Bound to a Lattice Door

A photographic feature shows a woman tied upright to a wooden lattice door, with rope securing her torso and limbs in several standing poses.

The Cursed Breasts

Odagiri Sō

Set in the Edo period, this illustrated erotic crime narrative depicts a woman’s striking breasts becoming the center of voyeurism, sexual exploitation, public scandal, and official pursuit.

Shrimp Tie

A photographic feature depicting a woman secured in a painful “shrimp tie” position, with her limbs folded and bound tightly against her body.

Beside the Machinery

A staged bondage photographic feature showing a woman restrained in several positions beside industrial machinery, emphasizing the contrast between erotic captivity and a mechanical setting.

A Shameless Posture

A photographic sequence presents a woman bound with her legs forced apart, her hands restrained behind her, and her mouth gagged, framing her discomfort, shame, and helplessness as erotic spectacle.

Poses of Women Being Tormented

An illustrated portfolio depicts women in poses of torment, including restraint, suspension, binding, and other punitive tableaux situated in historical and theatrical settings.

Cruel Erotic Picture Scroll

A photographic feature presents a sequence of elaborately bound women posed in theatrical, painful-looking positions, framed as a cruel and erotic picture scroll.

In an Empty Cinema

This visual feature stages the solitary discovery of a bound nude woman in an empty cinema, using rows of vacant seats and varied rope-bound poses to create an atmosphere of secrecy and spectatorship.

Temptation to Masochism

Kuroda Shirō

An essay on the temptation of masochism examines how submission, humiliation, cruelty, and fascination with authority can emerge in everyday life, drawing on psychological observations, historical anecdotes, reported cases, and fictional or cinematic examples.…

Tormented with a Rod

A photographic sequence depicts a restrained woman being tormented with a long rod, accompanied by text describing the rod’s use against the breasts, abdomen, limbs, and other sensitive areas to produce intense pain and…

Caught in Black Cord

A photographic bondage feature shows a woman wrapped and immobilized with black cord in several floor-bound poses.

Sadism Hidden in Punishment

Okumura Sekio

Okumura Sekio’s essay argues that sadistic impulses are concealed within punishment and examines how cruelty is legitimized through law, religion, social morality, and the maintenance of order.

Ecology of Cruel Punishments Around the World

Mano Rei

An illustrated historical survey of cruel punishments and executions worldwide, describing methods such as mutilation, impalement, burning, dismemberment, confinement, and other forms of bodily torture across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

The Bound Woman in the Warehouse

This staged photographic feature places a bound woman among stacks of material in a cluttered warehouse, documenting several restrained poses and viewpoints.

Bondage, Front and Back

A photographic sequence presents a woman bound with rope in front and rear views, emphasizing the changing expressions and body positions produced by restraint.

Eight States of a Woman Cruelly Tormented

An illustrated catalogue presents eight scenes of a woman being cruelly tormented through chains, ropes, mechanical restraints, fire, water, and forced bodily positions.

Various Punishments and Tortures

Banba Takeo

A richly illustrated comparative account of punishments and interrogation practices, ranging from European and Japanese historical penalties to religious persecution, torture devices, execution methods, and mass beheading.

Flower of Ecstatic Cruelty

A photographic portfolio depicts women bound in a series of elaborate rope configurations and uncomfortable positions, including paired and slatted-floor arrangements, emphasizing staged ordeal and spectatorship.

Toraji Should Be Bound

Ari Kyōji

A grotesque supernatural erotic narrative follows Sadako, Toraji, and others through encounters involving uncanny powers, coercion, captivity, bodily violence, and sexualized restraint, with accompanying discussion and imagery from a related film adaptation.

Hanai Oume's Prison Diary

Umyōin Itta

A dramatized historical prison diary recounts Hanai Oume’s confinement after a murder conviction, describing women’s prison administration, forced labor, solitary confinement, deprivation, beatings, and other severe disciplinary punishments in the Meiji era.

Sacrifice to Wild Passion

A staged photographic vignette presents a restrained woman as a sacrificial figure in a muddy or wet setting, combining captivity imagery with an atmosphere of eroticized ordeal.

What Does a Woman Think?

An illustrated essay examines women’s sexuality and same-sex desire through historical, psychological, and cultural examples, accompanied by depictions of women in erotic and socially transgressive roles.

Punishment in Edo Feudal Society

Ashidate Eikichi

This illustrated historical survey examines punishment in Edo feudal society, presenting public and private executions and corporal penalties such as crucifixion, burning, hanging, stone-holding, branding, and other forms of judicial and military discipline.

Possessed by Sound

Matsudaira Sōji

A confessional-style male narrative traces the protagonist’s lifelong erotic fixation on sounds, quietness, and sensory impressions, connecting these experiences to childhood, family relationships, desire, shame, and encounters with women.

Nutrix Gallery

The Nutrix Gallery presents imported erotic illustrations depicting women in dominant, disciplinary, and bondage-oriented scenes, with captions linking the images to serialized fetish narratives.

