sinister apparitions, violent confrontations, and the mysterious “blind doll,” blending eroticized peril with grotesque horror. The narrative is accompanied by…
View in archive →Strange Letter
A first-person gothic mystery begins when a cryptic letter draws the narrator into an unsettling household, where strange instructions, sinister encounters, and gruesome deaths gradually reveal a macabre chain of violence.
View in archive →Strange Incident at the Hour of the Ox
A historical erotic fantasy follows rival figures whose jealousy and revenge culminate in a supernatural curse enacted through a straw effigy, needles, poison, and ritualized bodily torment. The narrative combines samurai-era intrigue with elaborate…
View in archive →A Woman Digs a Hole
This sensational erotic crime narrative follows a woman and her associates as murder, concealment of a corpse, digging, pursuit, and threats unfold amid domestic and romantic conflict. Its scenes emphasize coercion, fear, bodily vulnerability,…
View in archive →Magic-Trick Town
A supernatural erotic story set around an illusionist’s curious town, where visions of drowned women, mannequins, paintings, and uncanny transformations blur the boundary between reality and fantasy.
View in archive →Andromeda Picture Story
An illustrated erotic fantasy in which an artist’s encounter with an imagined foreign woman develops into a sequence of scenes depicting her capture, chaining, immobilization, and submission.
View in archive →Enburi: A Curse Song of Tohoku
A first-person narrator investigates a Tohoku curse song and recounts encounters with an unsettling old house, a troubled family, and a series of uncanny incidents linked to regional folklore and occult beliefs.
View in archive →Revenge: Female Yasha Extract
An Edo-period supernatural revenge narrative follows a woman and her adversaries through curses, occult rites, disguises, violence, and schemes for retribution, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.
View in archive →The Devil's Flute Makes Women Dance
Sugimoto Shun surveys overseas witchcraft, devil worship, curses, séances, and occult magic through sensational murder reports, ritual accounts, and discussions of supernatural fiction. Illustrated episodes of nude women dancing and apparent possession connect these…
View in archive →Troubled Married Women Tomoe
A serialized erotic narrative follows Tomoe and other married women through clandestine encounters, voyeuristic observation, seduction, blackmail, and humiliating sexual entanglements within a late-Edo-style merchant setting. Illustrated scenes emphasize secrecy, marital betrayal, coercive desire,…
View in archive →History of Beautiful-Boy Seppuku
An illustrated historical-literary essay traces the motif of the beautiful young man’s seppuku through early-modern tales and legends, recounting doomed love, male-male bonds, loyalty, revenge, and ritual death in stories such as “Ichiyō no…
View in archive →Women's Intelligence Agent, 2
This illustrated serialized espionage fantasy follows the female agent Loi after her capture by enemy forces, depicting interrogation, coercive restraint, bondage devices, sensory and electrical punishments, and her eventual rescue by allied soldiers.
View in archive →The Island of Strange Female Guardians
This historical erotic fantasy follows pirates who seize women on a mysterious island ruled by powerful female guardians, whose violent, supernatural authority overwhelms and ultimately destroys their captors.
View in archive →Clouded Rear-Window Glass
Two reader essays reflect on the issue’s stories, illustrations, photographs, and editorial choices, combining personal reactions with criticism and requests for future erotic material.
View in archive →Dance of the White Blade
A serialized erotic mystery follows a woman haunted by memories and visions of her dead older sister, whose romantic entanglements, swordplay, and violent fate blur the boundaries between recollection, fantasy, and reality.
View in archive →Slug House
This illustrated detective-horror story sends an investigator into a sinister house, where locked rooms, strange slug-like traces, blood, suspicious residents, and a possible murder create an atmosphere of grotesque erotic menace.
View in archive →Oryū's Secret Notebook
An illustrated serialized erotic crime fantasy follows Oryū and Chōtarō as they become entangled with the Black Snake gang through gambling, pursuit, abduction, rope restraint, and supernatural menace.
