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Magazine: Uramado

Issue: Special Issue of Strange Tales of Revenge

File: 195810.pdf

Import status: Approved

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    "has_toc": true,
    "confidence": 0.92,
    "issue_title": "Special Issue of Strange Tales of Revenge",
    "publication_month": "1958-10",
    "volume": "3",
    "issue_number": "13",
    "summary": "The October 1958 issue of Uramado is an unusually large anthology organized around a special feature of supernatural revenge tales. Its editorial identity combines historical melodrama, contemporary crime fiction, grotesque fantasy, erotic suspense, illustrated serials, photography, and popular occultism. The cover’s telephone-cord bondage image establishes a modern erotic menace, while the formal contents spread presents a densely packed program of stories about curses, ghosts, vengeance, confinement, murder, mysterious women, and bodies placed under threat.\n\nThe issue opens with “The Female Water Entertainer,” a lavishly illustrated period tale involving a performer, murder, mutilation, and pursuit. This is followed by Osamu Fujisawa’s “Light and Skin,” a sculptural nude photographic portfolio emphasizing bodily contour, shadow, limbs, and abstract composition. The modern illustrated thriller “The Secret of the Bat Theater” then shifts the setting to Tokyo nightlife, following an actress, a dwarf performer, abduction, torture, narcotics, criminal exploitation, and violent pursuit. “Breast Chamber of Hell” extends the contemporary crime atmosphere through gangsters, stolen narcotics, sexual coercion, imprisonment, and gunplay.\n\nThe central revenge feature develops through both historical and modern settings. “The Damask-Skin Curse” concerns a bewitched mansion, secret chambers, written curses, missing women, and inherited violence. Subsequent stories move through samurai households, haunted inns, vendettas, monstrous transformations, supernatural retainers, traveling killers, deceptive beauties, river and waterfront settings, and fatal encounters with women whose beauty conceals danger or grievance. Frequent illustrations turn scenes of capture, exposure, pursuit, murder, supernatural manifestation, and punishment into a parallel visual narrative.\n\nThe later half broadens the issue’s tonal range without abandoning its core themes. Stories such as “The Inn of the Poison Butterfly,” “The Beauty Mound’s Karmic Consequence,” “The House That Invites an Eerie Presence,” “Will-o’-the-Wisp Riverbank,” “The Man Who Walks About Selling Death,” “Strange Transformation Sketches,” and “Almost the Anniversary of Your Death” combine mystery structures with ghosts, poisons, doubles, disguises, obsessive desire, and retributive violence. Longer period narratives, including “Hatamoto Bedchamber Chronicle,” “Hell Ship,” “Autumn Wind at Kikyo Field,” and “The Nineteenth Installment of Death-Coffin Komachi,” sustain the magazine’s interest in feudal authority, erotic intrigue, confinement, cruelty, and revenge across extended serial form.\n\nThe closing pages contain the final installments of “Death-Coffin Komachi,” additional illustrated fiction, reader and contributor material, a manuscript solicitation, publication information, and editorial back matter. Across its full range, the issue presents revenge as an unstable crossing point between justice and obsession. Women repeatedly appear as performers, victims, avengers, apparitions, seductresses, and bearers of inherited curses, while the magazine’s fusion of text, noir illustration, period drawing, and photography gives the anthology a strongly visual and theatrical character.",
    "analysis_notes": "The formal contents appears on PDF viewer page 4. The cover identifies the issue as the October number and as a special issue devoted to strange revenge tales; the internal title page identifies it as Volume 3, Number 13. Pagination is irregular in the opening matter because the cover, advertisements, contents spread, and inserted photographic leaves are unnumbered. From printed page 27 onward, printed pagination generally corresponds to PDF viewer pagination plus seven. Several contributor names are unusual pen names or are printed in small type; provisional romanizations are identified in entry notes. Minor edge loss, dark staining, tears, and blackened areas affect portions of several pages, including the crime serial around PDF viewer pages 40–41, but the affected articles remain structurally identifiable. PDF viewer page 291 contains publication information, manuscript solicitation material, and closing editorial matter.",
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        "Supernatural revenge and inherited curses",
        "Eroticized danger, captivity, and bodily vulnerability",