Shencheng Cruelty Record

Sugasawa Ichirō

A serialized wartime cruelty narrative follows military intelligence operations involving captured enemy agents, interrogation, disguise, confinement, and the punishment of a female spy, combining sensational espionage with eroticized coercion and captivity.

Women’s Homosexual Love Club

John Carlisle

This serialized erotic narrative follows members of a women’s homosexual love club whose school and domestic encounters develop into explicit same-sex relationships, erotic experimentation, and disciplinary power dynamics.

Memorandum of Inoue Chikugo-no-Kami

Akashi Shioko

A historical erotic narrative about Inoue Chikugo-no-Kami’s persecution of Christians, featuring arrests, interrogations, torture, bondage, and sacrificial religious conflict in an Edo-period setting.

Secret History of the Martyrdom of Magdalena

Abe Kidayoshi

Abe Kidayoshi presents an eroticized historical narrative of Magdalena’s religious martyrdom, depicting her persecution, torture, and execution amid themes of faith, sin, and repentance.

Rope and Whip Play

Henmi Keiichirō

Henmi Keiichirō presents staged photographs and commentary on sadomasochistic play involving a German woman, rope restraint, whipping, positional bondage, and related role-playing scenes.

Hungry Eyes Shine on the Stairs

Nagai Takujirō

A crime-and-captivity story follows the pursuit, restraint, interrogation, and punishment of a woman amid stairways, hidden rooms, police involvement, and voyeuristic erotic tension, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

Old Punishments Were Cruel

An illustrated historical survey depicts various punishments and torture practices from earlier eras, emphasizing their severity through scenes of execution, bodily torment, and public cruelty.

Readers’ Salon

The Readers’ Salon collects reader submissions, personal requests, photographic-model notices, and editorial responses concerning erotic posing, bondage, punishment, fetish interests, and desired future features.

Regional Tales of Torment

This illustrated catalog advertises back issues and special editions of Gaho Fuzoku Kitan, listing their photographs, stories, bondage scenarios, punishment themes, fetish subjects, and ordering information.

Strange Tales

Tsube Saburō

A feature examining the aesthetic, grotesque, erotic, and fetishistic dimensions of Edogawa Ranpo’s detective fiction also includes a reader-style vignette about romance involving handcuffs.

Agency Department Notices

Agency-department notices advertise mail-order erotic publications, photographs, and model-related sets, with listings organized by themes such as bondage, nudity, punishment, and staged SM scenes.

Seiu-Style Ways of Tying Women

Itō Seiu

Itō Seiu explains and illustrates numerous methods for tying women, covering rope techniques, restrictive positions, implements, and suspension in a detailed practical instructional feature.

Another World

A photographic feature presents staged sadomasochistic tableaux and historical fetish images, including costumed female performers and scenes of restraint, while describing the circulation of such imagery in Germany before the twentieth century.

The Rough Rope and Black Hair Composition

Yoshida Hisashi

A photographic portfolio presents a woman posed in varied outdoor and studio-style scenes bound with rough rope, emphasizing the visual composition of rope against her body and long black hair.

Whip-Demon Robert

An erotic fiction narrative follows Robert, a man drawn into escalating scenes of whipping, restraint, captivity, and domination involving women and institutional authority.

The Binding Curse of Princess Teru

Shimamoto Haruo

An eight-part illustrated historical supernatural tale follows Princess Teru and other figures through curses, enchanted images, captivity, rope binding, burial, and ritualized punishment in an Edo-period setting.

Salon Masochistica

Shōji and Woman

Fukamori Eiji

A photographic feature presents a male subject posed in elaborate rope restraints against shōji screens and within a traditional Japanese interior, emphasizing the visual composition of staged bondage scenes.

Window on Homosexuality

The Strange Island of Female Guardians

Toyoda Ichirō

An illustrated serialized erotic narrative follows female students and a teacher on a remote island where women exercise authoritarian control through military discipline, captivity, rope restraint, and corporal punishment. Its wartime setting and recurring…

Room for Cross-Dressing Enthusiasts

Girls for Pleasure

Kashiwa Masahiko

This illustrated erotic narrative depicts girls being captured, confined, disciplined, and subjected to punitive and exploitative treatment in a so-called pleasure district, including scenes framed as criminal punishment and experimentation.

Uramado Town

A miscellany of Uramado Town briefs surveys films, television, crime and prison news, sensational incidents, investigative reports, and other topical cultural items.

Black-Hair Confession

Shima Fuji

Shima Fuji’s serialized confession follows a narrator’s intense fascination with women’s black hair, weaving erotic attraction, family memories, social encounters, and hair-care imagery into a personal narrative.

Secret Notebook No. 6: The S within H

Kabiya Kazuhiko

Masochist's Letters, No. 10: My Nostrils Twitch

Usami Kiyoshi

A personal fetish essay explores the writer’s fascination with women’s nostrils, nasal breathing, facial expressions, and the visual angles produced by erotic posing, accompanied by illustrative imagery.

