American Edition: Erotic-Torment Picture Story

An American-edition erotic picture story presented through staged illustrated scenes of sexual torment, restraint, and voyeuristic spectacle.

Extinguish the Fire of Bare Skin!!

Tachibana Shintarō

An illustrated erotic crime thriller follows a woman through encounters with armed men, pursuit, captivity, and coercive sexualized situations across Japanese urban and travel settings.

Woman Holding Her Hair

Minomura Kou

A photographic feature centers on a nude woman gathering and holding her long hair, emphasizing the body, pose, and hair as erotic visual motifs.

Legend of the White Monkey Tower

Furuyada Masahide

A historical erotic adventure follows the female bandit Osen and the swordsman Denkurō as they pursue a rumored cache of Takeda gold hidden near the White Monkey Tower, encountering deception, robbery, betrayal, drugged liquor,…

Legend of Hawk's Nest Valley

Fujimi Iku

An illustrated historical erotic adventure serial set in a mountainous valley, where warriors pursue a fabled treasure and become entangled in abduction, coercive sexual violence, brutal swordplay, revenge, and shifting loyalties among villagers and…

Blood Calls the Diamond

Hayama Takeshi

A serialized crime-adventure follows Jim, a diamond-mine worker whose theft, betrayal, flight, and encounters with doctors, police, and accomplices unfold across colonial Africa, with repeated scenes of coercion, pursuit, and restraint.

Strange Tale of Hōnenji

Okano Takeya

This historical erotic tale set around Hōnenji depicts samurai, entertainers, and other figures drawn into schemes of desire, deception, abduction, and physically restrictive punishment, accompanied by dramatic illustrations of bound and struggling bodies.

The Snow Demon Woman Has Four Fingers

Hasegawa Isamu

A serialized supernatural erotic tale follows a traveler caught in a blizzard who encounters a mysterious snow-demon woman with four fingers, becomes entangled in her desperate appeals and an enigmatic household, and faces escalating…

Legendary Curse-Binding of the Hunting Tribe

Mizusawa Yukio

A serialized Edo-period erotic adventure follows the secret agent O-Kyo as she carries a confidential document through the mountains, is pursued and captured by hostile warriors and members of the Shishi tribe, and endures…

The Cage That Summoned It

Dō Fumihiko

A serialized erotic-suspense story follows a theater enthusiast whose fascination with actresses, used tissues, bodily scent, and discarded personal items develops into obsessive fetishistic behavior, theft, deception, and an investigation involving performers and backstage…

A Certain Beauty Exercise

A reader-short-review section presents enthusiastic responses to the issue’s fiction, illustrations, and beauty-themed erotic material, alongside editorial discussion of forthcoming contributions and reader submissions. The notices emphasize readers’ participatory role in evaluating and shaping…

Asatarō Shigure

Mikunizawa Takashi

A serialized historical erotic fiction about Asatarō, a fugitive caught in political intrigue and familial conflict, whose attempts to protect his father and escape pursuit lead to captivity, coercion, and violent reversals.

Reader Short Reviews

A visual feature presents staged photographic scenes of women and men bound in varied positions, accompanied by an editorial list of unpublished reader-submitted works and contributors.

The Horinushi Mondo Incident, Part One

Segawa Yasuko

This serialized historical tale recounts the Edo-period Horinushi Mondo affair through samurai conflict, pursuit, betrayal, captivity, interrogation, and violent punishment, with eroticized scenes of coercion and restraint. The installment follows the protagonists’ escalating misfortunes…

The Trap of the Shadow Flower

Tsurunuma Jirō

A serialized erotic mystery follows Mitsugi and the people around him through romantic entanglements, blackmail, and mounting suspicion before a woman is found shot in an apartment and police investigate fingerprints, forged evidence, and…

Illustrated Notes on Punishment Implements and Customs

Suzuki Kazuo

An illustrated historical survey of punishment in Japan, especially Edo-period criminal law, interrogation, torture, execution, and the implements used to restrain and punish offenders, with comparisons to older and foreign practices. The article also…

