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.
Flower and Snake, Final Installment
The final installment of Dan Oniroku’s serialized novel follows a coercive erotic plot involving abduction, sadistic control, prolonged rope bondage, humiliation, and staged sexual punishment, accompanied by explicit illustrations.
View in archive →Recent-Issue General Index
A general index lists the contents and contributors of recent Kitan Club issues, including fiction, articles, illustrations, photographs, reader material, and practical features.
View in archive →Reader Correspondence
A substantial reader-mail section presents personal accounts of SM interests and experiences, responses to photographs and fiction, relationship and sexual concerns, requests for advice, and efforts to connect readers with one another through the…
View in archive →Editorial Notices and Colophon
Editorial notices provide submission guidelines for fiction, essays, photographs, and illustrations, announce manuscript prizes and publication plans, and include subscription, back-issue, mail-order, and publisher information.
View in archive →November 1964
The November 1964 issue of Uramado is a dense mixture of cultural criticism, autobiographical and psychological writing, illustrated erotic fiction, imported American fetish comics, film commentary, reader-oriented material, and visual collecting. Its formal contents…
View in archive →Dance at the Bottom of the Earth
A photographic feature presents a woman performing stylized bondage poses with ropes and suspension apparatus in a stark studio setting.
View in archive →Helping Strength by Examining Weakness
A polemical social commentary examines how power is projected and protected through sensational films, commercial advertising, consumer relations, and U.S. military action in Vietnam, arguing that institutions exploit weakness while claiming to serve the…
View in archive →Yellow Gospel
A serialized first-person erotic fantasy follows coercive and humiliating encounters involving bodily control, enemas, excrement, and recurring church and religious imagery.
View in archive →Scratching at the Heart of Masochistic Psychology
Andō Izumi examines the psychology of masochism through close readings of literary and erotic narratives, especially the whale-hunting story “Kujira-gami,” interpreting bodily sensation, humiliation, desire, and transgressive behavior as elements of masochistic experience. The…
View in archive →Seeking Freedom from Perversion
Toyama Kazuhiko surveys changing attitudes toward homosexuality and “perversion,” combining discussion of same-sex desire, gay social networks, erotic media, and public gatherings with reflections on discrimination, legal restrictions, and the emerging search for sexual…
View in archive →Negative Picture
A psychologically charged SM fantasy follows encounters involving erotic magazines, artists, and married partners, developing into increasingly coercive scenes of rope bondage, gagging, whipping, humiliation, and confused boundaries between memory, desire, and reality.
View in archive →Famous Moon
A full-page illustration presents a kimono-clad woman seated on a veranda beneath a prominent autumn moon, using a traditional Japanese setting and decorative costume to create a contemplative erotic tableau.
View in archive →The Gwendoline Story
John Willie's illustrated serial follows Gwendoline through a succession of erotic encounters involving capture, bondage, gagging, service, and punishment, while dominant women repeatedly reverse conventional gendered power roles. The narrative is presented through sequential…
View in archive →Long Nightmare
A serialized SM fiction narrative follows women drawn into coercive, theatrical scenes of capture, restraint, punishment, and domination, blending a nightmare plot with film-set imagery and dramatic illustrations.
View in archive →Ecology of a Slave
This serialized narrative presents the “ecology” of a male slave through female-directed training, domestic service, physical restraint, punishment, and the establishment of an ongoing authority relationship.
View in archive →From My Collection
Morishita Takashige reflects on his personal collection of erotic magazines, books, illustrations, photographs, and imported fetish imagery, discussing their historical, technical, and aesthetic qualities alongside his own responses to them.
View in archive →Tanuki
This serialized erotic fantasy follows Junko and other characters through encounters involving animal-like transformation or identification, coercive sexual play, rope restraint, gagging, humiliation, and escalating domination.
