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.
January 1958
The January 1958 New Year issue of Uramado is a lavish 150-page special number organized around hidden crimes, historical punishment, erotic danger, supernatural tales, foreign pulp, and illustrated suspense. Its cover advertises the “Hidden…
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November 1957
The November 1957 issue of Uramado is presented as an “abnormality and mystery special.” It combines supernatural transformation, Gothic suspense, crime reporting, sexual pathology, fetishistic fiction, historical adventure, Western pulp, and photographs of women.…
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January 1954
The January 1954 issue of Fūzoku Sōshi opens the new year by presenting bondage and seme not as isolated curiosities, but as a dense visual and conceptual field. Its 150 PDF pages combine staged…
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December 1953
The December 1953 issue of Fūzoku Sōshi closes the year with one of the magazine’s richest combinations of historical punishment, bondage photography, artistic classification, sexual psychology, pathological case history, translated sadistic fiction, and Japanese…
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November 1953
The November 1953 issue of Fūzoku Sōshi presents a magazine increasingly confident in treating bondage and seme as subjects that can be photographed, illustrated, classified, narrated, and debated. Its opening pages move immediately from…
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October 1977
The October 1977 issue is the most self-consciously historical and reflective of the three. Its opening photography still emphasizes restraint as spectacle, but the issue devotes substantial attention to the history of SM publishing,…
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June 1977
The June 1977 issue deepens the magazine’s focus on couples and marital SM. Its principal theme is announced by the long opening roundtable, “A Wife Sinking into Secret Pleasure: The Wife’s Position and the…
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November 1953
The November 1953 issue of Kitan Club is a revealing mixture of rope instruction, staged bondage photography, confessional writing, erotic fiction, sexological discussion, autobiographical testimony, queer narrative, and translated Western sadomasochistic material. The issue’s…
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November 1952
The November 1952 issue of Yomikiri Romance is a sprawling popular-erotic magazine built around the hidden desires, dangers, and contradictions of modern sexual life. Its 150 PDF pages combine color illustration, staged nude photography,…
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November 1956
The November 1956 issue of Uramado is a broad sensational magazine rather than a narrowly specialized SM publication. Crime reporting, mystery fiction, sexual customs, medicalized discussions of sexuality, foreign photographs, humor, historical tales, and…
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March 1977
The inaugural March 1977 issue of Sun & Moon introduces itself as a magazine “seeking love,” but its real editorial center is the lived practice of SM. Unlike the historical, literary, and pseudo-sexological mixture…
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October 1953
The October 1953 issue of Fūzoku Sōshi shows the magazine pushing decisively toward a more coherent culture of seme, bondage, sadism, masochism, fetishism, and erotic classification. Its 150 PDF pages combine historical punishment imagery,…
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September 1953
The September 1953 issue of Fūzoku Sōshi is one of the clearest examples of the magazine consolidating bondage, seme, sexual pathology, crime, historical punishment, same-sex desire, and reader-oriented erotic knowledge into a recognizable SM-centered…
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August 1953
The August 1953 issue of Fūzoku Sōshi is a particularly revealing example of the magazine’s effort to gather many different forms of erotic abnormality into a single visual and literary world. Its 153 printed…
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July 1963 Issue
The July 1963 issue of Kitan Club presents a characteristic mixture of staged bondage photography, imaginative torture illustration, reader testimony, erotic fiction, serialized narratives, practical rope discussion, and correspondence. The front matter establishes the…
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August 1963 Issue
The August 1963 issue of Kitan Club combines extensive staged bondage photography, erotic and grotesque illustration, autobiographical testimony, historical fantasy, serialized fiction, reader confessions, and community correspondence. Its opening visual section moves through several…
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Yomikiri Romance Special Extra: Etsugyaku Kōkotsu-zu
This January 1953 special extra edition of Yomikiri Romance is a single-purpose photographic publication devoted almost entirely to staged images of women in bondage. Issued under the title Etsugyaku Kōkotsu-zu and supervised by Itō…
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June 1953
The June 1953 issue of Yomikiri Romance is a broad popular-humor magazine built around sexual comedy, urban folklore, marriage anxieties, nightlife, voyeurism, bodily embarrassment, and the friction between older customs and postwar metropolitan life.…
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November 1977
Issue No. 5 of Sun & Moon presents Japanese SM culture as a world increasingly organized around ordinary couples, amateur photographers, reader correspondence, private collections, and self-described practitioners. Unlike magazines built primarily around professional…
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December 1977
The sixth issue of Sun & Moon, published in December 1977, continues the magazine’s distinctive project of turning private SM practice into a participatory print culture. Its central subjects are amateur photography, domestic rope…
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