Uramado
May 1959
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 5
- PDF pages
- 290
Summary
The May 1959 issue of Uramado is a large, visually varied publication combining erotic photography, illustrated fiction, historical narratives, sensational crime and occult stories, essays, reader-oriented material, and an extensive special feature titled A Tragic History of Women’s Liberation. The issue’s editorial identity is established through the juxtaposition of modern erotic spectacle with historical accounts of confinement, sexual exploitation, punishment, social restriction, and female vulnerability. Its illustrations range from sequential pulp-style drawings and historical scenes to a substantial monochrome photographic bondage portfolio.
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Table of Contents 22 items
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Keep Your Eyes on the Thighs
Summary
An illustrated erotic narrative follows a performer who uses theatrical tricks, ropes, blindfolds, blades, and staged danger to captivate an audience and outwit an intrusive police officer.
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Nude Masterpieces: The Female Body and Rope
Summary
A photographic portfolio presents staged nude compositions featuring women bound with rope in varied poses, including floor restraint, kneeling, and suspension-like arrangements.
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Tattooed Komachi
Summary
This illustrated historical erotic tale follows the courtesan Okyō and an Edo-period household through secret encounters, erotic deception, bondage, and the eventual intervention of a military official.
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Crimson Sash Incantation
Summary
An illustrated historical erotic serial set in Edo-period Japan follows a merchant, spies, and a captive woman amid secret plots, abduction, interrogation, and repeated rope-bound scenes rendered with elaborate restraint imagery.
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The Prisoner Woman of the Desert
Summary
A serialized erotic captivity narrative set in the desert follows Angeli and other women imprisoned and abused by soldiers and foreign adventurers, with coercive encounters, attempted escapes, pursuit, and rescue efforts unfolding amid military outposts and desert settlements.
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Neriko's Hell
Summary
A serialized historical erotic fiction follows Neriko and other women subjected to forced labor, captivity, rope restraint, sexual violence, and sadistic abuse, while their suffering unfolds amid household exploitation, escape attempts, and legal retribution in an Edo-period setting.
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Lament of the Karayuki Women
Summary
A richly illustrated historical narrative recounts the exploitation of Japanese karayuki women who were sold or lured overseas, confined in brothels, subjected to sexual coercion and violence, and separated from home. The story combines sensational reportage, historical background, and dramatized scenes of captivity and attempted escape.
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Beauty Urahoko
Summary
A historical erotic serial follows Akihei and other characters through encounters involving seduction, secrecy, jealousy, and elaborate rope restraint in an Edo-period setting, accompanied by erotic illustrations.
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Demon Blood
Summary
A supernatural erotic serial set around a hospital depicts a mysterious blood-drinking woman, frightened patients and staff, medical examination, captivity, and escalating violence amid uncanny events.
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Strange Love Spirit Cult
Summary
This serialized erotic thriller follows Shingo and Eiji as they become entangled with the secretive Aireikyō cult, whose leaders abduct and violently restrain women including Miyuki and Mitsuko before the conflict culminates in an attempted rescue and confrontation. The narrative combines criminal intrigue, coercive sexual violence, ritualized bondage, and sensational action.
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Woman's Body and Oppression
Summary
Suzuki Kazuo surveys the oppression of women in Edo-period Japan, tracing the sale, abduction, confinement, and exploitation of women in licensed pleasure quarters and related businesses through legal records, anecdotes, and cases involving Yoshiwara and other districts. Illustrated scenes reinforce the article’s account of surveillance, punishment, trafficking, and women’s restricted movement and agency.
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Ota's Black Magic
Summary
A serialized supernatural SM narrative in which Ota uses “black magic,” needles, ropes, and bodily control to dominate Misato and Mizushima through elaborate scenes of restraint, coercion, humiliation, and sadistic fantasy.
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From the Unsorted Shelf
Summary
An editorial miscellany presenting excerpts and discussion of submitted or previously unpublished writings, including commentary on editorial selection, manuscript preparation, reader response, and the magazine’s publishing process.
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Crimson Crepe Tradition
Summary
A serialized historical erotic tale set in the Edo period follows a formidable woman pursuing and capturing men amid village intrigue, swordplay, confinement, humiliation, and punitive violence, accompanied by dramatic illustrations.
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Black-Haired Lantern
Summary
A serialized erotic fantasy centers on a young man’s intense, secretive fixation on a woman’s long black hair, developing through voyeurism, hair cutting, possession, and forbidden desire.