        "Female performers, avengers, apparitions, and fatal beauties",
        "Postwar crime, narcotics, abduction, and urban nightlife",
        "Samurai households, retainers, and feudal punishment",
        "Haunted inns, secret chambers, and enclosed spaces",
        "Grotesque transformation, disguise, and unstable identity",
        "Murder mysteries and criminal pursuit",
        "Nude photography and sculptural studies of the body",
        "Illustrated serial fiction and visual melodrama",
        "Poison, assassination, and covert revenge",
        "Waterfronts, rivers, ships, and hot-spring settings"
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            "title": "The Female Water Entertainer",
            "author": "Yanagitsutsu Jūzaburō",
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            "pdf_page_end": 13,
            "notes": "Illustrated by Furumasa Eisei; both name readings are provisional."
        },
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            "title": "Light and Skin",
            "author": "Fujisawa Osamu",
            "printed_pages": "19–26",
            "pdf_page_start": 14,
            "pdf_page_end": 19,
            "notes": "Nude photographic portfolio."
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        {
            "title": "The Secret of the Bat Theater",
            "author": "Natsumoto Keinosuke",
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            "pdf_page_start": 20,
            "pdf_page_end": 28,
            "notes": "Illustrated by Yamada Akihiro; romanizations are provisional."
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        {
            "title": "Breast Chamber of Hell",
            "author": "Iida Toyokichi",
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            "pdf_page_start": 29,
            "pdf_page_end": 42,
            "notes": null
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            "title": "The Damask-Skin Curse",
            "author": "Takagi Ryūji",
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            "pdf_page_start": 43,
            "pdf_page_end": 58,
            "notes": "Illustrated by Nakajima Yoshimi."
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        {
            "title": "The Demon Lurking in the Feet",
            "author": "Mizorogi Jakushi",
            "printed_pages": "66–77",
            "pdf_page_start": 59,
            "pdf_page_end": 70,
            "notes": "The author-name reading is provisional."
        },
        {
            "title": "Hatamoto Bedchamber Chronicle",
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            "pdf_page_end": 82,
            "notes": null
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            "title": "The Monster of the Stock Hotel",
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            "pdf_page_end": 94,
            "notes": "The title’s hotel name is printed in katakana."
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            "title": "Oshima’s Vendetta Journey",
            "author": "Yagiri Jūhachi",
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            "pdf_page_end": 106,
            "notes": "The author-name reading is provisional."
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            "pdf_page_end": 120,
            "notes": null
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            "title": "The Beauty Mound’s Karmic Consequence",
            "author": "Hada Hikaru",
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            "pdf_page_start": 121,
            "pdf_page_end": 134,
            "notes": "The surname reading is provisional."
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            "title": "The House That Invites an Eerie Presence",
            "author": "Saruwaka Tonpei",
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            "pdf_page_end": 144,
            "notes": "The author-name reading is provisional."
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            "title": "The Transformed Young Samurai",
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            "pdf_page_end": 155,
            "notes": "The author-name reading is provisional."
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            "title": "Will-o’-the-Wisp Riverbank",
            "author": "Utagawa Taiga",
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            "pdf_page_end": 168,
            "notes": null
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            "title": "The Supernatural Death-God Hatamoto",
            "author": "Odagiri Sō",
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            "pdf_page_end": 182,
            "notes": "The given-name reading is provisional."
