Uramado
October 1964
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Issue Details
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Summary
Uramado’s October 1964 issue is a hybrid specialist magazine combining erotic photography, illustrated fiction, film criticism, social commentary, visual-art promotion, reader correspondence, and serialized pulp narrative. Its opening pages establish a strongly visual identity: the cover presents a staged nude figure beside a waterfall, while the contents and promotional matter advertise gravure photography, illustrated stories, art collections, subscriptions, and related Uramado books. Early image sections include bondage and suspension illustrations and a dramatic black-and-white photographic sequence featuring chains, ropes, posed submission, and theatrical settings.
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Table of Contents 16 items
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SM Sexuality in Daydream
Summary
An extended film-critical essay analyzes the SM qualities of Takechi Tetsuji’s Daydream, including bondage, humiliation, medical authority, bodily display, voyeurism, performance, and the relationship between erotic cinema and artistic reception.
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The Modern Witch Trial
Summary
A polemical essay compares modern campaigns against allegedly harmful books and publications with witch trials, examining censorship, obscenity, youth protection, public morality, education, state power, and the limits of democratic freedom.
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The Dancer Myokko
Summary
An illustrated theatrical narrative follows a dancer through performances, dressing-room encounters, costumes, audience reactions, and sexualized relations between performer and spectator.
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The Secret Tale of Panorama Island
Summary
A theatrical serialized fiction follows women, observers, and participants through coercive games, humiliation, restraint, staged observation, and shifting social power, with photographs functioning as integral narrative plates.
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A Pose Waiting for the Whip
Summary
A full-page green-tinted erotic drawing presents a bound woman posed against a vertical support in a deliberately staged scene of restraint and fetishized confinement.
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Guide to the Shame Arts Graph
Summary
A promotional guide to an erotic-art graph collection lists photographic and illustrated portfolios, rope and bondage imagery, artists, and collectible visual material available by order.
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Oki Shōji: Exhibition of Exquisite Erotic Paintings
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A two-page pink-toned portfolio displays erotic drawings of women tied to furniture, posts, beds, and floors in stylized domestic and theatrical scenes.
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Play in Okinawa
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A black-and-white photographic portfolio shows a woman posed with thick rope in seated, reclining, kneeling, and restrained tableaux, emphasizing rope, vulnerability, and theatrical confinement.
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A Melancholy Pose
Summary
A coordinated photographic and drawn portfolio presents a woman in restrained, immobilized, distressed, and pensive poses across domestic and studio-like settings.
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Radiant Woman
Summary
A long visual portfolio combines glamorous studio photographs and line drawings of women in lingerie, stockings, gloves, heels, corsetry, and theatrical poses, including a model identified as Linda de Ferrero.
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Footsteps of Someone Approaching
Summary
A modern occult mystery begins with an impossible murder and develops through police investigation, dreams, altered bodies, animal-skin evidence, memory, and the possibility that supernatural forces evade rational explanation.
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Gravure Offset Page: The Selfish Princess
Summary
A photographic gravure sequence presents staged women’s bodies in bondage and restraint tableaux, functioning as a visual feature or sample plate within Uramado’s erotic-art publishing program.
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Pictorial Story: Cold Blood
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A violent illustrated narrative involving a woman, military figures, interrogation, restraint, sexual coercion, and wartime authority links eroticized domination to martial hierarchy and bodily punishment.
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Prayer to the Ravished Goddess
Summary
The seventh installment follows a male narrator through encounters shaped by prostitution, poverty, illness, commercial exploitation, visual staging, and shifting relations between vulnerability and sexual agency.
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American Pictorial Story: Gold Dream
Summary
A coherent black-and-white photographic sequence presents a recurring female model in dramatic masonry and interior settings, using chains, restraints, kneeling poses, and staged S–M tableaux.
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Full-Contact Masochism: Notes from a Turbulent World
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A serialized theoretical and narrative feature considers masochism through psychological reflection and explicit scenes of pain, humiliation, bondage, submission, voyeurism, and sexualized violence.
Highlights
- The cover and opening visual pages establish Uramado’s combination of staged erotic photography, bondage imagery, fantasy composition, and collectible art culture. (PDF pp. 1–19).
- The Daydream criticism examines cinematic SM, medicalized authority, humiliation, spectatorship, and the cultural reception of erotic film. (PDF pp. 40–51).
- Modern Witch Trial attacks censorship campaigns and debates obscenity, youth protection, publishing, public morality, and freedom of expression. (PDF pp. 86–98).
- The issue’s fiction combines erotic coercion and bondage with theatrical, historical, supernatural, and pulp-adventure forms. (PDF pp. 26–39,52–81,154–198).
- The Radiant Women and Melancholy Pose portfolios document mid-century eroticized fashion, glamour, restraint, and staged feminine display. (PDF pp. 99–132).
- Reader’s Corner reveals an active community of readers submitting letters, photographs, artwork, and responses to serialized material. (PDF pp. 209–211).
- The closing catalog and retrospective index document Uramado’s wider publishing network of erotic photographs, illustrations, fiction, and specialist art books. (PDF pp. 224–227).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
