Uramado
November 1964
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Issue Details
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 11
- PDF pages
- 214
Summary
The November 1964 issue of Uramado is a dense mixture of cultural criticism, autobiographical and psychological writing, illustrated erotic fiction, imported American fetish comics, film commentary, reader-oriented material, and visual collecting. Its formal contents spread presents the magazine less as a single-theme publication than as a meeting place for discussions of masochism, fetishism, bondage, sexual psychology, popular culture, and imaginative literature. The opening essay, Helping Strength by Examining Weakness, is followed by Awaji Shūgo’s lengthy Yellow Gospel and Andō Izumi’s literary-critical discussion Scratching at the Heart of Masochistic Psychology, establishing a strongly analytical tone before the issue shifts toward visual and fictional material.
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Table of Contents 20 items
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Dance at the Bottom of the Earth
Summary
A photographic feature presents a woman performing stylized bondage poses with ropes and suspension apparatus in a stark studio setting.
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Helping Strength by Examining Weakness
Summary
A polemical social commentary examines how power is projected and protected through sensational films, commercial advertising, consumer relations, and U.S. military action in Vietnam, arguing that institutions exploit weakness while claiming to serve the public.
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Yellow Gospel
Summary
A serialized first-person erotic fantasy follows coercive and humiliating encounters involving bodily control, enemas, excrement, and recurring church and religious imagery.
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Scratching at the Heart of Masochistic Psychology
Summary
Andō Izumi examines the psychology of masochism through close readings of literary and erotic narratives, especially the whale-hunting story “Kujira-gami,” interpreting bodily sensation, humiliation, desire, and transgressive behavior as elements of masochistic experience. The essay also considers how literary representation transforms these impulses into psychologically complex characterization.
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Seeking Freedom from Perversion
Summary
Toyama Kazuhiko surveys changing attitudes toward homosexuality and “perversion,” combining discussion of same-sex desire, gay social networks, erotic media, and public gatherings with reflections on discrimination, legal restrictions, and the emerging search for sexual freedom. The article contrasts stigmatizing social conventions with more open forms of community, self-expression, and sexual identity.
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Negative Picture
Summary
A psychologically charged SM fantasy follows encounters involving erotic magazines, artists, and married partners, developing into increasingly coercive scenes of rope bondage, gagging, whipping, humiliation, and confused boundaries between memory, desire, and reality.
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Famous Moon
Summary
A full-page illustration presents a kimono-clad woman seated on a veranda beneath a prominent autumn moon, using a traditional Japanese setting and decorative costume to create a contemplative erotic tableau.
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The Gwendoline Story
Summary
John Willie's illustrated serial follows Gwendoline through a succession of erotic encounters involving capture, bondage, gagging, service, and punishment, while dominant women repeatedly reverse conventional gendered power roles. The narrative is presented through sequential comic-style panels alongside prose narration.
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Long Nightmare
Summary
A serialized SM fiction narrative follows women drawn into coercive, theatrical scenes of capture, restraint, punishment, and domination, blending a nightmare plot with film-set imagery and dramatic illustrations.
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Ecology of a Slave
Summary
This serialized narrative presents the “ecology” of a male slave through female-directed training, domestic service, physical restraint, punishment, and the establishment of an ongoing authority relationship.
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From My Collection
Summary
Morishita Takashige reflects on his personal collection of erotic magazines, books, illustrations, photographs, and imported fetish imagery, discussing their historical, technical, and aesthetic qualities alongside his own responses to them.
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Tanuki
Summary
This serialized erotic fantasy follows Junko and other characters through encounters involving animal-like transformation or identification, coercive sexual play, rope restraint, gagging, humiliation, and escalating domination.
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Body-on Masochism Theory, No. 29
Summary
Mizuo Kyū’s serialized essay theorizes female masochism through the psychological attraction to fear, danger, heights, humiliation, and surrender, combining speculative analysis with an extended fictional case history of Mori Keiko’s changing desires and encounters. The text is accompanied by dramatic erotic illustrations depicting precarious heights, public spectacle, and bodily vulnerability.
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Strange Bat Castle
Summary
A serialized erotic adventure follows rival ninja groups as they infiltrate the mysterious Bat Castle, where characters are captured, bound, tortured, and subjected to coercive interrogations amid supernatural threats and violent attempts at rescue and escape.
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Prayer to the Arrogant Goddess, Part 8
Summary
The eighth installment of a serialized erotic fantasy follows Tayu and other characters through coercive encounters involving restraint, humiliation, violence, and shifting power between captors and victims.
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Gordon's Memories, Part 20
Summary
This mixed narrative and illustrated feature presents Gordon’s erotic memories and fantasies, including encounters shaped by racialized desire, domination, sexualized service, and an intense fixation on women’s feet, shoes, and bodily presentation.
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Car and a Dancing Beauty: A German Film
Summary
An illustrated analysis of a German SM film presents staged scenes of women restrained with wheels, iron belts, handcuffs, masks, and other apparatus, discussing the contrasting S and M roles, bodily display, and performers’ expressions. The accompanying photographic sequence emphasizes bondage choreography, physical tension, and cinematic spectacle.
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Comprehensive Index of Previous Uramado Issues
Summary
A comprehensive back-catalogue index lists earlier Uramado issues, their dates, titles, special features, prices, and availability, functioning as a reference and ordering guide for the magazine’s publishing history.
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Uramado Town
Summary
The Uramado Town section combines film and visual-culture commentary with discussions of erotic representation, reader and contributor viewpoints, editorial exchanges, and notices concerning the magazine’s artistic and publishing activities.
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Reader Corner and Editorial Postscript
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A reader-correspondence and editorial-postscript section responds to submissions and opinions, discusses the magazine’s literary, photographic, and illustrative contributions and editorial standards, and invites further reader participation and work.
Highlights
- The illustrated formal contents spread maps an unusually broad issue combining masochism theory, fiction, foreign comics, film discussion, visual collecting, recurring serials, and community material. (PDF pp. 4–5).
- Yellow Gospel is a long first-person prose work occupying much of the issue's opening section and moving through sexuality, personal experience, social convention, and psychological self-examination. (PDF pp. 14–28).
- Scratching at the Heart of Masochistic Psychology explicitly treats masochism as a subject for literary and psychological criticism, illustrating Uramado's continuing effort to intellectualize erotic experience alongside fiction. (PDF pp. 29–37).
- The Gwendoline Story reproduces a lengthy sequence of John Willie's American fetish comic art, preserving English dialogue while surrounding the panels with Japanese narrative and commentary. (PDF pp. 68–103).
- From My Collection assembles foreign photographs and drawings of riding, boots, whips, cross-dressing, female domination, and other fetish subjects, documenting the international visual sources circulating through Japanese SM publishing. (PDF pp. 104–112).
- Body-on Masochism Theory, installment 29, combines discursive discussion with illustrations and continues a recurring series devoted to the psychology and lived experience of masochism. (PDF pp. 123–131).
- Strange Bat Castle forms one of the issue's largest later fictional sequences, combining captivity, violence, erotic peril, and serialized adventure. (PDF pp. 132–154).
- Gordon's Memories, installment 20, continues the magazine's long-running serialized fiction and extends through a substantial block immediately before the film-oriented material. (PDF pp. 159–177).
- The late issue combines a German-film feature, bibliographic listings of previous Uramado issues, Uramado Town, additional prose, reader material, and editorial notices, reinforcing the magazine's identity as both an erotic publication and a reader community. (PDF pp. 178–214).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
