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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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2,746 archive events + 5 curated milestones 1950s
1953
December
Historical Milestone Confirmed

The Bound Body Becomes a Photographic Study

Tsukamoto Tetsuzō

The January 1953 issue of Kitan Club presents the bound female body explicitly as a subject for photographic study. Rather than functioning only as an element within narrative or punishment imagery, binding becomes part…

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March
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Rope Becomes a Subject of Comparative Visual Study

The April 1953 issue of Kitan Club opens with an extended photographic study of tight binding with the hands behind and the arms raised. The sequence invites comparison between rope positions and their effects…

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August
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Itō Seiu: Fifteen Ways to Tie the Female Body

Itō Seiu

The September 1953 issue includes Itō Seiu’s “Fifteen Ways to Tie the Female Body.” The feature places named and differentiated methods of restraint inside the postwar magazine environment, connecting Seiu’s earlier visual vocabulary with…

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1954
June
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Binding Is Explained as a Process

Tsujimura Takashi

By July 1954, Kitan Club was not merely presenting finished bondage poses. “Until the Binding Is Complete: Photographic Explanation” frames binding as a sequence that can be demonstrated and followed. This procedural presentation is…

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1955
December
Historical Milestone Confirmed

Rope Acquires a Historical Vocabulary

The January 1955 Kitan Club article “The History of Rope and Feet” treats rope historically rather than only pictorially or technically. Its appearance demonstrates that rope had become a subject that could be placed…

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1957
October
Article / Feature Uramado 210–218

Demon Insect

Kyōgoku Miki

A serialized erotic fiction narrative involving Kyōko and other women caught in a web of family conflict, deception, pursuit, and coercive encounters. The story includes captivity, psychological tension, and vividly illustrated restraint scenes.

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Article / Feature Uramado 219–230

The Man Who Targeted Stalin

Suyama Mitsu

A sensational historical account of a German special-operations plot to assassinate Stalin during the final years of World War II. It follows the recruitment and training of the operatives, their parachute infiltration, disguises and…

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Article / Feature Uramado 231–246

The Woman with Black Manicure

Kihara Yasuo

A serialized erotic crime narrative centered on a mysterious woman with black-painted nails, whose presence is linked to seduction, abduction, violence, and threats against Reiko. The story moves through encounters in an apartment and…

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Article / Feature Uramado 247–265

A Woman’s Fiery-Fat Hell

Iwahori Yasumitsu

A serialized historical erotic crime narrative set in Edo-period Japan, centered on Shizu, Yoshitarō, and the women and men around an oil merchant’s household. Jealousy, coercive sexual encounters, murder, concealment of bodies, and arson…

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Article / Feature Uramado 266–276

The Curse of the Jewel

Kuroki Shinobu

A historical erotic fiction narrative centered on Miyo, a female performer entangled in the pursuit of a valuable jewel. The story combines theatrical intrigue, coercive encounters, captivity, and elaborate binding scenes involving ropes, gagging,…

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Article / Feature Uramado 277–287

Darkness

Ōkōchi Jōhei

A serialized erotic mystery follows businessman Enami and the increasingly ominous encounters surrounding Yūko, Asabuki, and Horikoshi. The story combines nightclub intrigue, deception, murder investigation, captivity, and sadistic threat within a dark urban setting.

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Article / Feature Uramado 288

Publication Information

A publication-information page for the magazine gives ordering and subscription instructions, submission guidelines, issue details, pricing, and publisher information. It also promotes the magazine’s fiction and illustration contents and its reader-facing editorial services.

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1958
December
Magazine Issue Uramado

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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Magazine Issue Kitan Club

Kitan Club, January 1958

Kitan Club’s January 1958 issue is a large, densely illustrated specialist erotic magazine combining bondage imagery, masochist writing, cinema culture, historical anecdote, fiction, reader correspondence, and commercial photographic circulation. Its opening establishes a participatory…

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Article / Feature Uramado 6–13

A Strange Tale of the Female Chūshingura

Yokoyama Kengo; illustrations by Nakajima Kimi

An illustrated historical erotic tale recasts the Chūshingura legend through the ordeal of a woman pursued, abducted, coerced, and subjected to humiliating restraint amid samurai intrigue.

