Home Kinbaku Timeline

Kinbaku Timeline

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.

Clear
5,573 archive events
1964
August
Article / Feature Kitan Club 194–212

Flower and Snake, Final Installment

Dan Oniroku

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 →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 213–214

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 →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 215–223

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 →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 224

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 →
October
Magazine Issue Uramado

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 12

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 18

Yellow Gospel

Awaji Shūgo

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 33

Scratching at the Heart of Masochistic Psychology

Andō Izumi

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 44

Seeking Freedom from Perversion

Toyama Kazuhiko

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 54

Negative Picture

Tsukumo Jūrō

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 69

Famous Moon

Furumasa Hideo

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 70

The Gwendoline Story

John Willie

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 84

Long Nightmare

Hajima Shichirō

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 98

Ecology of a Slave

Segawa Miki

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 106

From My Collection

Morishita Takashige

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 116

Tanuki

Ayukawa Yōji

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 124

Body-on Masochism Theory, No. 29

Mizuo Kyū

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 134

Strange Bat Castle

Ushio Kazuki

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 163

Prayer to the Arrogant Goddess, Part 8

Morimoto Aizō

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 170

Gordon's Memories, Part 20

Ama Tetsurō

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 180

Car and a Dancing Beauty: A German Film

Fujimi Iku

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 188

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 208

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 →
November
Magazine Issue Uramado

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 12–17

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 18–25

The Wheel of Cause and Effect

Inga Oguruma

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 26–33

Uramado Literary Criticism: Truth Within the Mask

Kōbō Abe

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 40–47

In the Flowers

Toho Mitsuya

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 48–57

The Cage

Kyōsuke Ōtani

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 62–68

Prayer to the Goddess Who Is Taken Away

Aizō Morimoto

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 70–80

Hall of Blazing Fire

Gentetsu Ryūzaki

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 82–106

The Story of Death Island

Kyosuke Nango

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 107–114

From My Collection, No. 2

Takashige Morishita

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 126–144

The Scoliosis Girls’ Academy

Mitsuhiko Harukawa

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 145–148

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 152–160

SM Film Reviews

Iku Fujimi

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 162–171

The Life of a Certain Slave

Miki Segawa

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 179–184

About the Film Marnie

Tadamasa Hara

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 179–184

On the Film Marnie

Tadamasa Hara

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 184–207

Gordon’s Memory: Readers’ Memories, No. 21

Tetsurō Ama

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 194–209

Readers’ Corner

Saiko Nakagawa

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 →
Article / Feature Uramado 208

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 →
1965
January
Magazine Issue Beautiful Bondage

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 →
May
Magazine Issue Beautiful Bondage

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 →
July
Magazine Issue Beautiful Bondage

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 →
1966
January
Magazine Issue Beautiful Bondage

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 →
March
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

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 →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 25

Frontispiece

Henshūbu (Editorial Department)

A frontispiece or introductory visual page credited to the editorial department.

View in archive →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–39

Random Notes and Afterthoughts

Chigusa Tadao

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 →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 56–59

Female Seppuku Fantasy

Takano Harumi

An illustrated fetish essay on female seppuku imagery, anatomy, cutting, bodily exposure, and the photographic representation of abdominal violence.

View in archive →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 64

Memories of a Bound Woman

Kawamura Misao

The pagination-supported body is Yaezakura, a completed period narrative involving a feudal household, erotic art, secrecy, samurai retainers, and violence.

View in archive →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 98–111

SM Camera Hunt

Tsujimura Takashi

The opening of a recurring photographic department presenting an SM-oriented camera hunt, urban encounters, and a prominent staged photograph.

View in archive →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 132–133

The Fool’s Love: Torture (2)

Tanuma Atsuo

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 →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 146

Mockingbird

Mihara Hiroshi

A coercive erotic narrative involving workplace hierarchy, contracts, money, fetish objects, restraint, staged photographs, and escalating male control over women.

View in archive →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 160

Hello—How Are You!

Yono Tanrō

A commentary on bondage gravure, model psychology, staged images, consent, embarrassment, and the boundary between voluntary photographic performance and coercion.

View in archive →
July
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

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 →
Magazine Issue Beautiful Bondage

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 →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 6

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 →
Article / Feature Kitan Club 8

How I Seek It

Takarazuka Mitsuo

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.

View in archive →