View in archive →Body-on Masochism Theory, No. 29
Mizuo Kyū’s serialized essay theorizes female masochism through the psychological attraction to fear, danger, heights, humiliation, and surrender, combining speculative analysis with an extended fictional case history of Mori Keiko’s changing desires and encounters.…
View in archive →Strange Bat Castle
A serialized erotic adventure follows rival ninja groups as they infiltrate the mysterious Bat Castle, where characters are captured, bound, tortured, and subjected to coercive interrogations amid supernatural threats and violent attempts at rescue…
View in archive →Prayer to the Arrogant Goddess, Part 8
The eighth installment of a serialized erotic fantasy follows Tayu and other characters through coercive encounters involving restraint, humiliation, violence, and shifting power between captors and victims.
View in archive →Gordon's Memories, Part 20
This mixed narrative and illustrated feature presents Gordon’s erotic memories and fantasies, including encounters shaped by racialized desire, domination, sexualized service, and an intense fixation on women’s feet, shoes, and bodily presentation.
View in archive →Car and a Dancing Beauty: A German Film
An illustrated analysis of a German SM film presents staged scenes of women restrained with wheels, iron belts, handcuffs, masks, and other apparatus, discussing the contrasting S and M roles, bodily display, and performers’…
View in archive →Comprehensive Index of Previous Uramado Issues
A comprehensive back-catalogue index lists earlier Uramado issues, their dates, titles, special features, prices, and availability, functioning as a reference and ordering guide for the magazine’s publishing history.
View in archive →Uramado Town
The Uramado Town section combines film and visual-culture commentary with discussions of erotic representation, reader and contributor viewpoints, editorial exchanges, and notices concerning the magazine’s artistic and publishing activities.
View in archive →Reader Corner and Editorial Postscript
A reader-correspondence and editorial-postscript section responds to submissions and opinions, discusses the magazine’s literary, photographic, and illustrative contributions and editorial standards, and invites further reader participation and work.
View in archive →Uramado, December 1964
Uramado’s December 1964 issue is a large, densely illustrated SM and popular-culture magazine combining serialized fiction, literary criticism, erotic photography, film commentary, reader correspondence, publishing notices, and extensive commercial back matter. Its editorial identity…
View in archive →The Pleasures of Miscellaneous News Items
An essay on the appeal of tabloid-style news about crime, accidents, scandal, politics, celebrities, family conflict, and social misfortune. It considers how readers combine moral judgment, curiosity, identification, and entertainment when consuming stories of…
View in archive →The Wheel of Cause and Effect
A serialized narrative of erotic coercion, restraint, humiliation, jealousy, and changing power between its protagonists. Money, status, family background, and social reputation are entangled with repeated reversals of dominance.
View in archive →Uramado Literary Criticism: Truth Within the Mask
An essay on avant-garde art, masks, faces, walls, towers, and obstructed spaces as forms of psychological and social expression. It contrasts conventional representation with unusual visual forms and links artistic freedom to resistance against…
View in archive →In the Flowers
A narrative about Peach, a young woman whose beauty shapes her movement through domestic service, commercial work, relationships, jealousy, and social expectations. The story examines class mobility, gendered labor, emotional dependency, and the commodification…
View in archive →The Cage
A psychologically intense narrative of marriage, surveillance, confinement, coercive authority, threats, interrogation, and escape. Dreams, fear, disorientation, and sexualized violence complicate the protagonists’ experience of captivity.
View in archive →Prayer to the Goddess Who Is Taken Away
A serialized narrative of domestication, confinement, commands, punishment, surveillance, sexual coercion, and unstable social power. Its characters move through relationships shaped by animalization, class hierarchy, obsession, resistance, and psychological domination.
View in archive →Hall of Blazing Fire
A period-style adventure of abduction, bondage, sexualized violence, jealousy, rivalry, captivity, and death. Historical or pseudo-historical martial imagery and criminal hierarchies frame the struggle between vulnerable and coercive characters.
View in archive →The Story of Death Island
An illustrated captivity and conspiracy narrative following police pursuit, interrogation, imprisonment, torture, political violence, and attempted escape on an isolated authoritarian island. The story links criminal organizations, official punishment, corruption, and the objectification and…
View in archive →From My Collection, No. 2
A collection essay on women in long boots, whips, costume, posture, and visualized female authority. It compares drawings, fashion imagery, film-related pictures, and fetish photographs while discussing how clothing and stance construct erotic power.