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Article / Feature Uramado 14–22

An Amorous Akō Ballad

Hōkaiji Kayō

This illustrated Akō-themed erotic ballad blends Chūshingura-era revenge and household intrigue with sexualized coercion, restraint, violence, and the threatened or actual punishment of women.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 18–22

New Year’s Punishment Ideas

Kurume Sakae

A long scenario feature discusses staged punishment, bondage games, social gatherings, role-based discipline, ropes, clothing, humiliation, and escalation, combining anecdotes with practical suggestions and diagrams.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 23–25

Camera and Film Miscellany

Kurokawa Tetsuya

The essay considers lenses, distance, lighting, framing, audience sightlines, and the practical photographing of staged bondage, alongside commentary on Japanese and foreign films.

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Article / Feature Uramado 23–40

A Loyal Retainer Living in Darkness

Shimamoto Haruo

This serialized historical erotic fiction follows a loyal retainer moving undercover through the intrigues surrounding the Akō vendetta, with secret messages, disguises, violence, and eroticized encounters involving coercion and restraint.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 26–38

The Doctrine of Color Siya

Nishimichi Kōhiko

A richly described narrative of secret doctrine, ritual authority, temple interiors, costumes, machinery, ceremonial punishment, bondage, and eroticized submission. Large illustrations are integrated into the fantastic religious setting.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 39–41

An Invitation to Masochism

Kuroda Shiro

A cultural and psychological essay examines masochism through literary, mythological, cinematic, and social examples, relating suffering, humiliation, fantasy, compensation, theatricality, and role reversal.

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Article / Feature Uramado 41–53

Two Paths of the Genroku Era

Hashizume Hikoshichi

A serialized Genroku-era erotic adventure follows samurai, townspeople, and women through abduction, concealment, escape, social intrigue, and shifting romantic and sexual power relations. The narrative repeatedly uses confinement, coercion, and bondage imagery within its…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 42–44

Mania Correspondence

Takaraie Fumio

A community column combines reader-oriented reports, film and stage notes, bondage observations, props and costumes, personal testimony, and requests for photographic contributions.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 56–57

From the Notebook of a Dreamer

沼 (surname fragment; full name uncertain)

A philosophical notebook considers slavery, Roman servitude, obedience, authority, punishment, translation, human dignity, and the difference between institutional and personal domination.

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Article / Feature Uramado 54–64

Good Evening!

Narumi Genkichi

A serialized erotic story follows Chifumi from an unremarkable young woman into a transformed beauty through cosmetic surgery, tracing how her altered appearance changes her confidence, employment prospects, romantic relationships, and domestic life. Its…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 58–60

Report on Experiments with Female-Hormone Use

Numamura Shōzō (uncertain reading)

A diary-like medical-sexological account records hormone preparations, injections, bodily measurements, breast development, emotional responses, adverse effects, and the desire to feminize the body.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 61

A Nurse’s Enema Diary

Iwamura Michiko

Dated diary entries describe enemas, patients, clinical authority, embarrassment, bodily reactions, and the nurse’s intimate perspective on medical encounters.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 68–79

Beauty Hospital

Uncredited in visible pages

A continuing beauty-treatment narrative depicts cosmetics, measurements, massage, bathing, sensory devices, training, bodily transformation, institutional authority, humiliation, and psychological control.