Women in the World of Izumi Kyōka

Naka Yasuhiro

This literary essay examines the women in Izumi Kyōka’s fiction, recounting characters whose beauty, desire, loyalty, and social constraints lead them through tragic romances, violence, captivity, and death. Accompanying illustrations visualize scenes of restraint,…

Legend of the Musasabi Incense Burner

Tama Gunpei

A richly illustrated historical erotic adventure follows a group of seekers pursuing a legendary incense burner and hidden treasure associated with Amakusa Shirō, amid village intrigue, betrayal, pursuit, cave exploration, and repeated abduction and…

Love-Hate Seal Impressions

Kano Katsuhiko

A serialized historical erotic fiction narrative follows Sado-based characters through schemes, captivity, coercion, punishment, and violent romantic entanglements, accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrations.

Uramado Back-Issue Contents Index

An index of Uramado back issues lists prior issue dates, titles, fiction and visual features, special sections, prices, and ordering information.

Red Paper

Enjōji Tatsu

An Edo-period erotic tale follows Koyuki as she is drawn into a coercive encounter with a samurai, emphasizing abduction, restraint, humiliation, and female submission within a historical setting.

The Nude Woman Collapses into a Demonic Dream

Tōge Kōsuke

This serialized erotic fantasy follows artist Yoshida and model Reiko through increasingly coercive sessions involving nude modeling, altered consciousness, restraint, and psychological domination, blurring artistic practice with sadistic sexual control.

Hell-Picture Wife

Iida Toyokichi

An Edo-period erotic novella follows the beautiful Mihoyo, whose relationships with her husband, an artist, and other men lead to escalating scenes of obsession, abduction, rope restraint, humiliation, and punishment, accompanied by dramatic erotic…

A Mirror of Whipping

“A Mirror of Whipping” combines erotic illustrations and commentary depicting teachers, men, and women administering or receiving whipping, emphasizing the convergence of punitive cruelty and masochistic pleasure.

Five-Colored Satan

A color photographic feature titled “Five-Colored Satan” presents a theatrically staged, rope-bound female figure suspended against a dark backdrop.

Oda Toshimi Illustration Collection

Oda Toshimi

Oda Toshimi’s illustration collection presents dramatic erotic scenes of women subjected to bondage, restraint, punishment, captivity, and death-themed scenarios, including revenge, ordeal, and eroticized corpses.

Bound Beauty

A photographic portfolio presenting women in elaborate rope bondage, restrained in varied seated, kneeling, reclining, and standing positions, with emphasis on bodily display and staged erotic tableaux.

Leather Belts, Rope, and Monkey Whips

A photographic feature demonstrating staged restraint scenarios using leather belts, rope, and a monkey gag, including both standing and floor-bound configurations.

Punishment for the Buttocks

A staged photographic feature depicting women restrained with belts and rope and subjected to spanking or whipping focused on the buttocks, including scenes involving a chair and other bondage arrangements.

The White Fish

A photographic feature presents a woman in a sequence of rope-bound and sexually posed positions, emphasizing varied restraints, exposure, and staged submission.

The Psychology of Whipping

Uemura Kyūzō

Uemura Kyūzō examines the psychology of whipping, discussing sadistic and masochistic impulses, sexual arousal, exhibitionism, bodily focus, and the social meanings attached to punishment and pain.

History of Whipping

Yamashita Seiichi

Yamashita Seiichi surveys whipping and corporal punishment across religious rites, fertility ceremonies, historical penalties, and modern sexual practices, linking ritualized violence with ideas of purification, sacrifice, discipline, and desire.

The Tattoo of the Whipped Devil

Nishitō Isuke

An erotic reportage follows a visit to a secret room where a young woman is subjected to needlework, bodily marking, and whipping in a ritualized encounter involving an older woman and a tattooed “devil.”…

Love Born from Whipping

Masaki Shin’ichi

Presented as a psychological case narrative, this article describes a man’s use of free-association methods to select and test a prospective wife before progressively introducing bondage, whipping, and humiliating sexual discipline. The woman’s distress…

The Ecstatic Death of the Burning Poker

Negishi Kō

Combining a discussion of algolagnia with a first-person-style case history, the article portrays sexual pleasure derived from inflicting and receiving severe pain, including whipping, restraint, branding with heated metal, and other punitive injuries within…

Night Succubus

Toyoshima Susumu

A sensationalized account follows a sexually fixated young murderer whose assaults, killings, grave-robbing, and abuse of corpses lead to police investigation and arrest.