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Endless Crimson Resentment
Summary
A serialized Edo-period erotic revenge tale follows Oyae, Chōgorō, Tōzaburō, and others through coercive encounters, social intrigue, and escalating punishment, restraint, and violent retribution in and around pleasure quarters and domestic spaces.
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Mad Dream
Summary
This surreal serialized SM story follows Chiko through encounters with Miyo and a mysterious black-beret figure, escalating into abduction, restraint, violence, and sadistic sexual power games.
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The Sea Demon and the Women
Summary
A serialized historical erotic fiction episode about the pirate lord Wang Zhi and his encounters with women, depicting abduction, captivity, coercion, torture, punishment, and violent power struggles in a sixteenth-century maritime setting. The unit combines narrative prose with dramatic illustrations of pirates, weapons, restraints, and captive women.
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Invitation of Darkness
Summary
A serialized erotic mystery follows a woman drawn into clandestine nighttime encounters whose disappearance and apparent murder prompt an investigation that gradually exposes deception, coercion, and hidden desire.
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Lump of Flesh
Summary
This illustrated erotic thriller depicts a respectable marriage destabilized by secret sexual obsession, jealousy, and coercive encounters, escalating into psychological and physical violence within an atmosphere of domestic secrecy.
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You're Next
Summary
A serialized crime-and-SM narrative follows a predatory man, his female victims, and the police investigation surrounding abduction, coercion, bondage, humiliation, sexual violence, and murder. The story moves between criminal pursuit and intensely staged scenes of captivity and domination.
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Soft-Skin Lantern
Summary
A serialized erotic crime narrative follows maid Chikaga and other women as they are abducted, bound, humiliated, and threatened by violent men, with the detective-like figure Hamano Suke pursuing the case; illustrated scenes accompany the story.
Highlights
- The formal illustrated contents spread presents an unusually broad program of photography, historical-erotic fiction, occult and crime stories, essays, and the extensive A Tragic History of Women's Liberation special feature. (PDF p. 4).
- Keep Your Eyes on the Thighs opens the major editorial content as a heavily illustrated sequential narrative combining sexuality, danger, and pulp-crime imagery. (PDF pp. 6–13).
- Nude Masterpieces: The Female Body and Rope, photographed by Fujisawa Osamu, is an extended monochrome portfolio exploring rope restraint, bodily pose, negative space, and strong cast shadows. (PDF pp. 14–19).
- Tattooed Komachi uses Edo-period settings, tattoo imagery, nudity, and sequential illustration to merge historical fantasy with erotic spectacle. (PDF pp. 20–27).
- The A Tragic History of Women's Liberation feature develops across numerous articles and stories concerned with imprisonment, forced movement, punishment, sexual exploitation, and historically imposed restrictions on women. (PDF pp. 43–81, 128–141, 164–177, 184–198, 216–231).
- Lament of the Karayuki Women addresses Japanese women sent overseas, placing sexual exploitation and migration within the magazine's broader historical treatment of women's constrained lives. (PDF pp. 68–81).
- Woman's Body and Oppression by Suzuki Kazuo surveys historical institutions and customs that regulated women and is accompanied by illustrations of confinement, punishment, and social control. (PDF pp. 128–141).
- The issue contains extensive lists of unpublished submitted manuscripts and contributor material, documenting a substantial participatory literary culture surrounding Uramado. (PDF pp. 106–109, 200–205).
- The fifth installment of Strange Love Spirit Cult combines crime, occultism, bondage, exotic settings, and international adventure in a long serialized narrative. (PDF pp. 110–127).
- The concluding portion contains a succession of psychological, erotic, supernatural, and crime-oriented narratives, including Invitation of Darkness, Lump of Flesh, You're Next, and Soft-Skin Lantern, carrying the magazine's themes of obsession and bodily danger through to the final editorial pages. (PDF pp. 232–289).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Akashi Sako
- Fujisawa Osamu
- Hada Hikaru
- Hashizume Hikoshichi
- Henshushi
- Iida Toyokichi
- Kuroba Shin
- Kuroki Shinobu
- Kyogoku Miki
- Minamimura Ran
- Mizorogi Jakuko
- Nakajima Kimi
- Narahara Tetsuo
- Odagiri So
- Ozaki Jun
- Shima Fuji
- Shimamoto Haruo
- Suzuki Kazuo
- Takatsuki Daizo
- Toyoda Ichiro
- Ushioi Taku
- Yagiri Shigehachi