View in archive →The Scoliosis Girls’ Academy
Illustrated fiction set in an isolated English boarding school where Anne undergoes medical examinations, braces, traction, binding, corrective exercises, and increasingly coercive treatment. The story links class privilege, education, medical authority, bodily discipline, humiliation,…
View in archive →Complete Index of Previous Issues
A catalogue of earlier Uramado issues listing dates, fiction and nonfiction titles, authors, illustrators, prices, special features, and promotional material. It documents the magazine’s continuing program of erotic fiction, picture stories, essays, mystery and…
View in archive →SM Film Reviews
A recurring film-critical department focused chiefly on Daydream and Plants on the Sand. It considers erotic representation, adaptation, acting, direction, censorship, public controversy, and the cultural legitimacy of sexual imagery.
View in archive →The Life of a Certain Slave
An extended visual narrative of a married couple performing disciplinary and bondage scenarios. A dominant female partner directs the husband through commands, whipping, restraint, humiliation, and theatrical domestic role-play.
View in archive →About the Film Marnie
A critical discussion of Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie, addressing theft, childhood trauma, repression, sexuality, marriage, fear, and the film’s psychological construction. The essay also examines color, costume, suspense, performance, and cinematic staging.
View in archive →On the Film Marnie
A critical discussion of Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie, addressing theft, childhood trauma, repression, sexuality, marriage, fear, and the film’s psychological construction. The essay also examines color, costume, suspense, performance, and cinematic staging.
View in archive →Gordon’s Memory: Readers’ Memories, No. 21
An illustrated speculative serial involving a theatrical performance, Gorilla Man, Sarea, Ueshima Emiko, Professor Nakamura, hypnosis, memory loss, an eternal queen, and uncertain boundaries between staged violence and supernatural reality. Its epilogue reconsiders identity,…
View in archive →Readers’ Corner
A correspondence and community section presenting reader reactions, questions, interpretations, and editorial replies concerning the issue’s fiction, characters, imagery, and treatment of fear, memory, eroticism, and female authority.
View in archive →Editorial Afterword
The editors discuss reader responses, submissions, photographs, illustrations, and the magazine’s interest in unconventional erotic, psychological, and sensational subjects. The afterword explains the publication’s editorial position and continuing plans.
View in archive →February 1965
This installment of Beautiful Bondage, identified within the volume as the fourth collection of the limited-edition 美しき縛しめ photographic series, presents bondage almost entirely through black-and-white photography rather than prose. The portfolio moves rapidly among…
View in archive →June 1965
The June 1965 installment of Beautiful Bondage is identified on its cover as the eighth collection in the limited-edition 美しき縛しめ series. Its principal cover title, 女斗緊縛競艶場面写真集, presents the volume as a photographic collection of…
View in archive →One Hundred Alluring Poses of Bound Beauties
The August 1965 installment of Beautiful Bondage identifies itself as Album Beautiful Bondage, Collection 6 and carries the prominent title 緊縛美女艶姿百態, approximately One Hundred Alluring Poses of Bound Beauties. Rather than following a single…
View in archive →Beautiful Bondage, Collection 10
The February 1966 installment of Beautiful Bondage identifies itself as the tenth collection in the limited-edition 美しき縛しめ photographic series. Like the earlier anthology-oriented volumes, Collection 10 presents a broad survey of bound women rather…
View in archive →Kitan Club, April 1966
Kitan Club’s April 1966 issue is a large, visually dense SM and fetish periodical combining erotic fiction, personal testimony, critical essays, photographic features, correspondence, community notices, and an extensive mail-order publishing economy. The formal…
View in archive →Frontispiece
A frontispiece or introductory visual page credited to the editorial department.
View in archive →Friends—Meeting Again from Afar
A long dialogue between Yoshino Mayumi and Tsujimura Takashi about travel, performance, photography, writing, friendship, and the social world of erotic publishing.
