Uramado

June 1961

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Issue Details

Volume
6
Issue
6
PDF pages
200

Summary

The June 1961 issue of Uramado combines illustrated erotic fiction, historical fantasy, documentary-style essays, reader contributions, photography, and magazine-community material within a strongly sadomasochistic editorial framework. The opening material is unusually visual: a grotesque torture tableau by Ishizuka Yoshiyuki is followed by a series of erotic and bondage illustrations, including the editorially assembled Yōen Seme-e Competition Selection and a photographic sequence titled Mountain Stream. These opening inserts establish the issue’s recurring visual vocabulary of rope restraint, captivity, punishment, voyeurism, and theatricalized suffering.

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The main prose body ranges widely in period and setting. Yagiri Jūhachi’s Tale of an Old Chivalrous Rogue uses an Edo-period milieu, while Ama Tetsurō’s The World Beneath the Skirt adopts a modern observational and fetishistic perspective. Shimamoto Haruo’s The Black Female Prisoner of the Bastille turns European revolutionary history into an extended prison-and-torture narrative, richly illustrated by Nakagawa Ayako. Other major fiction includes Hamamatsu Takeshi’s The Demonic Visitor Comes Crawling and the revenge story Leave the Revenge to Me, which is introduced with a color illustrated opening and continued later in the issue.

Alongside sensational fiction, Uramado includes material presented as social history, personal testimony, and psychological reflection. Higuchi Itsuma’s Tales of Meiji Women Factory Workers treats exploitation and punishment among female laborers, while Minamimura Ran’s Confession: A Fool’s Letter and Ōtsuka Masao’s Hair and Eyebrow Box move toward confessional fetishism. The reader essay Intoxication with Reversal discusses psychological inversion and masochistic desire, and Kuroda Shirō’s Temptation into Masochism explicitly frames everyday experience through masochistic fantasy. Fujimi Iku’s If You Peek into a Bewitching Dream, You Will Be Bound develops bondage as dreamlike erotic compulsion.

The later portion broadens into film notes, leisure writing, reader and information columns, commentary on earlier erotic literature and imagery, and the serialized Pleasure-Torture Garden 6: Rope, Love, and Dreams. Photographic bondage material returns near the end in the Pleasure-Torture Photo Collection, followed by a retrospective selection of illustrations from earlier Uramado issues. The result is an issue that moves continuously between fantasy, historical cruelty, fetish psychology, photography, reader culture, and the magazine’s own developing visual archive.

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Table of Contents 25 items
  1. Enma Hall by Ishizuka Yoshiyuki
    9
    Summary

    A highly detailed illustration set in Enma Hall depicts demonic jailers preparing to torture a captured female pilgrim while gambling with dice to determine the order in which they will spear her, beneath the watch of Enma, the Buddhist ruler of hell.

  2. Leave the Revenge to Me! by Madenokōji Arashi
    12
    Summary

    A serialized SM revenge narrative in which the narrator pursues a violent man who has abducted and abused Mariko, with scenes of coercion, captivity, rope restraint, gagging, and sexualized punishment. The story moves between criminal pursuit and intimate bondage encounters, framing revenge as the narrator’s self-appointed mission.

  3. Mountain Stream by Yamashita Kyūjirō
    15
    Summary

    A photographic feature depicts a woman bound with rope and suspended or restrained in a forested mountain-stream setting, emphasizing staged outdoor kinbaku imagery.

  4. Tale of an Old Chivalrous Rogue by Yagiri Jūhachi
    20
    Summary

    This serialized historical erotic tale follows the outlaw Kyūjirō and his encounters with women amid abduction, concealment, pursuit, coercion, and bondage in an Edo-period setting.

  5. The World Beneath the Skirt by Ama Tetsurō
    30
    Summary

    An illustrated erotic essay explores voyeuristic interest in women beneath skirts, presenting department-store and street scenes involving spectatorship, fetishistic looking, and imagined encounters.

  6. The Black Female Prisoner of the Bastille by Shimamoto Haruo
    38
    Summary

    An illustrated serialized erotic fiction recounting the imprisonment and abuse of a beautiful woman in the Bastille, her encounters with aristocratic and prison authorities, and her eventual rescue amid the French Revolution. The narrative combines historical spectacle, captivity, coercion, punishment, and revenge within a melodramatic revolutionary setting.

  7. Confession: A Fool's Letter by Minamimura Ran
    58
    Summary

    A first-person confessional letter from a 27-year-old man describes his erotic fascination with women and performers, culminating in fantasies of being restrained, humiliated, and dominated by a woman.

  8. The Demonic Visitor Comes Crawling by Hamamatsu Takeshi
    64
    Summary

    A serialized erotic horror narrative follows a couple whose domestic life is invaded by a terrifying, snake-like demonic woman, leading to violent pursuit, captivity, coercion, and repeated bondage and sexual torment.

  9. Tales of Meiji Women Factory Workers by Higuchi Itsuma
    74
    Summary

    A historical account of women recruited into Meiji-era textile factories, describing exploitative contracts, harsh discipline, overcrowded dormitories, low wages, illness, abuse, escape attempts, and occasional resistance. Illustrated scenes and reported cases emphasize the vulnerability and coercive labor conditions of young female workers.

  10. Hair and Eyebrow Box by Ōtsuka Masao
    82
    Summary

    A first-person erotic recollection centered on the fascination with women’s black hair, hair oil, styling, and collected hair, including encounters with hairdressing practices and intimate memories of female appearance. The accompanying illustrations reinforce hair as the article’s principal fetish object.

  11. Uramado Down
    86
    Summary

    An editorial miscellany surveying contemporary erotic culture through scandals, crime reports, films, performers, celebrity and beauty imagery, gendered and interracial sexual representations, and commentary on changing public tastes. It also reflects on sensational journalism, international media circulation, and the social reception of sexual minorities and erotic entertainment.

