Uramado

January 1961

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Cover of Uramado, January 1961

Issue Details

Volume
6
Issue
1
PDF pages
209

Summary

The January 1961 issue of Uramado combines illustrated suspense fiction, bondage photography, historical and cinematic commentary, reader essays, erotic psychology, and several forms of period and contemporary visual narrative. Its two-page printed contents establishes an unusually varied structure, moving repeatedly between prose, drawings, photographic portfolios, and illustrated stories. Bondage, captivity, peril, masochistic fantasy, gender transgression, and the cultural representation of suffering provide the strongest connective threads.

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The issue opens with The House in the Swamp Where People Disappear, an illustrated suspense story by Tsukumo Juro with art by Hiyama Kitaro. The narrative returns later in the issue after intervening features. The first major photographic portfolio, Tree and Woman by Yoshida Hisashi, uses a rough tree trunk as both visual structure and restraint apparatus, producing stark black-and-white studies of a nude bound to or posed around the wood. The Painter of Enmado follows as a dark illustrated tale centered on an artist, erotic grotesquerie, captivity, and the production of disturbing images. Story of a Man Who Wants to Become a Maid shifts toward first-person reflections on gendered behavior, femininity, domestic service, and the narrator’s desire to inhabit a woman’s social role.

The middle of the issue broadens the magazine’s cultural range. Uninvited Peril is an international adventure and abduction story involving a woman traveler, border crossings, pursuit, interrogation, restraint, and escape. A reader essay on the film adaptations of The Great Bodhisattva Pass examines scenes of female suffering in Japanese cinema, while Black-Hair Night Tales considers erotic fascination with women’s hair. Actresses in Scenes of Suffering and Temptation to Masochism further connect popular entertainment and everyday experience to the magazine’s continuing interest in submission, distress, and masochistic imagination. Tragic Death of a Defeated Warrior adds a historical-fiction register, and Disregard for Women’s Rights in the Meiji Era explicitly turns toward historical gender relations.

The latter half is especially rich visually. White Wall and Selected Pleasure-in-Cruelty Photographs present photographic studies of bondage and bodily pose, while Record of Rope-Love Sin and Karma uses an illustrated period setting. Tokyo Hedon Yaro, Uramado Town, Black-Hair Confession, and Readers’ Short Reviews provide shorter prose and community-oriented material. The period picture-story The Man Who Failed to Become a Man is followed by the grotesque tale The Devil’s Fish Is Black Even to Its Mouth, a film-review section, Shake Your Ass and Run, and Female Prisoners and Prenatal Education.

The closing material returns decisively to erotic visual culture. Garden of Pleasure-Cruelty 1: The Captive Cage combines prose and bondage imagery; a retrospective selection reproduces notable illustrations from earlier Uramado issues; and the final Ōoku Scroll of Naked Women uses two-color pages and historical imagery to close the volume. Across these shifts, the issue presents Uramado as both an erotic magazine and a broader archive of fantasies about restraint, gender, danger, performance, historical cruelty, and visualized suffering.

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Table of Contents 26 items
  1. The House in the Swamp Where People Disappear by Tsukumo Juro; illustrations by Hiyama Kitaro
    9
    Summary

    A long-form illustrated erotic thriller follows two men investigating a remote swamp house where women disappear, uncovering abduction, captivity, interrogation, binding, torture, and escape attempts amid a sinister mystery. The serialized narrative combines sensational crime plotting with extensively staged bondage scenes and accompanying illustrations.

  2. Tree and Woman by Yoshida Hisashi
    15
    Summary

    A photographic feature shows a woman bound with rope to a tree in several outdoor poses, emphasizing the visual composition of kinbaku and the restrained body.

  3. The Painter of Enmado by Yagiri Juhachi
    20
    Summary

    This serialized historical erotic fiction follows the painter Enmado as he creates and becomes entangled in increasingly violent scenes of female captivity, restraint, coercion, and pursuit, accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrations.

