November 1956

The November 1956 issue of Uramado is a broad sensational magazine rather than a narrowly specialized SM publication. Crime reporting, mystery fiction, sexual customs, medicalized discussions of sexuality, foreign photographs, humor, historical tales, and illustrated pulp fiction all share the same pages. Its importance lies precisely in this mixture. Erotic cruelty, captivity, murder, sexual abnormality, and voyeurism are presented as neighboring forms of “hidden” knowledge rather than as a clearly separated SM culture. The issue opens with an international photographic miscellany titled approximately “The World of Western Erotic Curiosities.” Photographs of partially dressed or nude women from Europe and the United States are accompanied by humorous or pseudo-reportorial captions. The feature gives the magazine a cosmopolitan surface while promising readers access to customs and bodies unavailable in ordinary Japanese life. A long illustrated advice or anecdote section follows, built from short stories about sexual misunderstandings, domestic problems, courtship, adultery, embarrassment, and unconventional desire. Its comic drawings and boxed episodes make sex into a collection of social puzzles. The tone oscillates between instruction and ridicule, encouraging readers to observe abnormal behavior from a supposedly knowledgeable position. The issue’s main special section is identified as a “War-Crime Special” or “War Criminality Special.” Its central story, “The Stolen Autumn Night,” combines abduction, sexual violence, robbery, and murder. A woman is found dead after being attacked, and the narrative follows the investigation through physical evidence, interrogation, and conflicting testimony. The crime feature demonstrates how women’s bodies become forensic and narrative objects. Clothing, wounds, blood, bodily position, and sexual history are treated as clues. The reader is invited to inspect the victim through the combined gazes of police, doctors, illustrators, and narrators. Other crime stories include “The Monster Thief of the Bedroom,” “The Demon’s Hand,” and a kidnapping or murder case built around an older woman and a deceptive younger man. These stories repeatedly locate danger inside bedrooms, hotels, hospitals, railway routes, and other ordinary modern spaces. The medical and sexological material is equally prominent. A feature titled approximately “Numerical Omens” uses statistics or quasi-statistics to classify criminal and sexual behavior. Charts and lists promise scientific clarity, but they also turn deviance into entertainment. One article asks whether an actress’s nude body is frightening or dangerous, presenting the film studio as a site of secrecy, manipulation, and exposure. Another feature concerns a dancer implicated in a violent incident. The magazine repeatedly links performance, photography, and female visibility with risk. Illustrated fiction extends the issue’s interest in endangered women. Stories show women attacked in cars, assaulted in remote places, threatened in bedrooms, pursued through rural landscapes, and subjected to criminal schemes. The pictures often freeze moments of helplessness, struggle, or discovery. The issue also contains historical fiction, detective stories, foreign pulp adaptations, comic columns, and reader-oriented miscellany. This profusion is significant. Uramado does not yet organize erotic cruelty around a distinct identity such as the sadist, masochist, or rope enthusiast. Instead, it distributes cruelty across crime, medicine, humor, exoticism, and entertainment. For readers of Kinbaku Today, the issue is most useful as evidence of the cultural environment surrounding early SM publishing. Restraint, assault, exposure, and bodily inspection circulate throughout popular print before they become consolidated into a recognizable SM genre. Uramado helped make the concealed body, the criminalized body, and the endangered female body ordinary objects of illustrated consumption.

Title	Author	Printed Pages	PDF Pages
East-West Uramado Erotic Anecdotes	Hara Hiroshi	14–22	14 –22
The Autumn Festival That Was Toyed With	Hagihara Hideo	23–31	23 –31
The Bedroom Phantom Thief	Setoguchi Torao	32–40	32 –40
The Lady Doctor Is Frightening! A Film Studio Cut Open by an Actress’s Scalpel	Ōtaka Gorō	41–46	41 –46
The Demon’s Tentacles	Hisaki Takashi	47–55	47 –55
Could Your Name Cause You to Kill?	Kinsudōjin	56–62	56 –62
The Mystery of the Pawn Ticket	Segi Toshirō	63–70	63 –70
The Dōgenzaka Beautician Murder	Tobe Harumitsu	71–78	71 –78
The Woman Who Came from the Demon Tower	Sugiyama Kiyoshi	79–88	79 –88
Decoding the Imperial Navy’s Erotic Cipher	Usami Masao	89–96	89 –96
The Woman Used as a Gambling Stake	Tominaga Yōsuke	97–106	97 –106
The Blood-Soaked Lust Demon	Miyashita Bunsaku	107–117	107 –117
An Evening of Crime-Prevention Films	Editorial Department	118–125	118 –125
The Woman Demon I Peeped At	Maeda Isamu	126–134	126 –134
Why Did These Women Kill Their Own Relatives?	Kojika Aiko	135–144	135 –144
The Uramado Wife Murder Case: Exclusive Trial Record	Editorial Department	145–156	145 –156
The Interfering Man Is Eliminated	Yūki Sō	157–163	157 –163
Three-Way Battle	Isogai Jun	164–166	164 –166
A Glimpse of Eroticism	Saijō Bonji	167–170	167 –170
Aoki Residence Diary	Hirano Imao	171–174	171 –174
The Secret Chronicle of Suruga Dainagon: The Chapter of His Origins	Iwahori Taizō	175–186	175 –186
Worldly Night Tales	Toyama Kazuhiko	187–188	187 –188
Publication Information	Uncredited	189	189

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