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.
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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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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Kitan Club July 1952: The Age of Female Domination
The July 1952 issue of Kitan Club is a densely illustrated popular sexological and sensational magazine organized around the special feature 女天下時代, or The Age of Female Domination. Its editorial world repeatedly reverses conventional…
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War and Sexual Desire Special Issue
The June 1952 issue of Kitan Club is organized as a special issue on war and sexual desire, combining sensational historical writing, erotic fiction, memoir-like testimony, sexual commentary, illustration, and photography. Its opening pages…
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Kitan Club, June 1974
The June 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually large photographic opening, first-person SM testimony, reader-derived material, serialized erotic fiction, illustrated fantasy, marital case studies, and reports connected with organized SM circles. Its…
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Kitan Club, July 1974
The July 1974 issue of Kitan Club is organized around an unusually large body of bondage photography followed by reportage, serialized fiction, confessional writing, reader testimony, illustrated essays, and accounts of contemporary SM practice.…
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March 1962
The March 1962 issue of Uramado is a compact photographic publication organized around four distinct black-and-white bondage portfolios. Its editorial identity is almost entirely visual: there are no substantial prose articles, fiction, correspondence columns,…
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February 1962
The February 1962 issue of Uramado is a compact photographic publication devoted almost entirely to staged bondage imagery. Rather than following the article-heavy structure of a conventional magazine issue, it is organized as a…
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Kitan Club, August 1974
The August 1974 issue of Kitan Club combines an unusually extensive photographic opening with first-person reports, confessions, serialized fiction, essays, and illustrated erotic narratives. Its front matter establishes the issue's visual emphasis through a…
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May 1959
The May 1959 issue of Uramado is a large, visually varied publication combining erotic photography, illustrated fiction, historical narratives, sensational crime and occult stories, essays, reader-oriented material, and an extensive special feature titled A…
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May 1962
This May 1962 Uramado material is an eight-page black-and-white photographic portfolio titled 美貌のいけにえ, translated here as Sacrifice of Beauty. Rather than presenting the mixture of fiction, essays, correspondence, and editorial matter found in a…
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June 1963 Special Extra Issue
Uramado's June 1963 Special Extra Issue, Volume 6, No. 7, is an unusually large, visually oriented special edition devoted to erotic photography, bondage imagery, fetish costume, historical fantasy, Japanese and Western illustration, and imported…
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June 1964
Uramado's June 1964 issue presents a dense mixture of serialized criticism, illustrated fiction, reader-contributed writing, photographic bondage portfolios, imported visual material, and community-oriented editorial matter. Its formal contents pages establish a deliberately hybrid identity:…
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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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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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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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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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