Modern Masochism Cultural Criticism, 27

Morishita Takashige

Morishita Takashige surveys modern masochistic culture through television dramas, films, photography, popular music, and related visual forms, comparing Japanese and Western representations of female vulnerability, captivity, discipline, fetishized bodies, and eroticized suffering. The essay…

Uramado Literary Criticism

Andō Izumi

Andō Izumi reviews and analyzes Yumihiko Nakahara’s literary work 虚栄の市 (The Vanity Fair), examining its puppet-theater-like characters, satire of postwar urban society, and recurring contrasts between sadistic and masochistic dispositions. The criticism also considers…

Uramado: Introduction to Notable Reading from Previous Issues

A recurring Uramado reading guide that introduces and excerpts notable material from earlier issues, including erotic narratives, bondage scenes, practical material, and illustrated features, alongside publication and ordering information.

History of the Cruelty of Seppuku, Part 1

Natsukawa Kōichirō

The first installment surveys the history and methods of seppuku, combining historical examples, anatomical discussion, and illustrated scenes to emphasize the ritual’s extreme violence and suffering.

Postwar Enchanting Views

Mano Rei

An illustrated reportage on postwar urban erotic life, recounting encounters, observations, and sexualized scenes involving women and men in Tokyo’s streets, entertainment districts, parks, and other public or semi-public settings.

The Third Time's Honesty

Miki Shun

This serialized erotic fairy tale follows Kätchen, a poor young woman mistreated by her stepmother, whose encounters with angels, magical doors, and royal figures lead to repeated tests of honesty, confinement, binding, and punishment…

An Irresponsible Boom

Shigemori Azuma

This reader commentary criticizes the irresponsible boom in SM-themed books, films, journalism, and other media, arguing that sensationalized or fabricated representations distort the subject and exploit public interest.

Okinawa Shōji Miniature Masterpieces

Okinawa Shōji

An illustration portfolio presents women bound with rope in elaborate seated, reclining, standing, and outdoor tableaux, emphasizing stylized restraint, exposed vulnerability, and dramatic composition.

Kyokugiri Nenja

Kabiya Kazuhiko

A serialized historical erotic narrative set in a samurai household follows the coercive bondage, punishment, jealousy, and eventual violent death surrounding the young servant Shōhei and his master’s household. The story combines erotic domination…

Fujisawa Osamu Photo Works

Fujisawa Osamu

A portfolio of Osamu Fujisawa’s photographs depicts a woman in varied bound and restricted positions, combining intimate indoor studies with more elaborate staged compositions.

Screen Climax Collection

A photographic collection of screen climaxes presents staged film scenes centered on women subjected to bondage, captivity, restraint, and theatrical sadomasochistic tableaux.

Body-Impact Masochism Theory, 24

Mizuo Kyū

Mizuo Kyū’s essay theorizes “body-impact” masochism through the contrast between classical ideals and modern popular representations, emphasizing physical punishment, slapping, whipping, and the reversal of conventional gender roles. The accompanying illustrations depict women physically…

Red Moon Night

Akagi Keisuke

An illustrated erotic crime-and-captivity tale in which Shinwa and Ryōko’s relationship turns toward jealousy, coercion, restraint, and violent punishment beneath an ominous red moon.

Woman Pickpocket O-Chō

Gosho Akira

This illustrated crime story follows the female pickpocket O-Chō from theft and capture through coercive interrogation, rope restraint, humiliation, and physical punishment by men in authority.

Law of the Dark Streets

Higashijima Kaoru

An illustrated underworld captivity narrative in which armed men seize and bind Miho, subjecting her to coercive restraint and escalating sexualized violence amid threats, betrayal, and criminal intrigue.

Rotten Storehouse

Yoshikawa Gen

This illustrated period erotic thriller follows O-Rin and Say o in a decaying storehouse, where women are bound to pillars, threatened with punishment, exposed to smoke, and caught in a shifting struggle among captors,…

Prayer to the Appointed Goddess, 4: From the Record of a Certain Refusal

Morimoto Aizō

A case-record-style erotic narrative follows a man’s encounters with women whose refusals, resistance, and shifting sexual power relations expose patterns of domination, submission, humiliation, fetishism, and psychological compulsion. The article presents these episodes as…

Wet Flower

Matsuyama Shōichi

This historical erotic tale follows Suzuki, a young woman drawn into a feudal household where an older woman and male authorities manipulate, expose, and sexually humiliate her through coercive commands and staged encounters.

