Uramado

June 1963

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Issue Details

Volume
6
Issue
7
PDF pages
178

Summary

Uramado’s June 1963 Special Extra Issue, Volume 6, No. 7, is an unusually large, visually oriented special edition devoted to erotic photography, bondage imagery, fetish costume, historical fantasy, Japanese and Western illustration, and imported SM comics. Published on June 10, 1963, the issue announces itself as a collection of erotic-art photography, paintings, and illustrated stories. Its formal contents pages organize much of the magazine into offset-art sections, gravure picture stories, and photographic portfolios, giving the issue the character of a visual anthology rather than a conventional sequence of prose articles.

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The opening portion moves rapidly between Japanese and foreign sources. Ebuchi Akio’s aesthetic illustration portfolio is followed by an Overseas SM Masterpiece Exhibition reproducing the English-language Princess Elaine’s Terrible Fate. The photographic sequence Waves of Hair then shifts the emphasis to Japanese rope bondage, using a domestic interior and a sustained series of poses to explore restraint and bodily expression. Corset in a Japanese Room, Part 1 introduces one of the issue’s most distinctive motifs: Western models in corsets, stockings, gloves, and other fetish clothing staged against tatami, lanterns, and Japanese furnishings. This juxtaposition of imported fetish fashion with Japanese domestic space recurs later in the issue.

The central sections alternate illustrated fantasy with photography. Transforming Beauty Ninja Arts combines historical-fantasy narrative and drawings, while Folding Screen and Andon Lamp uses a traditional room and low-key lighting for a photographic bondage study. Ebuchi Akio’s Cute Rider and Kitō Akira’s period-themed Female Tattooists return to drawing, followed by the photographic Seven Rear Views. Holy Queen and Demon King expands into a sustained historical picture story involving captivity, punishment, spectacle, and eroticized danger. Garden of Beautiful Agony, Advance of the Women’s Army, Poem Among the Trees, and Shadow’s Gaze continue the oscillation between illustration and photographic bondage, with the outdoor setting of Poem Among the Trees providing a particularly atmospheric contrast to the interior sequences.

The later issue becomes increasingly international and experimental. Playing with Belts presents Western-model restraint photography, while American SM Picture Stories reproduces a substantial group of Misfortunes of Muriel episodes built around stocks, suspension, restraint frames, mechanical devices, and female disciplinary scenarios. Poses of Beauty then develops into an extended Japanese photographic study of rope restraint and posing. A single-page Steel Bed feature introduces another Western fetish image before Corset in a Japanese Room resumes for a second long sequence, carrying the cross-cultural corsetry motif through page 154.

The final portion adds material absent from a review stopping at page 150. Room of Solitude, beginning on page 155, is a sixteen-page photographic bondage portfolio centered on a woman restrained in a sheer dress within a modern furnished room. Its subdued lighting, repeated use of a sofa and standing lamp, and occasional accompanying text give it a more introspective and claustrophobic atmosphere than many of the earlier portfolios. Pages 171 through 177 comprise Selected Overseas SM Art: Eerie Basement, a sequence of Western fetish illustrations depicting women subjected to elaborate dungeon restraints, suspension devices, barrels, chains, weights, and mechanical apparatus. The final page is a Uramado back-issue general index and sales notice. Taken as a whole, the special issue presents Japanese rope photography, historical fantasy, female-female erotic imagery, Western corsetry, imported comics, and foreign fetish illustration as parts of a shared international SM visual culture.

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Table of Contents 22 items
  1. Ebuchi Akio Aesthetic Art Collection by Ebuchi Akio
    Summary

    An art portfolio by Ebuchi Akio presents stylized erotic illustrations of women in surreal, theatrical settings, incorporating restraint, masks, skulls, and fantastical imagery.

  2. Overseas SM Masterpiece Exhibition: Princess Elaine's Terrible Fate
    Summary

    This serialized comic follows Princess Elaine and other women in an ancient Roman-style setting of enslavement, captivity, punishment, contests, rescue attempts, and eventual rebellion against domineering mistresses.

  3. Waves of Hair
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio titled “Waves of Hair” depicts a long-haired woman in staged scenes of rope bondage and enforced poses, emphasizing her hair, bodily restraint, and theatrical vulnerability.

  4. Corset in a Japanese Room, Part 1
    Summary

    A sequential photographic feature portrays a woman modeling corsetry, stockings, lingerie, and high heels in a Japanese-style interior, with posed interactions and costume adjustments creating staged erotic tableaux.

  5. Transforming Beauty Ninja Arts by Shimamoto Haruo
    Summary

    An illustrated historical erotic serial follows beautiful ninja characters through capture, interrogation, bondage, punishment, revenge, and secret techniques amid a fantastical period setting.

  6. Folding Screen and Andon Lamp
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presents staged scenes of nude or partially nude women restrained with rope around folding screens, lamps, furniture, and other domestic settings.

  7. Cute Rider by Ebuchi Akio
    Summary

    An illustrated feature depicts fantastical and playful erotic scenes involving a fairy-like rider on a horse and groups of riders traveling together in a public carriage.