  4. Story of a Man Who Wants to Become a Maid by Ama Tetsuro
    30
    Summary

    A serialized erotic story follows a man who longs to become a maid and enters a household where he is feminized, assigned domestic service, and subjected to humiliating discipline and restraint.

  5. Uninvited Peril by Yoda Seiichi; illustrations by Okita Shoji
    40
    Summary

    This illustrated captivity tale follows Stella, a woman traveling through a fictional foreign country who is intercepted by security forces, interrogated, stripped, restrained, and subjected to escalating threats before attempting to escape.

  6. On The Great Bodhisattva Pass by Yumo Shigeru
    50
    Summary

    A film-history essay compares several screen adaptations of The Great Bodhisattva Pass, focusing on changing performances, production styles, and the recurring eroticized scenes of O-hama’s capture, binding, and humiliation.

  7. Black-Hair Night Tales by Kurosaki Yoshiyuki
    62
    Summary

    An essay on the erotic and symbolic significance of long black hair surveys hair care, styling, salon practices, beauty ideals, and the fascination with black-haired women in Japanese and wider cultural traditions.

  8. Actresses in Scenes of Suffering by Shiba Toshiyasu
    66
    Summary

    A sensational film-feature article reviews scenes of actresses subjected to capture, bondage, torture, forced exposure, and other ordeals in Japanese and imported films, presenting the performers and films as objects of erotic spectacle.

  9. Temptation to Masochism by Kuroda Shiro
    74
    Summary

    The concluding installment examines masochism through fictionalized and anecdotal cases involving women and men, linking desires for humiliation, punishment, submission, and suffering to psychological, social, and sexual dynamics.

  10. Tragic Death of a Defeated Warrior by Hisatomi Koji
    82
    Summary

    A serialized historical erotic narrative follows defeated warriors and women through pursuit, captivity, combat, escape attempts, and tragic deaths, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.

  11. Disregard for Women's Rights in the Meiji Era by Kasai Koichi
    92
    Summary

    This illustrated historical survey documents the disregard of women’s rights in the Meiji era through accounts of forced marriage, domestic and sexual abuse, discriminatory legal customs, and contemporary newspaper-reported cases.

  12. White Wall by Fukamori Eishi
    99
    Summary

    A photographic sequence depicts a nude woman bound with rope against a stark white wall, moving through crouched, kneeling, standing, and floor-bound positions.

  13. Record of Rope-Love Sin and Karma by Fujimi Masafumi; illustrations by Domi Shoichi
    107
    Summary

    An illustrated historical erotic narrative follows a young master, a female teacher, and their associates through jealousy, sexual intrigue, rope bondage, punishment, and revenge.

  14. Selected Pleasure-in-Cruelty Photographs by Editorial Department
    115
    Summary

    An editorial photographic portfolio presents staged scenes of women subjected to elaborate rope bondage, restraint against furniture and trees, immobilization, and dramatic displays of cruelty.

  15. Tokyo Hedon Yaro by Minamimura Ran
    124
    Summary

    A serialized SM fantasy follows a young man whose encounters with an older dominant woman and other women involve seduction, humiliation, coercive role reversal, and increasingly elaborate bondage and punishment scenes. The accompanying illustrations reinforce the story’s staged erotic scenarios and power dynamics.

  16. Uramado Town
    134
    Summary

    A miscellany section combines film and cultural commentary with sensational crime and punishment reports, including discussions of mystery films, detectives, imprisonment, discipline, and female dominance. It presents these subjects through reviews, anecdotal reportage, and short editorial features on contemporary popular culture.

  17. Black-Hair Confession: Boyhood Chapter by Shima Fuji
    142
    Summary

    A first-person confession revisits the narrator’s boyhood, family life, schooling, and formative encounters with women, emphasizing how memories of beautiful black hair and female attention shaped later desire.

  18. Readers' Short Reviews
    152
    Summary

    A reader-review column presents brief responses to erotic magazines, illustrations, photographs, and related works, showing readers evaluating and discussing the publication’s visual and sexual culture.

