Uramado

November 1960

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Cover of Uramado, November 1960

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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A more documentary or essayistic register appears in Yoshida Yoshio’s Considerations on Burning at the Stake, which discusses historical execution by fire, bodily injury, suffocation, and examples such as Joan of Arc. Modern MASO Customs: Men Beneath Women’s Buttocks by Izumiya Hiroshi examines male submission, female authority, gender reversal, and fantasies of being physically dominated by women. Morishita Takashige’s Invitation to Masochism in Publications and Printed Matter II surveys representations of masochism in books, magazines, illustration, and popular culture. The translated serial Manhattan Club III, attributed to George Kelly, adds a Western erotic-fiction setting before Female Spy and Ogre Military Policeman returns to espionage, interrogation, and coercive sexuality.

The middle of the issue alternates prose and photography. Black-Hair Stroll combines long-haired female imagery with reader-oriented commentary, while Nishida Jin’s The Glory of Wicked Women examines destructive or transgressive women through historical and fictional examples. A Pose, photographed by Yoshida Hisashi, forms a substantial nude portfolio whose modern graphic layouts use arrows, framing devices, and cropped body studies. The White-Haired Demon of Obsession resumes illustrated erotic melodrama, followed by Captured Composition, another extended photographic study emphasizing folded, constrained, and enclosed poses. Ama Tetsurō’s The Man Who Wanted to Become a Maid explores male submission and service to women, and The Devil Peers into the Bathroom returns to voyeurism, coercion, and domestic erotic fantasy.

The later pages continue the magazine’s wide tonal range. The Tickle Room treats bodily sensitivity and erotic torment, while New Film Introductions provides contemporary cinema commentary. Sunō Hideo’s I Am an Ear-Hole Cleaner develops an eccentric sexual profession into a long humorous-erotic narrative. Uramado Town functions as a miscellany of anecdotes, short observations, popular culture, and sexual curiosities. Muraoka Fujisato’s A Liar’s Last Testament II adopts a criminological frame, discussing offenders, family background, and criminal psychology. The final major serial, Iida Toyokichi’s Legend of the Demon Breasts, occupies a large late section and blends period adventure, sexuality, violence, and grotesque melodrama. A closing nude selection and Nakajima Yoshimi’s illustrated Evil’s Retribution precede advertisements and publication notices. Overall, the issue presents Uramado as simultaneously an SM magazine, erotic literary journal, photographic publication, popular-sexology forum, and eclectic archive of abnormal or marginal culture.

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Table of Contents 24 items
  1. The Woman in the Noh Mask Writhes by Tsukumo Jūrō
    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.

  2. Hanged Woman by Yoshida Hisashi
    Summary

    A photographic feature depicts a woman bound with rope and suspended in staged hanging poses, emphasizing the visual spectacle of immobilization and bodily exposure.

  3. The Collection of Old Man Kashichi by Kurihashi Yuzuru
    Summary

    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.

  4. White Hostage in Torment by Yoda Seiji
    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.

  5. Considerations on Burning at the Stake by Yoshida Yoshio
    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.

  6. Modern MASO Customs II: Men Beneath Women's Buttocks by Izumiya Hiroshi
    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.

  7. Invitation to Masochism in Publications and Printed Matter II by Morishita Takashige
    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.

  8. Manhattan Club III by George Kelly
    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.

  9. Female Spy and Ogre Military Policeman by Sasaki Keiichi
    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.

  10. Black-Hair Stroll by Kurozaki Yoshiyuki
    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.

  11. The Glory of Wicked Women by Nishida Jin
    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.

  12. A Pose by Yoshida Hisashi
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presents a nude female model in a sequence of carefully arranged studio poses, emphasizing bodily form, posture, and visual spectatorship.

  13. The White-Haired Demon of Obsession by Fujimi Shōichirō
    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.

  14. Captured Composition by Fukamori Eiji
    Summary

    A photographic portfolio presents nude and partially nude models in staged indoor bondage scenes, emphasizing rope restraint, immobilized poses, and eroticized captivity.

  15. The Man Who Wanted to Become a Maid by Ama Tetsurō
    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.

  16. The Devil Peers into the Bathroom by Tōjō Kyōtarō
    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.

  17. The Tickle Room by Enjōji Tatsu
    Summary

    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.

  18. New Film Introductions by Sunaji Hiroshi
    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.

  19. I Am an Ear-Hole Cleaner by Sunō Hideo
    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.

  20. 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.

  21. A Liar's Last Testament II by Muraoka Fujisato
    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.

  22. Legend of the Demon Breasts by Iida Toyokichi
    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.

  23. 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.

  24. Evil's Retribution by Nakajima Yoshimi
    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

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