Gallery of Famous Erotic and Bizarre Paintings

A six-part illustrated gallery surveys erotic and bizarre paintings, presenting stylized nude scenes—including heterosexual and same-sex encounters—alongside commentary on sexual desire, gendered bodies, and historical artistic conventions.

The Woman of the Burning Stake

Kageura Keita

This serialized erotic fiction depicts a woman drawn into a coercive, religiously charged world of domination, ritual punishment, torture, and fire, conveyed through sensational narration, dialogue, and accompanying imagery.

Intercourse Between Human and Snake

Sengoku Sentarō

A sensational account of alleged sexual encounters and emotional bonds between women and snakes, combining folklore, historical anecdotes, dreams, and reports of snake-related erotic fascination.

The Sadomasochistic Couple in the Room of Passion

Takeuchi Ryūgo

A reportage-style feature follows a sadomasochistic couple at a lodging house, describing their bondage, whipping, restraint, sexual role-play, and the reporter’s observations of their private practices.

The Hellish Nunnery

Kitahara Shigeki

A first-person sensational narrative describes a woman’s captivity in a clandestine nunnery, where forced confession, beatings, restraint, sexualized abuse, and eventual death expose the institution’s hellish violence.

The Sadist with a Pistol

Kanda Kimio

A sensational erotic crime account describes a sadistic man who uses a pistol to intimidate, capture, and restrain women, with police investigation and pursuit surrounding the incidents.

The Blood-Bath of the Countess

Kawamura Sadao

This historical account recounts the alleged blood-bath practices of Countess Elizabeth Báthory, focusing on aristocratic cruelty, the torture and killing of young women, and the enduring legend surrounding her crimes.

The Loveliness of a Bound Woman

Katsurao Takao

A first-person marital SM narrative describes a husband’s obsessive bondage and punishment of his wife, accompanied by illustrations depicting her tied and restrained in domestic scenes.

The Story of the Sacred Prostitute Fanny Hill

Iriya Daisuke

A serialized retelling of John Cleland’s Fanny Hill follows the orphaned Fanny’s entry into London’s erotic underworld, her encounters with lovers and patrons, and her eventual movement toward marriage and domestic happiness. The article…

Four Mysteries Concerning Body Hair

Tamamaru Kiyohiko

This pseudo-sexological article examines four supposed mysteries of human body hair, linking patterns of head, facial, pubic, and body hair to gender, sexual development, temperament, and social distinctions. It also discusses excessive hair and…

Curious Sexual History of the Meiji Era, Part 3

A historical collection of Meiji-era sexual anecdotes recounts geisha and brothel life, including financial and contractual disputes, pregnancy, and the involvement of intermediaries, patrons, and authorities. The piece treats these episodes as curious documentary…

Double Suicide of the Separate Princesses

A sensational historical account describes two separated young women, presented as princess-like figures, whose forbidden attachment culminates in a double suicide and is framed through themes of familial and erotic transgression.

Games of Perverse Pleasure

This multi-page dossier collects lurid accounts of unusual sexual behavior and violent domestic or criminal incidents, accompanied by photographic and illustrated scenes of restraint, humiliation, assault, and other transgressive pleasures.

Confession of a Woman: I Cannot Be Satisfied Without Unusual Methods

Taniatsu Chūji

In a first-person confession, a woman explains that ordinary sex cannot satisfy her and describes her arousal through being tied, physically overpowered, and subjected to unusual bondage by her husband or male partner.

Intoxication Born from the Pain of a Leather Strap

Nakada Kimiyo

A first-person account describes a married woman’s growing erotic intoxication from leather-strap whipping, followed by her retaliatory use of physical punishment against her husband.

The Pleasure of Treating a Man Like a Servant

Ōtaki Sayoko

A woman recounts the pleasure of dominating her husband as a servant through commands, grooming, teasing, and disciplined domestic submission within their marriage.

The 168 Women Who Became My Prey

Asada Harukichi

This sensational historical account describes the capture, sexual violation, killing, and mutilation of women during a Sengoku-period castle assault, including graphic attention to their corpses and the eagles that feed on them.