  8. Kitō Akira Period Erotic-Beauty Art Collection: Female Tattooists by Kitō Akira
    Summary

    A collection of erotic illustrations depicts female tattooists working on clients and engaging in intimate, tattoo-centered scenes, combining traditional Japanese dress and interiors with tattoo imagery and sensual posing.

  9. Seven Rear Views
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presents seven nude or partially nude women viewed from behind in staged rope-binding scenes, emphasizing bodily posture, restraint, and rear-view composition.

  10. Historical Picture Story: Holy Queen and Demon King by Shimura Motoharu
    Summary

    This illustrated historical fantasy follows a holy queen and her attendants through capture, interrogation, punishment, and attempted escape amid conflict between a Christian kingdom and a demon-king’s forces.

  11. Garden of Beautiful Agony
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presents women posed in elaborate bondage settings, including against fencing and in stark, shadowed interiors, evoking an atmosphere of beautiful suffering and staged erotic drama.

  12. Advance of the Women's Army by Ebuchi Akio
    Summary

    Akio Ebuchi’s illustrated fantasy depicts a mounted, female-led army advancing through a mythic landscape, with nude and semi-nude figures, fallen men, and imagery of female power and domination.

  13. Poem Among the Trees
    Summary

    A sequence of forest photographs shows a woman bound to trees and posed among branches and undergrowth, accompanied by a Japanese poem reflecting on autumn, winter, memory, and desire.

  14. Shadow's Gaze
    Summary

    A photographic feature presents a woman in shadowed, enclosed, and domestic settings, using framing, concealment, and suggestive poses to create an atmosphere of erotic observation.

  15. Playing with Belts
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio depicts women posing with belts in varied interiors and restrained or suggestive positions, treating the belt as both an erotic accessory and a means of bondage.

  16. American SM Picture Stories: Misfortunes of Muriel
    Summary

    A serialized illustrated SM adventure follows Muriel and other women held by a secretive baroness, who interrogates them for government secrets and subjects them to increasingly elaborate restraints, apparatus, and humiliating punishments while allies attempt to investigate and escape.

  17. Poses of Beauty
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presents a woman modeling successive rope-bound poses, emphasizing sculptural body positioning, restraint, and staged erotic expression.

  18. Steel Bed
    139
    Summary

    A staged photograph showcases a woman bound with rope on a steel bed, apparently highlighting the bed as specialized bondage equipment in a mail-order or product-advertising context.

  19. Corset in a Japanese Room, Part 2
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio stages women in leather corsets, stockings, gloves, and high heels posing and interacting in a Japanese-style room, with balloons and theatrical domestic décor reinforcing the fetishistic scene. The images emphasize clothing-centered erotic display, performance, and carefully arranged group tableaux.

  20. Room of Solitude
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio portrays a woman isolated and repeatedly restrained, gagged, and posed in domestic interiors, emphasizing staged captivity and sensory control.

  21. Selected Overseas SM Art: Eerie Basement
    Summary

    This overseas SM art selection presents eerie basement and dungeon scenes in which women are bound, immobilized, and subjected to elaborate restraint devices.

  22. Uramado Back-Issue General Index
    178
    Summary

    A general index catalogs articles and features from earlier Uramado issues, functioning as a reference guide for the magazine’s back issues and specialist readership.

Highlights

  • The two-page formal contents spread presents the publication as a June special extra issue centered on offset illustration, gravure picture stories, and substantial photographic portfolios. (PDF pp. 4–5).
  • The Overseas SM Masterpiece Exhibition reproduces episodes of the English-language Princess Elaine's Terrible Fate, demonstrating Uramado's direct incorporation of Western fetish comics. (PDF pp. 11–17).
  • Waves of Hair is an extended Japanese photographic bondage sequence emphasizing rope restraint, posture, expression, and a domestic setting. (PDF pp. 18–26).
  • Corset in a Japanese Room stages Western women in corsets, stockings, gloves, and related fetish clothing inside a Japanese-style room, creating one of the issue's clearest cross-cultural visual experiments. (PDF pp. 27–42, 140–154).
  • Holy Queen and Demon King uses a sustained sequence of historical-fantasy illustrations centered on captivity, punishment, exposure, and public spectacle. (PDF pp. 75–83).
  • Poem Among the Trees moves bondage photography outdoors, incorporating restrained poses into a wooded landscape and giving the portfolio a markedly atmospheric character. (PDF pp. 92–97).
  • American SM Picture Stories reproduces numerous Misfortunes of Muriel episodes featuring stocks, suspension frames, restraint machines, weighted devices, and other elaborate fetish apparatus. (PDF pp. 114–122).
  • Poses of Beauty is an extended photographic portfolio exploring multiple rope configurations, body positions, and interactions between female models. (PDF pp. 123–138).
  • Room of Solitude forms a substantial late photographic sequence, using a modern furnished room, subdued illumination, a sheer dress, and repeated rope-bound poses to create an unusually claustrophobic mood. (PDF pp. 155–170).
  • Selected Overseas SM Art: Eerie Basement closes the substantive visual material with Western dungeon illustrations featuring suspension, chains, weights, barrels, and mechanical restraint devices. (PDF pp. 171–177).

Contributors

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