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Kinbaku Timeline

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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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5,573 archive events
1966
July
Article / Feature Kitan Club 8

Kinaku, Part Two

Chigusa Tadao

The second installment on gags discusses direct and indirect ways of depicting gagging and related restraint in erotic writing, accompanied by illustrations of gag apparatus and a photographic example of physical discipline.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 9

Brief Correspondence

An editorial correspondence column answers several readers, acknowledging their letters and discussing their SM-related questions, impressions, and submissions as part of the magazine’s ongoing reader community.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 9

Impressions of Fukuda Hisabumi

This character portrait, prompted by a letter from Fukuda Hisabumi, dwells on his feminine manner of writing, refined youthful appearance, intellectual interests, and the erotic possibilities of cross-dressing, restraint, and concealed desire.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 10

A Woman’s Confession: The Lady-in-Waiting’s Bloody Duel

Yanagawa Shigeo

An erotic narrative and visual feature built around the “Lady-in-Waiting’s Bloody Duel” image, describing a woman observed, posed, and subjected to violent and bondage-themed treatment. The accompanying illustration and photograph emphasize severed-head imagery, theatrical…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 11

Film Correspondence: Bondage Scenes on Television

Saniwa Kazuo

A critical column examines bondage scenes in NHK television dramas, especially the depiction of a female criminal accomplice being tied and interrogated. It discusses the conventions, camera treatment, realism, and sensational appeal of televised…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 12

The Character “Rope”

Takahashi Kazuo

A personal essay reflects on the erotic and psychological power of the Japanese character 縛 (“to bind”), including the writer’s fascination with women tied by rope and fantasies of solitary suspension. The piece invites…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 13

Salon Practice Record

Tsujimura Takashi

Tsujimura Takashi’s recurring salon column recounts his efforts to find women willing to model for SM photographs, including planned outings, correspondence from fellow enthusiasts, and repeated successes and disappointments in “camera hunting.”

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 14

SM Photographs

Ikura Shunji

This photographic feature presents staged S/M scenes involving female performers, including female domination, male submission, restraint, bodily fluids, and the elaborate posing and production of erotic photographs.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 15

The Rubber Raincoat and the Wife

Tsuda Akiko

Tsuda Akiko’s erotic narrative follows a wife whose fascination with a rubber raincoat develops into a fetishized domestic fantasy involving its texture, shine, handling, and relationship to her husband and marriage.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 16

My Encounter with Kurobuchi Eiichi

Fukuda Hisabumi

Fukuda Hisabumi offers a literary portrait of his encounter with Kurobuchi Eiichi, recalling Kurobuchi’s hospitality, distinctive personality, erudition, and creative work while praising the authenticity and imaginative force of his writing.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 17

A Satirical Review of Recent Society

Kuroi Chinpei

Kuroi Chinpei’s satirical column comments on contemporary Japanese news, taxation, policing, censorship, and social conformity, accompanied by an erotic-grotesque illustration titled “Bird-Beast Play” by Muroi Asaraji.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18

Kitan Club, Escape Vulgarization!

Hanayama Kaoru

Hanayama Kaoru argues that erotic magazines and related mass media must resist vulgarization, reject formulaic sensationalism, and pursue more intellectually and psychologically substantial writing and editorial standards.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 21

My Master

Dorei Niro

A first-person account by a devoted male servant describes life under the control of an elegant female doctor, including her rules, clothing, grooming, feeding, transportation, and disciplinary expectations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 22

Our Magazine’s Creed

Editorial Department

The editorial department states the magazine’s publishing principles: it targets adults, excludes minors, promotes serious and peaceful social life, avoids provocative imagery, limits advertising, and gradually refines its literary and visual presentation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 23–30

A Spring Night Is Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold

Masuda Kiyoshi and Miyuki

An extended illustrated interview with Masuda Kiyoshi and Miyuki explores a married couple’s elaborate SM practices, including bondage, nose-focused punishment, slave-machine apparatus, role play, photography, and the negotiation of shared erotic interests.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 31–40

My Wife’s Nose Is Mine

Saitō Kaneharu

A dark erotic narrative follows a man’s obsessive fixation on his wife’s nose as he turns marital intimacy into increasingly coercive, fetishistic control involving restraint, humiliation, and bodily threat.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 41–54

Burlesque Biographical Sketches

Kawazu Yasuharu

This episodic burlesque fiction presents grotesque biographical sketches of men and women engaged in elaborate scenes of sexual domination, bondage, punishment, humiliation, and role reversal.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 55–70

A Certain Spring Labor Offensive

Yamaguchi Hiroshi

A serialized SM fiction narrative set amid a factory labor dispute, in which Eiko is targeted by coworkers and union activists and subjected to escalating coercion, bondage, exposure, photography, and humiliating punishment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 87–101

Scarlet Lips of Sadism

Fukuda Hisabumi

A fictional first-person sadistic narrative depicts the coercive domination, restraint, punishment, humiliation, and bodily torment of a woman by a male tormentor, escalating through repeated scenes of bondage and sexualized violence.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 102–104

A Record of Apologizing to a Friend

Katsurayama Eiji

A confessional literary account describes an uneasy correspondence and friendship shaped by shared interest in enema practices, fetish materials, and the author’s eventual attempt to apologize for his intrusive or excessive behavior.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 105–110

Monkey Bird, Continued

Mihara Hiroshi

This serialized SM fiction continuation follows Toyomura Rieko’s promotion to a managerial position at a food company, where gendered workplace authority becomes intertwined with sexualized domination, humiliation, discipline, and the use of fetish devices…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 111–126

