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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
1974
January
Article / Feature Kitan Club 166

Nighttime Bibi-Nobi

Wakate Nobuo

Reflective essay on rubber fetishism, bodily freedom, urination, childhood conditioning, and acceptance of unusual desires.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 202

Night Photographer

Azuma Nobuo

Reader response to SM reportage and photographs, reflecting on staging, realism, models, bodily display, shame, and viewing effects.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 238

Kitan Club Salon

Broad salon and community section gathering reflections, SM research-group material, correspondence, editorial questions, film commentary, and reports.

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February
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, March 1974

Kitan Club’s March 1974 issue is a large, densely illustrated SM magazine organized around bondage photography, erotic reportage, serialized fiction, personal confession, critical commentary, and reader communication. Its opening pages establish the publication’s commercial…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club

Image Gallery

An opening color-photography section presenting staged female bondage, rope scenes, domestic interiors, and erotic tableaux. Visible captions refer to restraint, waiting, exposure, and sensory or bodily submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 3–11

Color Photo Section

An opening color-photography section presenting staged female bondage, rope scenes, domestic interiors, and erotic tableaux. Visible captions refer to restraint, waiting, exposure, and sensory or bodily submission.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 12–26

Bound Enchantresses

Tetsuzo Tsukamoto

A substantial photographic portfolio of adult female models in rope-based restraint, suspension, kneeling and reclining poses, and theatrical domestic settings. Captions catalog different bindings, materials, emotional states, and bodily presentations while naming numerous models.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 29

Goddess of Venus

Chizuko Suzuki

A one-page illustrated profile of a woman associated with professional wrestling who is presented as enjoying bondage, rough treatment, and humiliation. The page combines promotional prose with a staged photograph.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 30

The Battle Between the Grazing Beast and the Male Beast

Tetsuzo Tsukamoto

A long camera-and-pen reportage follows a woman through travel, hotel, outdoor, and domestic scenes of animalized role-play, bondage, humiliation, photography, and staged endurance. Prose, dialogue, production detail, and a large photographic sequence present the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 70

Female Captive

Asao Saji / M Group

The opening installment of a serialized captivity narrative set around a wealthy family and a strict girls’ boarding-school environment. Students face surveillance, forced chores, public humiliation, iron restraints, confinement, and escalating institutional punishment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–85

Sayuri, an SM Trainer

Sayuri

Sayuri recounts her introduction to SM and her development as an instructor, discussing ropes, handcuffs, collars, chains, blindfolds, costumes, demonstrations, clients, and the construction of a public SM identity.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 86–95

SM Enterprise

Shinjiro Akitsu

The sixth episode of a serialized fiction about a commercial SM performance setting where money, customers, performers, commands, costumes, ropes, and handcuffs turn domination into public spectacle. Backstage organization gives way to jealousy, coercion,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 96–107

The Song of the Canary That Forgot Its Song

Hiroko Takamura

A first-person reader-directed account of correspondence, travel, photographic submission, directed posing, physical helplessness, shame, endurance, and the wish to return to ordinary domestic life. An extensive monochrome photographic sequence reconstructs or documents the narrated…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 108–114

A Wild Banquet in the Hell of the Female Body

Akiko Suzuka

A sensational account centered on Mary, a snake, a married couple, Li, and other participants in a staged scene of commands, restraint, physical exhaustion, humiliation, observation, and spectacle. The accompanying images reinforce the narrative’s…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 115–117

Song of Two Hills

Kiyoko Sonezaki

A confessional narrative beginning with an incident in a public toilet and developing into an exploration of concealed observation, mirrors, clothing, bodily detail, shame, and erotic curiosity. Narrow illustrations of female figures echo the…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 118–135

Dream

A surreal erotic narrative begins with a failed young job seeker and an unusual employment advertisement, then develops through telephone interviews, mysterious instructions, marriage, footwear, commands, restraint, and dreamlike domestic role-play. The story shifts…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 136–143

Notes on Tetsuzo Tsukamoto

Keiichiro Maekawa

A critical profile of Tsukamoto Tetsuzō examines his SM reportage, photography, model presentation, reader response, and the changing relationship between documentary claims, staged performance, and erotic fantasy. The essay evaluates photographs as both aesthetic…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 144–153

The Gate of the Purple Orchid

Furyu Gokudoken

A serialized period SM narrative involving household hierarchy, servants, nicknamed participants, commands, restraint, humiliation, and staged domination. Historical setting and melodramatic dialogue frame a continuing network of coercive sexual play among several characters.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 154–168

Enchanted by SM Magazines

Noriko Omiya

Noriko Omiya’s extensive confession traces a path from reading SM magazines and imagining submission to writing editors, corresponding with readers, arranging meetings, and participating in bondage and domination. Marriage, secrecy, shame, fear, pain, agency,…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 178–185