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Article / Feature Uramado 77–91

Secret Tale of the Basket Lantern

Matsui Raiko

A serialized Edo-period erotic tale follows Kiyoshichi and O-Chiyo through family intrigue, debt, deception, abduction, and escalating scenes of forced restraint and punitive violence, ending amid an unresolved confrontation.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 82–83

The Last of Miura Uemon

Sasaki Tsutomu

A melodramatic historical tale follows a condemned warrior, children, retainers, loyalty, rescue attempts, execution, and self-sacrifice in a morally charged atmosphere.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 84–93

Princess Mirror

Katsura Makijirō

A long fiction about family secrecy, inheritance, wartime memory, female identity, education, performance, surveillance, sexual danger, and coercion, later shifting into illustrated and dramatized scenes.

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Article / Feature Uramado 92–106

The Illustrated Mandala of Strange Tales

Kubomura Hiroshi

A serialized Edo-period erotic strange tale combining dramatic prose with heavily illustrated scenes of seduction, coercion, captivity, violence, and revenge among merchants, artisans, and samurai-era figures. The installment repeatedly foregrounds women and men subjected…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 98–105

Whip and Knife

Uncredited

A detective crime narrative follows Shimada through a knife murder investigation, interrogations, conflicting testimony, a coastal confrontation, a whip-and-knife struggle, and a final confession.

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Article / Feature Uramado 107–119

The Graveyard Mansion

Jinkō Kyōichi

An episodic historical erotic tale in which an investigation of a sinister graveyard mansion uncovers buried bodies, family secrets, violent captivity, and grotesque encounters between the living and the dead.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 118–123

My Pranks

Minami (given name uncertain)

A prose-and-image feature explains staged erotic photography, posing, cropping, retouching, ropes, partial nudity, and the transformation of impossible fantasies into apparently realistic restraint images.

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Article / Feature Uramado 120–128

The Great Disloyalist

Takano Nijūsan

A historical erotic adventure about a disloyal samurai and his companions, involving abduction, pursuit, coercion, violence, and forbidden sexual intrigue amid Edo-period social and military settings.

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Article / Feature Uramado 129–142

The Disordered Genroku Kimono

Kuroki Shinobu

A serialized historical erotic tale set in Edo-period Japan, following Koyata and other townspeople through clandestine encounters, jealousy, pursuit, deception, and violent confrontations involving sexual coercion and restraint. Dramatic illustrations reinforce the story’s scenes…

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 132–139

Secret Story of Female Seppuku

Yoshiki Yama (romanization uncertain)

A Meiji-era historical narrative follows women of a former samurai household toward ritualized female seppuku, emphasizing duty, family honor, military unrest, blood, bodily sacrifice, and death.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 140–147

Night Glows

Tsujimura Takashi

An illustrated erotic suspense narrative begins with a bound woman and develops through art-world conversation, photography, locked rooms, voyeurism, ropes, staged display, and coercive performance.

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Article / Feature Uramado 143–154

Foxfire

Matsui Raiko

A serialized historical erotic mystery follows a dangerous investigation involving murder, pursuit, captivity, and women subjected to elaborate rope restraint and coercive treatment.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 148–149

In Praise of Severed Heads

Minakata Jun

An illustrated cultural essay examines decapitation, murder legends, kabuki and dance-drama staging, dolls, props, realism, grotesque beauty, and audience response.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 150–159

The Domesticated Human Yapoo

Numa Shōzō

A dystopian future society classifies people as livestock or servants, organizing domestic life through hierarchy, punishment, bodily inspection, forced service, animalization, and technological control.

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Article / Feature Uramado 155–166

Snowstorm Confession of Omiyo

Inō Takashi

This serialized historical erotic narrative recounts Omiyo’s troubled experiences amid snowbound travel, social vulnerability, coercive sexual power, and abusive male authority.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 160–161

Miscellaneous News and Impressions

Various contributors

A miscellany of literary, social, and cultural notes discusses institutions, sanitation, women, domestic expectations, and contemporary conditions in an informal editorial tone.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 162–163

Bondage-Film News Column

Abe Shū

A rapid film bulletin reports on sensational and bondage-related films, performers, production details, plot premises, captivity, restraint, and the commercial circulation of erotic spectacle.

