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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
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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September
Article / Feature Kitan Club 134–135

Model and Photography Ideas

Masaoka Ritomu

A portfolio of proposed drawing and photography setups depicting women and men in elaborate rope restraints, including post bondage, paired restraint, suspension-like poses, and other staged SM tableaux. Captions specify compositions and pose arrangements…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–143

Somewhere in the Universe

Saji Mazō

A serialized fictional narrative follows Ichirō and others through political intrigue, captivity, coercion, interrogation, and bondage, combining crime-sensational action with scenes of punishment and submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 144–147

The History of the Corset

Narita Ichirō

This illustrated historical survey traces the corset from earlier Western garments through modern fashion, explaining how changing designs shaped the torso, breasts, waist, and posture while linking corsetry to ideals of femininity, class, and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 156–161

Abnormal Essays: Notes on Passing Thoughts

Minamikata Yoshio

A series of reflective essays examines cruelty and sadism in Japanese and foreign films, contrasting graphic brutality with imaginative and psychological effects while also discussing censorship, actresses, fashion, and erotic visual presentation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 162–174

Thirty-Nine Strange Nights, Twenty-Eighth Night

Tsujimura Takashi

This serialized erotic fantasy follows Sanjirō’s encounters with twin performers Natsuko and Fuyuko, developing through staged spectacle and shifting power relations into captivity, elaborate restraint, humiliation, and forced intestinal cleansing.

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October
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Confessions, Experiences, and Memoirs Special Issue

The November 1963 issue of Kitan Club is presented as a special number devoted to confessions, personal experiences, and memoirs. Its editorial structure combines staged photographic portfolios, erotic illustration, autobiographical testimony, psychological reflection, serialized…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 9–10

Prelude of the Suspended Body

This visual feature depicts a woman secured in a rope harness and lifted into suspension, documenting changing suspended poses and the dramatic presentation of the hanging body.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14

Adorable Mare

Shiba Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a woman posed as an adorable mare, wearing a harness and bit while moving on all fours with reins, a saddle, and a whip nearby.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15

A Greeting of 'Good Night'

Shiba Takashi

An erotic illustration presents a woman reclining in an elegant night setting while a submissive figure attends to and appears to kiss or worship her foot.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18

Enema and Diaper

Shiba Takashi

An erotic illustration presents a diapered woman receiving an enema from a male partner, with medical implements and a basin prominently shown.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 21

What Will Attack Next?

Shiba Takashi

A photographic feature presents a woman bound and inverted in a staged domestic scene under the teasing heading “What Will Attack Next?”

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 27–29

New Model Studies

A sequence of model studies depicts women in lingerie and partial dress posing in staged restraint scenarios, including rope-bound torsos, gagging, and controlled postures.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–35

The Effect of an Oblate

Kurihara Chō

An essay describes the physical and psychological effects of taking medicine wrapped in an oblate wafer, using the experience to reflect on suggestibility, bodily sensation, and the tension between rational explanation and mysterious inner…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 36–41

Sweet Nightmare

Ōnaka Tadashi

A serialized erotic nightmare follows a narrator’s encounters with a beautiful sea woman and a young woman whom he binds, restrains, and humiliates in increasingly elaborate dreamlike scenes of pursuit and captivity.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46–49

Women Who Ride

Kura Ryōjin

A photo-rich reportage piece profiles women who ride horses, describing their riding experiences, family backgrounds, training, and participation in equestrian events.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 50–51

Our First Play

Watanabe Mitsuru

A married couple recounts their first SM play, moving from mutual hesitation to an extended consensual session involving discipline, restraint, and role experimentation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 58–71

Tales of the Twenty-Ninth Night

Tsujimura Takashi

A serialized erotic SM narrative follows encounters in which women are photographed, interrogated, and subjected to elaborate rope bondage, gagging, immobilization, and other forms of restraint. The story is accompanied by staged photographic scenes…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 72–73