        },
        {
            "title": "Disappearance Underwater",
            "author": "Fujii Kenji",
            "printed_pages": "190–202",
            "pdf_page_start": 183,
            "pdf_page_end": 195,
            "notes": "Detective story."
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        {
            "title": "The Man Who Walks About Selling Death",
            "author": "Ojima Shin",
            "printed_pages": "203–215",
            "pdf_page_start": 196,
            "pdf_page_end": 208,
            "notes": "The author-name reading is provisional."
        },
        {
            "title": "Strange Transformation Sketches",
            "author": "Suzuki Kazuo",
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            "pdf_page_start": 209,
            "pdf_page_end": 222,
            "notes": null
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        {
            "title": "Almost the Anniversary of Your Death",
            "author": "Ujigawa Ryū",
            "printed_pages": "230–242",
            "pdf_page_start": 223,
            "pdf_page_end": 235,
            "notes": "The given-name reading is provisional."
        },
        {
            "title": "Men Who Toy with Women’s Bodies",
            "author": "Hattori Gen",
            "printed_pages": "243–247",
            "pdf_page_start": 236,
            "pdf_page_end": 240,
            "notes": "The author-name reading is uncertain."
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        {
            "title": "Hell Ship",
            "author": "Nakajima Yoshimi",
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            "pdf_page_start": 241,
            "pdf_page_end": 248,
            "notes": "Presented as an illustrated romantic tale."
        },
        {
            "title": "Autumn Wind at Kikyo Field",
            "author": "Inumon Masato",
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            "pdf_page_start": 249,
            "pdf_page_end": 258,
            "notes": "The surname reading is provisional."
        },
        {
            "title": "The Ageless Maiden",
            "author": "Sasamoto Tōru",
            "printed_pages": "266–270",
            "pdf_page_start": 259,
            "pdf_page_end": 263,
            "notes": null
        },
        {
            "title": "The Hot-Spring Inn Murder Case",
            "author": "Kawano Kyōsuke",
            "printed_pages": "271–277",
            "pdf_page_start": 264,
            "pdf_page_end": 270,
            "notes": "An erotic mystery."
        },
        {
            "title": "Death-Coffin Komachi",
            "author": "Shimamoto Haruo",
            "printed_pages": "278–297",
            "pdf_page_start": 271,
            "pdf_page_end": 290,
            "notes": "Nineteenth installment of the serial; illustrated by Yamada Akihiro."
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            "pdf_pages": "4",
            "category": "Editorial structure"
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            "category": "Illustrated period fiction"
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            "text": "Osamu Fujisawa’s “Light and Skin” uses stark lighting and tightly composed nude studies to transform limbs, torsos, and bodily curves into abstract sculptural forms.",
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            "text": "“The Damask-Skin Curse” inaugurates the main revenge feature with a haunted mansion, coded writings, secret rooms, missing women, and a chain of inherited grievance.",
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            "category": "Supernatural revenge"
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            "pdf_pages": "71–82",
            "category": "Historical erotic fiction"
        },
        {
            "text": "“The Inn of the Poison Butterfly” and “The Beauty Mound’s Karmic Consequence” form a substantial middle sequence of poison, fatal attraction, supernatural suggestion, and karmic retribution.",
            "pdf_pages": "107–134",
            "category": "Mystery and the supernatural"
        },
        {
            "text": "The later sequence from “The Man Who Walks About Selling Death” through “Hell Ship” intensifies the issue’s mixture of assassination, disguise, haunted travel, waterfront danger, and violent revenge.",
            "pdf_pages": "196–248",
            "category": "Late-issue fiction"
        },
        {
            "text": "The concluding “Death-Coffin Komachi” installment combines ornate period illustration, serial adventure, female peril, violence, and historical spectacle before the editorial and publication back matter.",
            "pdf_pages": "271–290",
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}