SM Camera Hunt: The Group of Cute Little Devils, Continued

Tsujimura Takashi

A sensationalized first-person erotic reportage follows a photographer’s manipulative pursuit of Masumi and Yuriko, documenting staged encounters that escalate into rope bondage, restraint, and sexualized coercion. The accompanying photographs present the women in posed…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 127–140

Ariadne: A Reconstruction of Greek Myth

Kurobuchi Eiichi

A fictional, eroticized reconstruction of the Greek Ariadne myth follows Ariadne, Theseus, and rival armies through political intrigue, warfare, captivity, punishment, and repeated rope restraint, emphasizing shifting gendered power and female martial authority.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 141–144

Pleasurable SM Play in Disguise

Masuda Kiyoshi

A first-person account describes a married couple’s elaborately costumed SM role-play, in which staged restraint, costume changes, and reciprocal performances turn domestic sexual play into an extended theatrical scenario.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 145–150

Bewitched by the Rope

Hayaki Yumeji

This personal essay traces the author’s fascination with kinbaku through memories of erotic photographs, films, magazines, historical imagery, and imagined scenes of women being bound, while reflecting on the psychological appeal of rope restraint.

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October
Magazine Issue Beautiful Bondage

Beautiful Bondage, Collection 11

The November 1966 installment of Beautiful Bondage identifies itself as the eleventh collection of 美しき縛しめ and announces on its cover that the magazine's model roster appears together in a selection of 120 representative images…

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1967
May
1972
December
Magazine Issue SM Play

SM Play Photo Special

SM Play Photo Special is a large visual anthology devoted to bondage, sadomasochistic imagery, punishment, fetishism, and erotic illustration. The cover describes the volume as containing approximately 250 SM photographs and pictures across roughly…

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1974
December
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, January 1974

Kitan Club’s January 1974 issue is a large, densely illustrated specialist erotic magazine organized around bondage, sadomasochism, fetish practices, personal testimony, serialized fiction, and reader participation. Its opening pages move from submission notices and…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 22

I Transformed into an Animal

Naegi Yoko

A first-person account of a married woman’s movement into SM, bondage, animal identification, altered consciousness, humiliation, and loss of ordinary self-consciousness, accompanied by staged photographs.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 34–39

A Woman’s Execution Chamber

Sahara Yōichirō

A fictionalized first-person narrative in which a department-store security guard turns surveillance, capture, interrogation, and punishment into a private vocation involving a hidden restraint room and photographic display.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 46, 70, 91, 96, 102, 105, 108, 168, 172, 177, 191, 195

Contents Photographs

Suzuki Chizuko; Saijō Kiyo

A photographic index identifying the issue’s dispersed image-gallery subjects, captions, photographers, and models.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 56–65

The Person at Twilight

Kiku Kaoru

An illustrated first-person narrative combining sexual reminiscence, voyeurism, photography, bondage, role-playing, and coercive encounters with women identified by names or pseudonyms.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 75–77

Chair of Heaven

Satō Mitsuyasu

An illustrated essay about televised close-ups, women’s nostrils, beauty programming, and the voyeuristic staging and inspection of female bodies.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 112–121

Prize-Winning Confession: Voyeur Record

Tadano Heisuke

A first-person observational essay describing covert viewing of women in public toilets and classifying bodies, clothing, posture, age, and behavior as a purported record of voyeuristic experience.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 164–181

Sinking to the Bottom of Deep Water

Kurume Sakae

A continuing narrative of staged bondage, photography, jealousy, blackmail, marriage, possessive violence, emotional dependency, and renewed attempts to control and document a woman’s body.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 234

Salon

A formally listed salon department containing multiple short reader-oriented items; its body pages are not represented in the viewer-page sequence.

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January
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, February 1974

Kitan Club’s February 1974 issue is a large, densely illustrated Japanese SM and fetish magazine combining staged photography, erotic fiction, personal testimony, practical bondage instruction, criticism, reader correspondence, community notices, and extensive mail-order catalogs.…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 54

Ah, a Woman Crazy for M

Koiwa Sōichirō

Long photo-illustrated SM narrative following named women through travel, restraint, bathing, humiliation, sensory experiments, and staged photography.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 74

Binding

Ogawa Samon

Illustrated lesson on bondage methods, rope selection, self-binding, gagging, chair and pillar restraint, positioning, and release.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 60

Dog Show Program

Muroi Nobuo

Formal contents entry whose independent body-page boundary cannot be established from the supplied scan evidence.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 78

Great Eruption

Takezako Seiya

Serialized narrative involving wealthy households, servants, travel, sexual manipulation, threats, bondage, and underworld encounters.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 90

The S/M Enterprise

Akitsu Shinjirō

Serialized SM-club feature involving numbered slave identities, commands, capture, punishment, role-play, photographs, and illustrations.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 106

A Strange Masochist

Maeda Machiko

Critical discussion of Tsukamoto’s writing and imagery, realism, sensationalism, documentary appearance, and erotic violence.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 114

A Study of S&M

Wakamoto Hiroshi

Dramatic SM narrative of domination, ropes, whipping, commands, punishment, and theatrical role conflict.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 95

Service

Shiba Takashi

Staged service-role image or panel presenting bondage, obedience, and theatrical role-play.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 132

Play Report

Fukui Momoko

First-person report on voyeuristic observation, hot-spring encounters, blindfolding, cords, photography, and staged play.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136

Tankibō

Tsujimura Takashi

Sensational narrative of an SM gathering, a woman’s death, police investigation, suspects, evidence, and possible revelation of the culprit.

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