Uramado
November 1960
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 12
- PDF pages
- 211
Summary
The November 1960 issue of Uramado is a dense mixture of erotic fiction, sadomasochistic fantasy, psychological and cultural commentary, nude photography, translated fiction, reader material, and illustrated historical or sensational narratives. Its opening immediately establishes this range. The illustrated story The Woman in the Noh Mask Writhes follows a traveler who encounters an uncanny masked woman and is interrupted by the photographic portfolio Hanged Woman, credited to Yoshida Hisashi. The issue then shifts to Kurihashi Yuzuru’s The Collection of Old Man Kashichi, a story about a wealthy eccentric’s obsessive collection of photographs, followed by Yoda Seiji’s White Hostage in Torment, an illustrated captivity narrative set amid political upheaval and racialized pulp-adventure imagery.
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Table of Contents 24 items
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Summary
An illustrated erotic serial follows a traveler drawn into a sinister world of seduction, captivity, coercion, and elaborate restraint, framed by recurring images of a woman wearing a Noh mask and enduring escalating ordeals.
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Hanged Woman
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A photographic feature depicts a woman bound with rope and suspended in staged hanging poses, emphasizing the visual spectacle of immobilization and bodily exposure.
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The Collection of Old Man Kashichi
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An illustrated interview-reportage presents Old Man Kashichi’s eclectic collection of erotic photographs, films, prints, and other materials, along with anecdotes about their acquisition and use in his private life.
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White Hostage in Torment
Summary
A serialized illustrated captivity fantasy follows a white woman abducted and subjected to escalating restraint, humiliation, forced exposure, and physical torment by armed men in a desert wartime setting.
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Considerations on Burning at the Stake
Summary
A historical and pseudo-medical examination of burning at the stake discusses execution procedures, bodily sensations, consciousness, and death, with examples from Japanese and Western history and accompanying illustrations.
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Modern MASO Customs II: Men Beneath Women's Buttocks
Summary
This continuation of the modern masochism series surveys scenarios and testimonies in which men submit to women’s bodily weight, riding, sitting, and control, illustrated through staged scenes and framed as expressions of female dominance, male submission, and humiliation.
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Invitation to Masochism in Publications and Printed Matter II
Summary
The essay traces masochistic representation in books, magazines, photographs, illustrations, and other printed media, reviewing postwar Japanese and imported examples while considering publishing practices, visual conventions, and the cultural circulation of erotic imagery.
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Manhattan Club III
Summary
A serialized erotic narrative set in the Manhattan Club depicts women subjected to organized confinement, restraint, interrogation, and escalating corporal punishment within a private club.
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Female Spy and Ogre Military Policeman
Summary
This historical erotic adventure follows a female spy captured by a brutal military policeman and subjected to interrogation, bondage, humiliation, and punitive sexual coercion in a wartime setting.
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Black-Hair Stroll
Summary
A black-hair-centered erotic feature combines narrative commentary with photographs of women posed in nude, restrained, and submissive scenes, emphasizing the visual and fetishistic appeal of long dark hair.
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The Glory of Wicked Women
Summary
A serialized erotic narrative follows a manipulative woman named Setsuko whose coercive dominance, humiliation, and exploitation of an older man unfold through domestic and financial intrigue.
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A Pose
Summary
A photographic portfolio presents a nude female model in a sequence of carefully arranged studio poses, emphasizing bodily form, posture, and visual spectatorship.
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The White-Haired Demon of Obsession
Summary
A serialized erotic fantasy follows Mariko and other characters through episodes of capture, coercive restraint, humiliation, and sadistic torment involving an obsessive white-haired figure and a hostile household.
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Captured Composition
Summary
A photographic portfolio presents nude and partially nude models in staged indoor bondage scenes, emphasizing rope restraint, immobilized poses, and eroticized captivity.
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The Man Who Wanted to Become a Maid
Summary
A narrative follows a man who seeks employment as a maid and gradually embraces domestic service, feminine presentation, and submission to an affluent female employer.
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The Devil Peers into the Bathroom
Summary
A sensational, illustrated series of bathroom-peeping episodes depicts voyeuristic men, hidden cameras and photographs, blackmail, coercion, and the destructive consequences of illicit surveillance.
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The Tickle Room
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A fictional episode in which a woman is confined and subjected to elaborate tickling and rope restraint, with escalating power struggles, escape attempts, and sadistic threats.
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New Film Introductions
Summary
A review feature introducing several sensational Japanese films centered on crime, captivity, punishment, bloodshed, and eroticized staged scenes, accompanied by stills and promotional illustrations.
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I Am an Ear-Hole Cleaner
Summary
A first-person erotic account by an ear-cleaning specialist describing clients, ear-cleaning techniques, and the intimate and fetishistic reactions provoked by the service.
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Uramado Town
Summary
A miscellany of editorial and cultural commentary covering sexual psychology, historical sexual practices, sensational crime, erotic films and visual media, and changing postwar erotic culture.
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A Liar's Last Testament II
Summary
A serialized erotic crime narrative follows a captive and criminalized woman through imprisonment, coercion, punishment, family trauma, and psychological manipulation, presented with accompanying erotic illustrations.
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Legend of the Demon Breasts
Summary
A serialized historical erotic tale follows the courtesan Miwa, the merchant Enshūya, and other figures through abduction, revenge, secret identities, and increasingly elaborate acts of rope bondage, suspension, punishment, and captivity. Its dramatic presentation combines sensational crime, grotesque imagery, and stylized illustrations with period dialogue and narrative suspense.
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Nude Masterpieces
Summary
A photographic portfolio presenting posed nude studies of a woman in varied reclining and kneeling positions, framed as a selection of nude masterpieces.
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Evil's Retribution
Summary
An illustrated erotic fiction sequence in which a powerful sumo-associated man coerces and restrains women through bondage, sexual domination, and punitive physical control, leading toward retribution.
Highlights
- The Woman in the Noh Mask Writhes opens as an illustrated uncanny erotic tale in which a traveler encounters a mysterious masked woman; the story is interrupted and later resumed in the main numbered text. (PDF pp. 5–9, 57–60).
- Hanged Woman by Yoshida Hisashi is an austere black-and-white nude portfolio organized around a woman posed with her arms raised beside a wrapped vertical support. (PDF pp. 10–13).
- The Collection of Old Man Kashichi centers on an elderly collector obsessed with photographs and private images, making photography itself an object of fetishistic possession and secrecy. (PDF pp. 15–22).
- White Hostage in Torment combines political-adventure fiction with captivity, interrogation, chained restraint, and racialized pulp imagery in a long illustrated sequence. (PDF pp. 23–32).
- Considerations on Burning at the Stake treats execution by fire as a historical and physiological problem, discussing methods of burning, suffocation, injury, and famous cases including Joan of Arc. (PDF pp. 33–37).
- Modern MASO Customs: Men Beneath Women's Buttocks explicitly examines fantasies of female superiority, male submission, humiliation, and reversal of conventional gender authority. (PDF pp. 39–48).
- A Pose is a large Yoshida Hisashi photographic study whose layouts use arrows, black framing blocks, close crops, and repeated views to turn the nude body into a sequence of graphic compositions. (PDF pp. 94–101).
- The Man Who Wanted to Become a Maid explores male service, feminized domestic roles, submission, and female authority through a sustained comic-erotic narrative. (PDF pp. 119–128).
- A Liar's Last Testament II adopts a quasi-criminological approach, using offender histories, family structures, and statistical categories to discuss criminal personality and social background. (PDF pp. 171–178).
- Legend of the Demon Breasts is the principal late serial, combining period adventure, erotic grotesquerie, violent encounters, supernatural suggestion, and extensive illustration before the closing pictorial and editorial material. (PDF pp. 179–199).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
- Ama Tetsurō
- Enjōji Tatsu
- Fujimi Shōichirō
- Fukamori Eiji
- George Kelly
- Iida Toyokichi
- Izumiya Hiroshi
- Kurihashi Yuzuru
- Kurozaki Yoshiyuki
- Morishita Takashige
- Muraoka Fujisato
- Nakajima Yoshimi
- Nishida Jin
- Sasaki Keiichi
- Sunaji Hiroshi
- Sunō Hideo
- Tōjō Kyōtarō
- Tsukumo Jūrō
- Yoda Seiji
- Yoshida Hisashi
- Yoshida Yoshio