View in archive →The Mirror Reflects
An erotic fantasy follows Emmy and Ralph as a mysterious mirror becomes a device for revealing, observing, and reshaping intimate scenes, blending secrecy, pursuit, coercion, and illusion.
View in archive →Selections of Strange Tales and Curious Accounts
Suzuki Kazuo surveys sensational Edo-period anecdotes drawn from historical writings, combining accounts of strange creatures, curses, ghosts, and other supernatural incidents with stories of prostitutes, brothels, illicit desire, arrests, punishment, and social control. Illustrated…
View in archive →The Curse of Kangiten
This illustrated supernatural crime tale follows a private detective investigating Rosita, a mysterious woman linked to murder, theft, hypnotic manipulation, and a talismanic Kangiten image. The investigation leads through secret rooms, sexual coercion, captivity,…
View in archive →Hell Doctor
A serialized erotic-horror story about the sinister physician Suda, whose secret medicines, deception, and coercive “treatments” lead to the abduction, binding, gagging, and sexualized abuse of women. The narrative combines occult medical fantasy with…
View in archive →September 1959 Special Issue: Secret History of the Ōoku and Inner Palace
The September 1959 issue of Uramado is a large special number centered on sensationalized histories and fantasies of the Ōoku, the shogunal women's quarters, and the wider world of the early-modern inner palace. Its…
View in archive →The Pink Phantom Thief
An illustrated erotic crime mystery follows journalist Tsuruta as he investigates the elusive Pink Phantom Thief, whose nighttime attacks, disguises, a circus fire, and hidden clothing generate a trail of sensational clues. The investigation…
View in archive →Nude Masterpieces
A photographic portfolio titled “Nude Masterpieces,” credited to Fujisawa Osamu, presents a nude female model in a series of carefully composed floor-based poses, stretches, and contortions against patterned and plain studio backdrops.
View in archive →From the Unsorted Shelf
This installment of “From the Unsorted Shelf” presents the erotic fiction “Tattoo Mansion,” centered on an orphaned young woman employed in an elaborate household. Her encounters with the enigmatic master and the mansion’s secluded…
View in archive →Secret Chiyoda Picture Scroll: Lady Kasuga
A serialized historical erotic narrative about Lady Kasuga in the Tokugawa inner palace, portraying her jealous control over the shogun’s women and her use of attendants, physicians, confinement, and violent punishment to enforce her…
View in archive →Hair Benten
A serialized first-person erotic narrative follows a young factory worker whose encounters with employers, coworkers, and women become entangled with his intense fascination with black hair. The story combines workplace hardship, humiliation, coercive sexual…
View in archive →Demon Palanquin
A serialized historical erotic tale set amid the secrecy, rivalries, and power struggles of the Edo-period Ōoku. The narrative follows palace women and retainers through abduction, pursuit, interrogation, and elaborate rope restraint, accompanied by…
View in archive →The Devil from the Graveyard
A serialized supernatural SM story in which a woman adopts an ominous black cat linked to a graveyard, only to encounter its terrifying transformation and vengeful, sexually threatening powers. The narrative combines domestic unease,…
View in archive →Historical Fact and Fiction of Female Seppuku
Nakayasu Hiromichi examines accounts and fictional representations of female seppuku, focusing on stories of women in the Edo-period inner palace and related sword-wielding heroines. The article compares historical records with novels, stage and visual…
View in archive →The Flying Squirrel's Long-Cherished Wish
A historical erotic adventure set in the Tokugawa Ōoku, this story follows intrigue surrounding Lady Gekkōin, Tamoo, and the succession after the death of Shogun Ienobu. Rumors of forbidden relations lead to espionage, nighttime…
View in archive →Pencil Hell
A serialized SM mystery following detective Yamamoto as he investigates a woman’s suspicious relationships, disappearance, and secret encounters. The investigation develops into scenes of coercion, captivity, physical punishment, and pencil-based torture, accompanied by dramatic…
View in archive →Beautiful-Skinned Page
An illustrated historical erotic tale set around a Buddhist temple, involving a beautiful page who conceals her gender amid intrigue, pursuit, and shifting power relations. The narrative features rope bondage, whipping, restraint, escape, and…
View in archive →Two Komachi of Vengeance
An Edo-period revenge tale centered on the women Kotoji and Yaえ, whose conflicts with Izumi-no-kami, Ogino, and other adversaries unfold through deception, coercion, captivity, and swordplay. The illustrated narrative combines eroticized restraint and punishment…
View in archive →Illustrated Flowers in Combat in the Ōoku
A richly illustrated historical erotic narrative set in the Tokugawa Ōoku, portraying rivalries, jealousies, coercive relationships, punishments, and sexual intrigue among palace women and their attendants. Dramatic episodes are accompanied by staged drawings of…
View in archive →Tsugomori Pond
A surreal erotic tale set around a mysterious pond, where Aguri encounters a snake-bodied man and becomes entangled in a dreamlike relationship marked by desire, metamorphosis, and death. The story combines folkloric supernatural motifs…
View in archive →Sinister Clouds over Nerima Palace
An illustrated historical erotic fiction set in and around the Tokugawa Ōoku, this tale follows intrigues, punishments, abductions, and violent encounters connected with the “Dog Shogun” and the Nerima palace. The narrative combines sensational…
View in archive →The Strange Kappa Boy
An illustrated Edo-period supernatural adventure follows Genzaburō and his companions as they investigate rumors of a strange kappa-like boy and a series of uncanny assaults. Their pursuit leads through riverside settlements, hidden houses, mysterious…
View in archive →The Mad Consort's Trap
A historical erotic tale set in the Ōoku, in which the neglected consort Suikihi plots a trap against the favored beauty Yōkin. Palace jealousy, secret alliances, manipulation, captivity, and punitive sexualized scenes drive the…
View in archive →Oryū's Secret Notebook
A serialized historical erotic tale following Oryū and Chōtarō through abduction, confinement, pursuit, and attempted escape amid rival schemes and revenge. The narrative combines dramatic dialogue with illustrations of rope restraint, captivity, and sensational…
View in archive →Records of Wicked Women and Villains
A historical miscellany of notorious women and male villains, presenting Edo-period anecdotes of murder, arson, poisoning, theft, sexual scandal, betrayal, and other crimes. The account emphasizes sensational case narratives, punishments, executions, social disorder, and…
View in archive →In Tokyo's Blind Spot
A serialized crime narrative set in postwar Tokyo follows an American serviceman and others as they search for a missing woman amid deception, surveillance, kidnapping, and murder. The story combines investigative suspense with scenes…
View in archive →Chronicle of the Ōjō Group
A serialized Edo-period sensational fiction follows the rōnin Namikawa Jūrō and the performer Kogiku amid seduction, betrayal, murder, suicide, and mysterious identities. The narrative repeatedly depicts eroticized rope binding, coercion, torture, and violent retribution,…
View in archive →March 1960 Special Issue on Legendary Fiction
The March 1960 issue of Uramado is explicitly presented as a special issue devoted to denki shōsetsu, or legendary and fantastic fiction. Its editorial design combines historical adventure, crime and suspense, supernatural motifs, eroticized…
View in archive →American Edition: Erotic-Torment Picture Story
An American-edition erotic picture story presented through staged illustrated scenes of sexual torment, restraint, and voyeuristic spectacle.
View in archive →Extinguish the Fire of Bare Skin!!
An illustrated erotic crime thriller follows a woman through encounters with armed men, pursuit, captivity, and coercive sexualized situations across Japanese urban and travel settings.
View in archive →Woman Holding Her Hair
A photographic feature centers on a nude woman gathering and holding her long hair, emphasizing the body, pose, and hair as erotic visual motifs.
View in archive →Legend of the White Monkey Tower
A historical erotic adventure follows the female bandit Osen and the swordsman Denkurō as they pursue a rumored cache of Takeda gold hidden near the White Monkey Tower, encountering deception, robbery, betrayal, drugged liquor,…
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