  19. The Man Who Failed to Become a Man by Matsudaira Shoji; illustrations by Toyoda Minoru
    154
    Summary

    Set in a historical period, this illustrated narrative follows Send太郎’s coercive encounter with a woman and her family, escalating through captivity, restraint, humiliation, violence, and threatened punishment.

  20. The Devil's Fish Is Black Even to Its Mouth by Hasegawa Isamu
    164
    Summary

    A serialized dark fantasy follows a narrator’s encounter with an uncanny black fish and a succession of disturbing episodes involving violence, pursuit, captivity, and sadistic sexual imagery.

  21. New Film Introductions
    174
    Summary

    A film-review section introduces and evaluates several Japanese and foreign films, emphasizing their plots, performances, visual presentation, eroticized situations, violence, and sensational subject matter.

  22. Shake Your Ass and Run by Ari Kyoji
    180
    Summary

    A serialized erotic narrative set around a nightlife and service business depicts employees and customers caught in coercive sexual games, surveillance, humiliation, fetishized bodies, and escalating disciplinary scenarios.

  23. Female Prisoners and Prenatal Education by Narutaki Saburo
    188
    Summary

    An illustrated essay considers prenatal education among female prisoners, arguing that a pregnant woman’s experiences, emotions, and surroundings may influence the child’s later character and development.

  24. Garden of Pleasure-Cruelty 1: The Captive Cage by Tonomura Megumi
    190
    Summary

    A serialized captivity narrative follows a woman abducted and confined by a controlling man, depicting escalating rope bondage, restraint, humiliation, coercion, and attempts to evade discovery by police and others.

  25. Masterpieces of Illustrations from Previous Uramado Issues by Editorial Department
    203
    Summary

    An editorial retrospective presents selected erotic illustrations from earlier Uramado issues, including historical and supernatural scenes of captivity, punishment, bondage, and sexual domination, with captions identifying their original stories, authors, and artists.

  26. Ōoku Scroll of Naked Women by Bojo Tomonari; illustrations by Nakajima Kimi
    207
    Summary

    An illustrated historical erotic narrative set in the women’s quarters of Edo Castle, where court women and covert intruders become caught in episodes of abduction, coercion, nudity, and rope restraint. The accompanying drawings emphasize dramatic captivity and theatrical erotic scenes.

Highlights

  • The House in the Swamp Where People Disappear opens the issue as a heavily illustrated suspense narrative and later resumes after a long interruption, creating an unusually fragmented serial structure within the issue. (PDF pp. 6–10, 50–57).
  • Tree and Woman is a stark black-and-white bondage portfolio by Yoshida Hisashi in which a rough tree trunk becomes both compositional axis and restraint structure. (PDF pp. 11–14).
  • The Painter of Enmado combines fiction with grotesque erotic drawings concerned with artistic obsession, captivity, bodily suffering, and the creation of disturbing images. (PDF pp. 16–25).
  • Story of a Man Who Wants to Become a Maid is a first-person reflection on femininity, domestic service, gender identity, and the narrator's wish to occupy a socially female role. (PDF pp. 26–35).
  • Uninvited Peril uses an international spy-adventure framework to depict a woman's abduction, border crossing, interrogation, restraint, and attempted escape. (PDF pp. 36–45).
  • On The Great Bodhisattva Pass examines scenes of female suffering in multiple generations of Japanese film adaptations, illustrating its argument with film stills. (PDF pp. 46–49).
  • White Wall is a sustained photographic bondage portfolio using a minimal studio environment, strong tonal contrast, and repeated variations of restrained posing. (PDF pp. 95–102).
  • Disregard for Women's Rights in the Meiji Era gives the issue an explicitly historical discussion of women's social position, connecting Uramado's erotic material to changing gender norms. (PDF pp. 88–94).
  • The concluding pages shift into retrospective and historical visual culture through a selection of illustrations from previous issues and the two-color Ōoku Scroll of Naked Women. (PDF pp. 199–209).

Contributors

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