My Literary Criticism

Eda Kiriko

Eda Kiriko offers an extended, skeptical reading of Yumiko Kurahashi’s novel “My Heart Belongs to Papa,” outlining its family and romantic entanglements while questioning its treatment of incestuous desire, erotic psychology, realism, and literary…

Gordon's Memories, 15

Ama Tetsurō

Episode 15 of a serialized erotic crime mystery follows police and academic investigators probing a bizarre case involving an imperiled woman, secret experiments, coercive encounters, and medical apparatus, accompanied by dramatic restraint-oriented illustrations.

Reader Corner and Editorial Afterword

The reader corner presents correspondence and feedback from readers, while the editorial afterword discusses submissions, editorial priorities, upcoming features, and future issue plans.

Inojima Masaya Masterpiece Photo Collection

Inojima Masaya

A photographic portfolio by Inojima Masaya presenting women in elaborate rope-bound poses, including seated, kneeling, and tightly restrained positions.

New American Photo Collection

A collection of newly imported American bondage photographs depicting women posed in rope restraints, staged tableaux, and elaborate scenes of immobilization.

Chamber of the Sand Dune

Yoshida Hisashi

A staged photographic sequence set around the theme of a secluded sand-dune chamber, showing a woman bound with rope in varied indoor poses and settings.

First Gravure: Bondage and Restrained Women

A photographic portfolio presents women subjected to elaborate rope bondage in seated, reclining, kneeling, and other constrained positions, including blindfolding and gagging, with both indoor and outdoor staged scenes.

Frontispiece Illustrations

Yotsuma Takashi

A series of erotic illustrations depicts women and men in theatrical bondage, captivity, and restraint scenarios, including rope tying, immobilization, and stylized scenes of punishment or ordeal.

Second Gravure: Bondage Studies

A photographic bondage portfolio documents a woman’s rope restraints in varied seated, standing, lying, and outdoor positions, emphasizing elaborate tying and controlled posture. The feature also includes film-strip imagery presenting bondage scenes as staged…

Wife's Confession

Mizuno Kayo

Mizuno Kayo’s first-person confession describes a woman’s marriage to a husband interested in SM, including domestic episodes of erotic binding, stripping, sensory restriction, and submission. The account presents bondage as an intimate but psychologically…

Autopsy of the Fully Nude Body

Shingū Akio

Shingū Akio’s sensational erotic narrative depicts a woman subjected to complete nudity, binding, punishment, and an execution-themed ritual, accompanied by stark illustrations of restraint and bodily exposure. The piece combines coercive fantasy with imagery…

My Image: The Woman Prisoner Being Kept

Kondō Hajime

A first-person captivity narrative describes a young woman being abducted, confined, stripped, questioned, and repeatedly subjected to rope bondage, gagging, forced positions, and other humiliating punishments by a wealthy household.

Shameful Record

Yoshimura Yoshiko

Presented as a prize-selected confession and personal record, this account follows a woman’s escalating bondage ordeal involving nudity, restraint, forced postures, enemas, bodily inspection, and punitive treatment by her captors.

Pathos Banquet

Utsuki Yōichi

An autobiographical publishing-world narrative recounts the creation, promotion, circulation, and commercial rivalry of specialist erotic magazines, while reflecting on editorial responsibility, sensational content, and the readers and contributors who sustain the market.

Counterfeit: Tormenting Sadism

Yoshino Mayumi

An erotic sadistic narrative depicts the escalating torment, restraint, humiliation, and bodily punishment of a woman by domineering figures, accompanied by illustrations of bondage and abusive staging.

A Painful History of the Heart

Saijō Misao

This serialized erotic narrative follows a woman through coercive relationships, police pursuit, arrest, interrogation, imprisonment, and repeated episodes of handcuffing, caging, punishment, and sexualized humiliation.

Confession

Inaba Nobuo

A first-person confession recounts the narrator’s developing interest in sadistic and bondage scenes, including the restraint, gagging, humiliation, and punishment of women, and later encounters with SM magazines and related fantasies.

SM Hostess

Murasaki Shima Reiko

Presented as the memoir of an SM hostess, this narrative describes serving male clients through bondage, corporal punishment, humiliation, and demanding physical scenarios, while reflecting on the woman’s background and professional role in the…

My Rubber Play

Umekawa Sachiko

A reader’s account of “rubber play” describes collecting and wearing rubber garments, hoods, masks, and bodysuits for rain play, restraint, exhibition, and erotic role-play, accompanied by illustrations of the outfits and activities.

The Master's Doll

A dark erotic story follows a younger brother’s obsessive relationship with his beautiful widowed older sister, whose return to the family home leads to taboo desire, coercive encounters, and repeated rope restraint staged as…

Eseh Pari Nikki

Manda Fujin

Presented as a pseudo-Paris diary, this surreal erotic narrative blends dream, travel imagery, and encounters with foreign women into fantasies of bodily display, fetishized appearance, sexual experimentation, and domination.

Lakeside Moon-Shadow Notes, Part One

Segawa Yasuko

The opening installment of a historical erotic serial follows political intrigue, pursuit, captivity, torture, and sexualized restraint involving Shink之丞, Snow River, and other figures in a feudal Japanese setting, accompanied by bondage illustrations.

Sweet Submission

Iho Yasushi

This first-person erotic narrative explores a man’s fetishistic attraction to extremely obese women and his conflicted pleasure in facilitating his wife’s involvement with another man, framing marital desire through submission, jealousy, and unconventional sexual…

A Seven-Month-Pregnant Stripper

Segawa Shirō

An erotic reportage piece recounts the author’s encounter with a woman who continues stripping while seven months pregnant, emphasizing her changing body, stage work, and the spectators’ fascination.

Thirteen Women Sentenced to Death, Continued

Sade Sudō

A serialized narrative follows thirteen female death-row prisoners through interrogation, confinement, execution preparations, and graphic scenes of shooting, hanging, electrocution, gassing, and other punitive deaths, accompanied by sensational illustrations.

Wet Through and Through, Continued

Yoshino Mayumi

A sequence of erotic vignettes and illustrated scenarios explores women displayed, dressed, undressed, restrained, and fetishized through raincoats, mourning clothes, lingerie exchanges, body hair, and other clothing-centered situations.

Melon Venus

Senuma Shirō

An erotic photographic essay discusses the staged bondage images of a pregnant model, Tanaka Misako, and her husband, focusing on the visual appeal of her full-term body, the documentation of pregnancy, and tensions between…

On Donan

Kurise Chō

A detailed account of the enema preparation Donan explains its ingredients, dosage, administration, timing, and effects, presenting rectal treatment as both a medical procedure and an eroticized bodily practice.

Flower and Snake, Final Installment

Dan Oniroku

The final installment of Dan Oniroku’s serialized novel follows a coercive erotic plot involving abduction, sadistic control, prolonged rope bondage, humiliation, and staged sexual punishment, accompanied by explicit illustrations.

Recent-Issue General Index

A general index lists the contents and contributors of recent Kitan Club issues, including fiction, articles, illustrations, photographs, reader material, and practical features.

Reader Correspondence

A substantial reader-mail section presents personal accounts of SM interests and experiences, responses to photographs and fiction, relationship and sexual concerns, requests for advice, and efforts to connect readers with one another through the…

Editorial Notices and Colophon

Editorial notices provide submission guidelines for fiction, essays, photographs, and illustrations, announce manuscript prizes and publication plans, and include subscription, back-issue, mail-order, and publisher information.

Dance at the Bottom of the Earth

Yoshida Hisashi

A photographic feature presents a woman performing stylized bondage poses with ropes and suspension apparatus in a stark studio setting.

Helping Strength by Examining Weakness

A polemical social commentary examines how power is projected and protected through sensational films, commercial advertising, consumer relations, and U.S. military action in Vietnam, arguing that institutions exploit weakness while claiming to serve the…

Yellow Gospel

Awaji Shūgo

A serialized first-person erotic fantasy follows coercive and humiliating encounters involving bodily control, enemas, excrement, and recurring church and religious imagery.

Scratching at the Heart of Masochistic Psychology

Andō Izumi

Andō Izumi examines the psychology of masochism through close readings of literary and erotic narratives, especially the whale-hunting story “Kujira-gami,” interpreting bodily sensation, humiliation, desire, and transgressive behavior as elements of masochistic experience. The…

Seeking Freedom from Perversion

Toyama Kazuhiko

Toyama Kazuhiko surveys changing attitudes toward homosexuality and “perversion,” combining discussion of same-sex desire, gay social networks, erotic media, and public gatherings with reflections on discrimination, legal restrictions, and the emerging search for sexual…

Negative Picture

Tsukumo Jūrō

A psychologically charged SM fantasy follows encounters involving erotic magazines, artists, and married partners, developing into increasingly coercive scenes of rope bondage, gagging, whipping, humiliation, and confused boundaries between memory, desire, and reality.

Famous Moon

Furumasa Hideo

A full-page illustration presents a kimono-clad woman seated on a veranda beneath a prominent autumn moon, using a traditional Japanese setting and decorative costume to create a contemplative erotic tableau.

The Gwendoline Story

John Willie

John Willie's illustrated serial follows Gwendoline through a succession of erotic encounters involving capture, bondage, gagging, service, and punishment, while dominant women repeatedly reverse conventional gendered power roles. The narrative is presented through sequential…

Long Nightmare

Hajima Shichirō

A serialized SM fiction narrative follows women drawn into coercive, theatrical scenes of capture, restraint, punishment, and domination, blending a nightmare plot with film-set imagery and dramatic illustrations.