  12. Intoxication with Reversal by Hijiri Ryūzō
    94
    Summary

    An essay examines the psychological and literary appeal of role reversal, especially the inversion of dominance and submission, through examples from Japanese erotic and mystery fiction.

  13. Warehouse Interior by Yoshida Hisashi
    99
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio stages a restrained woman amid stacked boxes and warehouse interiors, emphasizing rope bondage, captivity, and confined postures.

  14. Floor Stand by Fukamori Eiji
    115
    Summary

    A photographic series depicts a woman bound in varied positions around a floor lamp, using the domestic object as a central restraint apparatus and visual prop.

  15. If You Peek into a Bewitching Dream, You Will Be Bound by Fujimi Iku
    125
    Summary

    A serialized erotic fantasy follows a student whose voyeuristic dreams of Tamiko and other women lead into increasingly coercive scenes involving ropes, restraint, and captivity. The narrative blends dream imagery with forbidden desire and psychological domination.

  16. Temptation into Masochism by Kuroda Shirō
    134
    Summary

    An essay examines the psychological and cultural origins of masochistic desire through examples involving gender, social hierarchy, sexual fantasy, and the symbolic relationship between women, men, horses, and restraint. It also discusses changing social attitudes toward sexual behavior and draws on literary, historical, and contemporary references.

  17. Evil Woman by Akashi Shio
    144
    Summary

    A serialized erotic narrative portrays an “evil woman” whose secret desires, manipulation, and cruel sexual relationships produce escalating scenes of domination, betrayal, and psychological torment.

  18. Uramado Miscellany and New Film Introductions by Sunaiji Hiroshi
    155
    Summary

    A film-introduction section reviews several Japanese period and sensational films, outlining their plots, performers, and eroticized scenes of bondage, punishment, captivity, and sexual spectacle.

  19. MASO Stories: Yoshimura Junzō's Leisure by Aki Hisao
    160
    Summary

    This MASO story follows Yoshimura Junzō’s pursuit of a deliberately arranged humiliating encounter involving female control, restraint, enforced service, and fetishistic attention to women’s feet and shoes.

  20. Yōen Seme-e Competition Selection
    167
    Summary

    An illustrated selection of erotic torture and punishment scenes, set across historical, wartime, and fictionalized contexts and featuring bondage, water torture, captivity, and other forms of coercive restraint.

  21. On Asao's Snake Torture by Koma Katsuhiko
    170
    Summary

    A historical and critical investigation of the alleged Asao snake-torture case, reconstructing its Meiji-era criminal and sexual-cultural context while questioning the accuracy of sensational accounts and later fictional or cinematic embellishments.

  22. Uramado Information
    174
    Summary

    A miscellaneous information department combining reader letters and personal reports with editorial notices, urban sexual-culture observations, photographic features, and other community-oriented material from the magazine’s readership and publishing network.

  23. Pleasure-Torture Garden 6: Rope, Love, and Dreams by Tonomura Megumi
    186
    Summary

    A serialized erotic narrative follows 妙子 and 城田 through coercive bondage, punishment, captivity, and troubled romantic entanglements, combining contemporary settings with scenes of restraint and psychological domination.

  24. Pleasure-Torture Photo Collection
    203
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents staged scenes of women bound with rope in various floor-based and restrained positions, emphasizing visual spectacle, physical vulnerability, and elaborate rope arrangements.

  25. Selected Masterpiece Illustrations from Previous Uramado Issues
    207
    Summary

    This retrospective portfolio reproduces selected illustrations from earlier Uramado issues, depicting women subjected to rope bondage, captivity, punishment, and coercive encounters in historical and fantastical settings.

Highlights

  • The opening illustrated material includes Ishizuka Yoshiyuki's grotesque Enma Hall tableau and an extended editorial selection of erotic punishment and bondage art. (PDF pp. 6–16).
  • Mountain Stream is an outdoor bondage photographic portfolio staged against rocks and woodland, using suspension and standing restraint as its principal visual motifs. (PDF pp. 18–21).
  • Tale of an Old Chivalrous Rogue is a substantial Edo-period narrative illustrated with scenes of restraint, violence, and itinerant underworld life. (PDF pp. 23–32).
  • The Black Female Prisoner of the Bastille transforms the Bastille and the French Revolution into an extended erotic prison narrative, with detailed black-and-white illustrations by Nakagawa Ayako. (PDF pp. 41–50).
  • Tales of Meiji Women Factory Workers presents female industrial labor, coercion, punishment, and sexual vulnerability through a historical-social narrative rather than purely fantastic settings. (PDF pp. 78–85).
  • The photographic features Warehouse Interior and Floor Stand use indoor environments, rope, lamps, walls, and staged isolation to create a distinctly modern photographic counterpart to the issue's illustrated bondage fiction. (PDF pp. 103–112).
  • Temptation into Masochism explicitly treats ordinary behavior and desire through a masochistic interpretive framework, representing the issue's more discursive and quasi-psychological strand. (PDF pp. 124–130).
  • The later editorial and reader-oriented sections include film coverage, leisure writing, information columns, correspondence-like material, and discussion of erotic or sadomasochistic cultural subjects. (PDF pp. 141–172).
  • Pleasure-Torture Garden 6: Rope, Love, and Dreams forms a long late-issue feature combining prose with erotic illustrations before the magazine closes with photographic and retrospective visual portfolios. (PDF pp. 173–188).
  • The closing visual sequence juxtaposes the Pleasure-Torture Photo Collection with a retrospective selection of illustrations from previous Uramado issues, emphasizing the magazine's awareness of its own visual history. (PDF pp. 189–196).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue: