Uramado
September 1964
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Issue Details
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- 198
Summary
Uramado’s September 1964 issue is a large, densely illustrated S-M magazine combining erotic photography, illustrated fiction, historical sensationalism, film criticism, literary commentary, reader contributions, commercial notices, and serialized fantasy. Its editorial identity is defined by the constant movement between prose and visual spectacle: photographs, line drawings, diagrams, staged scenes, and illustrated narrative pages repeatedly foreground bondage, captivity, humiliation, punishment, gendered power, and forbidden desire.
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Table of Contents 20 items
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Summary
An image-led portfolio of staged erotic scenes centered on a dominant queen figure, with female authority, male submission, restraint, cages, outdoor settings, and theatrical tableaux.
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Flower Ice
Summary
An illustrated coercive domestic and supernatural narrative involving Reiko, her sister, Kurata, captivity, humiliation, and recurring imagery of ice, freezing, and uncanny transformation.
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The End of the Black Dragon Party
Summary
A serialized maritime adventure involving political factions, smugglers, captivity, torture, pursuit, rescue, revenge, storms, ships, and shifting loyalties, supported by sensational illustrations.
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A Cruel History of Seppuku, Part 4
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A sensational historical survey of seppuku, its techniques, celebrated and obscure cases, attendant practices, revenge, honor, and the changing reliability of historical and popular accounts.
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The Land of the God of Defiled Paradise
Summary
A satirical, scatological essay on toilets, excrement, urine, odor, ventilation, digestion, hygiene, gendered manners, and pseudo-scientific explanations of bodily waste.
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Room with a View of the Sea
Summary
An illustrated dramatic scene involving Julia and Dennis, a room overlooking the sea, ropes, forced positioning, humiliation, and escalating physical coercion.
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The Female Spy of the Imperialist Party
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An illustrated espionage and interrogation drama involving a captured woman, surveillance, ropes, forced examination, humiliation, and the violent commercial display of a female body.
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The Uninvited Night
Summary
A contemporary erotic drama in which Mariko is displayed, examined, confined, and threatened within a commercial environment shaped by voyeurism and male control.
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The Moon Was Watching
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A rain-soaked period drama of lodging houses and entertainment districts, combining debt, poverty, sexual coercion, male rivalry, pursuit, attempted rescue, and violence under the recurring witness of the moon.
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A Private Great Chronicle of Male Love, Part 9: That Day He Must Die
Summary
The concluding episode of a historical male-love revenge narrative involving jealousy, debt, social hierarchy, attempted murder, swordplay, restraint, theater, and a violent final confrontation.
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Fierce Women: The Torturing Tarts of Frankfurt
Summary
An imported sensational feature about women, torture, restraint, vice, and Nazi-associated violence, reproduced through English-language captions, prose, and striking visual presentation.
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Back Window Town
Summary
A multi-page miscellany of censorship news, publishing restrictions, film and literary notices, court and social reports, and commentary on foreign erotic media and popular culture.
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An Assaultive Theory of Masochism
Summary
A hybrid essay, testimony, and quasi-sexological narrative examining masochism, sadism, bondage, spanking, gendered power, pain, desire, and the psychological meaning of submission.
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The Mountain Hotel
Summary
A modern narrative of travel, hotel leisure, bathing, drinking, conversation, sexual tension, embarrassment, voyeurism, and coercive intimacy between a man and a woman.
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Jikichirō’s Escape
Summary
An illustrated period adventure in which Naokijirō leaves his household and becomes involved with gambling, deception, abduction, disguise, pursuit, ropes, and threatened violence.
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Uramado Literary Review: The Burden of the Woman Who Follows
Summary
A critical essay on Enchi Fumiko and the representation of female desire, sadism, beauty, marriage, family constraint, jealousy, supernatural femininity, and hidden erotic power in modern Japanese literature.
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The Female Prisoners of the Undersea Kingdom, Continued
Summary
A heavily illustrated dystopian captivity serial involving locked rooms, cages, chains, surveillance, forced labor, medical inspection, endurance trials, technological control, women’s solidarity, and covert resistance.
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Gordon’s Memories
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A continuing surreal adventure in which Gordon encounters strange women, animalistic or monstrous figures, caves, water, pursuit, restraint, capture, and an inverted or otherworldly social order.
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Editor’s Afterword
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Readers’ Corner
Summary
A recurring correspondence department addressing readers, contributors, submissions, editorial decisions, payments, photography, artwork, and practical instructions for participation in the magazine.
Highlights
- The opening visual portfolio, A Day in the Life of a Queen, constructs female authority through staged scenes of bondage, captivity, male submission, and theatrical display. (PDF pp. 6–18).
- Flower Ice combines domestic coercion, supernatural transformation, and recurring ice imagery in an extended illustrated story. (PDF pp. 19–30).
- A Cruel History of Seppuku, Part 4 surveys ritual suicide, historical memory, bodily violence, and sensational accounts of Japanese punishment. (PDF pp. 49–57).
- The Land of the God of Defiled Paradise satirizes toilets, excretion, hygiene, odor, gendered manners, and pseudo-scientific bodily explanation. (PDF pp. 58–65).
- The Back Window Town department addresses censorship, obscenity, foreign films and books, courts, and the regulation of sexual culture. (PDF pp. 103–111).
- An Assaultive Theory of Masochism presents a hybrid of testimony, psychological commentary, and illustrated scenes of bondage, spanking, and unequal sexual power. (PDF pp. 112–121).
- The Female Prisoners of the Undersea Kingdom develops a heavily illustrated dystopian captivity narrative involving cages, locks, surveillance, forced labor, and resistance. (PDF pp. 140–168).
- Readers’ Corner documents editorial exchange with contributors and readers, including submissions of writing, photographs, and artwork. (PDF pp. 180–181).
- Gordon’s Memories closes the fiction sequence with surreal bodies, monstrous figures, pursuit, captivity, and an unresolved continuation marker. (PDF pp. 170–179).
Contributors
Named contributors represented in this issue:
