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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
June
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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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July
Article / Feature Kitan Club 42–47

Image of Love

Mizuura Masaki and Sawada Yoshio

An illustrated erotic narrative follows a newly married couple as their private fantasies evolve into elaborate bondage and role-playing scenarios involving ropes, restraint, clothing, exposure, and staged captivity. The accompanying imagery emphasizes the visual…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 48–49

Fascinated by Nasal Torment

Yutani Teruo

Yutani Teruo examines a fixation on nasal torment, describing the aesthetic and erotic fascination with women’s noses, nasal stimulation, and related fantasies while inviting readers to submit experiences and images.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 72–74

Masochistic Model Aspirations

Michiura Yuriko

A first-person account of a woman’s aspiration to become an erotic model, describing her fascination with glamorous models, her desire to be photographed, and her attraction to submissive and masochistic presentation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 78–81

The Woman Who Cuts Her Belly

Fujishiro Yūzō

Presented as a reader’s confession, this narrative describes a woman’s growing fascination with seppuku imagery and her staged abdominal-cutting ritual with a partner, combining erotic excitement, self-injury fantasy, and ceremonial performance.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–91

Somewhere in the Universe

Saijō Mazō

A serialized SM adventure follows prisoners and military personnel through captivity, interrogation, escape attempts, and elaborate scenes of rope bondage, restraint, humiliation, and punishment in a wartime setting.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 92–95

The Tutor

Ōnaka Tadashi

This erotic narrative centers on a female tutor and a young student whose swimming lessons develop into an increasingly intimate and coercive scenario involving ropes, bodily display, discipline, and reciprocal restraint.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 96–97

Gold Mania

Saijō Etsumi

A first-person fetish confession celebrates an intense fascination with gold, describing fantasies and adornment involving gold-colored clothing, jewelry, dental work, body decoration, and luxurious objects.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 98–101

Women’s Disembowelment in Modern History

Kazuyori Emi

A historical essay surveys reported cases of women’s disembowelment and female seppuku from the Edo and Meiji periods, combining anecdotal accounts with discussion of gender, honor, punishment, and sensational public memory.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 102–111

Flower and Snake, Part Five

Dan Oniroku

The fifth installment of Dan Oniroku’s serialized erotic novel follows Kyoko and other characters through coercive captivity, rope bondage, humiliation, and violent power struggles involving household and military figures.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 112–123

Mama, Mamma, Mama: The Case of Ijūin Noriko

Morooka Tateo

An illustrated erotic narrative presented as the case history of Ijūin Noriko, centering on a commanding woman whose relationships with men involve erotic control, jealousy, fetishistic imagery, restraint, and psychologically charged fantasy. The text…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 124–137

Obsession

Yoshino Mayumi

An illustrated reportage on women judoka and their confrontations with men, combining biographical anecdotes, interviews, match descriptions, and detailed accounts of throws, pins, grappling, and physical training. The feature emphasizes women’s physical strength, dominance,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 138–155

The Witch Madeleine

Kondō Natsuhiko

A serialized supernatural erotic narrative follows Madeleine, a woman branded as a witch, through village persecution, religiously framed punishment, captivity, and elaborate rope-bound ordeals that ultimately become part of her legend and revenge.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 156–172

The Nurse

An autobiographical-style SM novella follows the narrator’s formative encounters with Yoshiko and Fumiko from rural childhood and student life into adulthood, tracing jealousy, manipulation, bondage, beatings, humiliation, and escalating sadomasochistic desire. The later episodes…

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August
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

September 1963 Issue

The September 1963 issue of Kitan Club presents a broad mixture of staged bondage photography, erotic and grotesque illustration, confessional testimony, serialized fiction, fetish commentary, and reader-oriented editorial material. Its opening section establishes the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 6–13

Opening Bondage Gravure

A photographic bondage portfolio presents a woman secured with rope in a series of posed positions, including seated, reclining, and bathing scenes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14–21

Illustrated Fantasy Gallery

An illustrated fantasy gallery depicts bound and constrained women in stylized domestic, historical, and Japanese-inspired settings, emphasizing elaborate costumes and imaginative restraint scenarios.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–37

Your-Choice Scrapbook

Editorial Collective

This editorial scrapbook explains the magazine’s submission and selection practices while responding to readers’ requests and encouraging contributions, correspondence, and participation in its publishing community.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 38–46

Confession of a Self-Tormenting Demon

Nagaoka Hen’ichirō

A first-person autobiographical confession traces a man’s lifelong fixation on women’s beauty, bondage, fetish imagery, and self-torment, moving from childhood fantasies and magazine encounters to adult erotic experiences and imagined or staged restraint scenes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 50–55

Life Sentence

Hirafuku Hito

An erotic captivity narrative depicts a man condemned to lifelong servitude under a dominant woman, with repeated scenes of restraint, humiliation, punishment, forced service, and psychological submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 56–57

Women’s Underwear and Me

Kawada Hajime

A first-person confession traces the author’s longstanding fascination with women’s underwear, including its sensory, erotic, and voyeuristic appeal and the influence of personal encounters and imagination.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 58–63

Portrait of Asako

Shibazato Tomiku

A fictional portrait study centers on Asako, a beloved young woman whose nude likeness becomes the object of an older narrator’s artistic and erotic fascination, linking visual representation with possessive desire.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 64–67

Reflections on Female Disembowelment

Takebayashi Chōsaku

A wartime narrative recounts a military officer’s encounter with young women subjected to ritual disembowelment, restraint, violence, and sexualized degradation, accompanied by graphic illustrations of the episode.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 68–79

Mihoko’s Prescription

Fujii Junrō

This extended fictional sequence follows Mihoko and other women through elaborate scenes of bondage, corporal punishment, forced nudity, humiliation, enemas, and staged disciplinary spectacle in domestic, club, and quasi-medical settings.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 80–81

Mabu, Mari, Mazo

Tajima Naoshi

A fetishistic erotic feature describes men’s reverence for women’s shoes and feet, including encounters with domineering women and shoe-centered service or submission scenarios.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–97

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

This serialized historical erotic adventure follows Ichiro and other captives amid military conflict, forced labor, prison discipline, punishment, and repeated escapes and recaptures, with eroticized domination and violence.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 100–101

Memories of Female Wrestling

Ōtsuka Keiko

Ōtsuka Keiko recalls early Shōwa-era female wrestling performances, describing the wrestlers, staged bouts, physical spectacle, and the erotic fascination they produced for spectators.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 102–109

Roses, Red

Manda Fuji

Manda Fuji’s erotic fiction follows Mariko and Kajita through encounters shaped by coercion, bondage, whipping, humiliation, and shifting power between men and women.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 110–117

Notes of a Gun-Cinema Enthusiast

Kōya Sōbi

Kōya Sōbi reflects on the fascination of gun-centered cinema and its images of pursuit, punishment, violence, and stylized danger, linking film spectatorship with erotic fantasies involving restraint and domination.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 118–127

Masochistic Art: An Examination of Female Torture

Tajima Naoshi

An essay examining the depiction of female suffering, torture, and masochistic appeal in Japanese films and stage productions, with particular attention to female yakuza, swordplay, historical dramas, women performing masculine roles, and the visual…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 128–136

The Fevered Galloping Horse

Fujiyama Hide緒

A serialized historical erotic fiction depicting a militarized imperial setting in which a cross-dressed female warrior and other powerful women become involved in coercion, betrayal, combat, torture, assassination, and execution.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 137–139

Reflections on Fecal Examination

Kurinuma Chō

A humorous personal essay on fecal examination, bowel movements, medical inspection, embarrassment, and the everyday social discomfort surrounding the collection and testing of bodily waste.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 140–141

Record of Self-Love

Watabe Kame

An autobiographical erotic account describes a woman alone in her room undressing, scrutinizing herself in a three-way mirror, posing, and photographing her nude body with a self-timer. The piece centers on self-observation, erotic self-display,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 142–147

Punishment Regulations of the Women’s Volleyball Club

Namihara Mutsuo

Presented as the disciplinary code of a girls’ volleyball club, this illustrated narrative details escalating punishments for lateness, poor performance, disobedience, and other infractions, including exhausting drills, forced nudity, beatings, humiliation, and invasive bodily…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 148–151

Drowned Corpse

Ugano Tokie

This erotic crime narrative follows a woman’s coercive encounter with a man who restrains and abuses her aboard a boat before her body becomes associated with drowning and death. The accompanying illustrations emphasize captivity,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 158–163

Hospital Cruelty Story

Yamagishi Misao

This cruelty narrative follows a woman subjected to coercive hospital examinations, medical procedures, restraint, and humiliating treatment by hospital staff, presented through dramatic dialogue and episodic scenes.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 164–165

Awaiting the Pregnant Belly

Kurinuma Shima

A promotional visual feature presents nude photographs and illustrated imagery of women with advanced pregnancies, emphasizing the rounded pregnant abdomen as an erotic subject and advertising related photo sets.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 166–180

Reader Correspondence and Editorial Communications

A large reader-mail section presents correspondence, personal reports, requests for erotic material, comments on bondage and fetish practices, publication feedback, submissions, and editorial or ordering responses, documenting the magazine’s active reader community.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 180

Film Communication

Higashiyama Eiji

This film column discusses erotic and sensational Japanese films, including their plots, performers, visual presentation, bondage-related scenes, and the appeal or limitations of their treatment of sexual themes.

