April 1961

The April 1961 issue of Uramado combines illustrated erotic fiction, bondage photography, sexual and psychological commentary, crime and historical narratives, reader-oriented miscellany, and international reportage. Its formal contents reveal an editorial design that alternates between explicitly sadomasochistic material and the magazine's broader interest in taboo sexuality, unusual behavior, popular psychology, crime, and sensational cultural subjects. The opening fiction, The Torture-Device Maker, is heavily illustrated and follows an elderly craftsman obsessed with constructing devices for restraint and punishment. It is interrupted by other features and resumes later, giving the early portion of the issue a deliberately serialized rhythm within a single number. The visual center of the opening section is Hanging Torment, photographed by Yoshida Hisashi, a stark black-and-white sequence in which a nude woman's wrists are secured overhead. The Devil's Lips follows as an illustrated first-person masochistic narrative, while The Cursed Breasts turns to a historical crime tale involving a woman subjected to public restraint and punishment. Kuroda Shirō's Temptation to Masochism then moves into popular psychological and cultural commentary, discussing cruelty, domination, social hierarchy, sexual behavior, and examples drawn from contemporary life and film. Subsequent fiction and essays range from Toraji Should Be Bound and Possessed by Sound to Akashi Shioko's historical memorandum and Nagai Takujirō's Hungry Eyes Shine on the Stairs. The middle of the issue again emphasizes visual eroticism. The Rough Rope and Black Hair Composition is an extended Yoshida Hisashi photographic study of a woman bound with coarse rope, followed by the illustrated tale The Binding Curse of Princess Teru and the feature Shōji and Woman. The Strange Island of Female Guardians develops a longer exotic or fantastic narrative before the magazine shifts into the Uramado Town miscellany section, mixing brief observations, cultural notes, sexual anecdotes, and topical commentary. Shima Fuji's Black-Hair Confession continues the autobiographical and erotic-confessional mode. The later pages broaden considerably. The World Beneath the Skirt, installment three, considers voyeuristic interest in women's clothing and bodies. Uramado Miscellany and New Film Introductions provide cultural notices before Moriwaki Hikaru's The Underground Organization of Neo-Nazism turns toward international political extremism and postwar clandestine organizations. A roundtable remembering the artist Seiu provides an important historical and artistic reflection on erotic illustration and bondage culture. The substantial final narrative, The Prayer of the Female Slave, returns to domination and submission, after which a photographic collection and a selection of illustrations from earlier Uramado issues close the volume. Together these sections show Uramado operating simultaneously as an SM magazine, erotic literary journal, visual archive, popular-sexology forum, and eclectic magazine of abnormal or marginal culture.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
The Torture-Device Maker	Tsukumo Jūrō	9, 50–57	6 –53
Hanging Torment	Yoshida Hisashi	15–18	11 –14
The Devil's Lips	Tanuma Shūo	20–27	16 –23
The Cursed Breasts	Odagiri Sō	28–37	24 –33
Temptation to Masochism	Kuroda Shirō	38–49	34 –45
Toraji Should Be Bound	Ari Kyōji	58–67	54 –63
Possessed by Sound	Matsudaira Sōji	68–77	64 –73
Memorandum of Inoue Chikugo-no-Kami	Akashi Shioko	78–85	74 –81
Hungry Eyes Shine on the Stairs	Nagai Takujirō	86–91	82 –87
Strange Tales	Tsube Saburō	92–98	88 –94
The Rough Rope and Black Hair Composition	Yoshida Hisashi	99–106	95 –102
The Binding Curse of Princess Teru	Shimamoto Haruo	107–114	103 –110
Shōji and Woman	Fukamori Eiji	115–123	111 –119
The Strange Island of Female Guardians	Toyoda Ichirō	124–133	120 –129
Uramado Town	Uncredited	134–143	130 –139
Black-Hair Confession	Shima Fuji	144–153	140 –149
The World Beneath the Skirt	Ama Tetsurō	154–163	150 –159
Uramado Miscellany and New Film Introductions	Sunaji Hiroshi	164–169	160 –165
The Underground Organization of Neo-Nazism	Moriwaki Hikaru	170–175	166 –171
Roundtable: Remembering the Artist Seiu	Uncredited	176–183	172 –179
Reader Short Reviews	Uncredited	184–185	180 –181
The Garden of Ecstatic Cruelty 4: Prayer of the Female Slave	Tonomura Megumi	186–202	182 –198
Ecstatic-Cruelty Photo Collection	Uncredited	203–206	199 –202
Selected Illustration Masterpieces from Earlier Uramado Issues	Uncredited	207–214	203 –210

The issue identifies itself as Volume 6, Number 4. The formal contents occupy PDF pages 4–5. PDF page 15 is an unnumbered divisional page identifying the April issue, after which printed page 20 corresponds to PDF page 16; from that point through the closing numbered material, printed pagination generally corresponds to the PDF viewer page plus four. The Torture-Device Maker begins before this stable offset, on PDF page 6, and is explicitly interrupted after PDF page 10 before resuming on PDF page 46, so its entry spans two noncontiguous blocks. The final section consists of reproductions of illustrations from earlier issues rather than a new prose article. Several uncommon contributor and pen-name readings, particularly Tanuma Shūo, Ari Kyōji, Akashi Shioko, Tsube Saburō, Fukamori Eiji, Toyoda Ichirō, and Sunaji Hiroshi, are romanized from the printed characters and may require authority-file confirmation for standardized author records.