Ecology of a Slave

Segawa Miki

This serialized narrative presents the “ecology” of a male slave through female-directed training, domestic service, physical restraint, punishment, and the establishment of an ongoing authority relationship.

From My Collection

Morishita Takashige

Morishita Takashige reflects on his personal collection of erotic magazines, books, illustrations, photographs, and imported fetish imagery, discussing their historical, technical, and aesthetic qualities alongside his own responses to them.

Tanuki

Ayukawa Yōji

This serialized erotic fantasy follows Junko and other characters through encounters involving animal-like transformation or identification, coercive sexual play, rope restraint, gagging, humiliation, and escalating domination.

Body-on Masochism Theory, No. 29

Mizuo Kyū

Mizuo Kyū’s serialized essay theorizes female masochism through the psychological attraction to fear, danger, heights, humiliation, and surrender, combining speculative analysis with an extended fictional case history of Mori Keiko’s changing desires and encounters.…

Strange Bat Castle

Ushio Kazuki

A serialized erotic adventure follows rival ninja groups as they infiltrate the mysterious Bat Castle, where characters are captured, bound, tortured, and subjected to coercive interrogations amid supernatural threats and violent attempts at rescue…

Prayer to the Arrogant Goddess, Part 8

Morimoto Aizō

The eighth installment of a serialized erotic fantasy follows Tayu and other characters through coercive encounters involving restraint, humiliation, violence, and shifting power between captors and victims.

Gordon's Memories, Part 20

Ama Tetsurō

This mixed narrative and illustrated feature presents Gordon’s erotic memories and fantasies, including encounters shaped by racialized desire, domination, sexualized service, and an intense fixation on women’s feet, shoes, and bodily presentation.

Car and a Dancing Beauty: A German Film

Fujimi Iku

An illustrated analysis of a German SM film presents staged scenes of women restrained with wheels, iron belts, handcuffs, masks, and other apparatus, discussing the contrasting S and M roles, bodily display, and performers’…

Comprehensive Index of Previous Uramado Issues

A comprehensive back-catalogue index lists earlier Uramado issues, their dates, titles, special features, prices, and availability, functioning as a reference and ordering guide for the magazine’s publishing history.

Uramado Town

The Uramado Town section combines film and visual-culture commentary with discussions of erotic representation, reader and contributor viewpoints, editorial exchanges, and notices concerning the magazine’s artistic and publishing activities.

Reader Corner and Editorial Postscript

A reader-correspondence and editorial-postscript section responds to submissions and opinions, discusses the magazine’s literary, photographic, and illustrative contributions and editorial standards, and invites further reader participation and work.

The Pleasures of Miscellaneous News Items

An essay on the appeal of tabloid-style news about crime, accidents, scandal, politics, celebrities, family conflict, and social misfortune. It considers how readers combine moral judgment, curiosity, identification, and entertainment when consuming stories of…

The Wheel of Cause and Effect

Inga Oguruma

A serialized narrative of erotic coercion, restraint, humiliation, jealousy, and changing power between its protagonists. Money, status, family background, and social reputation are entangled with repeated reversals of dominance.

Uramado Literary Criticism: Truth Within the Mask

Kōbō Abe

An essay on avant-garde art, masks, faces, walls, towers, and obstructed spaces as forms of psychological and social expression. It contrasts conventional representation with unusual visual forms and links artistic freedom to resistance against…

In the Flowers

Toho Mitsuya

A narrative about Peach, a young woman whose beauty shapes her movement through domestic service, commercial work, relationships, jealousy, and social expectations. The story examines class mobility, gendered labor, emotional dependency, and the commodification…

The Cage

Kyōsuke Ōtani

A psychologically intense narrative of marriage, surveillance, confinement, coercive authority, threats, interrogation, and escape. Dreams, fear, disorientation, and sexualized violence complicate the protagonists’ experience of captivity.

Prayer to the Goddess Who Is Taken Away

Aizō Morimoto

A serialized narrative of domestication, confinement, commands, punishment, surveillance, sexual coercion, and unstable social power. Its characters move through relationships shaped by animalization, class hierarchy, obsession, resistance, and psychological domination.

Hall of Blazing Fire

Gentetsu Ryūzaki

A period-style adventure of abduction, bondage, sexualized violence, jealousy, rivalry, captivity, and death. Historical or pseudo-historical martial imagery and criminal hierarchies frame the struggle between vulnerable and coercive characters.