Latest Archive Additions
The newest magazine issues added to the Kinbaku Today research archive, listed by the date they became available here rather than by their original publication date.
October 1961
The October 1961 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is built around an unusually explicit special feature on same-sex desire, framed by extensive bondage photography, illustrated restraint fantasies, imported Western fetish material, erotic fiction, and reader…
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September 1961
The September 1961 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is organized around an unusually large concentration of bondage photography, illustrated erotic fantasy, discussions of sadomasochistic play, historical punishment, fetish imagery, personal testimony, and reader correspondence. The…
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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…
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December 1964
The December 1964 issue of Uramado combines fiction, criticism, film commentary, illustrated serials, reader-oriented columns, and photographic material in the eclectic style characteristic of the magazine. The issue opens with a formal illustrated contents…
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Tomoe / Egara Collection, Vol. 1: SUN & MOON Special Issue
This special SUN & MOON publication presents itself as a commemorative volume marking the third anniversary of Nichigetsusha and as the first volume of the Tomoe / Egara Collection. Its editorial identity is strongly…
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January 1962
The January 1962 Uramado material consists of a compact photographic feature titled Rope Mood, 縄のムード, credited on its opening page to photographer Yoshida Hisashi. Rather than presenting prose, fiction, correspondence, or editorial commentary, the…
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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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August 1961
The August 1961 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is a large and unusually varied issue combining extensive bondage photography, punishment imagery, fetish-oriented essays, autobiographical testimony, homosexuality and cross-dressing columns, sensational historical material, serialized fiction, and…
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July 1961
The July 1961 issue of Fuzoku Kitan is organized around the feature theme Women and Men Subjected to Torment, examining erotic torment, bondage, humiliation, punishment, and relations between sadistic and masochistic desire. The issue…
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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…
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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…
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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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Women’s Punishment and Torture Special Feature: Japanese Edition
This 1967 installment of Beautiful Bondage presents itself on the cover as a limited-edition 女性刑罰拷問特集 日本版, a Women's Punishment and Torture Special Feature: Japanese Edition. Where the preceding Western-style installment emphasized leather restraints, chains,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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June 1964
The June 1964 installment of Beautiful Bondage is a compact limited-edition photographic portfolio devoted entirely to a sustained bondage study. The cover identifies it as Limited Edition No. 2 and as the fourth collection…
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February 1964
This February 1964 limited edition of Beautiful Bondage is a compact, almost entirely photographic publication devoted to the visual documentation of Japanese rope bondage. The cover identifies the work as 美しき緊しめ 第三集, the third…
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November 1961 Special Issue
The November 1961 special issue of Fuzoku Kitan is explicitly organized around the theme The Allure of Whip and Rope, bringing together bondage photography, illustrated sadomasochistic fiction, translated European libertine literature, erotic stories, recurring…
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December 1961 Special Issue
The December 1961 special issue of Fuzoku Kitan is organized around the theme Ecstasy amid Abuse and gives exceptional visual prominence to bondage and staged torment. After the cover and a two-page formal table…
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