Uramado
June 1964
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 6
- PDF pages
- 227
Summary
Uramado’s June 1964 issue presents a dense mixture of serialized criticism, illustrated fiction, reader-contributed writing, photographic bondage portfolios, imported visual material, and community-oriented editorial matter. Its formal contents pages establish a deliberately hybrid identity: literary and cultural commentary sits beside fiction, historical material on punishment and torture, reader submissions, comics, photographs, and recurring columns. Early in the issue, the illustrated Condor’s Paradise and the photographic Dog Pictures are followed by the second installment of The Mystery of Panorama Island, then an essay responding to that series and a continuing survey of modern masochistic culture. The first third therefore moves rapidly between narrative fantasy, visual bondage, and self-conscious commentary on masochism as a cultural form.
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Table of Contents 28 items
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The Mystery of Panorama Island, Part 2
Summary
Part 2 continues the serialized erotic thriller in which Mika is confined in a hidden “dream castle” on Panorama Island and subjected to elaborate bondage, gagging, sensory restriction, and coercive psychological conditioning by Q and Shiko as resistance and escape attempts unfold.
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The Third Time's Honesty
Summary
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 before eventual recognition and reward.
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Body-Impact Masochism Theory, 24
Summary
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 dominating or striking men in staged erotic scenes.
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Prayer to the Appointed Goddess, 4: From the Record of a Certain Refusal
Summary
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 material for interpreting postwar SM behavior and erotic psychology.
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Modern Masochism Cultural Criticism, 27
Summary
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 uses photographic examples and media criticism to connect these representations with changing sexual psychology and postwar cultural attitudes.
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Postwar Enchanting Views
Summary
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.
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Uramado: Introduction to Notable Reading from Previous Issues
Summary
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.
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Kyokugiri Nenja
Summary
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 with intrigue, secrecy, and fatal retribution.
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Okinawa Shōji Miniature Masterpieces
Summary
An illustration portfolio presents women bound with rope in elaborate seated, reclining, standing, and outdoor tableaux, emphasizing stylized restraint, exposed vulnerability, and dramatic composition.
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Red Moon Night
Summary
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.
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Woman Pickpocket O-Chō
Summary
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.
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Law of the Dark Streets
Summary
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.
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Rotten Storehouse
Summary
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, tormentors, and rescuers.
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History of the Cruelty of Seppuku, Part 1
Summary
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.
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An Irresponsible Boom
Summary
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.
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Uramado Literary Criticism
Summary
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 the work’s theatrical and cinematic qualities, its treatment of social status, sexuality, and cultural fashion, and the author’s literary technique.
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Wet Flower
Summary
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.
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An Order for Panorama Island
Summary
Shibayama Sadatoshi praises the serialized SM story “Panorama Island Secret Story” and offers detailed requests for its continuation, especially a high-born heroine who resists Q’s sadistic domination before eventually yielding. The suggestions emphasize psychological portrayal, shame, enforced silence and masks, captivity and escape, lingerie rather than nudity, supporting characters, illustrations, and a coherent long-form plot.
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Gordon's Memories, 15
Summary
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.
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Reader Corner and Editorial Afterword
Summary
The reader corner presents correspondence and feedback from readers, while the editorial afterword discusses submissions, editorial priorities, upcoming features, and future issue plans.
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Condor's Paradise
Summary
A crime-adventure erotic fiction follows gang leader Teresa and her pursuers across a desert, involving capture, armed reversals, forced marches, bondage, and deadly violence beneath the threat of condors.
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Dog Pictures
Summary
A photographic portfolio presents a kimono-clad female model repeatedly bound with rope in staged kneeling, prone, and dog-like poses, emphasizing elaborate restraint and controlled body positioning.
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Screen Climax Collection
Summary
A photographic collection of screen climaxes presents staged film scenes centered on women subjected to bondage, captivity, restraint, and theatrical sadomasochistic tableaux.
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Fujisawa Osamu Photo Works
Summary
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.
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Inojima Masaya Masterpiece Photo Collection
Summary
A photographic portfolio by Inojima Masaya presenting women in elaborate rope-bound poses, including seated, kneeling, and tightly restrained positions.
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New American Photo Collection
Summary
A collection of newly imported American bondage photographs depicting women posed in rope restraints, staged tableaux, and elaborate scenes of immobilization.
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Chamber of the Sand Dune
Summary
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.
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My Literary Criticism
Summary
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 value.
Highlights
- The formal contents spread defines the issue's hybrid editorial program, combining criticism, fiction, reader submissions, historical essays, photo features, and imported visual material. (PDF pp. 4–5).
- The second installment of The Mystery of Panorama Island pairs Kitazono Tōichirō's text with Nakagawa Ayako's illustrations and is immediately followed by Shibayama Sadatoshi's critical response to the series. (PDF pp. 26–39).
- The issue devotes a long central run to cultural and historical essays, including Modern Masochism Cultural Criticism, puppet-theater aesthetics, a retrospective guide to earlier Uramado reading, and Natsukawa Kōichirō's History of the Cruelty of Seppuku. (PDF pp. 40–71).
- A substantial postwar erotic-history section leads into The Third Time's Honesty and An Irresponsible Boom, showing the magazine moving between historical memory, fiction, and reader criticism. (PDF pp. 72–85).
- A major visual sequence combines Okinawa Shōji's miniature works, the illustrated story Kyokugiri Nenja, imported torture-device imagery, Fujisawa Osamu's photographs, film stills, and bondage-focused screen imagery. (PDF pp. 86–130).
- Mizuo Kyū's continuing Body-Impact Masochism Theory provides one of the issue's most sustained explicit attempts to theorize masochistic experience rather than presenting it only through fiction or photographs. (PDF pp. 142–151).
- The reader-submission fiction block from Red Moon Night through Wet Flower occupies a large portion of the later issue and is heavily integrated with custom illustrations, underscoring Uramado's participatory literary identity. (PDF pp. 152–181).
- The closing sections combine Eda Kiriko's literary criticism, the Female Ninja Okyan comic, fetish-fashion imagery, Gordon's Memories, reader correspondence, and domestic and American bondage photo portfolios. (PDF pp. 182–223).
- The final pages provide a general index to earlier Uramado issues, turning the issue into a research aid for the magazine's own publishing history. (PDF pp. 224–227).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Akagi Keisuke
- Ama Tetsurō
- Andō Izumi
- Eda Kiriko
- Fujisawa Osamu
- Gosho Akira
- Higashijima Kaoru
- Inojima Masaya
- Kabiya Kazuhiko
- Kitazono Tōichirō
- Mano Rei
- Matsuyama Shōichi
- Miki Shun
- Mizuo Kyū
- Morimoto Aizō
- Morishita Takashige
- Natsukawa Kōichirō
- Okinawa Shōji
- Shibayama Sadatoshi
- Shigemori Azuma
- Sobue Shin
- Yoshida Hisashi
- Yoshikawa Gen