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September
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

October 1963 Issue

The October 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines bondage photography, erotic and grotesque illustration, confessional writing, fantasy fiction, cultural commentary, serialized curiosities, and an extensive reader-oriented back section. The formal contents spread introduces an…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14

High-Pressure Enema Pump

Shima Takashi

An illustrated depiction of a bound person connected to a high-pressure enema pump, foregrounding the apparatus and medicalized bodily-play scenario.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15

Fantasy of a Drowned Body

Taki Reiko

An erotic illustration titled “Fantasy of a Drowned Body” presents a woman’s imagined drowned or submerged body amid aquatic imagery and a darkly morbid atmosphere.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 16

The Victim in the Boat

Taki Reiko

An erotic illustration portrays a bound female victim lying inside a boat, framing restraint and helplessness through a staged maritime sacrifice scene.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 22–24

Bound Model Under Foot

A photographic sequence shows a woman subjected to elaborate rope bondage in seated, kneeling, and floor-bound positions, including scenes of foot domination and immobilization.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 25–26

Bound Woman and Cigarette

A photographic feature depicts a woman seated and immobilized with rope restraints around her torso and limbs while smoking a cigarette, emphasizing staged bound posture and sensory control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–39

Your-Choice Scrapbook

Editorial Collective

An editorial scrapbook gathers reader letters, personal accounts, questionnaire responses, illustrations, photographs, and editorial commentary on women’s sexuality, erotic media, and the magazine’s submission and publishing practices.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 40–45

Cruel Games

Ōnaka Tadashi

This serialized sadomasochistic fiction follows Yuki and Kiyoko through escalating scenes of rope bondage, enforced exposure, beating, and humiliating “cruel games” staged in domestic and outdoor settings.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46–55

Marimo Tale: A Woman's Memoir

Kusunoki Sawako

A woman’s first-person journey from Tokyo to Lake Akan leads into a fictionalized Ainu-set tale of marimo folklore, forbidden love, tribal conflict, captivity, and coercive sexual domination. The narrative combines travel-memoir framing with historical…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 56–69

Transformation Record: A Confession of Submissive Love

Manda Fuji

A confessional erotic narrative follows a man’s degradation and submission under dominant women, depicting corporal punishment, bondage, forced nudity, humiliation, discipline, and dog-role or transformation fantasies. The text is accompanied by staged erotic illustrations…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 70–71

Fantasy of the Fig

Koike Ichirō

A surreal erotic narrative follows a mysterious fig-derived drug that induces hallucinations and escalating medicalized bodily sensations, including repeated enema imagery involving a servant figure.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 74–77

Plaza of the Underworld

Ōtsuka Keiko

An underworld fantasy presents a first-person journey through demonic judgment, torture, and punishment, accompanied by photographic portraits and posed images of model Keiko Otsuka.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 78–79

A Certain Barbershop

Saitō Shichirō

A fictional barbershop narrative develops rubber-fetish fantasies involving female customers, restraint, specialized washing equipment, and humiliating salon scenarios.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 80–85

The Ordeal of a Beautiful Nose

Hanabusa Takako

This experience-fiction narrative centers on a man’s escalating obsession with a beautiful woman’s nose, subjecting it to painful enlargement, piercing, insertion, cleaning, and other apparatus-based procedures across repeated encounters.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 86–87

A Conception of Female Disembowelment

Kirihara Shimon

A literary conception of female disembowelment presents imagined historical and modern episodes in which women undergo abdominal cutting, framed through dramatic scenes of sacrifice, punishment, violence, and eroticized suffering.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 88–92

A Conversation After the Bath

Okita Kogorō

A post-bath conversation between a married couple develops into an erotic domestic fantasy involving sexual negotiation, coercive role-play, and the wife’s submission within marriage.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 93–95

Male Actors with Chest Hair

Kajimagari Son'ichi

An illustrated media feature surveys Japanese and foreign male actors celebrated for conspicuous chest hair, discussing how body hair, physique, film roles, and star imagery construct masculine erotic appeal.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 96–112

Murder by Flame

Nomoto Taizō

A serialized SM crime story follows Dr. Munakata’s investigation of a mysterious death at a sanatorium, involving erotic obsession, captivity, poison, arson, and conflicting accounts from the people connected to the victim. Illustrated scenes…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 113–125

Memoirs of Customs: Strange Residues of the Taishō Era

Horihara Hideyoshi

A purported memoir of unusual sexual customs surviving from the Taishō era, recounting coercive and fetishistic encounters involving ropes, bodily restraint, punishment, and voyeuristic observation. The piece blends historical recollection with sensational erotic storytelling.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 126–133

SM Play Girl

Tsujimura Takashi

An interactive SM feature combining reader-style confessions, editorial commentary, erotic scenarios, and photographic examples centered on bondage, restraint, humiliation, and gendered dominance. The material presents readers’ fantasies and requests alongside staged visual demonstrations.

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