Great Eruption

Seiki Chiba

A sensational serialized narrative involving Hong Kong, hotels, travel, passports, disguise, secret meetings, abduction, confinement, fetish clothing, and staged sexual spectacle. The Beautiful Gorilla episode turns costume, bodily concealment, restraint, and exhibition into an…

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March
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, April 1974

Kitan Club’s April 1974 issue presents itself as a documentary magazine of sexual customs, combining extensive staged bondage photography with reportage, confessional writing, serialized fiction, critical commentary, reader correspondence, and submission notices. The opening…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 78–85

Serial Novel: Dog—Great Eruption, Part 66

Chiba Seiki

A continuing erotic-adventure serial follows Gina through espionage, organized crime, capture, interrogation, trafficking, and escape. Its international settings and criminal plot are repeatedly shaped by scenes of captivity, coercion, humiliation, and restraint.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 90–104

Serial Period SM Novel: The Gate of Shiran

Fūryū Gokudōken

A continuing historical S-novel set amid Edo-period household, foreign, servant, and courtesan milieus. Its plot centers on confinement, forced display, humiliation, punishment, competing claims of possession, and attempts at rescue or revenge.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 122–131

Serial S&M Group Work: Woman’s Captivity, Part 2

Saji Masazō

An M-Group captivity narrative follows Ryōko through pursuit, confinement, punishment, attempted escape, and institutional discipline. Large photographs and illustrations show ropes, cages, locks, handcuffs, grilles, and other restraint devices.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 142–147

A Lament for a Man and Woman: The Distant White Road

Kuruki Sakae

A multi-part narrative follows a man whose present relationships are shaped by memory, earlier-life imagery, social status, workplace encounters, and changing intimacy. Its opening blends recollection, erotic attraction, fantasy, and emotional distance.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 148–151

Confession: The Last Enjoyable Night

Negishi Kenji

A nostalgic first-person account describes a final pleasure trip with a married acquaintance before her marriage, including travel to the Izu/Atami area, an inn, elaborate bondage, suspension, props, photography, and reflections on memory.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 152–165

Untold Story from the Defeat: Japanese Women’s Slaves

Suzuka Akiko

A sensationalized war-confession narrative links Japanese women’s experiences in Manchuria to defeat, coercion, postwar shame, forced display, bondage, drugs, alcohol, staged lighting, and sexualized authority. It concludes with an explicit completion marker.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 166–167

Confession: Around My Adolescence

Sakakibara Takashi

A retrospective confession recounts adolescent voyeurism around school and women’s toilets, focusing on privacy, bodily exposure, concealed observation, clothing, mirrors, and the development of erotic curiosity.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 168–179

Masochistic Story: Splendid Gourmet Food

Asaba Yasushi

A continuing narrative combines food, fashion, professional respectability, bodily functions, humiliation, voyeurism, enemas, laxatives, and public or workplace concealment. It concludes at printed page 179.

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April
Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club: May Issue

The May 1974 issue of Kitan Club is a dense specialist publication devoted to Japanese SM culture, fetishism, bondage, sexual confession, erotic fiction, and the visual representation of domination. Its formal contents pages organize…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 52

An SM Discussion Amid Shame

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

Tsukamoto records an SM study-group meeting, its correspondence network, travel and hotel arrangements, photographic sessions, and the interaction of embarrassment, exhibitionism, authority, and spectatorship.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 68–73

Experience Account: The White Irrigator

Naeki Yōko

A dramatized first-person account follows hospital preparation, enema administration, barium imaging, catheterization, bodily sensation, embarrassment, and interactions with nurses, with medical intestinal diagrams throughout.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–99

Serial M-Group Work: Woman Captive

Saji Mazō

A continuing captivity narrative follows Ryōe through workplace humiliation, coercive examinations, surveillance, interrogation, transport, restraint, punishment, and institutional domination, with embedded visual galleries.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 100–110

Prize-Submission Work: The Abused Person

Kirishima Jirō

A long illustrated first-person narrative depicts women subjected to service-based exploitation, economic dependence, bondage, humiliation, punishment, and sadistic control in domestic and commercial settings.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 111–114

My Résumé: Seeking Hope in a Rubber Manto

Tsurusaki Yoshio

The author recalls a lifelong fascination with rubber garments, unsuccessful searches for a rubber cape, changing availability, consumer scarcity, and hopes for renewed production and contact with fellow enthusiasts.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 138–146

Serial: SM Swapping, Pinocchio

Akitsu Shinjirō

A continuing role-play narrative moves from discipline and rope restraint in an SM club to hotel meetings, multiple participants, exchanged keys, and planned partner swapping.

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