Recent Female Fighting Scenes in Film

Yamada Takao

This illustrated film commentary surveys recent Japanese and foreign screen scenes of women fighting, wrestling, overpowering one another, and being restrained, emphasizing their sensational and erotic appeal to viewers.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 74–78

Kimono, Kimono, Kimono Stories

Makibe Takashi

A hybrid instructional and narrative feature explains and illustrates ways of tying women in kimono and obi, while presenting eroticized scenarios of restraint, exposure, humiliation, and bodily control through traditional clothing.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 79–81

The Pleasures of Travel

Watanabe Kane

A travel memoir presents travel as an escape into unfamiliar landscapes, local customs, personal freedom, and amusing encounters, including sexually charged commercial and enema-related references.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–87

Diary of an Inverted Fetish

Kubo Ichirō

A diary-style fetish confession recounts the narrator’s fascination with long boots, leather, military and school uniforms, swordsmanship, and scenes in which women overpower, discipline, and humiliate men.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 88–89

A Handmade Loincloth and Red Swimsuit

R. Ichirō

This autobiographical erotic narrative describes a rural visit where a physically timid young man becomes involved in a fetishistic episode centered on a handmade loincloth, a red swimsuit, female control, and enforced submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 90–95

Shigeko's Strange Habit

Onna Gakumai

A narrative about Shigeko’s unusual erotic fixation on women’s feet, restraint, and humiliating physical play, presented through dialogue and illustrated scenes involving female partners.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 96–106

Flower and Snake, Part Six

Dan Oniroku

A serialized fictional episode in which Kyoko and Shizuko are pursued, captured, stripped, gagged, and subjected to coercive bondage and sexual humiliation by a group of men.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 107–109

Notes of a Gag-Making Enthusiast

Yutani Teruo

An illustrated enthusiast’s notebook cataloguing several gagging arrangements and materials, with practical descriptions, scenario fragments, and examples of how the restraints affect speech and movement.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 110–112

Please Torment My Nose

Yoshino Kio

A first-person erotic confession describes a woman’s escalating nose-centered fetish, in which her partner subjects her to humiliating restraint, nose-hair manipulation, fluids, and other forms of punishment and sensory stimulation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 113–115

War and the Mood of Cruelty

This essay links wartime atrocities and mass violence, including the killing of Chinese civilians by the Japanese military, to a postwar cultural appetite for cruelty as represented in films, literature, television, and erotic imagery.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–145

New Harima Dish Mansion

Manda Fujin

A historical erotic tale set in the Harima domain depicts escalating schemes of captivity, rope restraint, humiliation, coercion, violence, and sexualized punishment among samurai-era characters. The narrative culminates in brutal sadistic confrontations and execution-like…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 146–151

Fabric of Mad Love

Nonaka Nobutoshi

A first-person confession traces the author’s intense fetishistic attraction to women’s obi and other waist garments, from childhood memories and voyeuristic observation to fantasies and encounters involving wearing, touching, and collecting such clothing.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 152–159

Concerning Pregnancy Photographs

Kageura Sakae

This illustrated essay examines erotic pregnancy photography and related medicalized scenes, discussing posed images of pregnant bodies, examinations, childbirth, nudity, and the viewer’s fascination with maternal transformation. It combines commentary on photographic technique and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 160–161

The Sweet Life of Rubber Play

Tsuda Akiko

A personal confession describes the author’s long-standing fascination with rubber, including sleeping on rubber sheets, using rubber clothing and accessories, and finding tactile pleasure in increasingly elaborate rubber play.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 162–171

Underwear Made of Paper

Okayama Fujin

An illustrated erotic feature presents paper underwear as an unusual novelty, combining product-like claims about its feel and use with suggestive imagery and testimonials aimed at readers interested in fetish garments.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 172–177

Women's Feet and Underwear

Himeuma Fujin

A personal narrative traces the author’s fascination with women’s feet and underwear from childhood memories through adult encounters, describing stockings, bare feet, foot-focused fantasies, and voyeuristic observation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 178–179

When a Woman Is Bound

Nakayashiki Makoto

The author recounts his longstanding fascination with artistic and cinematic depictions of women being attacked or cut, tracing the interest from illustrated fiction to contemporary films and popular visual culture. The piece reflects on…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 180–181

When a Woman Is Cut

Okamoto Fujin

A first-person report on attending an amateur women’s sumo event in Nagasaki describes the contestants, their bodies and costumes, the physical intensity of the bouts, and the excited spectatorship surrounding the matches.