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Article / Feature Kitan Club 164–176

Readers’ Correspondence

The closing correspondence department records readers’ opinions, personal experiences, clothing and body interests, photography requests, posing advice, television and film commentary, editorial replies, and the commercial ordering of photographic sets.

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Article / Feature Uramado 167–190

The Bloodstained Kannon Image

Iida Toyokichi

A serialized historical erotic adventure follows the swordsman Shinpachirō through assassinations, pursuit, betrayal, and revenge surrounding the bloodstained Kannon image, with scenes of capture, coercion, and violent swordplay. The accompanying illustrations depict stylized samurai…

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Article / Feature Uramado 191–207

The Demon-Hour Woman, Part Ten of the Secret Memorandum

Shimamoto Haruo

The tenth installment of Shimamoto Haruo’s serialized fiction follows a mysterious demon-like woman whose transformations, occult powers, violent encounters, and episodes of pursuit, restraint, and sexualized peril entangle Chizuru and other characters in a…

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Article / Feature Uramado 208–216

The White Caterpillar

Anzukasa Ichirō

A serialized erotic fantasy follows a woman whose strange encounters with a beautiful, caterpillar-like figure lead through captivity, bodily transformation, medicalized torment, and violent sadomasochistic power struggles.

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Article / Feature Uramado 217–228

Kira’s Hawk Head

Inagaki Shisei

An illustrated historical erotic serial set in the Edo period depicts a young woman and rival men caught in schemes of seduction, abduction, confinement, deception, and coercive punishment.

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Article / Feature Uramado 229–240

The Booby-Trapped Gun

Watson Dokuda

A serialized Western-style suspense story follows lawmen, hunters, and fugitives through a mountain settlement as a booby-trapped rifle, killings, revenge, pursuit, and a final armed confrontation expose a dangerous criminal scheme. The narrative incorporates…

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Article / Feature Uramado 241–258

Two Men Named Kuranosuke

Koyama Ryūtarō

This serialized historical erotic fiction set in the Genroku period follows rival samurai households and their schemes of deception, pursuit, captivity, and revenge, with scenes of women being stripped, bound, gagged, humiliated, and subjected…

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Article / Feature Uramado 259–269

The S.S. Secret Club

Yokoyama Masakatsu

A serialized erotic crime narrative follows a narrator’s increasingly perilous involvement with the clandestine S.S. club, whose members stage sadistic games, coercive encounters, disguises, surveillance, and execution-like punishments amid police threats and pursuit.

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Article / Feature Uramado 270–274

The Beautiful Slave Jelissna

Kaibe Yōzō

An illustrated erotic narrative depicts a dissatisfied woman drawn into a coercive sexual situation connected with a pachinko-world setting, using domestic tension, male control, humiliation, and bondage imagery to frame her loss of autonomy.

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Article / Feature Uramado 275–284

Pachinko Hell

Ōkōchi Jōhei

A serialized erotic story set around a pachinko parlor follows gambling-obsessed patrons and staff through coercive sexual encounters, bondage, humiliation, and escalating financial and emotional ruin.

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Article / Feature Uramado 285–298

The Sole of the Foot and Gennai

Koyama Ryūtarō

A historical erotic narrative set in the Edo period depicts samurai, servants, and women entangled in secret intrigues, pursuit, captivity, and elaborate rope restraint, with fetishistic attention to bodies and clothing.

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Article / Feature Uramado 299–314

The Treasury of King Ryuka

Fuji Kinya

A serialized erotic adventure follows the pirate King Ryuka and his companions through violent encounters, captivity, coercion, punishment, and bondage at sea and on land, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

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Article / Feature Uramado 315–322

Record of Wandering

Fushimi Kazuo

An autobiographical, epistolary narrative traces a young man’s wandering life, emotional isolation, romantic longing, and developing recognition of same-sex desire through a series of letters and recollections.