Beginning of Female Sumo

Toyoshima Susumu

A historical account of the beginnings of female sumo, tracing its development as a public spectacle and describing its performers, contests, and reception in early modern Japan.

The Jade Hairpin

Yatsu Chūji

A historical erotic tale centered on a jade hairpin, involving marriage, beauty, desire, social rank, deception, and the escalating humiliation and domination of its characters.

Am I a Savage?

Matsui Hiroshi

A sexological advice column answering readers’ questions about sexual appetite, abstinence, marital dissatisfaction, gendered desire, sexual training, and the effects of sleep medication and other bodily conditions on sexuality.

The Man Possessed by a Woman’s Corpse

Otoha Kiyoji

A grotesque erotic tale follows Genzo, a brothel worker who becomes obsessed with and sexually tormented by the corpse of a woman, blending hallucination, desire, guilt, and macabre violence. The illustrated narrative presents his…

May 1960 Cover: Special Issue on Homosexuality and Pleasurable Humiliation

The May 1960 cover announces a special issue devoted to homosexuality and pleasurable humiliation, pairing the theme with a staged erotic photograph of a woman.

At the Bathhouse

Suzuki Harunobu

A shunga-style bathhouse illustration portrays erotic touching between women after bathing, using the private bathing space as a setting for same-sex intimacy.

Meeting on a Boat

A shunga-style illustration depicts an intimate encounter between two women aboard a boat, emphasizing privacy, voyeuristic absence, and the transgressive pleasure of being away from public eyes.

Narcissism in Ukiyo-e

An illustrated feature examines narcissistic self-regard in ukiyo-e, presenting erotic scenes of women admiring or contemplating their own bodies and appearance.

Male Tree and Female Avenue

A photographic feature contrasts a single male-designated tree with a female-designated avenue of trees, identified as scenes from gardens in Britain.

Formal Table of Contents

The formal contents page enumerates the issue’s essays, fiction, visual features, and special material concerning same-sex desire, sexual psychology, fetishism, and humiliation.

The Swing

Hérouard

Hérouard’s two-panel erotic illustration depicts a woman swinging so that her skirt rises and her exposed body descends toward an entranced gentleman below.

The Woman Who Lets Her Breast Be Sucked

A photographic feature depicts an erotic scenario involving a woman allowing another person to suck her breast, presented through staged intimate images.

Captured Mermaid

An erotic illustration depicts a nude woman presented as a captured mermaid, bound with ropes among wooden beams and posed as an object of captivity.

The Garden Mermaid

A color photographic feature stages a bound woman as a “garden mermaid,” restrained outdoors among rocks and vegetation with ropes around her body.

Foreign Erotic Drawings

A two-image feature presents foreign erotic drawings depicting nude women in stylized, fetish-oriented poses.

Women and Animals

This visual feature assembles erotic images of women alongside animals, drawing on both illustrative and photographic representations of human–animal fantasy and spectacle.

Captured Mermaid

A photographic sequence shows a woman staged as a captured mermaid, repeatedly restrained with rope, gagged, and posed in submissive positions while awaiting further punishment.

Ukiyo-e Frontispiece

Utamaro

This feature reproduces an ukiyo-e image attributed to Utamaro and frames it as an example of the artistic legacy of Japanese woodblock prints.

Naked Woman’s Sorrow and Joy

A photographic feature titled “Naked Woman’s Sorrow and Joy” depicts a nude woman bound with rope in staged poses, emphasizing the contrasting emotional experiences of restraint.

Neck Binding

A photographic feature demonstrating neck binding, with a woman restrained by rope in seated and curled positions against a domestic backdrop.

Nude Tight Binding

A photographic portfolio depicts a nude woman in tightly bound poses, emphasizing full-body rope restraint and contorted positioning.

The Anguish of Mahiru

A staged photographic sequence follows a woman bound with rope in outdoor and indoor settings, presenting successive postures of distress, exposure, and immobilization.

When a Woman Is Bound

This photographic feature presents a woman being bound in a series of staged scenes, accompanied by text about desire, submission, whipping, abuse, and erotic intoxication.