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November
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

December 1963 Issue

The December 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines photographic bondage studies, erotic illustration, personal confession, historical and pseudo-documentary inquiry, serialized fiction, reader communications, and miscellaneous research notes. Its formal contents page presents the publication…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14

Beauty and Tattooing

Kurihara Shin

A photographic feature presents a beautiful woman displaying an elaborate traditional Japanese tattoo across her body, emphasizing the visual relationship between feminine beauty and tattoo art.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15

The Woman in the Shipping Crate

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration depicts a woman bound and gagged inside a shipping crate while a man observes from outside, framing her confinement as a coercive captivity scenario.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 16

Production of a Nude Sculpture

Shima Takashi

An erotic illustration portrays a nude woman restrained to a chair while a man attends to her in a staged studio-like scene associated with the production of a nude sculpture.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 17

Untitled Illustration

An erotic illustration depicts a woman controlling or restraining a prone male figure outdoors, with a tree and rope-like elements forming the scene.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 21

Dental Examination

Shima Takashi

Photographs stage a dental examination in which a woman’s mouth is restrained and examined by a male practitioner, emphasizing medicalized control and oral vulnerability.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–39

The Man's Sadism and the Woman's Love

Itojima Hiroshi

In a first-person account, a husband describes his long-term bondage relationship with his wife Emiko, recounting domestic tying sessions, gagging and restraint, changing emotional dynamics, and accompanying photographs.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 51–55

The Process of Submission

Kurushima Seiro

A narrative follows a husband’s escalating control and punishment of his wife, portraying her gradual conditioning into a submissive domestic and sexual role through coercion, discipline, and physical abuse.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 56–72

Tales of the Thirtieth Night

Tsujimura Takashi

A serialized collection of fictional SM episodes depicting coercive and consensual erotic scenarios involving bondage, suspension, gagging, punishment, captivity, and medicalized fetish play, accompanied by dramatic illustrations and theatrical imagery.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 73–75

Intestinal-Worm Account

Kurise Cho

An illustrated mock-clinical account of intestinal-worm treatment that eroticizes enemas, deworming medicines, laxatives, abdominal examination, and repeated bowel evacuation through detailed bodily and sensory description.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 88–96

Flower and Snake, Part Five

Dan Oniroku

A continuation of Dan Oniroku’s serialized erotic fiction in which women are drawn into coercive relationships and subjected to rope bondage, captivity, humiliation, and sadistic control.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 97–112

Kiki Salon

A multi-page Kiki Salon department combining reader correspondence, personal erotic reports, practical bondage and punishment scenarios, fetish-oriented fiction, photographic and illustrated features, and notices about submissions and magazine participation. Its material ranges from kinbaku…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 122

Ideas for Distributing Photographs

Nagato Hiroshi

An editorial proposal discusses how to distribute and develop serialized SM photographs, suggesting staged compositions, performers, props, bondage arrangements, and recurring visual scenarios.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 123–131

Kimono, Kimono Stories

Maki Takashi

A richly illustrated kimono-centered erotic story combines reflections on clothing and textile beauty with a fictionalized scenario of a kimono-clad woman being captured, bound, displayed, and punished.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–140

Enema Mania: Daydream

Tojiro

This erotic daydream depicts women subjected to elaborate enemas, saline irrigation, bodily exposure, and humiliating restraint within a highly theatrical fantasy scenario.

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