View in archive →Random Notes and Afterthoughts
A recurring critical miscellany considering SM aesthetics, beauty, literature, erotic art, cruelty, voyeurism, censorship, and the publishing market surrounding fetish books and photographs.
View in archive →Ariadne (A Reconstruction of Greek Mythology)
A mythological fantasy reconstructing Greek and Egyptian materials through royal power, slavery, conquest, prophecy, astronomy, magic, and catastrophic upheaval.
View in archive →Female Seppuku Fantasy
An illustrated fetish essay on female seppuku imagery, anatomy, cutting, bodily exposure, and the photographic representation of abdominal violence.
View in archive →Accompanying My Wife’s Photograph
A first-person memoir recalling the tying and photographing of women, their embarrassment and resistance, and the emotional and interpersonal dimensions of bondage photography.
View in archive →Memories of a Bound Woman
The pagination-supported body is Yaezakura, a completed period narrative involving a feudal household, erotic art, secrecy, samurai retainers, and violence.
View in archive →A Women’s Sumo Story: The Flowering Women Wrestlers
A serialized narrative about women entering sumo practice, learning holds, negotiating embarrassment and rivalry, and turning female athletic performance into a spectacle of strength and vulnerability.
View in archive →A Painful Journey of the Heart
A prison narrative involving women inmates, guards, searches, restraints, transport, punishment, attempted escape, humiliation, and institutional control.
View in archive →SM Camera Hunt
The opening of a recurring photographic department presenting an SM-oriented camera hunt, urban encounters, and a prominent staged photograph.
View in archive →A Horde of Cute Little Devils
A continuing narrative of youthful beauty, pursuit, travel, voyeurism, coercive sexual performance, bondage, and photographic display.
View in archive →The Fool’s Love: Torture (2)
A coercive narrative involving elaborate frames, ropes, straps, suspension, punishment, bodily endurance, and the technical staging of a captive woman’s suffering.
View in archive →Kiyoshi’s Nose-Torment Series: New Year
A domestic fetish narrative of confinement, nose-related punishment, humiliating postures, staged cruelty, and the transformation of New Year customs into coercive ritual.
View in archive →Masochist Check: Street
No distinct body section could be securely isolated in the supplied PDF evidence.
View in archive →Mockingbird
A coercive erotic narrative involving workplace hierarchy, contracts, money, fetish objects, restraint, staged photographs, and escalating male control over women.
View in archive →The Aftermath of Typhoon No. 23 in Showa 40
An illustrated domestic account of Typhoon No. 23 that turns wind, rain, ropes, rubber clothing, household danger, and bodily vulnerability into an eroticized couple’s role-play.
View in archive →Hello—How Are You!
A commentary on bondage gravure, model psychology, staged images, consent, embarrassment, and the boundary between voluntary photographic performance and coercion.
View in archive →Drenched and Soaked—Mayumi Goes to Osaka
A travel-centered erotic narrative moving through Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara while exploring encounters, marriage, secrecy, affection, memory, and sexual experimentation.
View in archive →August 1966
The August 1966 issue of Kitan Club presents a magazine that has changed substantially from its early-1950s form. Bondage, sadism, masochism, fetishism, queer desire, confession, and reader communication remain central, but they are now…
View in archive →Women Bound in Instruments
The August 1966 installment of Beautiful Bondage is a highly specialized photographic volume devoted to what its cover calls a Western-style special feature on female punishment and torture. The principal title, 牢具に拘束される女, can be…
View in archive →Kiki Salon
A fictional domestic SM narrative portrays a husband introducing his initially reluctant wife to bondage, sensory restriction, and ritualized marital discipline.
View in archive →To Our Women Readers Who Have Written, or Are Thinking of Writing
This editorial addressed to women readers encourages them to submit writing about intimate experiences and offers practical guidance on presenting sexual, psychological, and bodily material for publication.
View in archive →How I Seek It
A visual feature by Takarazuka Mitsuo presents his approach to erotic punishment through illustrations and a photograph demonstrating a gag and its fastening, alongside reflections on depicting bodily restraint and the subject’s psychological experience.
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