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Current Imported Summary

The October 1958 issue of Uramado is an unusually large anthology organized around a special feature of supernatural revenge tales. Its editorial identity combines historical melodrama, contemporary crime fiction, grotesque fantasy, erotic suspense, illustrated serials, photography, and popular occultism. The cover’s telephone-cord bondage image establishes a modern erotic menace, while the formal contents spread presents a densely packed program of stories about curses, ghosts, vengeance, confinement, murder, mysterious women, and bodies placed under threat. The issue opens with “The Female Water Entertainer,” a lavishly illustrated period tale involving a performer, murder, mutilation, and pursuit. This is followed by Osamu Fujisawa’s “Light and Skin,” a sculptural nude photographic portfolio emphasizing bodily contour, shadow, limbs, and abstract composition. The modern illustrated thriller “The Secret of the Bat Theater” then shifts the setting to Tokyo nightlife, following an actress, a dwarf performer, abduction, torture, narcotics, criminal exploitation, and violent pursuit. “Breast Chamber of Hell” extends the contemporary crime atmosphere through gangsters, stolen narcotics, sexual coercion, imprisonment, and gunplay. The central revenge feature develops through both historical and modern settings. “The Damask-Skin Curse” concerns a bewitched mansion, secret chambers, written curses, missing women, and inherited violence. Subsequent stories move through samurai households, haunted inns, vendettas, monstrous transformations, supernatural retainers, traveling killers, deceptive beauties, river and waterfront settings, and fatal encounters with women whose beauty conceals danger or grievance. Frequent illustrations turn scenes of capture, exposure, pursuit, murder, supernatural manifestation, and punishment into a parallel visual narrative. The later half broadens the issue’s tonal range without abandoning its core themes. Stories such as “The Inn of the Poison Butterfly,” “The Beauty Mound’s Karmic Consequence,” “The House That Invites an Eerie Presence,” “Will-o’-the-Wisp Riverbank,” “The Man Who Walks About Selling Death,” “Strange Transformation Sketches,” and “Almost the Anniversary of Your Death” combine mystery structures with ghosts, poisons, doubles, disguises, obsessive desire, and retributive violence. Longer period narratives, including “Hatamoto Bedchamber Chronicle,” “Hell Ship,” “Autumn Wind at Kikyo Field,” and “The Nineteenth Installment of Death-Coffin Komachi,” sustain the magazine’s interest in feudal authority, erotic intrigue, confinement, cruelty, and revenge across extended serial form. The closing pages contain the final installments of “Death-Coffin Komachi,” additional illustrated fiction, reader and contributor material, a manuscript solicitation, publication information, and editorial back matter. Across its full range, the issue presents revenge as an unstable crossing point between justice and obsession. Women repeatedly appear as performers, victims, avengers, apparitions, seductresses, and bearers of inherited curses, while the magazine’s fusion of text, noir illustration, period drawing, and photography gives the anthology a strongly visual and theatrical character.

Current Imported Highlights

The formal contents spread announces a “Strange Tales of Revenge” special and organizes a remarkably extensive mixture of period fiction, modern thrillers, supernatural stories, photography, and illustrated serials. PDF 4
“The Female Water Entertainer” opens the issue with richly colored period illustrations and a tale of murder, mutilation, pursuit, and a performer linked to a mysterious crime. PDF 6–13
Osamu Fujisawa’s “Light and Skin” uses stark lighting and tightly composed nude studies to transform limbs, torsos, and bodily curves into abstract sculptural forms. PDF 14–19
“The Secret of the Bat Theater” is a modern noir narrative involving a nightclub actress, a dwarf performer, abduction, narcotics, captivity, public spectacle, and pursuit through the city. PDF 20–28
“Breast Chamber of Hell” combines gangster intrigue, stolen narcotics, erotic coercion, imprisonment, revenge, and gun violence in an extended illustrated thriller. PDF 29–42
“The Damask-Skin Curse” inaugurates the main revenge feature with a haunted mansion, coded writings, secret rooms, missing women, and a chain of inherited grievance. PDF 43–58
“Hatamoto Bedchamber Chronicle” is one of the issue’s longest period narratives, using household intrigue, sexual secrecy, status, and violence to explore the hidden life of a warrior residence. PDF 71–82
“The Inn of the Poison Butterfly” and “The Beauty Mound’s Karmic Consequence” form a substantial middle sequence of poison, fatal attraction, supernatural suggestion, and karmic retribution. PDF 107–134
The later sequence from “The Man Who Walks About Selling Death” through “Hell Ship” intensifies the issue’s mixture of assassination, disguise, haunted travel, waterfront danger, and violent revenge. PDF 196–248
The concluding “Death-Coffin Komachi” installment combines ornate period illustration, serial adventure, female peril, violence, and historical spectacle before the editorial and publication back matter. PDF 271–290