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Article / Feature Uramado 323–334

Passion and the Compassionate Heart

Yamada Shigeyoshi

A serialized erotic-crime narrative follows a violent gang whose robberies, coercive encounters, kidnappings, and betrayals draw police attention, with scenes of bound captives and threatened women intensifying the story’s atmosphere of sadism and forbidden…

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Article / Feature Uramado 335–348

The Sound Demon

Misaki Yōnosuke

A surreal erotic story follows a solitary narrator through postwar Tokyo nightlife and an unsettling encounter with Eiko, whose voice, appearance, and strange sensory effects generate fascination, disorientation, and obsessive desire.

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Article / Feature Uramado 349–367

Tattooed Benten

Nakabayashi Setsuzō

A serialized historical erotic story set in the Edo period, following women and men through abduction, confinement, sexual coercion, punishment, and elaborate rope-bound scenes associated with a tattooed Benten figure. The narrative is accompanied…

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Article / Feature Uramado 368–373

Publication Information and Advertisements

The supplied pages contain a continuation of a serialized historical erotic narrative in which characters pursue, abduct, restrain, and interrogate one another amid scenes of rope bondage, gagging, and coercive sexual tension.

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Magazine Issue Uramado

June 1958

The June 1958 issue of Uramado is a large special number devoted to female ninja and female-spy stories. It combines historical adventure, supernatural revenge tales, espionage thrillers, prison reportage, execution history, crime fiction, translated…

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Article / Feature Uramado 6–13

Hell at Tsurumaki Castle

text by Iwahori Mitsu; art by Shibatani Kōjirō, romanization uncertain

A historical erotic adventure set during the assault on Tsurumaki Castle, in which the resourceful female ninja 妙女 uses deception, seduction, and violence amid battles, captivity, and shifting loyalties.

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Article / Feature Uramado 14–19

The Night Hourglass

photography by Fujisawa Osamu; composition by Minomura Kou

A staged photographic portfolio uses an hourglass, darkness, rope-like forms, and the nude female body to evoke confinement, sensuality, suspension, and release at daybreak.

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Article / Feature Uramado 20–28

Sophie Disappeared

Misaki Yōnosuke; art by Akiyoshi

A serialized erotic crime thriller follows the disappearance of Sophie amid mysterious intruders, espionage, murder orders, seduction, captivity, and a planned revenge operation.

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Article / Feature Uramado 29–48

The Bewitching Mirror of Strange Incantations, Episode Fifteen

Shimamoto Haruo; art by Yamada Sugiaki

Episode fifteen of this serialized supernatural erotic mystery follows the geisha Koito and other characters through deceptive mirrors, secret identities, abduction, violent confrontations, and occult intrigue, with scenes of coercive restraint and sexualized humiliation.…

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Article / Feature Uramado 49–59

Secret Document of Snake-Forest Cave

Nanjō Shin’ichi; art by Usa Mitsutake

An illustrated historical erotic adventure follows a female ninja trained in the mountain wilderness, whose missions, rivalries, captivity, and encounters unfold amid secret caves and feudal intrigue.

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Article / Feature Uramado 60–72

The Spy Vanishes at Dawn

Kuroba Shin; translated by Nakagawa Ayako

An illustrated espionage thriller follows international agents through surveillance, deception, abduction, drugging, and coercive sexual encounters as a spy attempts to escape pursuit and disappear.

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Article / Feature Uramado 73–90

Legend of the Vengeful Spirit Marsh

Magari Nijūhachi; art by Yanagi Shunjō

An illustrated historical erotic serial follows travelers, treasure seekers, ninjas, and abducted women whose struggles center on the haunted marsh of the title and the vengeful spirit associated with it. The narrative features captivity,…

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Article / Feature Uramado 101–116

Blood-Stained Mandala

Hashizume Hikoshichi; art by Nakajima Masami

A serialized Edo-period erotic adventure follows the encounters of a beautiful artisan and several retainers, involving secret medicines, disguises, captivity, coercion, escapes, and conflicts between feudal households. The accompanying illustrations depict stylized historical scenes…

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