The World Beneath the Skirt

Ama Tetsurō

An erotic reportage-style feature depicts men observing and exploiting women’s legs, feet, footwear, and sleeping bodies in trains, streets, and other public or semi-public settings, accompanied by explicit illustrations of voyeuristic and fetishistic encounters.

Why I Became a Bondage Maniac

Ebihara Makoto

Uramado Miscellany and New Film Introductions

Sunaji Hiroshi

A miscellaneous editorial section combines sensational news and sexual-interest reports with introductions and reviews of contemporary films, including erotic, violent, and historical productions.

My Virgin Sacrifice

Ryūmaruji Shin

A first-person erotic confession recounts a sadistic encounter with a young maid who is confined, stripped, gagged, bound, and subjected to escalating humiliation and corporal abuse as an alleged “virgin sacrifice.”

The Underground Organization of Neo-Nazism

Moriwaki Hikaru

A serialized fictional narrative follows a violent neo-Nazi underground organization whose recruits undergo ideological indoctrination, coercive training, restraint, torture, and sexualized disciplinary scenes amid conspiratorial political activity.

Luo Wang and Peng Hou

Aoyama Miekichi

This historical erotic fiction depicts the tyrannical Luo Wang and Peng Hou amid palace intrigue, with women and servants subjected to elaborate restraints, punitive torture, sexualized humiliation, and deadly violence.

Roundtable: Remembering the Artist Seiu

A lively roundtable commemorates the artist Seiu through personal recollections of his character, career, paintings, stage work, photography, and influence on Japanese erotic and bondage imagery.

Reader Short Reviews

A reader-review section gathers responses to recent magazine content, assessing erotic paintings, photographs, fiction, and editorial features while reflecting on the publication’s direction and standards.

The Garden of Ecstatic Cruelty 4: Prayer of the Female Slave

Tonomura Megumi

The fourth installment of a serialized sadomasochistic narrative follows women drawn into relationships of captivity, erotic devotion, coercion, punishment, and ritualized restraint, with extended scenes of rope bondage and psychological domination.

Reader Salon

The reader-salon section presents correspondence and editorial responses alongside reader-submitted erotic photographs, personal reports, publication requests, and notices about forthcoming features and products.

From the Editorial Office

An editorial-office notice reflects on the issue’s cruelty-themed contents and strong reader response, announces expanded and forthcoming special issues, and invites readers to submit manuscripts, photographs, and other material while providing ordering information.

Ecstatic-Cruelty Photo Collection

A photographic portfolio presents staged erotic scenes of a woman subjected to rope bondage, immobilization, positional restraint, and suspension in a studio setting.

Selected Illustration Masterpieces from Earlier Uramado Issues

A retrospective portfolio revisits selected illustrated features from earlier Uramado issues, presenting fictional and sensational scenes involving rope bondage, captivity, punishment, supernatural motifs, and historical erotic fantasy.

Self-Intoxication

A photographic vignette presents a woman admiring her unclothed reflection in a mirror, emphasizing self-absorption and sensual self-display.

Disordered Clothing

A staged photographic feature depicts women in partially disarranged clothing and intimate poses, focusing on the sensuality of loosened garments and exposed bodies.

Ecstasy for Two

A photographic sequence portrays two women in an intimate bondage scenario, with rope restraint, entwined bodies, and shared erotic pleasure.

Burning Alone

A staged erotic photograph presents a woman bound in rope and draped in a loosened red kimono, emphasizing solitary restraint and an atmosphere of quiet torment.

Gravure: Whip Scenes

A staged erotic photographic portfolio presents women in outdoor and traditional indoor settings bound with rope, collars, chains, and restrictive postures, emphasizing vulnerability, humiliation, and theatrical punishment imagery.

A Tight-Binding Duet

A photographic tableau of two women bound together depicts a coordinated rope-restraint pose framed as a “tight-binding duet.”

Sailor Uniform in Disarray

A multi-page photographic portfolio shows a sailor-uniformed model in various rope-bound poses, with the disordered uniform and exposed legs forming a central visual motif.

Beside the Nagahibachi

A photographic bondage feature depicts a woman tied with her hands behind her back in domestic interiors, including scenes beside and atop a traditional Japanese nagahibachi brazier. The captions emphasize the discomfort and danger…

In the Grass

This photographic feature places a rope-bound nude woman in a grassy outdoor setting, showing her posed among the grass in various restrained positions. The captions stress the cold, exposed sensation of lying naked on…

On the Stand

A staged photographic sequence shows a woman bound and gagged on and around a Western liquor stand, posed like a tropical fish trapped in an aquarium. The images emphasize captivity, immobilization, and the spectacle…

The Enchanting White Fish

A photographic bondage feature presents a model wrapped and posed in elaborate rope restraints, emphasizing the luminous beauty of the bound body.

Go-Board Torment

A photographic feature stages the model restrained across and around a go board, using the board, stones, and varied postures as elements of a torment-oriented bondage scene.

Against the Mountain of Firewood

A photographic bondage feature places the model tied among firewood and in a wooded setting, highlighting the rough, prickling texture of the logs and the vulnerability of outdoor restraint.